King's College London

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About Us

Embedded within the Comprehensive Cancer Centre at King’s College London, PharosAI offers a unique cancer AI product development ecosystem for drug discovery and clinical applications, democratising access to data, AI assets, technologies, and capabilities. PharosAI unites large-scale multimodal cancer datasets with AI models through a highly secure, trusted, federated platform, offering state-of-the-art AI tooling for use by pharma/biotech/life-sciences, AI-pharma, and AI developers of clinical applications, in enterprises, growth companies, and research organisations. PharosAI will also provide a “lend me an expert” concierge service, training and education in AI for clinicians, and an end-to-end product development and deployment service, helping cancer pathology services to be more easily deployed within the NHS. This will be facilitated by a best-in-class patient involvement and governance model, and fair value sharing for data providers. 

You will be based in the Innovation Hub, Guy’s Cancer Centre, Guy’s Hospital, within the King’s Health Partners Cancer Biobank. The Biobank has been supporting translational cancer research at a national level since the 1970’s and accrued a significant number of samples during that time, all of which have been acquired under documented procedures and linked to verified clinical data. The Biobank has a team of more than 15 full time staff, including Advanced Practitioners, Consent Co-Ordinator, Quality Manager and Specialist Technicians.

About The Role

We have an exciting new post as Senior Outreach Manager (PPIE) for PharosAI. You will be responsible for developing and delivery an effective PPIE strategy that builds trust and confidence in PharosAI’s mission amongst patients, public, professional colleagues and other key stakeholders. This may include initiating events in the community to seek opinion as well as more locally amongst patients. The role includes managing the dedicated PharosAI PPIE group (PIVOT) and communicating outcomes to the leadership group.

The successful candidate will also be responsible for managing the KHP Cancer Biobank Volunteer Consenter programme, including liaising with Voluntary Services. 

The role will occasionally require attendance at events outside of core working hours, including weekends and evenings. This is a full time (35 Hours per week), and you will be offered a fixed term contract until 31 March 2027.

About You

To be successful in this role, we are looking for candidates to have the following skills and experience: 

Essential criteria 

1. Professionally qualified with a relevant degree/ post graduate qualification, plus a broad management experience in similar or related role. 
2. Authoritative knowledge of working practices, processes and procedures related to the role. 
3. Project and people management skills that have been gained through previous experience 
4. Excellent communication skills, both orally and in writing, and interpersonal skills 
5. Experience in gathering data using a variety of methods, analysing and presenting outcomes 
6. Have a proactive and responsive approach to internal and external contacts to build relationships and create networks. 

Desirable criteria

1. Experience of managing patient groups. 
2. Knowledge of research consent processes 3. Writing for websites/social media platforms 

Downloading a copy of our Job Description 

Full details of the role and the skills, knowledge and experience required can be found in the Job Description document, provided at the bottom of the next page after you click “Apply Now”. This document will provide information of what criteria will be assessed at each stage of the recruitment process. 

Further Information

We pride ourselves on being inclusive and welcoming. We embrace diversity and want everyone to feel that they belong and are connected to others in our community. We are committed to working with our staff and unions on these and other issues, to continue to support our people and to develop a diverse and inclusive culture at King's. We ask all candidates to submit a copy of their CV, and a supporting statement, detailing how they meet the essential criteria listed in the advert. If we receive a strong field of candidates, we may use the desirable criteria to choose our final shortlist, so please include your evidence against these where possible. 

To find out how our managers will review your application, please take a look at our ‘How we Recruit’ pages.