Project Manager: Agreements and Grants Coordinator

Job Description

Location: FlexibleDuration: 12-month fixed term contractReporting to: international COVID-19 Data ICODA Executive Director (ICODA)About Health Data Research UKHealth Data Research UK (HDR UK) is the national Institute for data science in health. Our UK team of experts develop and apply cutting-edge data science approaches to clinical, biological, genomic and other multi-dimensional health data to address the most pressing health research challenges facing the public.Our mission is to make game-changing improvements in the health of patients and populations through data science research and innovation.We have been central to the UKs response to COVID-19, enabling a trustworthy, national approach to using health data, drawing on the full capabilities of UK research. This has helped with understanding the virus, clinical trials for treatments (including Dexamethasone), symptom trackers, risk calculators and impacts on vulnerable groups, including cancer patients.By undertaking research at scale, across a population of up to 65 million people, we have an unrivalled opportunity to use data to the highest ethical standards to drive breakthroughs in medical research. This unleashes the potential to improve the way we are able to prevent, detect and diagnose diseases such as cancer, heart disease and asthma.We are bringing together our unique nationwide health data assets and specialists across academia, research and healthcare to unlock knowledge and deliver new insights from molecule to man. This is being achieved through a three-part health data research infrastructure - the Alliance, Hubs and Gateway.At Health Data Research UK we employ talented individuals who bring their own unique skills and experience to support the vision and benefit the whole team.About the International COVID-19 Data Alliance (ICODA)ICODA is a high profile, charity-funded, international collaboration which will create an International Alliance of data custodians and provide a digital workbench for researchers and innovators to impact our COVID-19 response by enabling the sharing of data at scale.Announced on 26 June 2020, ICODA is an independent consortium of leading life science, philanthropic and research organisations uniting to respond to the COVID-19 global pandemic. The aim is to transform the way that scientists and researchers access health data from clinical trials, biomedical and health research studies to answer the most pressing health-related questions about COVID-19. It is particularly focused on ensuring inclusion from researchers from lower- and middle-income countries (LMIC).The Workbench will provide a trustworthy platform to access data for collaborative data science. It will have several key functions: Allow researchers to search and find relevant data from multiple repositories across the world. Allow researchers to request access to data from multiple sources to address specific research questions. Allow data custodians to retain control of decisions about how data they hold can be accessed and used. Allow researchers to form virtual teams to address specific questions or projects in private, secure workspaces provisioned to meet the requirements of their projects.ICODA will facilitate access to data from multiple sources through a trustworthy data infrastructure, with robust governance and stewardship to enable a rapid response to COVID-19 and future disease outbreaks. These are important because they are addressing an urgent, unmet need to access global health data at scale for research and innovation to rapidly understand the disease and how to prevent and treat it.More information is available at www.icoda-research.org.Overview of the role and main responsibilitiesICODA is working in partnership with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundations (BMGF) Grand Challenges programme on a pilot Grand Challenges ICODA COVID-19 Data Science initiative, supported by the BMGF and The Minderoo Foundation. This is an open funding call, which seeks to provide awards of up to 12 months duration from mid-May 2021. The award holders will also become "Driver Projects" - exemplars that shape the development of tools, processes and governance for the ICODA digital Workbench. HDR UK requires the services of an experienced Project Manager to support the delivery part of a portfolio of grant awarded Driver Projects.The post holder will have a dual role within the ICODA Project Management Team. Firstly, they shall be responsible for managing the delivery of several Driver Projects. Additionally, the successful applicant will be responsible for central co-ordination and project management over the specific workstream areas of Agreements and Grants Coordinator across all Driver Projects.As a Project Manager for Driver Projects the post holder will work alongside grantee organisations to develop and facilitate a plan to make data available for research and facilitate the research community in achieving desired outcomes of the Driver Project within the necessary governance and reporting frameworks pertaining to the grant award. As a key member of the HDR UK ICODA Project Management Team the post holder will work to deliver efficient projects through the development of reusable tool sets and approaches that can be adapted for use across a to fit a variety of research requirements.The Project Manager will have responsibility for coordinating, planning and driving the pipeline of work relating to Data Contributor Agreements and will act as a point of reference for the organisation onboarding contributing data across projects. This will entail working with the Data Protection Officer and Legal Counsel, and the other members of the ICODA Project Management Team facilitating the legal agreements and negotiations that take place between data contributor organisations, sponsors and stakeholders and the compliance and standards for grant terms across the Grand Challenge initiative. The successful candidate will bring experience working with legal processes and representatives of other organisations to expedite processes, develop understanding and reach agreement between multiple differing stakeholders, and help develop standardised approaches that can be adapted to a variety of driver project and contributors to increase the efficiency of project implementation.This is a new role within the UK Health Data Research Alliance. It is an excellent opportunity for someone who is looking to use their skills and experience to improve access to health data for research and innovation that has the potential to transform lives. The successful candidate will share our values, have strong collaboration skills, be comfortable with working at pace and have a passion for professional, high quality approaches to engagement.Main Responsibilities Project Management Work with the ICODA Director, ICODA Technical Director, ICODA Senior Programme Lead and other members of the ICODA team to coordinate project tasks and resource requireme