Senior Research Manager, Mental Health Evidence

Salary: £64,800 Closing date: Sunday, 10 August 2025Contract type: Fixed Term Contract - 31/05/2026Interview dates: 3-4 September 2025 The Wellcome Trust is a global charitable foundation. We improve health for everyone by funding science, leading policy and advocacy campaigns, and building partnerships. We plan to spend £16bn over the next ten years, funding new discoveries in life, health, and wellbeing, and taking on three global health challenges: mental health, infectious disease and climate and health. These challenges need the bold science we support, but they won''t be solved by science alone. We are looking for a Senior Research Manager to join our team for an immediate/ASAP start on a fixed term contract. Where in Wellcome will I be working? You will be joining the Evidence Team for Mental Health, reporting to the Head of Evidence. The team''s remit is to scope and fund research that improves our understanding of how depression, anxiety and psychosis develop and resolve, with a view to developing novel interventions and improving/better targeting existing ones. We are also committed to developing mental health research data, tools and infrastructure to support this work. Our vision is ''a world in which no-one is held back by mental health problems''. What will I be doing? As a key member of the Evidence for Mental Health team at Wellcome, you will play a central role in shaping and delivering our funding strategy to support mental health science. You will ..... full job details .....