Job Description

Ref Number

B02-09445

Professional Expertise

Administration and Business Support

Department

School of Life & Medical Sciences (B02)

Location

London

Working Pattern

Full time

Salary

54,931-64,644

Contract Type

Fixed-term

Working Type

Hybrid

Available for Secondment

Yes

Closing Date

13-Oct-2025

About us

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Our mission is to maximise and advocate for the holistic health of all children, young people and the adults they will become, through world-class research, education and public engagement. The UCL GOS ICH, together with its clinical partner Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, forms the largest concentration of children's health research outside North America. The 2024-29 GOS ICH strategy focuses on its five scientific programmes. GOS ICH's activities include active engagement with children and families, to ensure that our work is relevant and appropriate to their needs. GOS ICH generates the funding for our research by setting out our proposals in high quality applications to public, charitable and industrial funding bodies and disseminates the results of our research by publication in the medical and scientific literature, to clinicians, policy makers and the wider public. The Institute offers world-class education and training across a wide range of teaching and life learning programmes which address the needs of students and professional groups who are interested in and undertaking work relevant to child health. GOS ICH holds an Athena SWAN Charter Gold Award. Please only attach relevant documents to your application (qualifications, cover letters, supporting statements) and avoid attaching large files e.g. research papers, thesis, publications etc.

About the role

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This post is based in the Child Health Informatics Group (CHIG) at the Population, Policy and Practice Research and Education Department at the UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health (GOSICH) (https://www.ucl.ac.uk/child-health/chig) CHIG is a friendly and diverse group of around 30 researchers capitalising on the opportunities for research offered by administrative datasets routinely collected by government departments and other statutory bodies to create rich resources for policy-relevant research. Supported by a Research Administrator, the post holder will be responsible as the programme manager for the HDRUK SEDH (https://www.hdruk.ac.uk/research/research-driver-programmes/social-and-environmental-determinants-of-health) and CHILI (https://www.ucl.ac.uk/child-health/chili-hub) programmes, also supporting the Kids' Environment and Health Cohort study (https://kenvh-cohort.org.uk/). In collaboration with the director (Prof Hardelid), they will be responsible for data applications and overall management of both programmes. A key responsibility includes coordinating data governance infrastructure across the CHIG team. Working closely with CHIG principal investigators, as part of the senior team, the post holder will support the CHIG research team's work and manage the use of large administrative research datasets. This secondment is offered for 9 months in the first instance.

About you

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The post is an excellent opportunity for an experienced research and/or data manager to take responsibility for management of high-profile national research programmes and the acquisition and governance of large administrative research datasets. We are looking for an individual who has a proven track record of research and data governance. The postholder will work and manage relationships across the CHIG team to coordinate data applications and access to a range of data resources from a government departments and statutory bodies. The post holder will be responsible for ensuring compliance with governance requirements through procedures, contracts, training, public interfaces and other outputs. The post holder will have a track record in management in the Higher Education, NHS or industrial sector and have the skills and aptitude to bring to the co-ordination of data resources. Experience in research management and administrative data or electronic health records would be an advantage. We particularly encourage applicants from underrepresented backgrounds.

What we offer

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As well as the exciting opportunities this role presents we also offer some great benefits some of which are below: 41 Days holiday (including 27 days annual leave 8 bank holiday and 6 closure days) Defined benefit career average revalued earnings pension scheme (CARE) Cycle to work scheme and season ticket loan On-Site nursery On-site gym Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption pay Employee assistance programme: Staff Support Service Discounted medical insurance

Our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

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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; LGBTQI+ people; and for our Grade 9 and 10 roles, women. You can read more about our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion here : https://www.ucl.ac.uk/equality-diversity-inclusion/