Location: London, United Kingdom
Freedom from Torture has an exciting opportunity for a Research Programme Manager to join our team and play a central role in delivering an innovative international mental health research programme funded by a major UK research funder. The programme will explore whether artificial intelligence can safely and effectively support survivors of torture with managing distressing memories. Survivor co-design is central to the programme, ensuring that people with lived experience across diverse cultures, languages and backgrounds meaningfully shape innovation in mental health.
This is a senior research programme management role supporting the delivery of a major externally funded health research programme involving multiple organisations, international collaborators and diverse stakeholder groups. The programme includes research involving human participants and brings together expertise from universities, charities, clinicians, researchers, technologists and people with lived experience.
Reporting to the Principal Investigator, the Research Programme Manager will act as the central coordination point across the consortium and will be responsible for leading programme planning, coordinating international partners, supporting governance structures, managing funder reporting and compliance, coordinating financial oversight, supporting research governance and ethics, monitoring programme risks and preparing high-quality reports and briefings for funders, governance bodies and senior stakeholders.
You will be an experienced programme or project management professional with a track record of delivering complex health research programmes, managing externally funded research programmes, working with major research funders, coordinating activity across multiple organisations, supporting governance structures, managing risk and assurance processes, and contributing to financial monitoring and reporting. You will understand the importance of meaningful involvement of people with lived experience in research and service development.
Contract: Fixed-term for 2 years (possible extension up to 12 months). Hours: 28 per week (FTE 35). Salary: £52,467 (FTE £65,584).
Closing date: 23rd September 2026
HOW TO APPLY:
Apply via the online job board link. A CV and a cover letter addressing the Job Description and Person Specification are mandatory. No agencies.
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