Assistant Project Manager

Job summary

If you would like to be considered for this role as a secondment, please obtain approval from your line manager before applying.

Do you want to do meaningful work that makes a genuine difference to society? Our main purpose here at The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) is to improve health and wellbeing by putting science and evidence at the heart of health and care decision making. As an organisation we all collaborate to achieve this same goal through empowering our workforce to do great things!

Proposed interview date 2 September or 3 September 2026.

Main duties of the job

o Project management support for specific projects and programme activity; including developing and managing systems for the delivery of projects and activity, tracking progress and contributing to project planning and co-ordination.

o Leading and managing digital workplace initiatives across the two teams e.g. MS SharePoint management

o Supporting the management of grant project budgets, including managing non-pay transactions and timesheet completion

o Contributing to information governance and records management processes, including management of the teams digital records, aligning with NICE policies and practices

o Contributing to the production of reports (finance and progress) required by external research funders and contributing to budgetary and resource planning to ensure efficient use of budgets

o Managing elements of the research grant funding application process e.g. providing costings, and activities relating to the award of successful grants within the Research and Science policy teamso Developing, updating and maintaining processes and systems used by the teams to support business operations

About us

The Science Evidence and Analytics (SEA) Directorate is responsible for ensuring that NICE uses the best available evidence in its guidance to support decision makers across health and care. Although the Science Policy team sits within SEA, our remit is to support the whole organisation. The team undertakes research and works with and influences external policy partners on issues related to the work of NICE. The team works to develop NICE's methods for health technology assessment and guideline development, and encourages partners to commission research relevant to our research priority areas. We build on and enhance NICE's reputation as a methodological innovator and aim to improve our methods to take account of novel technologies and changes in the wider health and social care system.

We have built up a broad portfolio of science policy and methods projects that addresses some of the most challenging issues facing NICE. Examples of recent and ongoing projects include our work with NHS England and the Department of Health and Social Care to develop innovative models that inform payments for new antimicrobials, our review of the implementation of the NICE severity modifier, and our appraisal of policy options regarding the perspective to be taken in economic analyses underpinning NICE guidance. We are also responsible for NICE Listens, NICE's programme for deliberative public engagement.

Details

• Date posted: 17 August 2026
• Pay scheme: Agenda for change
• Band: Band 6
• Salary: £39,959 to £48,117 a year per annum
• Contract: Fixed term
• Duration: 9 months
• Working pattern: Part-time
• Reference number: 907-908-A
• Job locations: 3rd Floor, 3 Piccadilly Place, Manchester, M1 3BN, United Kingdom

Job responsibilities

The Science policy team works closely with the Research team, who lead grant funded multi-national research projects such as ACCESSAD, READI, SYNTHIA, ASSESS-DHT, SUSTAIN-HTA, AD-RIDDLE, EDiHTA, PREDICTOM, ERA4TB, and IDHERA, and projects collaborating with UK system partners including a Wellcome Trust funded project on the regulation and evaluation of digital mental health technology. The Science policy team also leads NICEs Health Technology Assessment Innovation Laboratory (HTA Lab) function. HTA Lab offers a safe space for creating solutions to complex problems in health technology assessment in collaboration with system partners and stakeholders.

To be considered for this role, you should be able to particularly demonstrate the person specification criteria in the job advert in your application. However, applicants should be able to demonstrate all essential criteria through the entirety of the recruitment process to be considered for the job. Please see job description attached for full list of responsibilities.

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