Strategy and Partnerships Lead
Salary: £69,080
Role duration: Permanent (37.5 hrs/week)
Location: London, UK (Hybrid - 50% office attendance)
The Academy of Medical Sciences is recruiting a Strategy and Partnerships Lead to join our newly created Strategy and Planning team within the COO Directorate.
This is a pivotal role, turning strategic priorities into well-run, high-impact projects and building partnerships that strengthen the Academy’s influence across the UK research and health landscape. You will lead complex initiatives from idea to delivery, working closely with colleagues across the organisation and with senior external partners. Using strong project management skills, you will create clarity, momentum and alignment, define outcomes, and ensure high quality delivery.
This is an exciting opportunity to shape strategy, collaboration and impact at a national level.
Closing date for completed applications is 20 April 2026 at 17:00.
Interviews will likely be held w/c 27 April 2026.
Requirements
- Strong experience delivering complex projects or programmes
- Confident project management approach (formal qualification welcome but not essential), using appropriate tools and ways of working
- Collaborative, inclusive style with evidence of building effective partnerships across organisations and multidisciplinary teams
- Able to prioritise effectively and manage competing deadlines
- Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills across teams, disciplines, and seniority levels
- Excellent written and verbal communication, including concise reporting and presenting to senior audiences
- High attention to detail, combined with the ability to see the bigger picture and focus on impact
- Experience defining outcomes, indicators, and success measures, and using evidence to improve delivery and demonstrate impact
- Familiarity with monitoring, evaluation and learning approaches and/or impact reporting (including working with data and qualitative insight)
Benefits
We provide our staff with a comprehensive benefits package outlined as follows:
Competitive Rewards
- Generous pension scheme with flexible contributions – we contribute between 8% - 13% of your gross salary (with employee contributions of 3% - 8%)
- Life assurance at three times your salary
Work-life Balance
- Hybrid and agile working. 50% office attendance.
- 26 days annual leave, plus Christmas closure days and bank holidays
- Buying and selling leave
- Family-friendly policies including enhanced maternity and paternity leave (subject to a qualifying period)
Wellbeing and Development
- Complimentary subscriptions to Headspace and Classpass to support your physical and mental wellbeing
- Support through tailored learning and development
Additional Benefits
- A range of enhanced benefits become available once you’ve completed your probation period