# Agile Research Delivery Team Manager > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/agile-research-delivery-team-manager/7927e2c8-e94e-43d2-b965-f61e944a7913 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/agile-research-delivery-team-manager/7927e2c8-e94e-43d2-b965-f61e944a7913.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust - **Town:** Manchester - **Region:** North West - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Manager and corporate - **Grade:** Band 7 - **Salary:** £49,387 - £56,515 per annum - **Contract type:** Permanent: This is a North West wide role so travel is expected across the region, including regular attendance at both offices (Liverpool & Manchester). - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-06-26T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-06-12T21:02:43.999Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Manchester/Manchester/Manchester_University_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Research_Delivery_Community_Residential_Settings/Research_Delivery_Community_Residential_Settings-v8044358 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8044358?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.mft.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview Join the NIHR North West Regional Research Delivery Network (RRDN) to play an integral role in supporting the effective and efficient delivery of health and care research across the North West.  As a visible leader and ambassador for the RDN, you will directly enable the strategic development of new research delivery capability, including extending research access to under-served regions and communities. The Agile Research Delivery Team Manager leads a regionally based, flexible, multi-disciplinary team in the delivery of National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Research Delivery Network (RDN) Portfolio studies across various health and care settings.  This role has a particular focus on research in wider care settings, specifically within community and residential settings, e.g. schools, care homes, prisons, local authorities, and community trusts, to name a few. This is an opportunity to work for the UK's biggest funder of health and care research, and contribute to making the UK a global leader in high quality, inclusive, and accessible research, that improves the health and wealth of the nation. NIHR North West Regional Research Delivery Network is hosted by Manchester Foundation Trust. ### Main duties of the job This role is responsible for the planning, development, and implementation of the NIHR RDN portfolio, ensuring it reflects the health and social care needs of the regional population.  The postholder will work across organisational boundaries, encouraging collaboration between stakeholders and customers, and supporting a range of research naive to experienced wider care settings sites.   The postholder will work closely with researchers, the life sciences industry, local delivery organisations, and other regional research infrastructure to ensure the successful delivery of studies in our area. As such, extensive experience of managing and delivering health and care research is essential, as are effective relationship management and leadership skills.  Working in innovative ways to increase research capacity and capability across the region, excellent planning, organisational, interpersonal and communication skills are necessary.  Candidates must have the ability to work autonomously, coordinate their own workload, and motivate their team to achieve the NIHR's strategic aims. In return, the postholder will work in an organisation that fosters continuous improvement and wellbeing, with opportunities for ongoing professional development. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience you’ll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the ‘Supporting Documents’ heading.  So that you’re even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, you’ll need to take time to read the ‘Candidate Essentials Guide’ that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how ‘we care for you as you care for others’. Most importantly, it also contains critical information you’ll need to be aware of before you submit an application form. Diversity Matters MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating, and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at \[email protected\]. We’re looking forward to hearing from you! ## Job Details Join the NIHR North West Regional Research Delivery Network (RRDN) to play an integral role in supporting the effective and efficient delivery of health and care research across the North West. As a visible leader and ambassador for the RDN, you will directly enable the strategic development of new research delivery capability, including extending research access to under-served regions and communities. The Agile Research Delivery Team Manager leads a regionally based, flexible, multi-disciplinary team in the delivery of National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Research Delivery Network (RDN) Portfolio studies across various health and care settings. This role has a particular focus on research in wider care settings, specifically within community and residential settings, e.g. schools, care homes, prisons, local authorities, and community trusts, to name a few. This is an opportunity to work for the UK's biggest funder of health and care research, and contribute to making the UK a global leader in high quality, inclusive, and accessible research, that improves the health and wealth of the nation. NIHR North West Regional Research Delivery Network is hosted by Manchester Foundation Trust. ## Job Description This role is responsible for the planning, development, and implementation of the NIHR RDN portfolio, ensuring it reflects the health and social care needs of the regional population. The postholder will work across organisational boundaries, encouraging collaboration between stakeholders and customers, and supporting a range of research naive to experienced wider care settings sites. The postholder will work closely with researchers, the life sciences industry, local delivery organisations, and other regional research infrastructure to ensure the successful delivery of studies in our area. As such, extensive experience of managing and delivering health and care research is essential, as are effective relationship management and leadership skills. Working in innovative ways to increase research capacity and capability across the region, excellent planning, organisational, interpersonal and communication skills are necessary. Candidates must have the ability to work autonomously, coordinate their own workload, and motivate their team to achieve the NIHR's strategic aims. In return, the postholder will work in an organisation that fosters continuous improvement and wellbeing, with opportunities for ongoing professional development. ## Responsibilities To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience you’ll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the ‘Supporting Documents’ heading. So that you’re even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, you’ll need to take time to read the ‘Candidate Essentials Guide’ that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how ‘we care for you as you care for others’. Most importantly, it also contains critical information you’ll need to be aware of before you submit an application form. Diversity Matters MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating, and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at \[email protected\]. We’re looking forward to hearing from you! ## Person Specification ### Skills and Abilities **Essential** - Good IT skills, particularly in use of web applications, Google Workspace applications and MS Office applications - Excellent planning and organisational skills - Excellent relationship management, interpersonal and communication skills - Ability to work autonomously and to motivate self and others - Ability to plan and coordinate multidisciplinary activities associated with the management of research studies including, where relevant, work allocation, deployment, and supervision of staff to ensure smooth running of the research studies - Excellent attention to detail - Ability to travel for work - Current driving licence ### Knowledge and Experience **Essential** - Effective leadership skills with experience of line management of staff, including appraisals, in a health or care setting - Significant knowledge of the governance and legislative frameworks for conducting clinical research studies, including UK Policy Framework for Health and Care Research, UK Clinical Trials Regulations and Good Clinical Practice - Significant knowledge and experience of the clinical trial and health and care research lifecycle including experience of the set up of clinical research studies in a health and care setting - Understanding of personal accountability - Knowledge and experience of data interpretation, verification and reporting to local and national centres ### Education and Qualifications **Essential** - Educated to or working towards postgraduate degree level in a science or health-related discipline or in another field with experience of research trials or equivalent experience/training - Evidence of ongoing professional development - Qualification (or working towards) in leadership and management ### Values and Personal Qualities **Essential** - A confident and experienced leader and manager in a health care setting - Team player - Adaptable/flexible approach to work - Integrity - Organised with excellent attention to detail - Ability to work calmly, effectively and independently under pressure - Desire to maintain competence level through continuous learning ## Documents - [inside mft – your candidate place (pdf, 306.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2890) - [ardt manager functional requirements form (pdf, 920.2kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10335278) - [agile research delivery team manager - job description (pdf, 274.1kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10333078) - [agile research delivery team manager - person specification (pdf, 274.1kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10333079) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.