Jobs at The Francis Crick Institute

Develops commercial opportunities and strategic partnerships for a biomedical research institute. Responsibilities include building business cases through market research and financial analysis, engaging scientists and senior stakeholders, developing pricing strategies, supporting negotiations, managing commercial projects, and expanding opportunities across research infrastructure, technology, consultancy, and other services.

Lead the development and delivery of strategic equity, diversity and inclusion programmes across the Francis Crick Institute. Responsibilities include designing flagship initiatives, building partnerships, supporting women into senior scientific leadership, developing business cases and funding propositions, commissioning research, evaluating pilots, preparing executive and board materials, and representing the institute externally. The role requires strategic programme leadership, stakeholder influence, strong communication, facilitation, and experience working within complex research or higher education environments.

Manage pre-award research grants activities, supporting scientists with funding opportunity identification, proposal development, budgets, approvals, funder requirements, due diligence, and grant agreements. Coordinate with funders, collaborators, Legal, and internal teams to progress applications and transition successful awards into activation. The role also contributes to improving grants processes, systems, and operational practices.

Provides administrative and operational support for pre-award research grants. Responsibilities include maintaining grant and finance records in Worktribe and Workday, tracking legal agreements, supporting compliance checks, responding to queries, documenting approvals, and liaising with researchers, funders, and internal colleagues. The role also helps improve processes and data quality.

The People Partner will advise senior leaders, coach managers, deliver people strategies and HR initiatives, support organizational change, lead and develop People Advisors, and provide workforce data insights. The role requires strong HR generalist expertise, employment law knowledge, stakeholder influence, adaptability, and experience delivering talent, succession, and engagement programs in a complex organization.

Support and develop the Workday HCM platform through system administration, troubleshooting, data audits, reporting, testing, configuration support, and process improvement. The role maintains accurate employee data, supports HR business processes, collaborates with HR, Finance, IT, and external partners, and contributes to enhancements that improve manager and employee experience.