Project Support Officer (Maternity Cover)

Full job description
We seek to appoint a full-time project support officer (part-time considered) to support an academic gene therapy clinical trial. This position offers an ideal opportunity for an enthusiastic, ambitious, well-motivated individual with excellent management and interpersonal skills to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team to assist in the day-to-day running of our gene therapy clinical trial programme. The post is available for an immediate start for a fixed term period of 12 months to provide maternity cover.

The post holder will be responsible for providing day-to-day project support and help coordinate project administration through all stages of the research life cycle (from trial start up through to study closure). The role requires initiative, sound judgement and the ability to interact with multiple members of the project team. This includes core administrative tasks linking with internal finance teams, the trial sponsors team, the clinical site, external clinical monitoring teams, contracts teams and the trial funders.

Awareness of good clinical practice (GCP) is essential to this role, particularly with regard to data handling and record keeping.


What you will get in return:

Fantastic market leading Pension scheme
Excellent employee health and wellbeing services including an Employee Assistance Programme
Exceptional starting annual leave entitlement, plus bank holidays
Additional paid closure over the Christmas period
Local and national discounts at a range of major retailers
As an equal opportunities employer we welcome applicants from all sections of the community regardless of age, sex, gender (or gender identity), ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation and transgender status. All appointments are made on merit.

Our University is positive about flexible working you can find out more here

Hybrid working arrangements may be considered.

Please note that we are unable to respond to enquiries, accept CVs or applications from Recruitment Agencies.

Any recruitment enquiries from recruitment agencies should be directed to People.Recruitment@manchester.ac.uk.

Any CV’s submitted by a recruitment agency will be considered a gift.

Enquiries about the vacancy, shortlisting and interviews:

Name: Dr Rebecca Holley

Email: Rebecca.holley@manchester.ac.uk

General enquiries:

Email: People.recruitment@manchester.ac.uk

Technical support:

https://jobseekersupport.jobtrain.co.uk/support/home

This vacancy will close for applications at midnight on the closing date.

Please see the link below for the Further Particulars document which contains the person specification criteria. Read more