Wellcome Trust
Head of Policy – Climate and Health
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Head of Policy – Climate and Health
Head of Policy, Climate & Health (Permanent, £84,640 – £105,800)
About The Wellcome Trust
The Wellcome Trust is a global charitable foundation focusing on improving health for everyone by funding science, shaping health policy, and driving advocacy. Over the next decade, it aims to invest £16bn to advance breakthroughs in life, health, and wellbeing. Central to this mission are three ambitious global health challenges—mental health, infectious disease, and climate and health—for which bold action through science, partnerships, and policy is required.
Climate change is one of the most significant threats to global health. Wellcome’s Climate & Health programme generates critical evidence, forges alliances, and advocates for change that safeguards both human health and the environment. The Policy team supports this work by translating evidence into policy action, ensuring health priorities are central to climate decision-making and accelerating progress.
About The Role
You are invited to join Wellcome’s Global Health Policy Team, based within the wider Policy & Partnerships department as the Head of Policy, Climate & Health. This newly established role will ensure Wellcome’s Climate & Health influencing strategy is realised through bold policy leadership.
As an integral part of the Climate & Health team, your responsibilities include:
- Leading the development of Wellcome’s vision and strategy on climate and health.
- Positioning yourself as a prominent thought-leader, spokesperson, and advisor within the organisation and globally on this urgent agenda.
- Guiding a high-performing, multidisciplinary team in fostering an inclusive and collaborative environment that empowers creative, impactful solutions.
This is an opportunity to make the biggest health impact through climate urgency—driving progress with both long-term strategy and immediate tactical action.
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Key Responsibilities
Strategic Leadership
- Lead the shape of Wellcome’s global policy goals on climate and health, positioning these as a high priority with foundational relevance to both national and international agendas.
- Oversee ambitious influencing work, ensuring the team’s outputs are cutting-edge, evidence-based, and aligned with Wellcome’s operational excellence.
- Balance long-term policy objectives with flexible opportunities, safeguarding the relevance and impact of interventions.
Team Leadership
- Mentor and inspire a matrix team of policy, politics, and partnerships professionals, cultivating an environment of innovation, accountability, and collaboration.
- Ensure the team operates with clarity, measurability, and dynamic adaptability while advancing career development and performance.
Organisational Governance & Impact
- manage resource allocation, risk assessment, and risk mitigation to ensure tangible results are achieved.
- Build internal and external relationships to enhance Wellcome’s policy influence at national and international levels.
Requirements
Minimum Criteria
- Deep and lasting expertise in climate and health policy, with a decisive understanding of Wellcome’s distinctive role in addressing systemic challenges.
- Substantial senior-level experience delivering impact in science or health policy, including high-calibre policy products such as reports, briefings, or media campaigns.
- An extensive, respected network within the climate and health policy sectors, combined with the ability to instantly build trust with diverse stakeholders.
- Track record of advocacy and influence—enabling meaningful changes across diverse policymaking levels.
- Demonstrated preference for collaborative working environments, with exceptional communication skills to lead with shared purpose.
- Commitment to innovative leadership and team growth through transparent goal-setting and delegation.
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仁益作风的激励要求
The Wellsome Way of Working is rooted in a one day a week flexibility. Colleagues are given 3 days in-office (Tuesday–Thursday) on Wellcome’s headquarters, while the remaining 2 days can be worked remotely. Such flexibility is supported by a dynamic office culture, ensuring collaboration, engagement, and meaningful well-being outside working hours.
Furthermore, Diversity & Inclusion is at the heart of every process, vis-à-vis equality and embracing our diversities thrives while at work. The Trust commits itself to accessibility within hiring choices, provides complete deliberations on inclusive adjustments, and may consider bespoken working arrangements.
We’ll encourage you to apply opportunities Judiciously, truly, with a wavering front of researchers, policy, and dynamics. Discover why competitive benefits Internationally offer an atmosphere to flourish, learn, adapt, and be recognised with mutual respect for contribarkan.
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To proceed with your application, please note the following:
Align your updated CV and 2 carefully chosen questions for review:
- Provide real case examples (up to 500 words) that demonstrate fulfillment of the minimum criteria outlined in this job posting.
- Prepare two distinct bags (each achievable via 250 words):
- For each initiative/project, specify your role, aims, and substantive personal contributions.
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