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New job opportunity: HDR UK London Officer

10 July 2018

The Health Data Research UK (HDR UK) London Officer will be responsible for administrative support for HDR UK London-related activities

Health Data Research UK (HDR UK) is the new national institute for data science for health, which is being established in 2018 with long term funding support from  research councils, UKRI, charitable and governmental research funders. The mission of HDR UK is drive improvements in the health of patients and populations through research at regional and national scale which spans discovery of disease mechanisms, through precision medicine and trials to public health.  To deliver this mission, the 5 major London universities - UCL (coordinating), Imperial College London, King’s College London, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and Queen Mary University of London - came together as a pan London Site. The terms of this partnership are set out in the Site Agreement.  The London Site is the largest of the six UK Sites which include Cambridge including the Sanger and European Bioinformatics Institute, Oxford, the Midlands, Scotland and Wales/Northern Ireland). This is the first time that these universities across London have partnered in a major long term biomedical research initiative, and this partnership is already positively influencing decisions about further funding.

 

The Health Data Research UK (HDR UK) London Officer will be responsible for administrative support for HDR UK London-related actitivies, including research initiatives, and will provide executive assistance support to the HDR UK Chief Operations Officer (COO).

This is a full time position available immediately with a grant end date of 31 March 2023.

For further details, a job description and how to apply, please visit our Vacancies pages