Research Manager (Part Time)

We are a ‘small but mighty’ charity with one big ambition: to stop leukaemia devastating lives. Over the next 10 years we want to help save and improve the lives of more people with leukaemia through finding and funding life-changing research, awareness and advocacy.

Despite progress in recent decades, someone in the UK is diagnosed with a blood cancer every 16 minutes and survival rates are among some of the worst of any cancer. And the physical and psychological impact can be lifelong.

Over the next 5 years we plan to increase our investment into ground-breaking world class research and policy development focused on improving access to kinder, more effective diagnosis, treatment and care for leukaemia and other blood cancers. To do this, we have embarked on a period of growth, investing strategically to grow our income, profile, influence, engagement and impact.

The Research Manager will play a pivotal role in our ability to achieve our goals by ensuring that we use our precious resources to fund only the very the best projects and exceptional people, research and activities that demonstrate the potential to make a real difference.

We are a close-knit team, who are all passionate about Leukaemia UK and the amazing work we do with the people who need it. We are all focused on with pragmatic, practical solutions as well as ensuring that our charity gets the funding it needs to continue to help those diagnosed with leukaemia and other blood cancers.

We are looking for a talented Research Manager with prior experience of managing research grant funding activities, ideally within a medical research charity or research funding organisation. Our processes and systems are in place, making this an ideal well-structured role for someone to develop into. This is a part-time role and we welcome applications from individuals looking for flexibility, both in hours and hybrid working.

The successful candidate will be enthusiastic about research and its potential to improve our understanding of leukaemia, develop more effective, kinder treatments and patient care for leukaemia. You will be confident in working independently and communicating with researchers, people affected by leukaemia and stakeholders at all levels.

Essential experience and knowledge:

• Experience in Research grant administration
• Degree-level biological/biomedical science
• Knowledge of research grant costing
• Understanding of research impact

Desirable experience and knowledge:

• Experience in Research grant funding at a medical research charity or other research funding organisation
• Experience in managing peer review processes
• Experience using grant management software
• Some knowledge of cancer and cancer research
• Knowledge of the UK biomedical academic research environment
• Understanding of the translational pathway for biomedical research

Essential skills and abilities:

• Highly organised and effective at administration and project management
• Meticulous attention to process and budgeting
• Excellent communication skills with internal colleagues and external parties, including grant applicants and reviewers, grant holders and their institutions, partner funders
• Strong numeracy and IT literacy

Essential behaviours & attributes

• Process-driven but with a drive for continuous improvement and interest in new innovations
• Interest and motivation to learn
• Highly collaborative and collegial

• First interviews will be held via Teams on Monday 26th January 2026
• Second interviews will be face to face in our London Offices – at 26 Great Queen St, London WC2B 5BL on Thursday 5th February 2026.
• We are proud of our benefits – see a summary on our website under Work With Us

If you feel you have the passion for our work and the right mix of experience, skills, energy, and flair to embrace this role, then we would love you to apply.

To minimise unconscious bias, we use anonymous recruitment and are unable to consider direct applications. Please apply via the CharityJob website with your CV and covering letter.

Closing Date: midnight Sunday 18th January 2026

We look forward to hearing from you!