The Academy of Medical Sciences – Translational Partnerships Lead

The Academy of Medical Sciences – an independent, expert voice of biomedical and health research in the UK – is looking for a Translational Partnerships Lead to help turn the Academy’s convening power into practical partnerships that accelerate translation.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead a defined portfolio of translational activity with research and health system partners, ensuring workstreams are planned, governed, and delivered to agreed objectives, timescales, and resources.
• Manage day-to-day delivery, risks, and dependencies across your remit, escalating issues and decisions to your Director as appropriate.
• Line manage and develop staff where required, setting clear expectations, supporting high performance, and creating a collaborative working culture.
• Lead deep-dives through workshops and round tables into defined areas where the UK can build advantage - a clinical domain, technology platform, or underpinning capability - with honest analysis of where the translational system is failing.
• Work with partners to develop practical solutions and commitments to implement improvements, turning analysis into coordinated action that can be monitored and reported.
• Support 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 effective relationships with partners across the health system, identifying 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.
• Develop and maintain partnerships that bring in external capability, insight, including from industry, public funders, research charities, regulators, and healthcare provider organisations that can support translational activity.
• Engage with judgement, pace, and care, securing commitments and shared ownership while ensuring agreements are realistic, deliverable, and proportionate.