PIONEER’s science is organised into multiple interconnected research streams, each gated by pre-specified milestones that must be met before the programme advances. The Systems Integrator must understand these dependencies at a genuine scientific level and must be capable of identifying, flagging, and helping to resolve scientific and operational challenges across a large, geographically dispersed, interdisciplinary team. If you have broad scientific curiosity, exceptional organisational intelligence, and the rare ability to communicate credibly across disciplines that rarely speak to one another, this role was designed for you.

What You Would Be Doing

You will coordinate PIONEER’s interconnected research streams, ensuring their tightly gated dependencies function as a coherent programme rather than as parallel projects. Day to day, you will:

• Chair consortium meetings
• Facilitate the weekly, biweekly, and monthly catch-up meetings between all cohorts
• Coordinate thematic away days
• Organise the annual all-team meeting rotating across partner institutions
• Lead preparation of all funder progress and annual reports
• Maintain the master project schedule and risk register
• Manage financial reporting with the PIONEER PI and Imperial and Department Finance leads
• Lead the staged milestone assessment process, supporting research leads in evaluating which approaches have met go/no-go criteria and coordinating resource reallocation where needed
• Support recruitment of all PIONEER researchers across all consortium sites
• Manage communications with the funder
• Act as the primary internal coordination point across the whole programme
• Engage substantively with PIONEER’s science – reading literature across all research areas and contributing to milestone discussions

What We Are Looking For

We are looking for someone with exceptional scientific breadth, outstanding organisational capability, and the communication skills to operate credibly at every level of the programme. The full person specification is in the job description.

Key Attributes Include

• A PhD in a relevant scientific discipline – genuine scientific depth is required, and candidates should be able to demonstrate working knowledge of at least two of PIONEER’s scientific areas
• Proven experience coordinating complex, multi-partner scientific programmes, with a strong record in milestone tracking, risk management, and funder reporting
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to synthesise and convey complex, multi-disciplinary information clearly to diverse audiences
• The ability to engage substantively with primary scientific literature across a broad range of disciplines and contribute to milestone and go/no-go discussions
• Excellent organisational skills and meticulous attention to detail, with the ability to manage multiple parallel workstreams across a large, geographically distributed consortium
• Strong interpersonal skills and the resilience to thrive in a fast-paced, high-ambition, mission-driven research environment

What We Can Offer You

This is a genuinely singular opportunity to be at the centre of one of the UK’s most ambitious and interdisciplinary science programmes. In addition, we offer:

• A five-year, ARIA-funded programme with the resources, scientific ambition, and collaborative network to make a lasting contribution to mitochondrial science and medicine.
• The opportunity to build expertise across one of the most scientifically diverse programmes in UK research – spanning chemistry, AI, biophysics, genome engineering, and single-cell genomics – in a single integrated role.
• Regular engagement with a world-class investigator team across three leading UK universities and with a funder pushing the frontier of high-risk, high-reward science.
• The opportunity to continue your career at a world-leading institution and be part of our mission to continue science for humanity.
• Grow your career: gain access to Imperial’s sector-leading dedicated career support for researchers as well as opportunities for promotion and progression.
• Sector-leading salary and remuneration package (including 41 days off a year and generous pension schemes).
• Be part of a diverse, inclusive and collaborative work culture with various staff networks and resources to support your personal and professional wellbeing.

Further Information

The position is fixed term, full time, for 5 years.

You will be based at White City Campus. You will be required to travel to South Kensington Campus and to partner universities as necessary. This is a primarily on-site role.

The PIONEER programme is led by Dr. Nazila Kamaly in the Department of Chemistry at Imperial College London, in partnership with research leads at the Universities of Bristol and Glasgow. The Systems Integrator will be embedded with the PI at Imperial with a coordination remit spanning the full consortium.

If you require any further details about the role, please contact: Dr. Nazila Kamaly – nazila.kamaly@imperial.ac.uk

This post is part of an ARIA-funded project, subject to contract negotiations.

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Closing date: 6 August 2026.