Trials Acceleration Programme (TAP) Manager
Based in London
12 month Contract
Full-Time
Leukaemia & Lymphoma Research Vision
Our job is to help people stop dying from blood cancer, improve patients’
quality of life and stop people getting a blood cancer in the first place. You
will be successful in your role if you are as ambitious as we are about beating
blood cancers.
THE OPPORTUNITY
The United Kingdom has made significant contributions in the design and
delivery of late phase trials in blood cancers, but its track record in early
phase trials has been modest. A major reason underlining this has been the
absence of co-ordinated trials with a large enough catchment areas to allow
rapid recruitment to early phase trials. Leukaemia & Lymphoma Research’s
response to this need has been the creation of the Trials Acceleration
Programme (TAP): a network of resourced world-class blood cancer centres
serving major metropolitan areas across the UK with a combined catchment
area in excess of 20 million. A key innovation of TAP is that the network is
supported by a central hub in Birmingham, which provides dedicated, expert
trial management. Since July 2011, Leukaemia & Lymphoma Research has
entered 12 new trials into TAP and many more are in the pipeline. The early
success of TAP has now created the need for a new post to manage the TAP
project and help secure its long-term future.
Trials Acceleration Programme Manager
Your job is to monitor and drive the performance of TAP, to create a broad
understanding of TAP across Leukaemia & Lymphoma Research, to champion
TAP as an example of leadership and innovation within the organisation and
externally, and to assist in the transition of the project from a pilot to an ongoing initiative of national and international importance.
Key relationships
Reports to the Head of Research
Working closely with the Research team
Act as point of contact for TAP related information
Proactively engages with all LLR staff
Our kind of Trials Acceleration Programme Manager
 You will be passionate about the importance of clinical trials in
delivering patient benefit
 You will have previous project management experience with proven
ability to manage resources and timelines.
 You will have a background in cancer and/or health research.
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You will have previous analytic experience with the ability to
translate/synthesise data analysis into clear, concise written materials.
You will be excited about working with others to create digital tools to
help monitor, develop and promote TAP
You will be an outstanding communicator (both written and verbal),
with a natural ability to build rapport, influence people at all levels and
be a great team player.
You will have experience of forming and managing internal and
external relationships.
What you’ll do
 Drive performance of TAP
 Engage in regular communication and form purposeful relationships
with key members of the TAP community, including the trials hub,
trials centres and other external partners
 Facilitate the timely opening of new TAP trials
 Encourage and facilitate the timely recruitment of patients into trials
 Quickly identify and resolve problems either directly or by appropriate
signposting in a timely fashion
 Identify opportunities for enhancing the performance of TAP
 Gather, collate and communicate performance metrics in real time
 To work with the digital team to develop tools for internal and
external use
 Integrate a better awareness and understanding of TAP in the
organisation to exploit its wider value
 To work with the wider Research team to secure the long-term future
and growth of TAP
 Be a TAP champion externally
 Maintain knowledge of LLR’s strategic objectives and plans, including
an understanding of the underlying belief and principles behind these.
 Additional tasks and responsibilities will be assigned as the
programme evolves.
Things we all do
 Attend events as required
 Develop an in-depth understanding of our work
 Do any other reasonable things your manager needs you to do
We’d like you to have as many of these as possible
 Relevant degree or Masters, and/or comparable experience.
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The ability to problem-solve with demonstrable analytical and
quantitative skills.
Good attention to detail and ability to meet high quality project
management standards
Experience of critically assessing working practices and suggesting
ideas and opportunities for improvement.
Experience or understanding of clinical trials and the NHS
Knowledge of the pharmaceutical and health provision industries
Experience of managing and communicating project delivery via online
platforms, including website and blog communications.
The ability to build valuable working relationships across diverse
sectors
Experience of effective communication, both written and verbal, and
of building a persuasive case for support
Proactive in keeping up to date on developments in the sector and in
this area of specialism by reading, attending conferences and
analysing sector news.
Previous experience of working with a charity would be an advantage.