Committee Manager - Participant Panel (we have office locations in Cambridge, Leeds & London)

• Build and maintain trust and effective working relationships with the Participant Panel leadership and members valuing and being sensitive to their lived experiences and the critical perspectives they bring to Genomics Englands work.
• Organise quarterly Participant Panel meetings working with the relevant Genomics England colleagues and the Participant Panel leadership to set agendas and to meet agreed standards for prereads minute taking and action tracking.
• Maintain effective relationships with Genomics England colleagues to identify when and how the Participant Panel should be involved to ensure the Panel can bring the participant perspective to decisions about the approach Genomics England takes to fulfilling its role as custodian of participants data In the National Genomic Research library. 
• Maintain the Participant Panel content on the Genomics England website and on its intranet and assist with making public the activity of Genomics England in relation to the Participant Panel.
• Manage recruitment to Participant Panel members and leadership roles working with Genomics England and Participant Panel members to ensure that recruitment processes are fair and inclusive. 
• Oversee the effective governance of the Participant Panel in line with wider Genomics England procedures ensuring that the Terms of Reference are kept up to date and that relevant financial policies and processes are in place maintained and followed.
• Ensure that the Participant Panel is supported to be involved appropriately in Genomics England events and agreed external events.
• Manage the forward planning for and administration of the Communications and Engagement Working Group with the Communications Director.
• Work closely with the wider Communications and Engagement team to provide effective administration support to the Participant Panel including organising meeting venues travel and accommodation and administering the Participant Panel inbox.
• Know and understand the meaning behind our virtues and leadership behaviours and embody them in all aspects of the role.

Qualifications :

Whilst we appreciate qualifications we are interested mostly in your experience.

Additional Information :

Closing date for applications: Friday 6 June at 12pm midday.

Salary from: 44500

Being an integral part of such a meaningful mission is extremely rewarding in itself but in order to support our people were continually improving our benefits package. We pride ourselves on investing in our people and supporting them to achieve their career goals as well as offering a benefits package including: 

• Generous Leave: 30 days holiday plus bank holidays additional leave for long service and the option to apply for up to 30 days of remote working abroad annually (approval required).
• FamilyFriendly: Blended working arrangements flexible working enhanced maternity paternity and shared parental leave benefits.
• Pension & Financial: Defined contribution pension (Genomics England doublematches up to 10% however you can contribute more if you wish) Life Assurance (3x salary) and a Give As You Earn scheme.
• Learning & Development: Individual learning budgets support for training and certifications and reimbursement for one annual professional subscription (approval required).
• Recognition & Rewards: Employee recognition programme and referral scheme.
• Health & Wellbeing: Subsidised gym membership a free Headspace account and access to an Employee Assistance Programme eye tests flu jabs.

Equal opportunities and our commitment to a diverse and inclusive workplace 

Genomics England is actively committed to providing and supporting an inclusive environment that promotes equity diversity and inclusion best practice both within our community and in any other area where we have influence. We are proud of our diverse community where everyone can come to work and feel welcomed and treated with respect regardless of any disability ethnicity gender gender identity religion sexual orientation or social background. 

Genomics Englands policies of nondiscrimination and equity and will be applied fairly to all people regardless of age disability gender identity or reassignment marital or civil partnership status being pregnant or recently becoming a parent race religion or beliefs sex or sexual orientation length of service whether full or parttime or employed under a permanent or a fixedterm contract or any other relevant factor.  

Genomics England does not tolerate any form of discrimination harassment victimisation or bullying at work. Such behaviour is contrary toour virtues undermines our mission and core values and diminishes the dignity respect and integrity of all parties.  Our People policies outline our commitment to inclusivity. 

We aim to remove barriers in our recruitment processes and to be flexible with our interview processes. Should you require any adjustments that may help you to fully participate in the recruitment process we encourage you to discuss this with us. 

Blended working model

Genomics England operates a blended working model as we know our people appreciate the flexibility that hybrid working can bring. We expect most people to come into the office a minimum of 2 times each month. However this will vary according to role and will be agreed with your team leader. There is no expectation that people will return to the office full time unless they want to however some of our roles require full time on site attendance e.g. lab teams reception team. 

Our teams and squads have and will continue to reflect on what works best for them to work together successfully and have the freedom to design working patterns to suit beyond the minimum. Our office locations are: Canary Wharf Cambridge and Leeds.

Onboarding background checks

As part of our recruitment process all successful candidates are subject to a Standard Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check.  We therefore require applicants to disclose any previous offences at point of application as some unspent convictions may mean we are unable to proceed with your application due to the nature of our work in healthcare.