Senior Research Project Manager | The Christie NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 12 September 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £47,810 - £54,710 per annum pro rata |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 25 October 2025 |
| Location: | Manchester, M20 4BX |
| Company: | The Christie NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 7479079/413-98209-RI-MS |
Summary
We are looking for a resourceful and motivated individual to join our Living With & Beyond Cancer (LWBC) research theme, who enjoys working collaboratively with multi-disciplinary teams across organisational boundaries.
The NIHR funds Biomedical Research Centres (BRCs) as experimental medicine centres of excellence via competitive application every five years. Manchester BRC was awarded £64.1 million (2022-28) to provide infrastructure funding across Greater Manchester, Lancashire and South Cumbria Manchester Biomedical Research Centre Manchester Biomedical Research Centre
The post holder will be expected to drive the delivery of BRC objectives across Themes and Clusters, provide accurate, timely and high-quality reports on project progress and outputs against forecasts and strategic aims both internally (including to the BRC senior management team) and to external bodies (including the NIHR), and will work with theme/cluster leads, programme leads and key researchers to identify and overcome risks to ensure successful delivery of the theme objectives.
We support flexible working, with home-based and office-based options. Some travel across Greater Manchester may be required.
This is a part-time role at 0.5FTE, for a fixed term until March 2028. If already employed by The Christie, an internal secondment would be considered. Agenda for Change banding is pending for this post and therefore this is Band 7 subject to evaluation.
You will be the primary point of contact for Manchester BRC LWBC Theme management. You will develop and maintain appropriate project plans and performance management systems, ensuring that timely and accurate progress updates are provided as required, and analyse and evaluate Theme progress on a regular basis, formulating, presenting and implementing strategies to minimise risk and maximise benefit to the BRC.
You will manage the Theme budget, produce reports including the Theme annual report and ad hoc internal reports.
You will develop and report impact cases and work closely with the BRC Communications team to ensure newsworthy items are identified and reported in a timely fashion.
You will support industry and charity collaborations and help source external funding opportunities to further develop the research theme.
The Christie is one of Europe’s leading cancer centres, treating over 60,000 patients a year. We are based in Manchester and serve a population of 3.2 million across Greater Manchester & Cheshire, but as a national specialist around 15% patients are referred to us from other parts of the country.
We provide radiotherapy through one of the largest radiotherapy departments in the world; chemotherapy on site and through 14 other hospitals; highly specialist surgery for complex and rare cancer; and a wide range of support and diagnostic services. We are also an international leader in research, with world first breakthroughs for over 100 years.
We run one of the largest early clinical trial units in Europe with over 300 trials every year. Cancer research in Manchester, most of which is undertaken on the Christie site, has been officially ranked the best in the UK.
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Managerial and Administrative Activities
1. The primary point of contact for BRC LWBC project management, particularly around the development of research projects and reporting of project outputs.
2. Develops and coordinates programmes of work within themes and as a Cluster.
3. Develops and maintains appropriate project plans and performance management systems, ensuring that timely and accurate progress updates are received by the BRC and Divisional Senior Management Teams, Trust Board and Executive Directors, and by the NIHR/DHSC and other external stakeholders as required.
4. Oversees and interacts with local project teams in the management and delivery of projects including MFT, BRC partner Trusts and University employees and, where appropriate, external organisations.
5. Analyses and evaluates project progress on a regular basis, formulating, presenting and implementing strategies to minimise risk and maximise benefit to the BRC, accountable body and funder.
6. Works closely with the BRC, CRF, R&I operational teams and University departments to coordinate and provide analytical support relating to current objectives and future strategy at Theme and Cluster level.
This advert closes on Sunday 5 Oct 2025
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