Research Governance Manager

FTC ROLE FOR 18 MONTHS

Purpose of the post

This is an exciting new role providing an excellent opportunity for someone who is looking to use and enhance their research governance and project management skills to improve trustworthy access to health data for research and innovation that has the potential to transform lives. The successful candidate will work across the entire organisation to provide information governance support to a range of high-profile public health initiatives including cutting edge efforts to coordinate UK health data infrastructure and facilitate life-changing research in the UK and abroad. This includes regular work with universities, funders, and governmental entities regarding complex data infrastructure and research projects. This fast-paced role will involve regular contact with senior internal and external stakeholders

.The successful candidate will share our values, have strong collaboration skills, be comfortable with working at pace and have a passion for professional, high-quality approaches to engagement. The successful candidate will be part of HDR UK’s growing Legal, Trust & Ethics team and will report to the Information and Research Governance Manager

Main responsibilities

• Developing and implementing innovative data governance processes and policies to ensure the safe, secure, compliant and trustworthy use of health data for research.
• Working with partner organisations, including the NHS, universities, research bodies, charities, funders, industry representatives, data processors and Trusted Research Environment (TRE) Host Organisations, developing strong working relationships and driving initiatives to simplify and streamline data governance processes.
• Demonstrating the impact of HDR UK’s innovative work on health data governance through peer-reviewed articles, blogs, bulletins, presentations, and through providing updates to relevant groups.
• Project managing funding calls to accelerate adoption of tools and resources across partner organisations.
• Implementing legal agreements for the provisions of and access to data for research and advising on compliance with UK GDPR and other applicable data protection requirements.
• Advising on compliance with ethical and governance approval processes for data access.
• Providing advice on international data transfers of data, seeking expert legal input where necessary.