The Chief Scientific Adviser team provides scientific and technical leadership within the department, gives direct advice to ministers and officials and ensures that the department is able to draw upon the best possible research and evidence. Professor Tom Crick MBE is the DCMS Chief Scientific Adviser (CSA).
The CSA is supported by a team who coordinate and provide rigorous and robust scientific and technical advice, and challenge, to the department. The team enables access to expertise through links with the UK science and research communities, and across government.
The R&D Science and Analysis Programme team is situated within the broader CSA team, but works across DCMS. The Programme has been running since 2022 to fund experimental, cross-cutting, and long-term evidence development with an emphasis on developing sustainable research collaborations, knowledge sharing, and networks.
The R&D Programme team is expanding to enable the Programme to develop and support more ambitious research over the next 4 years.
The first phase of the R&D Science and Analysis Programme launched in 2022 and completed in early 2025. The Programme funded 22 research projects across a range of topics, such as major cultural and sporting events, the interface between AI and DCMS sectors, videogames, civil society, and others.
The next phase of the Programme has received funding until 2030. The R&D Programme Adviser role presents an exciting opportunity to be part of a growing R&D Programme team and the development and delivery of the next phase of the programme, including how we collaborate on, communicate, and manage our research.
Responsibilities include:
* Maintain stakeholder management, project monitoring, and impact tracking processes and systems for the DCMS R&D Science & Analysis Programme. For example, ensure requests to review deliverables are circulated in a timely manner and responses are systematically monitored.
* Act as the secretariat for key programme and project governance meetings.
* Assist with contract management, in particular by completing the relevant monthly commercial and financial paperwork. Keep track of invoices.
* Maintain and update the data protection records for each project commissioned through the Programme.
* Assist with delivering the DCMS R&D Science & Analysis Programme comms plan, including organising events.
* Assist with input into R&D Programme representation, briefings, commissions, summons, etc. as required.
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