Horizon Scanning Manager – Nuffield Council on Bioethics

• Contract: Permanent and full time (35 hours per week) - part time arrangements considered
• Location: London, with ability to work from home for part of the week
• Closing: 09:30am (BST), Monday 24^th April 2023

The Nuffield Council on Bioethics is hiring a Horizon Scanning Manager to develop and lead its horizon scanning programme. This is a new role created as part of our next 5-year strategy and is a unique opportunity to combine futures expertise with the fascinating and challenging field of bioethics.

The Horizon Scanning Manager will develop an approach to horizon scanning that reaches an even broader range of stakeholders and fully embeds futures thinking across our organisation.  They will facilitate the early identification of developments in biomedicine and health that might raise ethics issues, and help the Council prioritise topics for its projects and inquiries. They will advise our project teams so our policy advice on specific issues is forward looking. They will support the Council to be aware of and resilient to future trends to enable us to respond to societal challenges relating to biomedicine, health and social well-being. 

Engagement will be central to the role. Connecting people and organisations from a variety of disciplines and sectors, in both the UK and internationally, will help us look ahead and be aware of external developments and potential risks. Our findings and outputs will both inform our own work and strategic priorities and help shape the thinking of others, such as professional bodies, research funders and policy makers.

Further information and how to apply

For more information and to apply, please click through to our recruitment platform via the ‘Apply’ button above.

The closing date for applications is 9:30am (BST) on Monday 24^th April 2023.

About us

The Nuffield Council on Bioethics is a leading independent policy and research centre, and the foremost bioethics body in the UK. 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 public health to assisted reproduction and genome editing.  

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 horizon scanning 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 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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