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About the Role
Basecamp Research is seeking a Senior Global Research Partnerships Manager to lead and scale international collaborations and expedition partnerships. This role is essential to the mission of creating the world's largest database of protein sequences for AI-driven models, by deepening and scaling existing partnerships and identifying new ones.
Responsibilities
- Take ownership of implementing and driving forward collaborations, ensuring they deliver on scientific and strategic potential.
- Identify opportunities to deepen, expand, or level up existing partnerships.
- Proactively spot gaps, risks, and opportunities within current collaborations and act on them.
- Lead the development, establishment, and management of international biodiversity collaborations, ensuring robust legal frameworks, regulatory compliance, and equitable benefit-sharing.
- Support capacity-building programs and knowledge exchange with biodiversity partners.
- Work with international research groups, NGOs, academia, and private entities to plan and execute environmental sampling.
- Deliver environmental sampling and DNA extraction training to biodiversity partners.
- Coordinate DNA biobanking in London to facilitate sequencing efforts.
- Bridge the partnership and field operations sides of BCR's work.
- Plan and execute, or coordinate expeditions with field consultants.
- Lead field teams, in-person or remotely, across multi-week expeditions.
- Manage and support expedition logistics.
- Conduct careful metadata and sample collection in the field and support collaborators.
Requirements
- Significant, demonstrable experience (senior/manager level) in international partnerships, science diplomacy, conservation, or government relations, ideally within biodiversity, environmental science, or life sciences.
- An established professional network in biodiversity, conservation, or related government/NGO circles.
- A track record of taking ownership of complex, multi-stakeholder initiatives and driving them to completion with a high degree of autonomy.
- Confident and comfortable operating with a high degree of independence.
- Sound judgment for navigating ambiguous, cross-cultural, or politically sensitive situations without close supervision.
- Experience representing organizations in international partnerships, conferences, and stakeholder events.
- Experience managing multi-stakeholder projects with complex regulatory and political considerations.
- Strong organizational skills, with the ability to prioritize and deliver across multiple regions and partnerships simultaneously.
- Demonstrated experience planning and executing field sampling work in remote or challenging environments.
- Experience in expedition logistics, including customs, packing lists, first aid, and lone working protocols.
- Proven ability to lead and coordinate field teams, ensuring safety and efficiency.
- Competent in recording, managing, and quality-controlling field data.
- Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot equipment and adapt to unpredictable field conditions.
Skills
- Biodiversity
- Conservation
- Science diplomacy
- Government relations
- Environmental science
- Life sciences
- Project management
- Regulatory knowledge
- Expedition logistics
- Field sampling
- Molecular biology
- Microbiology
- DNA extraction
- DNA processing
- DNA sequencing
- Sample preparation
- Biosecurity
- Lab administration
- Nagoya Protocol
- Convention on Biological Diversity
- Access and Benefit-Sharing frameworks
- Permit applications
- Compliance documentation
Location
- London, UK
- Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior
- Manager
Benefits
- Competitive salary
- Equity
- Private healthcare with no medical history exclusions
- Carrot Fertility with IVF stipend
- Salary sacrifice pension
- Bike-to-work scheme
- Life insurance
About the Company
- Basecamp Research is dedicated to solving major challenges in the life sciences by exploring Beyond Known Biology.
- Our teams build frontier AI models using BaseData, the world's largest ethically-sourced and globally representative biological dataset.
- Our Global Research Team collects and curates our own biological data through partnerships with more than 152 organisations in 28 countries.
- This enables Basecamp Research to design novel protein sequences and biological systems that can accelerate therapeutic research and development.
- In October 2024 we closed Series B and in January 2026 finalised pre-Series C investment from NVIDIA.
- With hubs both in London, UK as well as Boston, Massachusetts, USA and partners with biopharma companies and academic institutions worldwide, our work has been recognised with honours including Fast Company's Top 10 Most Innovative Companies in Biotech and the FT-backed Sifted AI100 list of Europe's leading AI startups.
- At Basecamp Research, we pride ourselves on being a diverse, exciting, fun, and flexible place to work.
- Our team of biologists, engineers, ML scientists, field explorers, and operations specialists are united by a sense of adventure and the belief that nature has already designed the solutions to our planet's greatest challenges - we just need to go out and discover them!
- If you feel passionate about the power of biology, data, and AI to build a better world, we'd love to hear from you.
Equal Opportunity
- We are committed to equal opportunity employment regardless of ethnic or national origin, race, religion, sex, age, citizenship, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, gender identity or any other basis.
- If you have a disability or additional need that needs accommodating do let us know.