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About PharosAI 

PharosAI offers a unique cancer AI product development ecosystem for drug discovery and clinical applications, democratising access to data, AI assets, technologies, and capabilities. PharosAI unites large-scale multimodal cancer datasets with AI models through a highly-secure, trusted, federated platform, offering state-of-the-art AI tooling for use by pharma/biotech/life-sciences, AI-pharma, and AI developers of clinical applications, in enterprises, growth companies, and research organisations. PharosAI will also provide a “lend me an expert” concierge service, training and education in AI for clinicians, and an end-to-end product development and deployment service, helping cancer pathology services to be more easily deployed within the NHS. This will be facilitated by a best-in-class patient involvement and governance model, and fair value sharing for data providers. 

PharosAI will revolutionise AI-powered cancer care, driving breakthrough therapies, clinical applications, addressing cancer’s social determinants, lowering barriers to UK SMEs, catalysing innovation and positioning the UK as a global leader in this dynamic ecosystem. 

PharosAI is a joint venture between two leading research-intensive universities, King’s College London and Queen Mary University of London; and two innovative NHS Trusts, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust and Barts Health Trust. PharosAI has been awarded £18.9M in funding from the Department for Science, Innovation, and Technology, and cash and in-kind contributions bringing the total funding to £44M.

About The Role

Overview of the role 

PharosAI’s Senior Programme Manager will play a key role in coordinating and delivering PharosAI’s business plan and projects. The Programme Manager will be the lynchpin of overall management and reporting of the PharosAI programme, including financial management, business planning, risk management, performance reporting, evaluation, and business assurance coordinating across the four main PharosAI partners (King’s, QMUL, GSTT, Barts) and working closely with their research offices and finance teams. The post-holder will support the CEO and COO of PharosAI in developing and monitoring the annual business plan and budget. This includes both coordination of delivery of “business as usual” activities and collaborative projects with partners across diverse teams and sites. The Senior Programme Manager will also support the COO and PharosAI’s Leadership Team in developing grant and external investment proposals, particularly the financial and budget management. This is a new role. It involves co-ordinating a large number of stakeholders, planning meetings, managing a large budget using both Worktribe and Business World (the research and financial management systems used by King’s), and engaging with the team leads to monitor progress. 

We are looking for a strong individual who is highly motivated, organised, and proactive, with experience of research/financial planning and management. Specific experience and interest of health data research, AI, and cancer research would be a distinct advantage. 

This role will require an ability to work collaboratively across a consortium of partners, and provides the opportunity for external liaison, with interfaces to UK government, academia, industry, and the clinical community. The environment will be fast-paced and demanding, and we are looking for a highly organised individual with a can-do attitude, attention to detail, whilst maintaining an ability to see the bigger strategic picture. 

This is a full time and you will be offered a fixed term contract until 31 March 2027.

About You 

To be successful in this role, we are looking for candidates to have the following skills and experience: 

Essential criteria

1. Advanced project/programme management skills and relevant qualification 
2. Extensive relevant operations, organisational and time management experience 
3. Strong analytical skills, bringing data from multiple sources and interpreting this to inform decisions 
4. Financially literate with experience of budgeting and resource management 
5. Highly developed verbal and written communication skills (ranging from informal 1:1 discussion, formal oral and written presentations/reports) including the ability to liaise with staff at different levels internal and external to the organisation 
6. Experience of risk management 
7. Management experience, with a good understanding of Human Resources Administration, day to day people management, recruiting, managing and developing individuals effectively

Desirable criteria

1. Ability to act on personal initiative and take responsibility for own work, able to work with ambiguity 
2. Previous work in one of them and ideally at the interface between University, Hospital Trusts, industry/ pharma 
3. Research administration and management skills, knowledge of the grant funding life cycle within a higher education environment 
4. Knowledge of legislation around use of data for research 

Downloading a copy of our Job Description 

Full details of the role and the skills, knowledge and experience required can be found in the Job Description document, provided at the bottom of the next page after you click “Apply Now”. 

This document will provide information of what criteria will be assessed at each stage of the recruitment process. 

Further Information

We pride ourselves on being inclusive and welcoming. We embrace diversity and want everyone to feel that they belong and are connected to others in our community. 

We are committed to working with our staff and unions on these and other issues, to continue to support our people and to develop a diverse and inclusive culture at King's.

We ask all candidates to submit a copy of their CV, and a supporting statement, detailing how they meet the essential criteria listed in the advert. If we receive a strong field of candidates, we may use the desirable criteria to choose our final shortlist, so please include your evidence against these where possible. 

To find out how our managers will review your application, please take a look at our ‘How we Recruit’ pages. 

We are not able to offer sponsorship for candidates who do not currently possess the right to work in the UK.