Associate Director, Equity Lab

Salary: 120800

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.

Wellcomes 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:

• the people whose health has most to gain from new advances can access them with trust and be confident that they meet their needs.

• partners and communities are engaged in an equitable way so their voices and experiences help to shape the work we support.

• research can draw on the broadest range of talent and expertise to unlock more impactful discoveries and solutions.

• our own organisation is an inclusive place to work.

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 Wellcomes 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 usinghigh-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 Labs core functions

This role will also support the organisations 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 Wellcomes 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:

• A strategic and influential leader with the ability to drive and manage a portfolio of evidence and knowledge transfer and translation activities to support evidence-informed Equity practice across Wellcome and broader research ecosystems

• An established and credible academic / researcher with broad networks exceptional problem solving and research acumen and deep expertise across evidence synthesis primary research knowledge translation and ideally MEL

• Deep and sophisticated understanding of structural inequities in science and health able to identify desired changes and strategically prioritise evidence and activities to unlock them

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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.

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