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About the Role
You’ll help deliver Wellcome’s ambition to transform early intervention for anxiety, depression and psychosis, supporting major programmes that turn evidence and innovation into meaningful health impact. You’ll bring strong governance, portfolio oversight and collaborative working to our Mental Health initiatives, helping us manage risk, monitor outcomes and work effectively with partners and colleagues to deliver our strategic goals.
Responsibilities
- Review, analyse and present the impact of over 200 existing mental health investments, considering their impact on population health outcomes, policy change, leveraged investment, and contribution to shaping the mental health system.
- Lead work closely with colleagues across the mental health team, including the mental health director and communications colleagues.
- Support the delivery of major Mental Health initiatives, working with the Director of Mental Health and colleagues across Wellcome to turn strategic priorities into effective programmes and activities.
- Provide oversight of the Mental Health portfolio, establishing clear processes for governance, reporting and progress against agreed objectives.
- Identify and manage risks, challenges and emerging opportunities, bringing together the right expertise to develop practical solutions and keep initiatives on track.
- Build strong relationships with strategic partners and funders, developing an understanding of their priorities and ways of working to strengthen collaboration and delivery.
- Lead and coordinate key initiatives across teams, creating effective ways for colleagues to contribute and helping raise the profile and impact of Wellcome’s Mental Health work.
- Promote high standards of governance, accountability and inclusive working, taking ownership of the risk and control environment and contributing to a collaborative culture across Wellcome.
Requirements
- Experience of assessing the impact of a portfolio of programmes, projects or investments, using approaches such as theories of change, impact frameworks or outcomes measurement.
- Experience of analysing complex information and translating findings into clear, evidence-based insights and recommendations for senior leaders, governance groups or other audiences.
- Experience of building and managing relationships with a range of stakeholders and partners, including influencing and constructively challenging senior stakeholders to achieve shared objectives.
- Experience of delivering complex programmes or initiatives, including managing competing priorities, identifying risks and solving problems to achieve agreed objectives.
- Strong written and verbal communication experience, including presenting complex analytical or strategic information clearly and accessibly to different audiences.
Skills
- Strong analytical and strategic thinking
- Experience of theories of change and impact frameworks
- Ability to turn complex information into clear, compelling insights
- Written and verbal communication
- Presenting complex analytical or strategic information
Location
- Remote
- Euston Road offices
Work Type
- Fixed Term Contract
- Hybrid
- Remote
Salary/Compensations
- £67,520 - £79,300
Benefits
- Flexible working options
About the Company
- The Wellcome Trust is a global charitable foundation. We improve health for everyone by funding science, leading policy and advocacy campaigns, and building partnerships.
- We committed to spend £16bn in the ten years to 2032, funding new discoveries in life, health, and wellbeing, and taking on three global health challenges: mental health, infectious disease and climate and health.
Equal Opportunity
- Diversity and Inclusion is at the heart of everything we do
- We are committed to cultivating a fair and inclusive environment, where everyone can be themselves and thrive.
- We are happy to discuss flexible working options for all roles.
- We work to ensure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible to everyone.
- This includes making adjustments for people who have a disability or long-term condition.