University of Birmingham
Research Inclusion Manager - College of Medicine and Health - 108055 - Grade 8
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College of Medicine and Health, Research and Knowledge Transfer
University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, UK
Full Time, Fixed Term Contract Up to March 2028
Full Time Starting Salary: Normally in the range £47,389 to £56,535 with potential progression once in post to £63,606
Grade: 8
Closing Date: 27th October 2026
UK Travel: May be required for this role
Our Offer to You
People are at the heart of what we are and do.
The University of Birmingham is proud to have been a part of the City of Birmingham and the wider region for over 100 years, and we are equally proud to be recognised as a leading global university. We want to attract talented people from across the city and beyond, support them to succeed, and celebrate their success.
We are committed to helping the people who work here to develop through our sector-leading Birmingham Professional programme which provides all professional services staff with development opportunities and the encouragement to reach their full potential. With almost 5,000 professional services jobs in a wide range of functions in Edgbaston and in our campus in Dubai, there are plenty of opportunities for you to be able to develop your career at the University.
We believe there is no such thing as a typical member of staff and that diversity is a source of strength that underpins the exchange of ideas, innovation, and debate. We warmly welcome people from all backgrounds and are committed to fostering an inclusive environment where diversity is at the heart of who and what we are, and how we work.
Supporting our people to achieve a healthy work/life balance is important both to our employees and to the success of the University and, depending on the role, we offer a variety of flexible working arrangements. We therefore welcome discussions on all forms of flexible working. In addition, you will receive a generous package of benefits including 40 days paid holiday a year, one paid day a year for volunteering, occupational sick pay, and a pension scheme. We also have three high-quality subsidised day nurseries.
The University is situated in leafy Edgbaston and there are excellent transport links to our beautiful campus, including main bus routes and a train station on site. On campus we have a state-of-the-art sports centre with pool, shops, places to eat and drink, our own art gallery, museum, and botanical gardens.
Find out more about the benefits of working for the University of Birmingham here.
Background
The University of Birmingham is a global institution working within a diverse and vibrant City, offering an inspiring education to our students, and undertaking critically important research. We are a place of open, critical thinking, and the creation, sharing, and dissemination of knowledge. Professional Services put students at the heart of all they do and enable an exceptional educational experience. They provide outstanding support to our researchers and help the University to grow its influence regionally, nationally, and globally. They ensure the University’s resources are used wisely, manage and improve the infrastructure which sits at the heart of the institution, and support decisions to be made quickly and based on sound evidence. Our Birmingham Professional programme operates across the University, supporting colleagues to network and collaborate, offering opportunities to learn and develop, contributing to the delivery of the University’s objectives, and helping everyone to understand the broader context within which we work.
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Department Overview
Working on behalf of the National Institute for Health & Care Research (NIHR) Biomedical Research Centre: Birmingham (BRC), the University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust Clinical Research Facility (CRF), and the NIHR Healthtech Research Centre in Devices, digital and robotics (HRC-DDR), the Research Inclusion Manager will be responsible for the project management and delivery of tasks and events related to the BRC, CRF and HRC-DDR strategic objectives and associated delivery plans, with guidance from the Research Inclusion Lead.
The NIHR Birmingham BRC is a world-leading centre for translational research into inflammatory diseases. Inflammation plays a major role in many long-term conditions, including cancer, and is responsible for over half of all deaths linked to chronic disease. Working with a large, diverse population of six million people, the BRC develops and tests new treatments for inflammatory conditions, tackling health inequalities and ensuring communities help shape research that improves outcomes for patients.
The NIHR Birmingham BRC is hosted by University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust in partnership with the University of Birmingham, joined by our partners in Keele, Oxford, and Aston Universities and additional NHS Trusts; Birmingham Women’s and Children’s, Birmingham Community Healthcare, and Sandwell and West Birmingham. This broad and expansive partnership gives us greater reach, diversity, and opportunities for co-creation and impact across our regional population. We also benefit from Birmingham Health Partners (BHP); a strategic alliance of regional academic and NHS partners dedicated to jointly accelerating and implementing healthcare innovations.
The NIHR/Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Facility Birmingham (CRF) was established in 2001 and is based across University Hospitals Birmingham and Birmingham Women’s and Children’s hospital. The CRF provides a high-quality clinical environment where volunteers and patients of all ages can take part in experimental and early phase, clinical research.
The CRF is multi-speciality and works closely with clinicians and academics from many different specialities.
The facilities are equipped to a high standard allowing research to be carried out in compliance with Good Clinical Practice (GCP).
The CRF provides multi-purpose generic rooms which include outpatient clinic rooms, day-case facilities, inpatient beds, and meeting rooms as well as specialist rooms that include a metabolic studies area, endoscopy suite, and high specification isolation rooms.
The NIHR HealthTech Research Centre in Devices, digital and robotics (HRC-DDR) is one of 14 HealthTech Research Centres (HRCs) in the UK. The University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust (UHB) hosts the NIHR HRC-DDR. The NIHR funds, enables, and delivers world-leading health and social care research to improve people’s health and wellbeing and promote economic growth. Through the HRCs, the NIHR supports safe, effective, and efficient translation of new healthcare technologies into routine care for NHS patients and follow-on social care. Our work aims to improve the efficiency and success rate of HealthTech uptake into health and social care. We provide a national service that supports partners through the innovation ecosystem and build collaborations with expert academics and clinicians from leading organisations and infrastructures.
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The post holder will be a core member of the NIHR Birmingham BRC central coordination team and will hold inclusion leadership roles within both HRC-DDR and CRF as well as working closely across all regional partners. They will also be a key member of the Research Delivery team within the College of Medicine and Health Research Office, which oversees a number of high-profile research programmes.
Role Summary
The role requires working closely with the BRC Research Inclusion Lead, HRC-DDR Programme Manager, and CRF Programme Manager, research inclusion and public involvement colleagues, and other internal managers and leaders across partner organisations.
You will need specialist equality and inclusion knowledge, excellent leadership skills, a high degree of motivational skill, working closely with colleagues at all levels in the organisation, clinical and non-clinical, public and patients, and where appropriate, the wider healthcare community. You will need experience of influencing behaviour, in often challenging situations. You will lead efforts to develop an inclusive culture and increase diversity across our public research participants, collaborators, and workforce.
You will:
- Possess extensive knowledge and experience of equity, equality, diversity, and inclusion within a healthcare/research context.
- Be an EDI champion across the infrastructures, their host organisations, and partner organisations.
- Identify and design innovative solutions to complex equity, equality, diversity, and inclusion issues.
- Build, manage, and foster sustainable relationships effectively with a range of internal and external stakeholders at all levels across the BRC, HRC-DDR, and CRF Programmes.
- Inspire, encourage, and support stakeholders to learn and develop knowledge and skills in relation to research inclusion.
- Interpret and disseminate complex information to others in the form of guidance and training.
- Co-create and deliver presentations to a range of stakeholders at all levels.
- Organise your own workload, dealing with conflicting priorities and multiple deadlines.
- Possess a high level of work organisation, self-motivation, drive for performance and improvement, and flexibility in approach and attitude.
- Have excellent communication skills.
- Have highly developed skills to negotiate, persuade, and influence at a senior level with Programme and Project Leads, Heads of Service/Trust Leads, Senior clinicians, and Researcher and other groups.
Main Duties
- Responsible for the project management and delivery of tasks and events related to BRC, CRF, and HRC-DDR Research Inclusion delivery plans and associated strategic objectives, with guidance from Research Inclusion Lead.
- Develop and foster strong working relationships and coordinate efforts to develop and implement a shared and inclusive research culture for the BRC/CRF/HRC-DDR, improving involvement from our public contributors, public research participants, collaborators, and workforce.
- Develop systems to monitor the implementation, progress, and outputs and impacts
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