Job Description

Do you have experience in research funding? Or a keen interest to apply a scientific degree to funding impactful child health research? If so, then we have a fantastic opportunity for you!

Following a promotion, Great Ormond Street Hospital Charity is hiring for a Research Officer is responsible for ensuring charitable funding supports the highest quality projects within our funding priority areas of: research; patient and family experience; technology and medical equipment; hospital staff support; education; and environment (through supporting redevelopment projects and capital builds).

Salary

The salary for this position is 31,935 per annum and we operate a hybrid working policy of a minimum of 2 days per week in the office.

In line with our EDI strategy and Total Reward policy, we calculate our salaries based on benchmarking data across the charity sector. To ensure fairness for existing staff and new joiners, we do not offer salaries above the advertised rate.
Key Responsibilities

Research grant management

Managing the delivery of GOSH Charity's response-mode funding schemes, including our National Research Project Grant and 'Lift Off' pilot study funding call and others. Supporting potential applicants via email, phone or in person to ensure we receive high quality grant applications. Processing, reviewing and validating grant applications. Leading the peer review process using our Grant Management System. Project managing the delivery of the Research Assessment Panel. Supporting the input of patient and public voice, to ensure they're built into our research funding decision making.

Committee management

Providing operational and secretariat support to the Research Assessment Panel and Lift Off Scientific Assessment Panels, and other expert research review panels as required. Managing agendas and meeting logistics, including face to face meetings as they are arranged. Preparing papers and reports, and collating these from across the team for delivery to the Committee in good time. Preparing high quality minutes that provide a clear record of discussions, decisions, and actions, and disseminating these following internal and Chair approval. Support the regular review of the Committee membership and tenure. Evaluating and recommending improvement and applying sector best practice to the Committee operations. Being a first point of call for Committee members, supporting them to deliver their role and ensuring they have a good experience working with GOSH Charity
This is a varied role with high impact, please refer to the full role profile for all the information.
Skills, Knowledge and Expertise


Previous experience working in grants management or within relevant scientific research. Knowledge of research principles and the UK research funding environment. Sound knowledge of paediatric research or similar discipline. Demonstrate experience of research quality assessments, including peer review. Exceptional written and verbal communication skills with high attention to detail. Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple projects at once. Strong relationship builder, with the ability to network in the scientific, clinical and research communities. Either an undergraduate degree in a relevant scientific discipline, or equivalent relevant work experience.

How to Apply

Please click on the apply button in the top right-hand corner where you will be taken to a short application form to complete.

Closing date: 10th July 2025

Benefits


30 days annual leave (plus bank holidays) A flexible approach to working arrangements. Access to our enhanced pension scheme Life assurance Access to various health and wellbeing schemes, including the employee assistance programme.




About Great Ormond Street Hospital Charity


Every day, around 750 children and young people from across the UK are seen at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH). At Great Ormond Street Hospital Charity, we help the hospital go above and beyond for seriously ill children, enabling kinder and better treatments, bringing hope for children with the rarest and most complex illnesses, and making hospital a little bit easier and a lot more fun for the thousands of children who are treated at GOSH every year. Our staff raise vital funds to support ground-breaking research, cutting-edge medical equipment, and the creation of child-centred facilities to help save more young lives, and essential support services that help save childhoods too.

Together, we can help give seriously ill children the best chance, and the best childhood, possible. We were delighted to be named Charity Times - Charity of the Year 2024, recognising the impact of our shared mission.

Our commitment to Equity, Diversity and Inclusion

We believe that GOSH Charity and the charity sector more widely should reflect the diversity of patients, communities, and society at large. We also know that having a more diverse and inclusive workforce will make us more innovative, challenge the status quo, and enable us to deliver more impact. We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds. In particular, we encourage applications from those who are currently under represented within the charity sector as they may be marginalised by race and/or ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability, long-term health conditions, or socioeconomic status.

If you would like more information about our approach to inclusive hiring please see our Inclusive Hiring Page here. You can also find out more about our commitments to EDI within our EDI Strategy here https://www.gosh.org/about-us/equality-diversity-and-inclusion-edi-strategy/


As a Level 2 Disability Confident Employer we are more than happy to make reasonable adjustments wherever possible throughout the recruitment process. For more information on this please contact recruitment@gosh.org

Applications will be reviewed on an on-going basis and we reserve the right to close the role prior to the closing date, should a suitable applicant be found. Therefore, you are encouraged to apply right away, to avoid disappointment.