Project Manager for Inflammatory Arthritis Consortium

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About Us

We are looking for an experienced project manager for TOPPIA, a large, multi-centre research consortium focused on peripheral pain in inflammatory arthritis.

The TOPPIA consortium is led by King's College London, and comprises basic scientists, clinician scientists, lived experience partners and policy experts from King's College London, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, University College London, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust, Cardiff University, University of Oxford, University of Birmingham, University of Glasgow, and The Rockefeller University in the USA.

Together, the TOPPIA consortium will seek to identify new treatment targets for inflammatory arthritis pain, create a biobank of joint samples to study clinical information on pain, improve tailored diagnosis and care and advocate for pain to be prioritised in care and research.

About The Role

As a successful candidate, you would be responsible for the project management of the entire TOPPIA consortium. This means you will need to:

• Be comfortable to effectively engage and communicate with our diverse consortium stakeholders, including lived experience partners.

• Contribute to team meetings and discussions with ideas that will improve consortium operations.

• Coordinate, schedule, administer and support meetings and organise consortium events.

• Keep a meticulous record of such meetings/events and their outputs.

• Identify novel ways to track and record consortium outputs.

• Set up and manage the consortium website, newsletters and social media outputs.

• Liaise with the relevant contracts and finance teams regarding finance, budgetary and contractual queries and administration.

• Coordinate and draft regular consortium reports, including budget returns.

• Analyse and interpret Equality, Diversity and Inclusion information.

You would join a vibrant and welcoming work environment on the Guy's Campus at King's College London and be line-managed by TOPPIA co-Directors, Prof Leonie Taams and Dr Franziska Denk .

This is a full-time post (35 hours per week), and you will be offered a fixed term contract for 2 years, with the possibility of extension.

Research staff at King's are entitled to at least 10 days per year (pro-rata) for professional development. This entitlement, from the Concordat to Support the Career Development of Researchers , applies to Postdocs, Research Assistants, Research and Teaching Technicians, Teaching Fellows and AEP equivalent up to and including grade 7. Visit the Centre for Research Staff Development for more information.

About You

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

Essential criteria

1. Undergraduate degree (ideally science-related), plus relevant experience in project management
2. Demonstrable experience with managing complex projects
3. Excellent time management and record keeping skills and excellent attention to detail
4. Strong interpersonal skills, enabling you to work and communicate with diverse consortium stakeholders, including lived experience partners, with demonstrable ability to work effectively as part of a team as well as independently
5. Experienced in writing complex reports, letters or other documents dealing with complex, contentious or sensitive situations
6. Experience with website maintenance and/or social media management
7. Experienced in viewing and managing budget reports
8. Excellent knowledge and use of Excel, word, PowerPoint and other relevant web-based applications

Desirable criteria:

1. Previous experience with database management.
2. Previous experience with working in a clinical-academic or university setting will be a distinct advantage.

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

Further Information

At King's, we believe that the diversity of our community and a culture that is welcoming, open, inclusive and collaborative, are great strengths of the university.

The Equality Act of 2010 protects the rights of our students and staff and provides a framework to fulfil our duties to eliminate unlawful discrimination, harassment and victimisation and in addition, to advance equality of opportunity and foster good relations between those who share a protected characteristic and those who do not. At times, this will include balancing rights and beliefs that can feel in tension.

We are committed to free speech and to academic freedom, believing that our foundational purpose as a university, is to create spaces where a wide range of ideas, including ideas that are controversial, can be discussed and debated, and where members of our community can express lawful views without fear of intimidation, harassment or discrimination.

When engaging in the robust exchange of ideas, we ask that our community is mindful of our Dignity at King's guidance.

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 person specification section of the job description. 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.

We reserve the right to close adverts early due to the volume of applications we receive. While the closing date may change, all adverts will close at 23:59 to allow sufficient time for applications to be submitted on that day.

We encourage you to apply at the earliest opportunity to avoid disappointment as once we have closed a vacancy you will be unable to submit your application.

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We are looking for someone to start on 1st September 2026.