Translational Partnerships Lead in London

The Academy of Medical Sciences – an independent, expert voice of biomedical and health research in the UK – is looking for a Translational Partnerships Lead to help turn the Academy’s convening power into practical partnerships that accelerate translation.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead a defined portfolio of translational activity with research and health system partners, ensuring workstreams are planned, governed and delivered to agreed objectives, timescales and resources.
• Manage day-to-day delivery, risks and dependencies across your remit, escalating issues and decisions to your Director as appropriate.
• Line manage and develop staff where required, setting clear expectations, supporting high performance and creating a collaborative working culture.
• Lead deep-dives through workshops and round tables into defined areas where the UK can build advantage – a clinical domain, technology platform or underpinning capability – with honest analysis of where the translational system is failing.
• Work with partners to develop practical solutions and commitments to implement improvements, turning analysis into coordinated action that can be monitored and reported.
• Support the design and development of Academy interventions that help promising science move from discovery towards development, including partnership propositions, pilot activity or programme models.
• Build effective relationships with partners across the health system, identifying opportunities where Academy convening and expertise can add value.
• Develop and support practical mechanisms for collaboration, such as workshops, roundtables or partnership propositions, working closely with Academy colleagues.
• Develop and maintain partnerships that bring in external capability, insight, including from industry, public funders, research charities, regulators, and healthcare provider organisations that can support translational activity.
• Engage with judgement, pace and care, securing commitments and shared ownership while ensuring agreements are realistic, deliverable and proportionate.

Skills and Experience

• Substantial professional experience in a relevant area such as biomedical science, policy, programme delivery, grants management, stakeholder engagement, translational research or life sciences innovation.
• The ability to analyse varied and complex challenges, including issues without clear precedent, and develop practical solutions.
• Credibility with stakeholders in the UK research, science, health, policy or life sciences environment.
• Experience of building effective partnerships and turning shared ambition into deliverable plans.
• Experience of delivering programmes, projects or workstreams to agreed objectives, timescales and resources.
• The ability to operate with a good degree of autonomy within agreed objectives, priorities and governance frameworks, while working constructively with the Director of Translation and Enterprise and colleagues across the Academy, including the wider Fellowship.
• Competitive salary and pension.
• 26 days’ annual leave, plus bank holidays.
• Option to buy or sell annual leave.
• Additional paid closure between Christmas and New Year.
• Hybrid and flexible working.
• Health, wellbeing and employee support programmes.
• Cycle-to-work scheme and everyday benefits.
• Structured learning and development.
• Enhanced maternity, adoption and paternity leave.
• Enhanced occupational sick pay.
• A range of enhanced benefits become available once you’ve completed your probation period.

Salary: £69,080 per annum.

Contract and Hours: Permanent, Full Time, 37.5 hours per week.

Location: Hybrid/London W1B 1QH (50% office attendance).