Clinical Research Administrator

As Clinical Research Administrator, you will be integral in helping to support and deliver the activity in the research team. This includes supporting our clinical research initiatives, such as the UK Blood Cancer Research Network, and a newly launched strategic funding call for large-scale clinical trials. The UKBCRN is a large network, consisting of 16 major disease sub-groups and acts as a focal point for UK clinical academics to collaborate and drive the blood cancer research agenda.

This is an exciting time to join the organisation as we work to deliver our new strategy, funding impactful research to drive forward the day when nobody dies of their blood cancer or its treatment.

Expected travel for this role is: 3-6 days per quarter dependent on needs of business; plus two All-staff away days per year.

We are committed to actively promoting equality, diversity, and inclusivity. In line with our strategy we welcome approaches from individuals from underrepresented groups, including minority communities, and applicants with a disability, to better reflect the community we serve and help broaden our perspectives.

We welcome applications to work full time or part time (minimum 28 hours and or job share, please specify the hours you wish to work in your cover letter).

Interviews are expected to take place on 2nd and 3rd July.

Application DeadlineJune 24, 2025DepartmentResearch, Policy & Services Employment TypePermanentLocationLondon/HybridWorkplace typeHybridCompensation£30,000 - £33,000 / yearReporting To

Key Responsibilities

1. Supporting the coordination and delivery of the UK Blood Cancer Research Network (UKBCRN):

• Supporting the coordination of the patient and early-career researcher network.
• Management and coordination of the 16 sub-groups, as well as the steering committee and oversight boards, including scheduling and setting meeting dates.
• Managing delivery of both in-person and virtual meetings, including sending calendar invites, booking rooms, arranging catering and registration processes.
• Supporting with circulating papers and taking meeting minutes, where required.
• Processing researcher travel expenses in line with internal policies.
• Managing the network membership, working with internal teams to maintain a database, via the Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system.
• Maintaining the webpage ensuring information about the Network is clear, accurate and up to date.
• Maintaining up to date files and records, taking responsibility for the storage of information and documents in an organised way.

2. Providing day-to-day operational support for the new clinical funding scheme and for the successfully funded clinical trial teams:

• Assisting with the set-up of the new Funding Committee ensuring internal CRM systems are kept up to date.
• Scheduling Committee meetings and supporting with the logistics for in-person interviews.
• Assisting with the monitoring processes of funded teams, including sending reports and collating paperwork, as well as liaising and sharing updates with internal teams, such as fundraising.
• Arranging meetings with funded teams, as well as site visits, where required.

3. Providing general administrative support for ad-hoc activity within the Research team:

• Assisting with the delivery of any relevant researcher engagement events, such as workshops, meetings or conferences.
• Assisting with the coordination of our research involvement activities, such as scheduling meetings, preparing materials, and helping to manage communications with people affected by blood cancer.

4. General Responsibilities:

• Contribute to the team being proactive and supportive, and working effectively and efficiently to achieve agreed cross-team tasks and objectives.
• General admin across the Research Team e.g. preparation of newsletters, triage of enquiries, supporting ad-hoc projects.
• Contribute to the development and maintenance of strong internal relationships across the charity, notably the Finance and Data teams.
• Provide accurate and timely reporting in your area to both internal and external stakeholders when required.
• Undertake other work as required by the Deputy Director of Research and Clinical Research Programme Lead.

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

Knowledge

• An understanding of the medical research charity sector, with an interest in blood cancer research.

Skills

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills for liaising with internal and external stakeholders, including senior academics, ensuring clarity, professionalism, and courtesy in both verbal and written interactions.
• Self-motivated and proactive, with a strong willingness to learn and the ability to work independently.
• Proficiency in MS Office (Excel, Word, and Outlook) with the ability to efficiently manage and organise information/data.

Experience

• Experience working in an administrative role, including organising meetings and managing documentation, whilst providing a professional service
• Administrative skills and experience, with strong organisation and prioritisation skills and the ability to maintain high levels of accuracy and attention to detail.
• Commitment to continuous improvement, with an interest and/or experience of streamlining processes for improved efficiencies.
• Experience using CRM systems or databases would be beneficial but not required. A willingness to gain experience with new IT systems is essential.

About Blood Cancer UK

FLEXIBLE WORKING & OUR BENEFITS

We welcome conversations about part time working, job shares, and all forms of flexible working right from application stage. You can get in touch with us at [email protected] if you want to ask us anything about flexible working.

Benefits: We think our benefits are brilliant, and the majority start from day 1. These are just a few of them:

• 30 days annual leave PLUS bank holidays
• Generous pension scheme and Life Assurance
• Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption leave, as well as study leave and a day off to move house
• Wellbeing is a priority for us, we offer a wide range of individual and team support in our Wellbeing Hub
• Our Academy is our in-house Continued Professional Development (CPD) learning and development programme, including an internal mentoring scheme. We have organisation-wide focus days, which are days set aside for you to focus on your own development, without being interrupted by emails and meetings.
• Cycle to work and season ticket loans
• Opportunity to take sabbaticals

You can find full details about our benefits on our website.

Location: Working agile means we changed from having a culture where people are expected to be in the office from 9am to 5pm to one where we’re much more focused on what they deliver. We've built a positive culture where autonomy, trust, wellbeing and flexibility allow us to recruit and retain the very best people.   We recognise that teams still need to come together regularly to develop relationships and strengthen collaborative working.   Therefore, for the majority of roles, your contractual place of work will be one of our offices. The expectation for how often you will be required to attend the office is outlined in the job profile and will be discussed with you.   Details about our hybrid and agile working approach (including how travel expenses work) can be found on our website.

HOW TO APPLY

We ask you to send us a CV and cover letter. In your cover letter, we'd like to know why you're interested in working with us at Blood Cancer UK. It's also helpful if you tell us why you think you are a great candidate for this role based on the skills, knowledge and expertise section above. Your cover letter doesn't have to be too long, 1-2 pages is ideal. Please don't add photos or graphics to your CV, as we use blind shortlisting at this stage of the process.

Full details about our recruitment processes, including how we use blind shortlisting and what to expect at each stage of the process can be found on our website. Sometimes we close our vacancies early, usually because we have had a lot of great applicants, so we’d always encourage you to apply early rather than wait until the deadline.

WHY WORK AT BLOOD CANCER UK?

We're the 9th best charity in the UK to work for according to Best Companies 2021!

We started because of Susan, we’ll get there because of you.

Blood Cancer UK was started by one family who lost their daughter, Susan, to blood cancer, and that history and sense of family continues to shape who we are today. When you join Blood Cancer UK, you don’t just become an organisational employee – you become part of a collaborative community dedicated to funding research into beating blood cancer that includes some of the most inspiring people you’ll ever meet.

And we’re not that far away from beating blood cancer. We’re confident we can do it within the next generation, and this makes us hugely ambitious and gives us a sense of real urgency. It also means we’re changing quickly as an organisation as we constantly challenge ourselves and strive to become more and more effective. This pace of change means working here isn’t for everyone. But if you’re excited by the chance to work in a fast-paced, agile and supportive environment with the focus and ambition to beat blood cancer this could be the place for you! We focus on results rather than time spent at a desk, so we deliver more for people affected by blood cancer.

Blood Cancer UK offers the chance to work for and with people affected by blood cancer, and the opportunity to advance your career and develop your skillset whilst taking on exciting new challenges and making your mark.

EQUALITY, DIVERSITY & INCLUSION

We are committed to actively promoting equality, diversity, and inclusivity. Read our statement which reflects our strong drive to change in this area.

To this end we would welcome approaches from individuals from underrepresented groups, including minoritised communities, and applicants with a disability, to better reflect the community we serve and help broaden our perspectives.

You can read some examples of how we can support you through the application and interview process here.

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