ICBP Programme Manager, Cancer Research
£47-53k
Cancer prevention, awareness and research charity
Posted today
Cancer prevention, awareness and research charity
1001+ employees
Posted today
£47-53k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To prevent, control and cure cancer through ground-breaking research.
Role
Who you are
- Experience managing programmes or projects, with the ability to adapt and solve problems in a fast-paced environment
- Strong relationship-building skills, working effectively with a wide range of senior stakeholders
- Excellent communication skills, able to clearly and confidently explain complex information to different audiences
- Confidence supporting research commissioning and working with governance and contractual processes
- Proven ability to manage budgets and ensure value for money
- Strong organisational skills, with the ability to prioritise and manage multiple workstreams
- Strategic and creative thinking, with a focus on maximising impact and opportunities
- Influencing and negotiation skills, with confidence working with senior stakeholders
- Ability to work independently, using initiative to navigate challenges
- Relevant experience in health, science, research or policy environments
- Bold: Act with ambition, courage and determination
- Credible: Act with rigour and professionalism
- Human: Act to have a positive impact on people
- Together: Act inclusively and collaboratively
What the job involves
- Reports to: Senior Manager, International Evidence and Research
- Department: Policy, Information and Communications
- Working hours: 35 hours per week
- Join a collaborative, global effort to improve cancer outcomes for everyone. As a Programme Manager within the International Cancer Benchmarking Partnership (ICBP), you’ll be a confident communicator building relationships with policymakers, clinicians, researchers and data experts
- Working at the centre of a diverse international network, you’ll play a key role in facilitating impactful research that shapes cancer policy and practice across multiple countries
- Coordinate and support the delivery of a complex, international research programme
- Manage day-to-day programme activity, tracking progress and keeping partners aligned
- Build strong relationships with UK and global stakeholders, fostering effective collaboration
- Lead and support communications, including newsletters, events and stakeholder updates
- Support commissioning and delivery of research, including contracts, funding and onboarding new partners
- Maintain programme governance, supporting key meetings and Programme Board activity
- Monitor budgets, track spend and ensure effective use of funding
- Identify and manage risks, helping to keep the programme on track
- Translate programme activity into clear, engaging outputs to maximise impact
- Identify opportunities to grow partnerships, engagement and fundraising
- Represent ICBP at external meetings and conferences (with some international travel)
Application process
- Closing date: 9th August 2026, 23:55
Salary benchmarks
Our take
The world’s largest independent cancer research charity, Cancer Research UK (CRUK) was founded from a merger between the Cancer Research Campaign and the Cancer Research Fund in 2002. CRC and ICRF had been long-standing pinnacles of the British medical institution, their work dating back to 1902 and 1923 respectively, and the merger signalled a strong step forward for UK medical institutes’ global influence.
A multi-armed charity, CRUK uses both grant-funded researchers and its own employed staff to research the treatments and causes of cancer, whilst its striking advertising and marketing campaigns are responsible for influencing public policy on the causes, prevention, and treatment of the disease. An example of a significant public campaign was Stoptober, which appeared to have triggered a third of a million smokers at the time to try quit tobacco throughout the month of October.
Alongside its pharmaceutical efforts, in 2023 CRUK funded clinical trials for the first-ever proton beam therapy for breast cancer, indicating a focus on technological innovations in the fight against cancer. On this subject, CRUK has also taken part in a billion-pound investment in the Francis Crick Institute, a biomedical research institute that is aiming to make England an international leader in the industry.
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Insights
9% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company HQ
Stratford, London, UK
Leadership
Michelle is a Trustee at the Francis Crick Institute and an Advisory Council Member at The King's FUnd. Previously, she served as a Non-Executive Director at NHS England and as CEO at the MS Society.
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