Bioethics Specialist

Salary: £55,400

Closing date: Friday 10 January 2025

Contract type: Fixed Term Contract Until 10 October 2025

Wellcome is a global charitable foundation. We improve health for everyone by funding science, leading policy and advocacy campaigns, and building partnerships.

We plan to spend £16bn over the next ten years, funding new discoveries in life, health and wellbeing, and taking on three global health challenges: mental health, infectious disease and climate.

These challenges need the bold research our funding supports, but they won't be solved by science alone. We are looking for parental cover for a Bioethics Specialist to support an embedded, proactive, and responsive approach to ethics across our research portfolio, with a focus on Discovery Research. The Bioethics Specialist will support the delivery of key bioethics activities, resources, and investments to ensure we have the appropriate evidence, tools, infrastructure, and expertise to enable ethical scientific research and health innovation across our discovery research and solutions areas. This role sits within the Discovery Research team, with the opportunity for collaborative work with other teams including Climate & Health, Infectious Diseases, Mental Health, Data, Equity, and Policy.

In this role you will:

• Manage and deliver relevant projects for enhancing an embedded and proactive approach to bioethics across Wellcome's strategic research areas

• Undertake research, analysis, and synthesis of evidence on developments in bioethics - including specific research ethics issues as well as approaches for mainstreaming bioethics in research and research funding - to inform the development and delivery of Wellcome's strategic activities.

• Facilitate engagement and networking with funded platforms, networks, and grantees working to enable them to share their work and expertise with colleagues across Wellcome

• Work in collaboration with teams across Wellcome to support appropriate ethics analysis throughout the lifecycle of research activities, and identify potential areas that could benefit from strategic investment in evidence or resource development

• Work with the Bioethics Lead to further develop Wellcome's thought-leadership on the how to cultivate embedded, proactive, and responsive approaches to bioethics and foster a vibrant and diverse field of bioethics scholars.

• Create and maintain institutional resources and tools for addressing key bioethics issues and responding to common questions or concerns.

• Contribute to the development and delivery of Discovery Research and the Bioethics programme, ensuring strategic objectives are met.

• Contribute to a diverse and inclusive culture across the organisation, collaborating across departments.

To be successful in this role you will have:

• An advanced degree or equivalent qualification in ethics, philosophy, health-related social sciences or medical humanities is desirable

• Substantial knowledge of current trends in bioethics (including, but not limited to research ethics) and the ethical and social issues arising from biomedical research

• Experience using research methods to design and deliver research projects

• Programme and/or project management skills, identifying the work and tools required to deliver objectives and mobilising resources to achieve these.

• Proven influencing, engagement, and stakeholder management skills to build and sustain constructive collaborative relationships.

• Resourcefulness and creativity in applying analytical and problem-solving skills, including identifying key concerns, collating information from a range of sources, using design thinking, and problem solving.

To apply please upload your current CV and complete our short application.

We are open to considering External Secondments for this opportunity.

Our offices will be closed from Friday 20th December until Thursday 2nd January 2025. We will not be able to respond to emails sent to during this time and will reply to any queries on or after Thursday 2nd January 2025.

Interview dates: w/c 27 January and 3 February

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Our Hybrid Way of Working

We understand that our colleagues have commitments and personal interests outside of work and we strive to build a flexible working environment, in which people can perform at their best.

At Wellcome we have a hybrid way of working which is 3 days in our Euston Road offices (Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday) with the remaining 2 days working either remotely or in the office.

Diversity and Inclusion is at the heart of everything we do

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