The Academy of Medical Sciences – an independent, expert voice of biomedical and health research in the UK – is looking for a Senior Translational Partnerships Officer to contribute expert analysis, coordination and delivery within a defined area of the Academy’s research translation work.

Key Responsibilities

• Support the delivery of a defined area of translational activity with research and health system partners, ensuring agreed outputs are delivered to required standards and timescales.
• Lead discrete workstreams or specialist project activity where appropriate, managing day-to-day progress, risks and issues within agreed objectives and escalating decisions to your line manager.
• Support deep-dives, workshops and round tables into defined areas where the UK can build advantage, contributing to evidence gathering and structured analysis of translational barriers.
• Work with partners and Academy colleagues to develop options, actions and recommendations that respond to the evidence and can be monitored and reported.
• Contribute evidence and insight to discussions with funders, partners, collaborators, Fellows, industry, charities and the wider health system, including multi-organisation initiatives where appropriate.
• Provide high-quality input to the design and development of Academy interventions that help promising science move from discovery towards development, including partnership propositions, pilot activity or programme models.
• Build and maintain effective working relationships with partners across the health and research system, supporting opportunities where Academy convening and expertise can add value.
• Develop and support practical mechanisms for collaboration, such as workshops, roundtables or partnership propositions, working closely with Academy colleagues.
• Help shape projects that connect scientific opportunity with development, adoption or commercial pathways, drawing on Fellows and external expertise as appropriate.
• Support partnerships that bring in external capability and insight, including from industry, public funders, research charities, regulators and healthcare provider organisations.