Jobs at Wellcome Trust

Leads strategy content, capability development, strategy integration, and impact measurement across Wellcome. Embeds organizational strategy across departments, supports complex strategic projects, and ensures strategic coherence. Advises senior leadership, manages senior professionals, and leads high-performing teams within global health and health research contexts, particularly across complex international and low- and middle-income country environments.

Supports enterprise and operational risk management by designing, documenting, monitoring, and testing controls. Acts as a key user and administrator for the Protecht GRC system, supports RCSAs, produces data-driven reports, and provides second-line assurance. Partners with first-line teams and senior stakeholders to strengthen risk culture, governance, compliance, and organisational resilience.

Manage complex strategic programmes by translating priorities into delivery plans, milestones and measurable outcomes. Coordinate multidisciplinary stakeholders, resources, budgets, risks and dependencies while monitoring progress and using evidence to support decisions. Facilitate planning workshops, strengthen collaboration across organisational boundaries, resolve delivery challenges and promote continuous learning and alignment with Wellcome’s organisational priorities.

Supports Wellcome’s brand strategy, campaigns, partnerships, and communications activity. Provides brand guidance, develops assets and training materials, collaborates with internal stakeholders and external agencies, and monitors brand performance. The role requires experience managing brands, contributing to multichannel marketing activity, advising stakeholders, working with suppliers, and engaging both B2B and consumer audiences.

Leads Wellcome’s strategy for tools, technologies, methodologies and AI across Discovery Research. Responsibilities include identifying emerging opportunities, shaping funding priorities, building cross-sector partnerships, coordinating strategic programmes, evaluating portfolio impact, informing decisions with evidence, and promoting responsible, inclusive innovation. The role requires significant research, funding, technology or innovation experience, expertise in AI or related tools for health research, complex programme leadership, and partnership development across academia, industry, government and funders.

Lead analytical projects from problem definition through delivery, developing dashboards, models, datasets, and AI-enabled solutions. Partner with stakeholders to translate requirements into actionable insights, communicate findings, improve data literacy, and influence organisational decision-making. Provide technical leadership, mentor colleagues, and promote innovation and continuous improvement across data and analytics workstreams.

Produce and edit accessible digital content for Wellcome’s corporate communications, including leadership messages, strategic explainers, organisational updates, video, photography and social media content. Translate complex scientific, policy and organisational information into engaging communications. Plan and publish cross-channel content, collaborate with senior executives and internal teams, manage editorial workflows, support community monitoring, and use analytics, search data, SEO and accessibility standards to improve content effectiveness.

Lead Wellcome’s digital marketing strategy, overseeing paid media, newsletter, email marketing, audience growth, segmentation, automation, personalization, experimentation, and performance optimization. Use data, audience insight, and AI-enabled tools to improve targeting, engagement, and return on investment. Manage internal stakeholders, agencies, and external partners while delivering complex multi-channel campaigns, building organizational capability, and modernizing digital audience engagement.

Leads Wellcome’s digital communications channels, including social media, website content, and paid digital activity. Develops channel strategies, oversees content planning and governance, manages website enhancement projects, collaborates with internal teams and external partners, and uses analytics, social listening, and audience insights to improve performance and inform content strategy.