Senior Trial Manager (Global & Maternal Health)

Full-time: 35 hours per week

Fixed-term: available from July 2026 for 12 months 

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The University of Edinburgh is a world-class organisation. We are a large University covering a wide range of activities. In Professional Services, we support the University’s research and teaching, offering many career and role specialisms.

The Opportunity:

The post holder will have a leading role in managing an international team of research staff embedded within the NIHR Global Health Research Unit on Global Surgery (the GSU) to deliver international cluster-randomised clinical trials in low resource settings. They will be an excellent communicator (including in group settings where English is not the majority language) with the ability to drive projects forward within budget and timelines, motivate others, and demonstrate enthusiasm, innovation, flexibility and leadership when faced with challenges. They will provide strategic and operational management skills in the planning and execution of projects, with a particular emphasis on maternal and neonatal health trials in low resource settings

This post offers the opportunity to work on an exciting new global collaborative initiative using wearable sensors and data driven research approaches to improve maternal and foetal outcomes during labour. You will join a collaborative research project entitled, ‘Intelligent Pregnancy Products Platform; I3P’ to deliver a large scale, international, cluster-randomised trial. You will work in a vibrant research environment collaborating with international stakeholders and industry partners to deliver a trial of 13,400 women across 30 hospitals in 4 countries (India, Rwanda, Nigeria & Pakistan). The IMPALA 2 trial (www.globalsurgeryunit.org/impala) will use novel techniques and wearable technologies to test whether collecting continuous vital signs from both the mother and baby during labour can better predict the onset of maternal and neonatal complications compared to intermittent observations collected manually. This body of work has the potential to reduce maternal and foetal complications on a global scale.

Informal enquiries may be directed to Dr Rosemary Townsend, Senior Research Fellow (rtownse2@exseed.ed.ac.uk) or Catherine Shaw, Senior Lecturer & Programme Manager (catherine.shaw@ed.ac.uk)

Your skills and attributes for success:

• A degree in a relevant area
• Substantial experience in the delivery of complex clinical trials in maternal health, including compliance with all relevant governance processes.
• Extensive experience of delivering clinical trials in low resource settings.
• Experience in monitoring, analysing and dissemination complex information.
• Ability to work well within a multi-disciplinary team, including international and industry partners.

This post is full-time (35 hours per week). We are open to considering requests for hybrid working (on a non-contractual basis) that combines a mix of remote and regular on-campus working.

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