Salary: £120,800 

Closing date: Wednesday 25 June

Contract type: Permanent 

Interview dates: W/C 7 July and W/C 21 July 

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 plan to spend £16bn over the next ten years, funding new discoveries in life, health, and wellbeing, and taking on three global health challenges: mental health, infectious disease and climate and health.

Wellcome’s vision is a healthier future for everyone and we work towards it by supporting science to solve urgent health challenges. To achieve the most impact from our mission, we focus on how we can best benefit the people and communities who are most affected by the health challenges we take on.

The Equity Department ensures that we engage thoughtfully with the right people at the right time, enabling and investing in the most impactful research, and influencing changes in policy and practice, so that:

For Equity to achieve the desired impact, Wellcome needs to keep track of available of evidence on what works, contribute to filling evidence gaps and promote the uptake of effective interventions into policy and practice. 

We are now recruiting for an Associate Director to lead the Equity Lab, developing its strategic vision and building an evidence base to deliver against Wellcome’s Equity Framework. 

Reporting into the Executive Director of Equity, the Associate Director will manage a diverse portfolio across the synthesis, generation, dissemination and uptake of evidence, as well as monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL). They will lead a team that will drive and unlock meaningful shifts in the health research ecosystem by using high-quality evidence on what works for research equity, health equity and workplace equity. 

They will be authority on evidence-based practice and represent the Equity Lab to senior external stakeholders, embedding a culture of learning and knowledge-sharing across Wellcome, and overseeing the Lab’s core functions

This role will also support the organisation’s coordination in relation to identifying evidence gaps related to equity, generating and commissioning research, supporting uptake of equity-evidence, MEL and creating a culture of knowledge sharing across the organisation and the research ecosystem to deliver against Wellcome’s Equity Framework.

To apply for this role please submit an up to date CV and answer 2 application questions to demonstrate that you meet the minimum requirements for the role. The minimum requirements of the role are:

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