Do you want to help us improve human health and understand life on Earth? Make your mark by shaping the future to enable or deliver life-changing science to solve some of humanity’s greatest challenges.
We have an exciting opportunity for a Project Coordinator to join our Wellcome Sanger Institute on a 12-month Contract.
About the Role:
You will work closely with the Head of Product & Delivery across the portfolio and be a key point of contact for internal and external stakeholders. You will support the planning for the projects taking into account user requirements and seeking to secure resources to deliver them. You will be expected to arrange project meetings and to be able to capture key outcomes, decisions, actions, and risks for follow up with the project team.
You will be responsible for:
You will coordinate COSMIC project delivery activities within the team and with our stakeholders. Schedule and document meetings, planning and ensure that tasks and plans are delivered at the appropriate time and in the appropriate manner. You will manage schedules (meetings and reporting), project documentation and communicate progress.
About You:
For this role, you will work alongside the Head of Product & Delivery with scope to also support the Product Management activities. You will be required to engage and collaborate with many other teams, and so good communication and collaboration skills are essential.
Essential Technical Skills:
1. Science degree in a relevant subject [or equivalent]
2. Ability to work in a changing environment and demonstrate agile working approach
3. Excellent organisational skills with the ability to plan and schedule effectively
4. Demonstrate an ability to provide, receive and record both routine and highly complex communications, electronically, orally and in writing
5. Ability to focus, concentrate and accurately complete tasks within given time frames while dealing with unscheduled interruptions e.g. changing priorities
6. Accurate and timely in delivery
7. Understanding of the common and fundamental project management processes e.g., risk management; change control, schedules etc.
8. A high degree of computer literacy including advanced knowledge of the MS Office Suite – especially MS Excel, Word and PowerPoint and also the G-Suite of applications
9. Working in cross-discipline teams in a matrix management environment
Essential Competencies and Behaviours:
1. Demonstrates excellent networking and relationship building skills and the ability to effectively handle both internal and external partners
2. Self-motivated, highly organised, able to apply own judgement when problem solving i.e. when to make a decision and when to escalate
3. Can demonstrate initiative, creativity, flexibility and a personal ethos of continuous improvement
4. Ability to summarise complex information and present to a wide variety of audiences in a concise and logical manner
5. Weighs and considers the overall priority of work, showing pragmatism and support towards the goals of the portfolio
6. Can motivate and empower teams to deliver results
7. Ability to mitigate conflict in diverse groups
8. Results driven with a proven track record of delivering to timelines and milestones
9. Manage expectations and deliver as promised
About Us:
COSMIC is the key information source in global human cancer research. COSMIC exists to speed up the field of precision oncology so that each cancer patient can receive tailored treatment. This is done by streamlining and simplifying cancer genomics data analysis, to expedite the translation of research findings to improvements in the care of cancer patients. To achieve our vision, we are growing rapidly in content, scope and value.
As a member of the COSMIC team, you will have the opportunity to attend bleeding edge talks and seminars, discussing topics in biotechnology, computational biology and genetics.
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