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Research Portfolio Officer, ARTHRITIS UK
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Location (UK): Office Hybrid* - London / Sheffield
Hours: Full-time, 35 hours per week
Benefits: Read more about the excellent benefits we offer on our profile page.
Contract type: Permanent
Travel: Some travel may be required within the UK.
Closing date: 23:59 hours, Wednesday 29 July 2026.
Join us and use your skills, knowledge, passion, and energy to help us achieve a future free from arthritis.
This is an exciting opportunity for someone with research experience to work within a team of experts in research strategy development, research delivery, and research policy, to communicate the outputs of our research funding to diverse stakeholders across the charity.
About The Role
You will work within a dynamic and friendly team to help support our Research Programme Managers to develop and manage the Arthritis UK research portfolio. This will include collating and monitoring data from diverse sources to help provide oversight of our funded research. You will also work closely with other colleagues to translate our research outputs into a format that is clear and impactful to help teams across the charity achieve their strategic objectives.
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You will work across a diverse range of projects and will liaise with a wide range of teams from across the charity to help us to tell the story of our research investment.
About You
If your knowledge, skills, and experience include the following, then we’d love to hear from you:
- A scientific degree or equivalent level of experience in medical research via the charity, commercial, health, higher education, or publishing sectors.
- High-quality verbal and written communication skills, including being able to communicate complex information and requirements to a wide range of audiences and stakeholders.
- A flexible and collaborative approach: able to work closely and adaptively with the immediate team and collaboratively across the organization.
- Good information technology skills, including effective database/PubMed/internet search techniques and significant experience of using Microsoft Office Packages.
- Proven ability to manage multiple projects, with the ability to prioritize and meet deadlines independently, including rapid turnaround requests.
- Experience in a medical research environment.
- Knowledge or experience of the research application, award, and monitoring process.
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As a hybrid worker, the expectation is that you will spend around 40% of your working time in our office spaces or working in community settings. As an inclusive employer, we will consider home-based working for anyone where office-based hybrid working would be a barrier to being able to work for us, for example, for someone living with a long-term health condition or disability.
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