The Academy of Medical Sciences – an independent, expert voice of biomedical and health research in the UK – is looking for a Planning Lead to join the Academy’s newly established Strategy and Planning team.
Key Responsibilities
* Maintaining and updating integrated delivery plans, schedules and organisational forward looks.
* Ensuring teams understand planning deadlines, cycles, templates and expectations.
* Maintaining shared trackers, dashboards and project management tools (e.g., integrated delivery plans, dashboards, shared trackers).
* Monitoring progress against milestones and highlighting slippage, emerging risks or capacity constraints.
* Identifying early warning signs of delivery risks and escalating appropriately to the Senior Planning Manager or Planning Lead.
* Maintaining central logs of risks, dependencies and pressures.
* Preparing regular forward-look reports, planning summaries, and progress updates for the Planning Lead, Senior Planning Manager, senior leadership and governance groups.
* Ensuring reporting is accurate, timely, and consistent with Academy standards.
* Acting as a coordination point across directorates to support coherent, well‑sequenced activity.
* Suggesting improvements to planning processes, tools, and templates based on user feedback.
Skills and Experience
* Project management experience working with planning, scheduling or delivery coordination in a complex organisation.
* Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage competing deadlines.
* Proficiency in planning tools (e.g., shared trackers, dashboards, planning templates).
* Excellent attention to detail, particularly when managing schedules, risks and dependencies.
* Ability to produce clear, concise reporting for senior audiences.
* Strong communication and interpersonal skills, able to collaborate across teams without direct authority.
* Analytical and structured approach to problem‑solving, with sound judgement.
* Experience working in a policy, academic, research or charity context is desirable.
* Familiarity with project management methodologies or PMO environments is desirable.
* Understanding of organisational governance cycles is desirable.
* Generous pension scheme with flexible contributions – between 8% and 13% of your gross salary (with employee contributions of 3% – 8%).
* Life assurance at three times your salary.
* Hybrid and agile working. 50% office attendance.
* 26 days' annual leave, plus Christmas closure days and bank holidays.
* Buying and selling leave.
* Family‑friendly policies including enhanced maternity and paternity leave (subject to a qualifying period).
* Complimentary subscriptions to Headspace and Classpass to support your physical and mental wellbeing.
* Support through tailored learning and development.
* A range of enhanced benefits become available once you’ve completed your probation period.
Contract and Hours: Permanent, Full Time
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