Horizon Scanning Coordinator - Nuffield Council on Bioethics

• Salary: Starting from £33,333 per annum (negotiable depending on experience)
• Contract: Fixed term for 1 year, full time hours.
• Location: London, with ability to work from home for part of the week
• Closing: 09:30am (BST), 7^th May 2024 

The Nuffield Council on Bioethics (NCOB) is hiring a Horizon Scanning Coordinator to support in its ambition to better anticipate emerging trends in biomedicine and health. They will assist in the evolution and enhancement of NCOB’s current horizon scanning (HS) and foresight activities. Supporting in the synthesis of evidence as well as the design and coordination of workshops, roundtables and lunch clubs.

The NCOB has a strong track record of anticipating developments at the intersection of scientific development and societal challenge. Within our new five-year strategy, we have committed to evolving our methodologies so to enhance our capabilities. This will ensure our work is relevant, timely and influential. Building upon what we have achieved so far, the Horizon Scanning Coordinator will work to embed our new approach to HS and foresight, ensuring that we reach an even broader range of stakeholders and fully socialise futures thinking across our organisation.  

The Horizon Scanning Coordinator’s efforts to gather both desktop-based and stakeholder insights will facilitate the NCOB’s ability to identify emerging ethical challenges in the developments in biomedicine and health. This will help the NCOB to prioritise topics for its projects and inquiries. 

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About us

The Nuffield Council on Bioethics is a leading independent policy and research centre, and the foremost bioethics body in the UK. We are on a mission to embed ethics in decisions regarding biomedicine and heath so that we all benefit.

For over thirty years we have tackled some of the most complex and controversial bioethical issues facing society. We are funded jointly by the Nuffield Foundation, Wellcome and the Medical Research Council. 

We aim to inform policy and public debate through timely consideration of the ethical questions raised by biological and medical research so that the benefits to society are realised in a way that is consistent with public values. Our work has led to shifts in public understanding and policy change on topics ranging from assisted reproduction and genome editing to managing the disagreements that arise in the care of critically ill children.

Central to our reputation and standing is our independence – we do not represent any particular group or view and we select our own topics, methodologies and outputs.   We select topics to examine through our HS programme and use a variety of approaches to identify, consider and resolve the ethical issues they raise. Our approach is multidisciplinary and deliberative. We draw on a wide range of expertise and experience and use the best available evidence. We collaborate where our expertise complements those of other organisations (e.g. see our current collaboration on Genomics and AI Futures with the Ada Lovelace Institute).  

We engage with a wide range of different voices and views and are committed to increasing the diversity of the people we work with. As part of the Nuffield Foundation, we are a small team with the practical support of an established organisation that cares for its employees.

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