Location: University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham UK
Full time starting salary is normally in the range £47,389 to £56,535 with potential progression once in post to £63,606
Grade: 8
Full Time, Fixed Term contract up to August 2033
Closing date: 28th April 2026
Our offer to you
People are at the heart of what we are and do.
The University of Birmingham is proud to have been a part of the City of Birmingham and the wider region for over 100 years, and we are equally proud to be recognised as a leading global university. We want to attract talented people from across the city and beyond, support them to succeed, and celebrate their success.
We are committed to helping the people who work here to develop through our sector-leading Birmingham Professional programme which provides all professional services staff with development opportunities and the encouragement to reach their full potential. With almost 5,000 professional services jobs in a wide-range of functions in Edgbaston and in our campus in Dubai, there are plenty of opportunities for you to be able to develop your career at the University.
We believe there is no such thing as a typical member of staff and that diversity is a source of strength that underpins the exchange of ideas, innovation, and debate. We warmly welcome people from all backgrounds and are committed to fostering an inclusive environment where diversity is at the heart of who and what we are, and how we work.
Supporting our people to achieve a healthy work/life balance is important both to our employees and to the success of the University and, depending on the role, we offer a variety of flexible working arrangements. We therefore welcome discussions on all forms of flexible working. In addition, you will receive a generous package of benefits including 40 days paid holiday a year, one paid day a year for volunteering, occupational sick pay, and a pension scheme. We also have three high quality subsidised day nurseries.
The University is situated in leafy Edgbaston and there are excellent transport links to our beautiful campus, including main bus routes and a train station on site. On campus we have a state-of-the-art sports centre with pool, shops, places to eat and drink, our own art gallery, museum and botanical gardens.
Background
Department Overview
The Research Delivery team, part of the College of Medicine & Health's Research Office, is a vibrant hub for Professional Service staff (~100 individuals) supporting high-value, strategically important projects and programmes. We work closely with both Professional Services colleagues and Academics across the University and partner organisations, particularly NHS colleagues, to maximise the impact of funded research, much of which has direct patient relevance. The portfolio of research supported is wide ranging, including a large portfolio of large-scale research programmes and infrastructure awards funded by charities, government and other major health research funders.
This role will be embedded within the Research Delivery team and benefit from established relationships with programme partners and key stakeholders including NHS Trusts, collaborating research institutions both locally, nationally and globally, patient and public contributors, charities and funders.
Role Summary
This role is to support the prestigious new MRC Centre of Research Excellence, RESET ('Restoring immune homEostasis in multi-System autoimmunE and inflammatory diseases by modifying the tissue microenvironment'). One of the first Centres of its kind to be established in the UK, its goal is to deliver a step change in the treatment paradigm to manage a variety of immune-mediated inflammatory diseases (IMIDs), such as rheumatoid arthritis and inflammatory bowel disease, affecting people of all ages, through in-depth molecular characterisation of biological pathways to dissect the shared mechanisms that promote restoration of diseased tissues to long-term health. This novel approach will identify new avenues for treatment capable of reinstating normal tissue homeostasis, utilising novel and existing advanced cell therapies to achieve this aim. It has the potential to achieve sustained drug-free remission in IMIDs, reducing the risk and cost associated with long-term immunosuppression and transforming patients' lives.
The Centre connects a unique network of interdisciplinary expertise from the Universities of Birmingham, Newcastle, Glasgow, Cambridge and Oxford and University College London alongside international, industrial and charity partners, and success in the role will require a broad range of skills across programme management; knowledge transfer and exchange; training and capacity building; partnership co-working; fostering a vibrant research and professional culture; and operational leadership.
Main Duties
Project Delivery
Monitoring, evaluation and communication
People management
General
Required Knowledge, Skills, Qualifications, Experience
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