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Job Description
Salary: 93900
Closing date:Tuesday 20 May 2025
Contract type: Permanent
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.
These challenges need the bold science we support but they wont be solved by science alone.
We are looking for a Strategy Lead to join our team.
Where in Wellcome will I be working
The role reports to the Head of Strategy Development & Impact you will lead and develop Wellcomes strategy function enabling teams to apply strategic focus in a dynamic environment to achieve Wellcomes vision of addressing urgent global health challenges.
The CEO Office is a central nexus for ensuring the organisations resources processes and activities are aligned to deliver Wellcomes mission and strategy. It has a crucial role in developing Wellcomes strategy related programmes and initiatives and monitoring organisational impact.
What will I be doing
In this role youll lead the integration and advancement of Wellcomes organisational strategy aligning efforts across health challenges and discovery research to inform strategic decisionmaking through robust evidencebased assessments. Youll collaborate with interdisciplinary teams to develop inclusive outcomefocused strategies harness diverse perspectives to anticipate global trends and guide a dynamic team ensuring innovation while fostering an inclusive culture and maintaining costeffective operations.
As a Strategy Lead you will:
Integrate Wellcomes organisational strategy and its key components including Health Challenges and Discovery Research ensuring their impact is coherent and unified.
Collect and present evidence and recommendations on the progress and impact of Wellcomes strategy to inform decisionmaking and resource allocation by the Executive Committee and Board every year and in depth every 35 years.
Collaborate with interdisciplinary teams to develop clear focused and inclusive strategies that leverage Wellcomes differentiators and contribute to a unified organisational strategy.
Establish and consistently apply appropriate standards methodologies or frameworks to ensure programmes are outcomefocused evidencebased and flexible for effective communication and decisionmaking.
Engage diverse thought leaders and apply an inclusive perspective to identify global trends and opportunities shaping Wellcomes strategic priorities and longterm impact.
Contribute to a diverse and inclusive culture across the organisation collaborating across departments.
Is this job for me
In this role you will be applying your expertise across various facets of strategy work such as research and analysis decisionmaking framework development and strategic problemsolving within large organisations to create significant value. You will simplify complexity set standards and support flexible strategy development for major interdisciplinary programmes while engaging with senior officials to effectively set and track the impact of the organisational strategy.
We are looking for someone with:
Substantial experience in broad strategy work including research analysis idea development and strategic problemsolving within large organisations to create significant value.
Proven track record of simplifying complexity and supporting strategy development in major interdisciplinary programmes and complex systems.
Experience in developing and implementing impact measurement systems to inform decisionmaking while presenting to senior officials to set and track organisational strategy impact.
Ability to deliver work priorities efficiently by building active support from others even without direct authority while navigating organisational risk and ambiguity.
Skilled in developing and executing corporate strategic initiatives using project and programme methodologies with strong leadership in managing and motivating a diverse and inclusive team.
Expertise in rapid information assessment negotiation and persuasion with outstanding time management communication facilitation and the ability to work flexibly through ambiguity.
Minimum Criteria:
Substantial experience of a broad range of strategy work (such as research and analysis idea development scoping options appraisals decision making framework development outcome definition and iteration horizonscanning strategic problem solving and issue resolution and creative facilitation) in a large organisation to create significant value
Experience of working closely with and presenting to senior officials in a large organisation to set and track the impact of organisational strategy
Substantial experience of bringing simplicity to complexity setting standards and supporting flexible strategy development for major interdisciplinary programmes in complex systems
Experience identifying successfully rolling out and ensuring effective use of impact measurement systems to inform decision making
Interview dates: w/c 09/06 and 16/06
You can view the full job description on our website
You can read more about the benefits we offer our employees on our website
Our Hybrid Way of Working
We understand that our colleagues have commitments and personal interests outside of work and we strive to build a flexible working environment in which people can perform at their best.
At Wellcome we have a hybrid way of working which is 3 days in our Euston Road offices (Tuesday Wednesday and Thursday) with the remaining 2 days working either remotely or in the office.
Diversity and Inclusion is at the heart of everything we do
Diversity and Inclusion is a priority at Wellcome. We are committed to cultivating a fair andinclusiveenvironment 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 includesmaking adjustmentsfor people who have a disability or longterm visit our websitefor more information on adjustments and accessibility or contact us at.
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