Research Relationship Manager

This post is full-time (35 hours per week) and has funding up to the 26th April 2031 in the first instance.

The University of Glasgow is seeking to appoint a talented and highly motivated Research Relationship Manager to join the £10 million Gambling Harms Research and Evidence Centre, funded by UKRI via a statutory levy on the gambling industry. The Centre is a collaboration between the Universities of Glasgow, Sheffield, Swansea and Kings College London. In addition, the Centre will oversee and support a wider consortium of Gambling Harms Research and Innovation Partnerships (GHRIPs) drawn from around 20 additional institutions and sits at the heart of a £50 million investment by UKRI into gambling harms.

This is a senior managerial role with significant scope to influence the strategic and operational direction of an exciting national research centre which will address gambling harms by building a coordinated, independent, and evidence-led national research and policy infrastructure. The Centre will co-ordinate the activities of up to 20 GHRIPs (in the first instance), synthesise existing evidence, commission major new research projects focused on the social, economic, structural, and health-related drivers of gambling-related harm and build long-term research capacity through training, secondments, event hosting and skills development.

In this role you will work closely with the Executive Management Team to develop and deliver on the programme’s strategic objectives. Your focus will be on understanding and meeting the strategic needs of the wider research network (including GHRIPS and policy makers), fostering collaboration across institutions, supporting GHRIP grant acquisition and developing and implementing strategies to address research gaps in our knowledge of gambling related harms.

This includes overseeing a grant funding programme of up to £2 million to be distributed by the Centre and co-developing funding strategies with GHRIPs for their own flexible funding programmes. You will work alongside a Programme Manager and be supported by a Programme Administrator and a Knowledge Exchange/Communications Lead, for whom you will have management responsibilities.

A key part of the role is to promote and manage excellent working relationships within this highly interdisciplinary, cross-sector consortium and between the consortium and UKRI. You will also seek to maximise opportunities for impactful engagement with policy makers and the public.