IT Manager, NIHR BioResource for Translational Research
We are recruiting an IT Manager who can contribute to the development of strategic technical plans which deliver department wide change. You will need to be highly proactive, persuasive and enthusiastic and able to communicate effectively orally and in writing as well as Demonstrable experience of IT, leadership and management to succeed in this role.
The role is based in a major infrastructural project, funded for £50m over years. The project is hosted within the University, which supplies IT services that need to be interfaced with NIHR Bioresource specific infrastructure. It is closely aligned to the design and delivery of services to enable the project's pursuit of its research goals, whilst providing team and programme leadership across the whole portfolio of IT service delivery to the project.
The role holder is responsible for the delivery of the IT vision of the project and managing its delivery through a team of IT professionals. Through a combination of project work and the delivery of day-to-day services, the role holder will ensure that IT creates the digital environment to enable the project to fulfil its goals in research, teaching and learning, as well as providing the tools to support the delivery of the project's administrative functions. This will include the provision and maintenance of appropriate secure environments utilising both private and public cloud environments to supplement University supplied services.
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The NIHR BioResource
We provide the major, nationally accessible resource to improve healthcare and the long-term prevention, diagnosis and treatment of disease. Our mission is to facilitate human health research and its transformation into medical practice.
We have over 350,000 consented volunteers, from the general population and patients with common and rare diseases. Having provided their samples, BioResource volunteers are willing to be recalled to participate in academic and industry-led experimental medicine and clinical research studies.
Our participants don’t take part in clinical trials but provide lifestyle, health and genetic information that speeds medical research.
NIHR BioResource is a unique and powerful resource for studying disease mechanisms and for investigating the links between genes, the environment, health and disease; enabling scientific discoveries as well as facilitating translational medicine for the benefit of patients.
Our principal funding body is the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR), the nation’s largest funder of health and care research.