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Global Health Research Programme and Policy Advisor

Job details
Posting date:	24 June 2024
Salary:	£32,188 per year
Additional salary information:	Leeds: £32,188 London: £36,244
Hours:	Full time
Closing date:	07 July 2024
Location:	Leeds
Company:	Government Recruitment Service
Job type:	Permanent
Job reference:	357667/1

Summary

In DHSC, we are proud of our purpose – to enable everyone to live more independent, healthier lives for longer. To achieve this, and create a great place to work, we have four values: we are inclusive, we constantly improve, we challenge, and we are agile. If this sounds like an environment you’d like to work in, we’d love to hear from you.

The Global Health Research (GHR) team in the Science Research and Evidence Directorate (SRE) of the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) was set up in 2016 to develop and deliver a new global health research portfolio utilising DHSC Official Development Assistance (ODA) budget, which is ring-fenced for activity conducted for the primary benefit of people living in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs).

As an integral part of the Directorate, the GHR team build on the existing reputation, expertise and world-class commissioning power of the National Institute of Health and Care Research (NIHR) to support high-quality applied health research and training in LMICs.

The portfolio is delivered directly through research which is commissioned and managed by the NIHR and through partnerships with other organisations and funders, including across government. Funding is allocated on the basis of competitive research calls in strategic areas aligned with UK government priorities, areas of greatest unmet need and the global burden of disease.

The portfolio has enabled more than 800 institutions in over 50 countries to deliver high-quality applied health research and build in-country capability in areas such as maternal health, global surgery, health systems research, infectious disease and chronic conditions. For more information on the NIHR GHR portfolio, see: www.nihr.ac.uk/globalhealth.

We are a friendly, busy team of 15 who develop and manage the research funding portfolio working closely with NIHR colleagues, other DHSC teams, and in partnership with other funders and agencies around the world. We also support the development and implementation of a set of strategic non-ODA international health research partnerships.

We are seeking a Global Health Research Programme and Policy Adviser to support the development and delivery of the exciting and expanding NIHR Global Health Research portfolio. The role will mainly focus on supporting the development of a strategic approach to the delivery of ODA-funded research programmes across the portfolio, including ODA policy and compliance, with some strategic lean-in across the wider SRE Programmes portfolio to maximise collective impact across our domestic (non-ODA) and global (ODA and non-ODA) portfolios.

The role will help to ensure that our portfolio is coherent and adds value to research funding initiatives both in the UK and internationally, with the aim of maximising NIHR impact on the health and well-being of populations in LMICS and, where appropriate, the UK.