Facility Hub Manager – INTERNAL OPPORTUNITY OPEN TO UCL EMPLOYEES ONLY Full-time

Facility Hub Manager – Internal Opportunity Open To UCL Employees Only

UCL Biological Services provides specialist facilities, technical expertise and regulatory framework that enable researchers across the university to carry out high quality, ethically responsible and legally compliant animal research. By working closely with scientists, Named Persons, technical teams and senior operational leaders, Biological Services underpins a wide range of biomedical and life science research activity.

Within this environment, the Facility Hub Manager contributes to a leadership role, ensuring the smooth running, resilience and compliance of the research facility. The post holder supports strategic planning, staff development, welfare oversight and operational coordination. Through this supportive and collaborative position, the Facility Hub Manager helps maintain high standards, strengthen capability across hubs and ensures UCL's research platforms operate responsibly, efficiently and in alignment with the university's broader research priorities.

The Facility Hub Manager holds a senior leadership role within UCL Biological Services, supporting the effective operation, future development and long-term resilience of a multi-species research facility. Working in close partnership with the Assistant Director for Research Delivery and Assistant Director for Operations, the post holder plays a key role in shaping operational strategy, supporting research technology platforms and ensuring that services align with UCL's wider research priorities.

The role provides high-level oversight of animal welfare, ethics, biosecurity, legislative compliance and health and safety governance, ensuring the facility operates to the highest professional and regulatory standards. A core element of the role is the training, mentoring and development of technical staff across Biological Services, building capability, consistency and excellence across all hubs. The post holder also contributes expert advice to researchers and ethical review processes, supports the planning and delivery of complex research studies and drives continuous improvement to enhance service quality, efficiency and scientific outcomes.

Things you'll need for this job include:

• Significant experience working in a regulated research animal facility, with extensive knowledge of ASPA, Home Office Codes of Practice, biosecurity requirements and ethical governance frameworks.
• Experience undertaking a Named Person role.
• Experience managing or coordinating operational activity in a complex technical or research environment.
• Experience contributing to or supporting ethical review processes such as AWERB.
• Experience maintaining statutory or auditable documentation to high levels of accuracy.
• Experience driving operational improvements or service enhancements.

Please review the job description, paying particular attention to the essential and desirable criteria, and ensure these are covered in your application.

As well as the exciting opportunities this role presents, we also offer some great benefits some of which are below:

• 41 Days holiday (27 days annual leave 8 bank holiday and 6 closure days)
• Additional 5 days' annual leave purchase scheme
• Defined benefit career average revalued earnings pension scheme (CARE)
• Cycle to work scheme and season ticket loan
• Immigration loan
• Relocation scheme for certain posts
• On-Site nursery
• On-site gym
• Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption pay
• Employee assistance programme: Staff Support Service
• Discounted medical insurance

Visit https://www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/rewards-and-benefits to find out more.

As London's Global University, we know diversity fosters creativity and innovation, and we want our community to represent the diversity of the world's talent. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where we all belong.

We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are likely to be underrepresented in UCL's workforce. These include people from Black, Asian and ethnic minority backgrounds; disabled people; and for our Grade 9 and 10 roles, women.