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Project Manager (children's and young people's cancers) Stratford, London, England

Cancer Research UK

Full Time Stratford, London, England 37000 - 42000 GBP ANNUAL Today

Job description

4,000 professionals, 0 days wasted, 1 incredible purpose. Together, we will beat cancer.

Project Manager (children’s and young people’s cancers)

Location: Stratford, London (High flex – we’d expect you to be in the office 1 to 2 days a week)

Department: Research and Innovation

Contract: Permanent, 35 hours per week (flexible working requests will be considered)

Salary: £37,000 – 42,000 pa per annum (depending on experience)

Application Deadline: Wednesday 6th September 2023 at 23.55. This vacancy may close earlier if a high number of applications are received or once a suitable candidate is found, so please do not delay submitting your application to avoid any disappointment.

At Cancer Research UK, we exist to beat cancer

We are professionals with purpose, beating cancer every day. But we need to go much further and much faster. That’s why we we’re looking for someone talented, someone innovative and ambitious, someone like you.

About the team

Here at Cancer Research UK, children’s and young people’s cancer is a priority area of focus with a dedicated strategy to address the unique challenges holding back progress.

The children’s and young people’s strategy aims to improve survival and long-term quality of life for all children and young people affected by cancer. Achieving this will be crucial to our organisational vision of bringing about a world where everybody can lead longer, better lives, free from the fear of cancer.

The Children’s and Young People’s team is responsible for developing and delivering this strategy, coordinating cross-organisational activities and ensuring our strategic objectives are met.

This is a unique opportunity to play an integral part in our growing ambition to drive progress and improve outcomes for children and young people affected by cancer.

What will you be doing?

Through effective project management and working across multiple teams, directorates and external stakeholders, this unique role will help shape and deliver our strategic programme of work in childhood and teenage and young adult cancer research.

Key accountabilities

Develop and deliver distinct areas of strategic activity and projects within the CYP portfolio to aid in overall delivery of key objectives
Build and maintain positive working relationships with a range of internal and external stakeholders to identify opportunities and areas of need to further our organisational CYP activity
Rapidly build an understanding, and keep up to date on the children’s and young people’s cancer landscape in CRUK and beyond, to contribute to in-house expertise on CYP cancer, providing knowledge across the organisation
Work with and support the children’s and young people’s lead in developing, coordinating and managing delivery across breadth of strategic activities in order to drive progress for CYP cancer research.

What skills are we looking for?

Proven track record of leading on and successfully delivering complex, multi-stakeholder projects
Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to quickly develop and sustain strong networks and relationships with stakeholders from a variety of fields, including senior academics and clinicians.

A science degree with additional relevant experience of working in an academic or clinical setting in the UK preferable.
Excellent planning and organisational skills, able to prioritise and manage multiple tasks, working to challenging targets and deadlines

What will I gain?

Each and every one of our employees contributes to our progress and is supporting our work to beat cancer. We think that’s impressive.

In return, we make sure you are supported by a generous benefits package, a wide range of career and personal development opportunities and high-quality tools, policies and processes to enable you to do your job well.

Our benefits package includes a substantial retirement plan, a generous and flexible leave allowance, discounts on anything from travel to technology, gym membership, and much more.

We review pay annually and aim to recognise individual performance and achievements.

We don’t forget people have lives outside of work too and so we actively encourage a flexible working culture.

Our work – from funding cutting-edge research to developing public policy – will change the world. It’s exciting to be part of our team.

How do I apply?

We operate an anonymised shortlisting process in our commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion. CVs are required for all applications; but we won’t be able to view them until we invite you for an interview. Instead, we ask you to complete the work history section of the online application form for us to be able to assess you quickly, fairly and objectively.

There’s a place for everyone at Cancer Research UK. Our vision is to create a charity where everyone feels like they belong, benefits from and participates in, the work we do. We're committed to creating an inclusive culture where everyone can be themselves and reach their full potential.

We actively encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and cultures, in particular those from ethnic minority backgrounds who are currently under-represented, and believe that a diverse workforce will help us to beat cancer sooner.

If you’re interested in applying and excited about working with us but are unsure if you have the right skills and experience we’d still love to hear from you. We don’t expect everyone to meet all of the criteria listed.

We want to see every candidate performing at their best throughout the job application process, interview process and whilst at work. We therefore ask you to inform us of any concerns you have or any adjustments you might need to enable this to happen by emailing us at

[email protected]

Unfortunately, we are unable to recruit anyone below the age of 18, so that we can protect young people from health & safety and safeguarding risks.

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