About Us

We are looking for an experienced project manager for TOPPIA, a large, multi-centre research consortium focused on peripheral pain in inflammatory arthritis. 

The TOPPIA consortium is led by King’s College London, and comprises basic scientists, clinician scientists, lived experience partners and policy experts from King’s College London, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, University College London, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust, Cardiff University, University of Oxford, University of Birmingham, University of Glasgow, and The Rockefeller University in the USA.

Together, the TOPPIA consortium will seek to identify new treatment targets for inflammatory arthritis pain, create a biobank of joint samples to study clinical information on pain, improve tailored diagnosis and care and advocate for pain to be prioritised in care and research.

About The Role

As a successful candidate, you would be responsible for the project management of the entire TOPPIA consortium. This means you will need to:

• Be comfortable to effectively engage and communicate with our diverse consortium stakeholders, including lived experience partners.
• Contribute to team meetings and discussions with ideas that will improve consortium operations.
• Coordinate, schedule, administer and support meetings and organise consortium events.
• Keep a meticulous record of such meetings/events and their outputs.
• Identify novel ways to track and record consortium outputs.
• Set up and manage the consortium website, newsletters and social media outputs.
• Liaise with the relevant contracts and finance teams regarding finance, budgetary and contractual queries and administration.
• Coordinate and draft regular consortium reports, including budget returns.
• Analyse and interpret Equality, Diversity and Inclusion information.

You would join a vibrant and welcoming work environment on the Guy’s Campus at King’s College London and be line-managed by TOPPIA co-Directors, Prof Leonie Taams and Dr Franziska Denk. 

This is a full-time post (35 hours per week), and you will be offered a fixed term contract for 2 years, with the possibility of extension.  

Research staff at King’s are entitled to at least 10 days per year (pro-rata) for professional development. This entitlement, from the Concordat to Support the Career Development of Researchers, applies to Postdocs, Research Assistants, Research and Teaching Technicians, Teaching Fellows and AEP equivalent up to and including grade 7. Visit the Centre for Research Staff Development for more information.