Research Portfolio Officer, ARTHRITIS

Location (UK): Office Hybrid* - London / Sheffield

Hours: Full-time, 35 hours per week

Benefits: Read more about the excellent benefits we offer on our profile page.

Contract type: Permanent

Travel: Some travel may be required with in the UK.

Closing date: 23:59 hours, Wednesday 29 July 2026.

Join us and use your skills, knowledge, passion and energy to help us achieve a future free from arthritis.

This is an exciting opportunity for someone with research experience to work within a team of experts in research strategy development, research delivery and research policy, to communicate the outputs of our research funding to diverse stakeholders across the charity.

You will work within a dynamic and friendly team to help support our Research Programme Managers to develop and manage the Arthritis UK research portfolio. This will include collating and monitoring data from diverse sources to help provide oversight of our funded research. You will also work closely with other colleagues to translate our research outputs into a format that is clear and impactful to help teams across the charity achieve their strategic objectives.

You will work across a diverse range of projects and will liaise with a wide range of teams from across the charity to help us to tell the story of our research investment.

• A scientific degree or equivalent level of experience in medical research via the charity, commercial, health, higher education or publishing sectors.
• High-quality verbal and written communication skills including being able to communicate complex information and requirements to a wide range of audiences and stakeholders.
• A flexible and collaborative approach: able to work closely and adaptively with immediate team and collaboratively across the organisation.
• Good information technology skills, including effective database/Pub Med/internet search techniques and significant experience of using Microsoft Office Packages.
• Proven ability to manage multiple projects, with the ability to prioritise and meet deadlines independently, including rapid turnaround requests.
• Experience in a medical research environment.
• Knowledge or experience of the research application, award and monitoring process
• As a hybrid worker the expectation is that you will spend around 40% of your working time in our office spaces or working in community settings. As an inclusive employer we will consider home-based working for anyone where office-based hybrid working would be a barrier to being able to work for us, for example for someone living with a long-term health condition or disability.