The Academy of Medical Sciences – an independent, expert voice of biomedical and health research in the UK – is looking for a Head of Strategy and Planning to develop and maintain the Academy’s strategic framework and planning processes.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the development and stewardship of a bold, coherent strategy that positions AMS as an influential voice across both UK and global medical science.
• Design and embed organisation-wide strategic and business planning processes, enabling clear prioritisation, coordinated action, and disciplined alignment across all directorates.
• Build and nurture influential partnerships across the entire health, science, research, and innovation ecosystem, including government, funders, industry, academia, learned societies, the NHS, international bodies, and philanthropic organisations.
• Maintain a deep, organisation-wide understanding of the Academy’s stakeholder landscape, ensuring strategic clarity about who our key partners are, what they value, and how AMS can work with them most effectively.
• Oversee all governance functions for the Academy, ensuring that Council and its committees are supported to operate effectively, efficiently, and strategically.
• Ensure the right business goes to Council at the right time, leading your team to manage forward plans, agenda setting, and the sequencing of decisions so that governance bodies can provide true strategic oversight.
• Lead a high-performing planning function that provides cross-Academy visibility, assurance, and coordination of major strategic programmes.
• Build strategic relationships with current and potential funders, identifying where aligned investment can accelerate AMS’s mission and shared system goals.
• Secure funding, shaping compelling, strategic propositions that reflect both organisational priorities and funder interests.
• Lead and develop your team, ensuring strategic planning, international insight, planning, governance support, and the CEO’s office operate as a cohesive, high-performing unit.