Queen's University Belfast
Rare Disease Project Manager (maternity cover)
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This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced, highly motivated individual to join our vibrant, multidisciplinary rare disease research team.
About the Role
The Project Manager will provide project management expertise to ensure the successful, strategic development of high-quality rare disease research. This role provides an opportunity to work in partnership with academic and clinical colleagues, professional support teams, community groups, policy makers, and industrial collaborators. In collaboration with senior colleagues, you will help develop, manage, monitor, and report on the implementation of strategic projects within a diverse portfolio across a range of rare diseases.
You will provide support for a collaborative research environment that fosters a culture of trust and mutual respect. The role requires excellent interpersonal skills alongside scientific and technical understanding relevant for rare diseases.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide project management expertise for rare disease research projects.
- Work in partnership with academic and clinical colleagues, professional support teams, community groups, policy makers, and industrial collaborators.
- Develop, manage, monitor, and report on the implementation of strategic projects within a diverse portfolio across a range of rare diseases.
- Support a collaborative research environment that fosters a culture of trust and mutual respect.
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About the Impact
Although individually rare, which means affecting less than 1 in 2,000 people, all rare diseases together affect ~475 million people globally, with more than 110,000 people affected by rare diseases across Northern Ireland. Recent rare disease initiatives by our team include the development of an online support tool for carers of people living with a rare disease - Caring with Rare, appraisals of the impact of socioeconomic factors, novel approaches for molecular diagnostics, building digital infrastructure to support diagnosis and care pathways, and the recently funded £12 million LifeArc Centre for the Acceleration of Rare Disease Trials.
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Qualifications and Experience
- Education: University degree or equivalent, or substantial relevant project management experience and a professional project management qualification at practitioner level.
- Experience:
- Substantial relevant experience must demonstrate project management of a complex project from inception to completion.
- Planning, delivering, budgetary reprofiling and management.
- Leading multidisciplinary teams and managing people.
- Good negotiating and influencing skills.
- Skills:
- Ability to organise, with a detail-oriented methodological approach.
- Positive, creative, and flexible approach to resolving problems.
Application Process
To be successful at shortlisting stage, please ensure you clearly evidence in your application how you meet the essential and, where applicable, desirable criteria listed in the Candidate Information on our website.
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