Research Grant and Impact Delivery Manager (2 years FTC)

We are looking for a Research Grant and Impact Delivery Manager to oversee the stewardship and reporting of a significant Wellcome-funded programme, while helping to develop how Our Future Health measures and communicates its organisational impact and benefits. This is a two-year fixed-term opportunity to work across multidisciplinary teams and help build sustainable approaches to grant and impact reporting.

Despite big improvements in healthcare in our lifetimes, millions of people in the UK still live in poor health as they get older. Diseases such as cancer, dementia, diabetes and heart disease affect many people in our communities. Our goal is to create a world-leading resource for health research, improving our understanding of how and why common diseases start so that treatments can begin sooner and be more effective.

Our Future Health is the UK’s largest ever health research programme, bringing people together to develop new ways to detect, prevent and treat diseases. We are a charity supported by the UK Government, working in partnership with charities and industry and closely with the NHS and public authorities across all nations and regions of the UK.

What you’ll be doing:

You will work closely with delivery leads, programme teams, Finance, subject matter experts and external stakeholders. You will coordinate funder reporting and engagement, maintain oversight of grant commitments, and help establish the measures, evidence and governance needed to understand and communicate the long-term impact and value of Our Future Health. Your key responsibilities will include:

• Coordinate Wellcome financial, progress and impact reporting with programme teams, workstream leads and Finance, ensuring funder obligations and information requests are met effectively.
• Maintain oversight of grant requirements, milestones, deliverables, funding conditions and reporting obligations, supporting ongoing compliance with funder expectations.
• Work with the Our Future Health Partnership Lead to support coordinated and proactive engagement with Wellcome and other key stakeholders.
• Support discussions with Wellcome about programme performance, risks, rephasing, changes in scope and potential future funding opportunities.
• Help develop and implement a creative, holistic and sustainable approach to measuring, evidencing and communicating Our Future Health’s organisational impact and benefits.
• Bring together stakeholders to develop appropriate impact measures, indicators, data collection processes and evidence sources across research, health, policy and organisational outcomes.
• Identify gaps in existing impact measures and reporting, working with subject matter experts to develop new processes and metrics and to commission targeted analyses or evaluations where helpful.
• Create clear impact, benefits and outcomes reporting for funders, partners, participants, leadership and the wider research community, using quantitative and qualitative evidence to demonstrate value.

We are looking for someone with experience of complex programme delivery and funder stewardship in a research, health, data, innovation or related environment. You will also bring some of the following:

• Experience leading complex programmes for major charitable, government or industry research funders.
• Experience developing and embedding grant management, governance, reporting and evaluation processes.
• Experience overseeing programme delivery, risk management and reporting to funders, boards or senior stakeholders; experience in data-enabled research, health data, research infrastructure, digital products or innovation would be helpful.
• Experience developing impact, outcomes or benefits frameworks and using quantitative and qualitative evidence to evaluate impact and inform strategic decisions.
• Programme management skills, including coordinating multiple workstreams, managing risks and building effective relationships across an organisation.
• The ability to understand and communicate complex technical, scientific and operational information, including information relating to health data, research infrastructure, trusted research environments, digital products, usability and user adoption.
• Analytical, written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to bring together evidence and create clear reports, impact narratives and insights for different audiences.

Hiring Process 

We feel hiring should be transparent and give you a real sense for what Our Future Health is like. Here's what you can expect from our remote process: 

• Initial chat with our Talent team (30 min) to get to know each other, discuss the role, and answer any questions you have.
• 1st interview with our Senior Scientific Programme Manager and our Senior Research Scientist (60 min) - this is an opportunity to meet your potential line manager and for you both to align on role expectations.
• Competency based interview with with a small cross-functional panel of your potential new stakeholders (60 min). It is designed to get a sense of how you collaborate and with stakeholders, and how you'd approach the real-world responsibilities of this role.

• From £56,000 per annum basic salary.
• Generous Pension Scheme – We invest in your future with employer contributions of up to 12%.
• 30 Days Holiday + Bank Holidays – Enjoy a generous holiday allowance with the flexibility to take bank holidays when it suits you.
• Enhanced Parental Leave – Supporting you during life’s biggest moments.
• Cycle to Work Scheme – Save 25-39% on a new bike and accessories through salary sacrifice.
• EV Scheme – Save up to 40% on a brand new electric vehicle all-inclusive package through salary sacrifice
• Home & Tech Savings – Get up to 8% off on IKEA and Currys products, spreading the cost over 12 months through salary sacrifice.
• £1,000 Employee Referral Bonus – Know someone amazing? Get rewarded for bringing them on board!
• Wellbeing Support – Access to Mental Health First Aiders, plus 24/7 online GP services and an Employee Assistance Programme for you and your family.
• A Great Place to Work – We have a lovely Central London office in Holborn, and offer flexible and remote working arrangements.

Join us - let’s prevent disease together.

Closing date 18 August 2026 at 5:00pm.

At Our Future Health, we recognise the importance of having a diverse workforce and ensuring that all candidates, regardless of their background, have equitable access to our application process. We proactively encourage applicants who identify as having a disability, neurodiversity, or long-term health conditions to let us know if they require any reasonable adjustments as part of their application process.

If you do require any reasonable adjustments, please email us at [email protected]