Jobs at UK Shared Business Services Ltd

Manages governance, risk, assurance, information management, funding assurance, and budget support for Research England. Responsibilities include maintaining risk registers, coordinating governance processes, preparing accurate minutes, managing information requests, reviewing information assets, supporting audits, and liaising with UKRI colleagues. The role also develops operational guidance, coordinates risk training and assurance activities, supports council member onboarding, and promotes continuous improvement. Weekly attendance at the Bristol office is required, with BPSS screening as a pre-employment condition.

Leads independent, risk-based assurance reviews across business, technical, security, and governance controls. Evaluates control effectiveness, conducts reviews against GovAssure, ISO 27001, and NCSC CAF, produces assurance reports, agrees remediation actions, tracks progress, and improves assurance methodologies and control frameworks.

Lead, coach, and develop an HR Operations team delivering shared services to public-sector clients. Manage workloads, service targets, complaints, escalations, stakeholder relationships, compliance, audit readiness, and continuous improvement. Ensure accurate, customer-focused delivery aligned with policies, employment legislation, GDPR, and governance requirements while supporting teams through organisational change.

Leads the DeepTech Catalyst site at Daresbury, managing biotech and health technology support programmes for more than 20 start-ups annually. Responsibilities include meeting programme targets, assessing applicants, supporting business development, managing partner relationships, producing operational and financial reports, promoting programme impact, and coordinating with STFC and co-funding partners. The role also supervises one direct report, contributes to programme strategy, and requires at least three days per week onsite with occasional UK and international travel.

Lead day-to-day payroll and pensions operations for UK public sector clients and more than 40,000 users. Manage and develop payroll teams, ensure statutory and HMRC compliance, improve processes through controls and automation, resolve complex issues, monitor KPIs and SLAs, oversee audits and third-party providers, manage operational risks and budgets, and contribute payroll expertise to system, legislative, and client-driven change projects.

Provides strategic leadership for ESRC applicant-led research investments, overseeing portfolio strategy, funding delivery, evaluation, budgets, partnerships, peer review, and continuous process improvement. Leads the Advancing Knowledge team, manages senior staff and resources, advises executive leadership, and promotes innovation across UKRI research funding processes. The role requires extensive stakeholder engagement, strategic judgment, people management, and knowledge of the UK social science research funding landscape.

Support the Physical Sciences Data Infrastructure by managing and curating research data resources, metadata, repositories, catalogues, and data communities. The role promotes FAIR data principles, Open Science, data management best practices, and quality assurance. Responsibilities include advising researchers, onboarding new data communities, maintaining technical and domain specialisms, coordinating stakeholders, delivering project outputs, and facilitating community forums. Occasional travel for project meetings and training is required.

Manages monitoring and evaluation for MRC’s IS-8 life sciences portfolio and strategic investments. The role develops impact frameworks, logic models, theories of change, and mixed-method evaluation approaches; tracks outcomes, benefits, reach, and investment progress; gathers stakeholder evidence and case studies; produces reports and actionable insights for senior decision-makers; supports business cases, risk management, capability building, and UKRI-wide evaluation practices.

Designs, administers, and improves Linux-based HPC infrastructure supporting biomedical research, AI/ML, bioinformatics, data processing, and simulation. Responsibilities include managing compute, storage, networking, schedulers, containers, scientific software, monitoring, automation, security patches, disaster recovery, and workflow performance. The role supports researchers through troubleshooting, training, documentation, onboarding, stakeholder engagement, and development of reproducible computational environments and scalable research services.

Commission, operate, maintain, and automate atmospheric science systems aboard the RRS Sir David Attenborough. Responsibilities include trace gas and aerosol instrumentation, air sampling, gas flow control, inlet characterization, calibration, maintenance scheduling, safety documentation, equipment modification, troubleshooting, and engineering support for shipboard and polar research systems.