Job summary
UHB is seeking to appoint a dynamic individual for the role of Managing Director for Research, Development and Innovation (RD&I) as a senior post at University Hospitals Birmingham (UHB) they will be responsible for the strategic and inspired leadership of RD&I activity and hosted research infrastructures. This is a highly visible role, and the post holder will demonstrate strong presence and personal leadership across the Trust. There is a strong research record at UHB, and the post holder will create a culture to enable all staff groups to engage in research and ensure the needs of our population are met. RD&I activity is conducted at all UHB's hospital sites and representation or our portfolio at a local, regional and national level will be required. The post holder will work closely with the Chief Medical Officer, Hospital Executive Directors and other members of the Executive Team to lead a research and innovation portfolio in line with Trust values and priorities.
Main duties of the job
Working with the Clinical Director, Director of Research, Development and Innovation and Director of Healthcare Data Research, the Managing Director will oversee a significant portfolio of research activity. The post-holder will hold the RD&I senior leadership team to account for their areas of work and will jointly embed behaviours inspiring high performance, innovation and accountability. Additionally, support will be provided to the Clinical Directors and Research Applications Service to provide opportunities for scholarships and fellows, to ensure the department continues to nurture future research leaders.
The RD&I departments includes responsibility for UHB's research delivery teams, research and research data governance, research applications and grant submission and study sponsorship. Several local and regional programmes are also hosted by the department and under the leadership of the post holder, including: Birmingham Biomedical Research Centre (BRC), Birmingham Clinical Research Facility (CRF), Birmingham Inflammation Research Facility (IRF), Birmingham HealthTech Research Centre, West Midlands Secure Data Environment, PIONEER acute data hub, INSIGHT ophthalmic data hub, PATHWAY UHB data hub, Incubator for AI & Digital Healthcare, Centre for Rare Diseases, Medical Innovation Department & Research Unit and the Birmingham Experimental Cancer Medicine Centre. UHB is also a core part of Birmingham Health Partners.
About us
We are recognised as one of the leading NHS Foundation Trusts in the UK. Our vision is to Build Healthier Lives, and we recognise that we need incredible staff to do this.
Our commitment to our staff is to create the best place for them to work, and we are dedicated to:
Investing in the health and wellbeing of our staff, including a commitment of offering flexible working where we can;Offer our staff a wide variety of training and development opportunities, to support their personal and career development objectives.
UHB is committed to ensuring that our staff are treated fairly and feel that they belong, by creating a kind and inclusive environment. This is about equity of opportunity; removing all barriers, including discrimination and ensuring each individual member of staff reach their true potential, achieve their ambitions and thrive in their work. This is more than words. We are taking action. Our commitment to an inclusive culture is embedded at all levels of the organisation where every voice is heard, driven by our diverse and active staff networks, and at Board level by the Fairness Taskforce led by our CEO. We nurture a culture which empowers staff to challenge discriminatory behaviours and to enable people to bring their 'whole self' to a kinder, more connected and bold place to work.
University Hospitals Birmingham is a Smoke-Free premises hospital.
Job description
Job responsibilities
*Please Note : For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description*
Job description
Job responsibilities
*Please Note : For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description*
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- *Master's degree in research or management and additional professional knowledge in leadership, management, project management, research governance, HR management, financial management.
- *Accreditation in Good Clinical Practice and
- *Evidence on ongoing professional development
Experience
Essential
- *Expert research knowledge with significant experience working in an acute hospital setting or other large complex organisation.
- *Extensive professional knowledge in leadership, management, project management, research governance, HR and financial management
- *Extensive record of achieving challenging targets.
- *Knowledge of the NHS Research Governance Framework.
- *Demonstrable knowledge and understanding of issues and requirements for clinical and healthcare data research.
- *Understanding of the UK research funding landscape and emerging national policy.
- *Significant experience of managing and prioritising a large budget with solid knowledge of financial process requirements.
- *Expertise in human resource management.
- *Deep understanding of equity, diversity and inclusion.
- *Proven ability to work with transparency and fairness.
- *Experience in leading by example and supporting team to work within organisational policies and procedures.
Desirable
- *Prior experience at senior leadership level.
Additional Criteria
Essential
- *Extensive experience of delivering presentations to large groups of stakeholders in often pressured and politically sensitive environments.
- *Knowledge of national systems, structures and processes for supporting research (governmental, industry and academic sponsored).
- *Evidence of managing effective collaborations and partnerships.
- *Ability to operate and analyse with a high degree of independent judgement and initiative.
- *Proficiency in working with Microsoft applications and systems for managing research, performance and finance.
- Communication Skills
- *Ability to deal with challenging situations in a formal setting.
- *Strong external communication skills in a politically sensitive environment with knowledge of and experience in handling media relations.
- *Ability to work with challenging groups where resistance to change is evident.
- *Ability to prepare and produce concise yet insightful communications for dissemination to senior stakeholders and a broad range of stakeholders as required.
- *Proven interpersonal skills to work with clinical and management colleagues at all levels across a range of organisations and the ability to develop strong working relationships with senior stakeholders.
- *Ability to communicate highly complex, sensitive or contentious information orally and in writing, both internally and externally, to a range of audiences.
- *Ability to prepare and deliver presentations and reports to a high standard (Board level quality).
- Analytical and Judgement Skills
- *Ability to synthesise and analyse highly complex issues where material is conflicting and drawn from multiple sources (verbal, written and numerical).
- *Demonstrable ability to act upon incomplete information, using experience gained for inferences and decision making.
- *Significant ability to analyse numerical and written data, assess options and draw appropriate initiatives.
- *Demonstrable leadership, vision, strategic thinking and planning with highly developed political skills.
- *Demonstrable ability to plan over short, medium and long-term timeframes and adjust plans and resource requirements accordingly.
- *Ability to provide informative reporting on finances and impact to Board management.
- *Demonstrable ability to work effectively between strategic and operational activities where required.
- *Ability to make decisions autonomously, when required, on difficult issues .
- *Demonstrable ability to use autonomy to undertake actions as a result of own interpretation of policy and guidance providing a source of expert advice to the organisation.
- *Proven leadership skills, including leadership in the management change.
- Physical Skills
- *Able to work for long periods at a computer.
- *Standard IT skills.
- *Able to manage long periods of concentration.
- *Ability to travel and work occasional unsociable hours.
- *Able to work flexibly across UHB sites and to travel to meet business needs.
Desirable
- *Ability to work across complex organisational structures and effective matrix management.
- *Proven Board level experience of leading and delivering complex change and strategy development programmes in a politically sensitive and complex environment.
- *Experience of leading major change initiatives with entrepreneurialism in challenging organisational environment.
- *Excellent understanding of performance management techniques.
- *Knowledge of utilising Business Intelligence solutions to work within a performance management framework.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- *Master's degree in research or management and additional professional knowledge in leadership, management, project management, research governance, HR management, financial management.
- *Accreditation in Good Clinical Practice and
- *Evidence on ongoing professional development
Experience
Essential
- *Expert research knowledge with significant experience working in an acute hospital setting or other large complex organisation.
- *Extensive professional knowledge in leadership, management, project management, research governance, HR and financial management
- *Extensive record of achieving challenging targets.
- *Knowledge of the NHS Research Governance Framework.
- *Demonstrable knowledge and understanding of issues and requirements for clinical and healthcare data research.
- *Understanding of the UK research funding landscape and emerging national policy.
- *Significant experience of managing and prioritising a large budget with solid knowledge of financial process requirements.
- *Expertise in human resource management.
- *Deep understanding of equity, diversity and inclusion.
- *Proven ability to work with transparency and fairness.
- *Experience in leading by example and supporting team to work within organisational policies and procedures.
Desirable
- *Prior experience at senior leadership level.
Additional Criteria
Essential
- *Extensive experience of delivering presentations to large groups of stakeholders in often pressured and politically sensitive environments.
- *Knowledge of national systems, structures and processes for supporting research (governmental, industry and academic sponsored).
- *Evidence of managing effective collaborations and partnerships.
- *Ability to operate and analyse with a high degree of independent judgement and initiative.
- *Proficiency in working with Microsoft applications and systems for managing research, performance and finance.
- Communication Skills
- *Ability to deal with challenging situations in a formal setting.
- *Strong external communication skills in a politically sensitive environment with knowledge of and experience in handling media relations.
- *Ability to work with challenging groups where resistance to change is evident.
- *Ability to prepare and produce concise yet insightful communications for dissemination to senior stakeholders and a broad range of stakeholders as required.
- *Proven interpersonal skills to work with clinical and management colleagues at all levels across a range of organisations and the ability to develop strong working relationships with senior stakeholders.
- *Ability to communicate highly complex, sensitive or contentious information orally and in writing, both internally and externally, to a range of audiences.
- *Ability to prepare and deliver presentations and reports to a high standard (Board level quality).
- Analytical and Judgement Skills
- *Ability to synthesise and analyse highly complex issues where material is conflicting and drawn from multiple sources (verbal, written and numerical).
- *Demonstrable ability to act upon incomplete information, using experience gained for inferences and decision making.
- *Significant ability to analyse numerical and written data, assess options and draw appropriate initiatives.
- *Demonstrable leadership, vision, strategic thinking and planning with highly developed political skills.
- *Demonstrable ability to plan over short, medium and long-term timeframes and adjust plans and resource requirements accordingly.
- *Ability to provide informative reporting on finances and impact to Board management.
- *Demonstrable ability to work effectively between strategic and operational activities where required.
- *Ability to make decisions autonomously, when required, on difficult issues .
- *Demonstrable ability to use autonomy to undertake actions as a result of own interpretation of policy and guidance providing a source of expert advice to the organisation.
- *Proven leadership skills, including leadership in the management change.
- Physical Skills
- *Able to work for long periods at a computer.
- *Standard IT skills.
- *Able to manage long periods of concentration.
- *Ability to travel and work occasional unsociable hours.
- *Able to work flexibly across UHB sites and to travel to meet business needs.
Desirable
- *Ability to work across complex organisational structures and effective matrix management.
- *Proven Board level experience of leading and delivering complex change and strategy development programmes in a politically sensitive and complex environment.
- *Experience of leading major change initiatives with entrepreneurialism in challenging organisational environment.
- *Excellent understanding of performance management techniques.
- *Knowledge of utilising Business Intelligence solutions to work within a performance management framework.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
