Investment Manager – Health at AHRC

This role sits within the Health, Environment and Urban Humanities (HEUH) team at AHRC. The HEUH team vision is to place humanity at the heart of solutions to the biggest and most pressing contemporary challenges facing the UK and the world.  There are 5 portfolios within the team: health, environment, cities and urban environments, and creative economy supporting a diverse and growing number of investments in areas such as pandemic preparedness, social prescribing, resilience, weather and climate change, natural history, cities, circular fashion, and immersive technologies.  As one of AHRC’s disciplinary teams, the HEUH team shapes the policy and strategy for future investment in these areas, manages existing investments, and commissions new research within its remit. Given the interdisciplinary nature of the portfolios within the team, the team interacts and collaborates regularly with other teams in AHRC and across UKRI. 

Purpose

Reporting to a Senior Investment Manager, you will provide management support across AHRC’s Health research portfolio, including delivery of the Mobilising Community Assets to Tackle Health Inequalities programme. AHRC’s Health research portfolio is highly interdisciplinary, the investment manager will therefore be required to help build and maintain relationships with relevant stakeholders in support of different activities.  You will need to work collaboratively across AHRC, with UKRI colleagues, and with external stakeholders. You will represent AHRC at a cross-UKRI level where we are involved as a partner on programmes led by other UKRI Councils. 

The Investment Manager will work closely with Senior Investment Managers to identify strengths, gaps, and trends in the portfolio, scope and develop new areas for investment, and prepare associated bids for funding. 

You will work with colleagues to support information and data management, strategy development, analysis and reporting.  This will see the postholder coordinating responses to requests for information, working with the data team to analyse our funded portfolio, contributing to briefings and scanning activities, and supporting the development of case studies underpinning future activities and strategy                                                                                        

ABOUT YOU 

The ideal candidate will have an enthusiasm for the arts and humanities, and a particular interest in how these disciplines can be applied to contemporary challenges in health research. You will be a solution-oriented and proactive team player, with direct or relevant experience of the research funding landscape, for example working in delivery or management of funding activities in research/innovation sector, managing research programmes, or working in a policy setting. 

We are also recruiting for similar positions across other teams within AHRC. If this would be of interest, please see 230001IW, 2400001B, 2400004R and 2400001A. Please let us know if you would also like to be considered for these other roles within your cover letter, and you order of preference. You do not need to apply separately to each of these roles’ 

In return, UKRI can offer the successful candidate:

–           Flexible Working

–           30 days annual leave + Public Holidays

–           Access to Civil Service Pension Scheme 

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