You will have experience of leading a learning and development team, including deployment of a Learning Management System. This exciting role will enable the delivery of a UK-wide LMS and learning strategy as well as driving service excellence in learning design and management to the RDN, NIHR and wider health and care research system.

You will proactively develop a profile within the RDNCC and work collaboratively with individuals and groups both across the RDN and the University of Leeds, and with external stakeholders in a host of settings. Working with your Director and Head of function, you will support organisational change to ensure the network functions as a single organisation with a shared purpose and vision across England, providing support to colleagues and managing your own team in a positive and flexible way.

This role will be based in the RDNCC office on Queen Street, Leeds. We work in a hybrid way with an expectation that all RDNCC staff spend at least 40% of their time office. We are also open to discussing other flexible working arrangements.

What we offer in return

● 26 days holiday plus approx.16 Bank Holidays/days that the University is closed by custom (including Christmas) – That’s 42 days a year!

● Generous pension scheme plus life assurance– the University contributes 14.5% of salary

● Health and Wellbeing: Discounted staff membership options at The Edge, our state-of-the-art Campus gym, with a pool, sauna, climbing wall, cycle circuit, and sports halls.

● Personal Development: Access to courses run by our Organisational Development & Professional Learning team.

● All Faculty of Medicine and Health staff are entitled to ten days staff development per year (pro rata). Please speak to your line manager about how you can utilise these.

● Access to on-site childcare, shopping discounts and travel schemes are also available.

And much more!

If you are looking for a role that will provide you with an exciting opportunity to lead learning at scale and influence national strategy to play a key role in shaping the future of learning across the RDN and NIHR, and to work alongside enthusiastic and supportive colleagues, apply today.

To explore the post further or for any queries you may have, please contact:

Jess Radcliffe Craggs, Head of Research Delivery Workforce Development

Email: jess.radcliffe-craggs@nihr.ac.uk

Application process

As part of the RDNCC’s commitment to inclusion and equity of opportunity, our shortlisting stage is undertaken with names removed from job applications. Please do not include identifiable information in uploaded documents, file names or free text fields (e.g., names, photos, contact details) other than those specifically requested in the personal details section of the application form.

Closing Date: 27 May 2026

Section: Professional & Managerial

Salary: £51,753 to £59,966 p.a.

Are you enthusiastic about driving innovation in the regional ecosystem and supporting diverse businesses? We are seeking an Innovation Community Lead to oversee delivery of support to businesses engaged with the Health Innovation Leeds Incubator. This role will guide the development of a regional roadmap for fostering an innovation-driven enterprise ecosystem, lead activities for bringing a diverse range of businesses into the innovation funnel, and champion place-based interventions that support growth and impact.

This role is responsible for ensuring that all programme objectives align the Nexus and University of Leeds vision with the West Yorkshire Investment Zone vision, are executed with quality and deliver lasting outcomes. 

Working with multi-stakeholder partnerships which include but are not limited to; Leeds Beckett University, Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust, Leeds City Council, West Yorkshire Combined Authority, and other stakeholders. You will play an important role in defining and delivering innovation support, project guidance for grant funding, and organising events for businesses of all scales as part of the Health Innovation Leeds Incubator

You will act as the face of the Incubator Delivery team for Nexus across all events and support, ensuring business needs are articulated to the Operational and Strategic Delivery groups to inform the evolution of support through the Health Innovation Leeds Incubator. You will play a key role in delivering programme outputs and associated impact while being part of a team driving a forward-facing strategy that aims to create additional programmes in response to the needs of the regional ecosystem. 

Please note that this post may be suitable for sponsorship under the Skilled Worker visa route but first-time applicants might need to qualify for salary concessions. For more information please visit: www.gov.uk/skilled-worker-visa.

What we offer in return 

• 26 days holiday plus approx.16 Bank Holidays/days that the University is closed by custom (including Christmas) – That’s 42days a year!
• Generous pension scheme options plus life assurance
• Health and Wellbeing: Discounted staff membership options at The Edge, our state-of-the-art Campus gym, with a pool, sauna, climbing wall, cycle circuit, and sports halls.
• Personal Development: Access to courses run by our Organisational Development & Professional Learning team.
• Access to on-site childcare, shopping discounts and travel schemes are also available.

And much more!  

To explore the post further or for any queries you may have, please contact:

Nathan Berry, Head of Collaboration and Healthtech Lead

Email: N.J.Berry@leeds.ac.uk

Closing Date: 17 May 2026

Section: Professional & Managerial

Salary: £41,064 to £48,822 per annum

The University is undertaking a significant portfolio of strategic transformation across academic and professional service domains. Within this portfolio, the Curriculum Redefined (CR) strategic change programme is entering the Enhancement and Integration Phase, which represents a critical transition from large transformation programme to sustainable business-as-usual delivery. This Business Architect role is being recruited on a 12-month fixed term basis (with the potential for extension, subject to funding) and will be dedicated to the team delivering the CR programme. The role will be focused on embedding outcomes from the previous phase of the programme and integrating them with other major change programmes, whilst establishing durable operating models. 

The Business Architect role in general provides University-wide business architecture leadership within the Transformation Office, strengthening institutional coherence across functional boundaries and ensuring alignment between strategy and execution. It also provides enterprise business design assurance for major investments and transformation initiatives, informing governance and portfolio decision-making, mitigating structural risk, and safeguarding the integrity of the University’s operating model as change is delivered. 

Day to day, the role ensures that major investments and transformation initiatives align with the University’s agreed operating model and institutional priorities. It mitigates institutional risk by preventing duplication and fragmentation, assessing the structural implications of change, and safeguarding coherence across the change and investment portfolio. 

Working across Faculties, Professional Services, and change teams, the role applies structured architectural thinking to inform executive decision-making and support the translation of strategic intent into coordinated institutional change. 

This specific Business Architect role will do this in the context of the CR programme as it addresses complex organisational design challenges, including: the design and implementation of a single institutional “front door” for Educational Enhancement; the realignment of roles and reporting lines; the integration of previously federated services; and the establishment of new governance arrangements, service level agreements, and performance metrics.  

The role will provide critical capacity to manage the dependencies of this work with other major transformation programmes, align delivery roadmaps, and ensure CR programme outcomes are designed for adoption within emerging institutional structures, rather than becoming isolated or redundant. 

What we offer in return

• 26 days holiday plus approx.16 Bank Holidays/days that the University is closed by custom (including Christmas) – That’s 42 days a year!
• Generous pension scheme plus life assurance.
• Health and Wellbeing: Discounted staff membership options at The Edge, our state-of-the-art Campus gym, with a pool, sauna, climbing wall, cycle circuit, and sports halls.
• Personal Development: Access to courses run by our Organisational Development & Professional Learning team.
• Access to on-site childcare, shopping discounts and travel schemes are also available.

And much more!

To explore the post further or for any queries you may have, please contact:

Neil Smith, Deputy Director Transformation Office

Email: n.s.smith@leeds.ac.uk 

Closing Date: 27 May 2026

Section: Professional & Managerial

Salary: £61,759 to £73,708 per annum

Are you a highly motivated procurement professional with experience of the Facility Management (Hard) or Construction industry?  Do you have excellent communication and organisational skills? Would you like to be part of a small customer focussed Category Management team?

The University of Leeds is one of the top 100 universities in the world. Since 1904, it has built a strong reputation for high-quality education and research that makes a difference locally and globally. Behind this sits a wide range of professional services that support students, staff and researchers to do their best work.

As a Senior Category Officer (Facility Management (Hard)/Construction) within the University’s Procurement Service, you will lead on and take day to day responsibility for a range of category activities, delivering value for money across goods and services within your allocated category. You will be responsible for managing relationships with senior managers, internal stakeholders and key suppliers. This key role supports the Facilities Directorate which incorporates maintenance and development of the University Estate, Commercial and Campus Support Services (including sports facilities, catering, cleaning, conferencing, facilities support, print and security) Residences and Sustainability Services.

To be successful in this role you will utilise your in-depth Facility Management (Hard) or Construction knowledge and experience and excellent communication and collaboration skills, to support stakeholders in compliantly achieving best value for money in all procurement activity.

Please note that this post may be suitable for sponsorship under the Skilled Worker visa route but first-time applicants might need to qualify for salary concessions. For more information please visit: www.gov.uk/skilled-worker-visa. For research and academic posts, we will consider eligibility under the Global Talent visa. For more information please visit: https://www.gov.uk/global-talent 

What we offer in return 

• 26 days holiday plus approx.16 Bank Holidays/days that the University is closed by custom (including Christmas) – That’s 42 days a year! 
• Generous pension scheme options plus life assurance 
• Health and Wellbeing: Discounted staff membership options at The Edge, our state-of-the-art Campus gym, with a pool, sauna, climbing wall, cycle circuit, and sports halls. 
• Personal Development: Access to courses run by our Organisational Development & Professional Learning team. 
• Access to on-site childcare, shopping discounts and travel schemes are also available.

And much more! 

To explore the post further or for any queries you may have, please contact:

Binta Jammeh, Category Manager 

j.binta@leeds.ac.uk

Closing Date: 26 May 2026

Section: Professional & Managerial

Salary: £41,064 to £48,822 per annum

This role will be based on the university campus, with scope for it to be undertaken in a hybrid manner. We are also open to discussing flexible working arrangements.

Are you looking for a new and challenging role within an Information Governance Team? Are you able to provide strategic support and share your expertise in data management and data protection practices to develop an Information Governance Framework at the University?  

We are developing an institution-wide Information Governance Framework (IGF) to transform the way that we govern and utilise our data. The Framework will provide a cohesive structure for managing and using data that can be understood and used by all staff. It will bring together different elements of data management, including data governance, data protection, data quality and information security.  

The Information Governance Framework Manager will play a key part in co-creating, managing, and evolving the Framework and implementing and embedding new information governance processes.  This role will build pivotal relationships across the institution, supporting the IGF leads in developing their areas of the Framework; Data Owners and Stewards in fulfilling their responsibilities for specific data sets, and embedding data management and assurance practices into everyday operations.  There will be plenty of opportunity to shape this new role as the scope of the Framework widens to encompass additional governance elements and data domains in future. 

As a core member of the Information Governance Team reporting to the Data Protection Officer and working closely with colleagues across the University, the role holder will also be responsible for implementing specific elements of the Framework that relate to compliance with data protection regulations, as well as assisting the team in responding to more general queries from across the organisation about the appropriate use of data. 

What we offer in return

• 26 days holiday plus approx.16 Bank Holidays/days that the University is closed by custom (including Christmas) – That’s 42 days a year!
• Generous pension scheme plus life assurance– the University contributes 14.5% of salary.
• Health and Wellbeing: Discounted staff membership options at The Edge, our state-of-the-art Campus gym, with a pool, sauna, climbing wall, cycle circuit, and sports halls.
• Personal Development: Access to courses run by our Organisational Development & Professional Learning team.
• Access to on-site childcare, shopping discounts and travel schemes are also available.

And much more!  

To explore the post further or for any queries you may have, please contact:

Rebecca Messenger-Clark, Head of Information Governance, DPO

Email: r.messenger-clark@adm.leeds.ac.uk 

Closing Date: 20 May 2026

Section: Professional & Managerial

Salary: £51,753 to £59,966 per annum