This is a rare opportunity to lead the development and delivery of our digital learning and natural history publishing at our national environmental education charity.
You will oversee a talented team and collaborate with authors, designers, and creators in the natural history community to deliver innovative training and resources that set the standard for environmental learning.
- Permanent full-time contract
- Starting salary circa £36,973 per annum + excellent benefits
- Flexible base location with remote / home working welcomed
- Make a visible, lasting contribution to environmental education across the UK
Love where you work!
At the Field Studies Council, our mission is to create outstanding opportunities that inspire everyone to engage with and care for the environment.
Your team will be responsible for creating high-quality training courses, publications, and resources that inspire learners of all ages. You’ll work together to extend our charity’s impact across the UK.
We value the contribution each team member makes and provide excellent benefits to reward and support you in your role.
What you’ll be doing
In this key leadership role, you will guide the Digital Learning & Publishing unit, ensuring our courses and publications are impactful, financially sustainable and aligned with our charitable mission. Your work will include:
- Overseeing the production and management of biodiversity training courses and natural history publications
- Leading a team to deliver both in person and digital learning experiences
- Managing budgets, business planning, and the operational performance of the unit
- Working with Marketing to grow ecommerce revenue and promote the portfolio
- Building and maintaining strong relationships with partners, authors, tutors, designers, and the wider natural history community
- Identifying new opportunities, markets, and partnerships to expand our reach
- Leading editorial workflows, rights management, licensing, and version control
- Commissioning new titles and resources that support environmental understanding
- Ensuring compliance with GDPR, safeguarding, and copyright requirements
Where you’ll be based
The base location for this position is negotiable, with remote working / home working welcomed. If you prefer working in an office environment, you can work from one of our Field Studies Centres across the UK. Hybrid working options can also be considered.
This role includes travel to Field Studies Council locations and other venues throughout the UK and will involve some overnight stays.
You’ll thrive in this role if you are:
- An experienced senior manager with a strategic mindset
- Skilled at leading teams, freelancers, and creative contributors
- Confident working with authors, artists, designers, and content creators
- Experienced in delivering training materials at regional or national scale
- Commercially aware, with strong budget management experience
- A clear and engaging communicator with excellent written and verbal skills
- Highly organised, detail focused, and able to deliver at pace
- Comfortable using digital tools, databases, and online learning platforms
- Motivated by our mission and values
If you are looking for a role where your leadership can make a genuine difference to environmental learning, we would be delighted to receive your application.
* Your benefits whilst working with us will include:
- 28 days annual leave + bank holidays
- 2 extra loyalty days dependent on length of service
- Life assurance 5 x your annual basic salary
- Health and Wellbeing Support App for you and eligible family members to access remote GP appointments, mental health consultations, physiotherapy sessions and financial & legal support
- 24-hour Counselling Helpline Service
- Cycle to work and EV schemes
- Discounts and cashback opportunities
- Flexible working options where roles permit
- Quality learning and development opportunities
The closing date for receipt of your completed application is 27th April 2026.
We reserve the right to close the vacancy early if we’re in receipt of sufficient applications. Please apply early to avoid disappointment.
Interviews are scheduled to take place at Field Studies Council online in the week commencing 11th May 2026.
Shortlisted applicants will be contacted by email.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults, and we expect all team members to share this commitment. Any offer of employment will only be confirmed following the successful completion of rigorous pre-employment checks, including appropriate Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) checks / PVG Scheme check with Disclosure Scotland.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Thank you!
We’re looking for an experienced, compassionate leader to oversee the day‑to‑day running of our national helpline services and co‑ordinate our Survivors Forums. This is a unique opportunity to shape a trauma‑informed, high‑quality support service for victims and survivors of rape and sexual abuse, as well as those who support them.
In this role, you’ll ensure our helplines remain safe, accessible, and responsive, providing steady leadership in a fast‑paced, emotionally complex environment. You’ll offer clinical supervision, guide a dedicated team of staff and volunteers, and champion best practice in safeguarding, risk management, and service quality.
You’ll also play a key part in strengthening survivor voices by supporting and co‑ordinating our Survivors Forums—helping shape the future of our organisation and the wider sector.
If you’re a qualified counsellor and clinical supervisor with experience managing frontline support or crisis services—and you’re driven by a commitment to trauma‑informed, survivor‑centred practice—this role offers the chance to lead meaningful change and support a service that truly matters.
Registered Charity
11 - 20
Our vision is for a society where services for all survivors are trauma-informed and accessible according to need.
Thank you!
- Travel required: 15 days / year (approx.)
- Location: Home-based in either UK, Germany or Spain.
We are seeking a Researcher to support the activities of the Patient Evidence Department of Myeloma Patients Europe (MPE).
Please send your CV and cover letter at recruitment @mpeurope. org. Applicants must have the right to work in the UK, Germany or Spain. Applications without a cover letter will be rejected.
The following tasks and core responsibilities are non-exhaustive and subject to change depending on needs of the organisation.
Job Purpose
The Researcher will support the Patient Evidence department in generating, analysing and communicating patient-centred evidence to inform clinical, regulatory, industry, academic and policy decision-making, and to fuel progress across MPE programmes and activities. The role involves working with qualitative and quantitative data, supporting research projects and contributing to evidence-based outputs that amplify patients’ experiences and needs. The Patient Evidence department conducts our own patient-focussed research and collaborates on external projects with patient and medical organisations, universities, clinical teams, industry partners and regulatory bodies.
Main Duties and responsibilities
Perform the following duties in conjunction with and under the guidance of the Head of Patient Research:
- Independently design research projects and develop research protocols aligned with MPE’s research strategy, including surveys, interviews and literature reviews.
- Support the development of proposals to secure public and private funding to support research activities.
- Independently conduct assigned research tasks in accordance with project deliverables and timelines.
- Conduct and analyse qualitative (interviews, focus groups) and quantitative research (surveys).
- Conduct desk research (systematic and non-systematic literature reviews) on topics such as patient experiences, health systems and psychosocial impacts of myeloma.
- Maintain accurate records of participant data, safeguarding the confidentiality of participants and patient data, as necessary.
- Write up research results and prepare visualisations of data for different audiences (including for patients, clinicians, academic journals).
- Disseminate research results including presentations at international and national conferences, internal and external meetings and workshops. Represent MPE at internal/external meetings when needed.
- Collaborate with communications colleagues to design strategies to disseminate our research to wider audiences.
- Collaborate with relevant stakeholders to develop recruitment and involvement strategies to enhance participation from underserved groups and from different parts of Europe.
- Engage with patients, families, clinicians, patient organisations and other stakeholders involved in MPE patient evidence projects and other myeloma research.
- Provide administrative and organisational support for the Research Advisory Committee.
- Contribute to our member research support training programme including delivering workshops and training events on research design and methodology.
Other responsibilities
- Undertake any other reasonable duties as required by the Head of Patient evidence.
- Critically appraise and provide advice to the wider MPE team on research and evidence requests.
- Build good relations with members, internal and external stakeholders (including doctors, researchers and medical representatives within companies).
- Respond to external patient organisations’ requests on research and evidence topics.
- Attend scientific congresses and meetings and stay abreast of important developments related to myeloma patient evidence.
- Develop content for MPE website, social media and other communications.
- Participate in advisory boards for the pharmaceutical industry.
- Engage with training and continuing professional development.
Essential criteria
- An undergraduate degree in a relevant subject (such as psychology, social sciences, health policy, health and social care, public health or related fields)
- Master’s degree in a relevant subject (MRes Health Research, MPH, or health-related subject MSc with substantive research component)
- A minimum of 3 years experience conducting applied health research
- Knowledge and experience of qualitative and quantitative research methodologies including surveys, focus groups and interviews applied to health-related research
- Strong skills in qualitative, quantitative or mixed-methods analysis.
- Understanding of principles of Good Clinical Practice in research.
- Proficient at Office suite – Word, Excel, PowerPoint (or equivalent), and specialist quantitative/qualitative analysis software (e.g. SPSS/R, or Atlas/Nvivo).
- Ability to work from home in a virtual setting with a team spread across Europe.
- Strong listening, communication and presentation skills.
- Rigorous work methods and high attention to detail.
- Demonstrated excellence in writing, proofreading, and editing in English.
Desirable criteria
- A PhD in a related field
- Project management experience
- Experience in cross-national research
- Experience in working with patients, researchers, doctors and representatives from the pharmaceutical industry desirable
- Experience in systematic or non-systematic literature review
- Publications in peer-reviewed journals
- Familiarity with patient-reported outcomes (PROs) and patient experience data
- Knowledge/expertise of cancer patient experience research
- Knowledge of drug development process and clinical trials
- Knowledge and experience of ethical review procedures
- Fluency in additional European languages
Personal attributes
- Organised, with excellent project management and time management skills.
- Ability to lead and work independently on assigned tasks and take appropriate initiative.
- A motivated and self-aware team player, who can work independently or collaboratively with equal success.
- Ability to explain complex scientific terms and knowledge into lay language.
We offer:
- Opportunity to contribute to impactful, patient-centred work at a European level.
- An exciting position in the emerging field of evidence-based patient advocacy, working together with key patient advocacy leaders across Europe.
- Permanent position with flexible hours giving the opportunity to progress and to integrate in a dynamic, friendly and multi-cultural team working from different European cities.
About MPE
Myeloma Patients Europe (MPE) is a pan-European organisation representing 57 myeloma and amyloidosis patient groups from over 35 European countries. It is registered as an international non-profit organisation under Belgian Law. A Board mainly composed of patients and caregivers is elected by the membership to oversee the strategy and governance of the organisation. A team of 14 staff members runs remotely the day-to-day operations, programmes and services within 4 divisions: Access and Policy, Medical Education and Scientific Engagement, Patient Evidence and Member and Patient Community Programmes.
MPE’s vision is a world where every person affected by myeloma has access to the knowledge, diagnostics, treatment and care they need to have the best possible outcomes and quality of life.
Our mission is to drive advocacy by empowering the myeloma community through research, education and collaboration.
Read more about our strategic goals for 2025-2030 here: w ww.mpeurope.or g/about-mpe/our-goals/
About the Patient Evidence department
The MPE Patient Evidence department was established in 2020 to generate evidence to better understand and articulate patients’ perspectives, influence decision-makers and use evidence as a driving force for progress across our strategic goals. The team is led by Dr Eilidh Duncan and our goal is to lead the development of robust patient evidence to improve experiences, outcomes and access for myeloma patients and their families. We achieve this by spearheading novel patient research initiatives that address gaps in the evidence and ensure the meaningful inclusion of patient perspectives in research design, conduct and interpretation. We use the evidence we generate internally to fuel progress across all MPE programmes and activities and externally by decision-makers including those in clinical, regulatory, industry, academic and policy settings.
The deadline for applications is 1 May 2026 and all applications will be reviewed immediately afterwards. Our hiring team will schedule interviews with successful candidates to take place in the following weeks. We will be in touch following the review period regarding next steps.
If you have any questions in the meantime, please reach out to us at our recruitment email address.
