Jobs at UK Shared Business Services Ltd

Provides administrative and operational support across internal communications, employee engagement, recruitment, training, documentation, secretariat services, and shared query management. Coordinates events and training, supports interviews, maintains accurate records, handles sensitive information, and contributes to continuous improvement and strategic operational projects. The role requires flexibility, strong organization, attention to detail, effective communication, and collaboration across ESRC, UKRI, and shared business services.

Conduct penetration tests, red-team exercises, threat hunting, and offensive security operations across enterprise environments. Develop offensive tooling, analyze threat intelligence and adversary TTPs, produce technical reports, support risk assessments, and advise technical and non-technical stakeholders on remediation. The role also manages an external penetration-testing contract and requires eligibility for UK Security Check clearance.

Provides proactive, confidential administrative and diary support to Research England senior leaders. Responsibilities include managing schedules and travel arrangements, monitoring correspondence, prioritising competing demands, maintaining accurate records, escalating issues, gathering intelligence, horizon scanning, and building relationships with internal and external stakeholders. The role requires sound judgement, discretion, strong organisation, clear communication, adaptability, initiative, and resilience in a fast-paced environment.

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.

Designs and maintains automated test frameworks and reusable tooling across multiple products. Integrates automated testing into CI/CD pipelines, applies risk-based testing, and conducts functional, integration, regression, performance, exploratory, and non-functional testing. The role investigates defects, defines test strategies and quality metrics, collaborates with multidisciplinary teams, evaluates testing technologies, and coaches testers to improve engineering and quality practices.

Maintains cleanliness, safety, and presentation across laboratory and administrative facilities. Duties include waste segregation, vacuuming, sweeping, mopping, operating cleaning machinery, polishing, dusting, glass cleaning, sanitary-area cleaning, and replenishing dispensers. Provides cover for absent colleagues, follows instructions and health and safety policies, works efficiently with minimal supervision, and collaborates with domestic services supervisors. The role is available part-time or full-time on a one-year maternity-cover contract.

Coordinate end-to-end pension administration, including pension data submissions, pensionable earnings calculations, pension transactions, complex queries, record maintenance, compliance, and service-level monitoring. The role applies defined benefit scheme rules, supports stakeholders and colleagues, resolves exceptions, and contributes to process improvement. Civil Service Pension scheme experience is advantageous, and the position requires National Security Vetting.

Supports senior leaders and the Private Office through diary management, meeting and event coordination, travel arrangements, SharePoint administration, risk and compliance support, and team activities. The apprenticeship develops business administration, communication, prioritisation, coordination, and professional judgement skills through workplace training and a Level 3 Business Administrator qualification.

Process high-volume financial transactions across accounts payable, accounts receivable, payments, or general ledger functions. Responsibilities include reconciliations, discrepancy resolution, journal preparation, financial analysis, reporting, stakeholder queries, financial controls, audit support, workload prioritization, process improvement, and documentation. The role requires strong accounting knowledge, numerical and analytical ability, Excel proficiency, accuracy, communication skills, and deadline management.

Leads the Quality Assurance and Product Assurance team supporting spaceflight and astronomical instrumentation programs. Responsibilities include setting group strategy, embedding quality throughout product lifecycles, managing risks and non-conformances, supporting engineering reviews and validation, overseeing supplier requirements, participating in audits, and reporting assurance findings to leadership. The role also develops team capability, maintains quality management processes, and provides independent technical oversight across complex engineering projects.

Business Analyst responsible for onboarding analysis across change portfolio projects. Duties include requirements gathering, business process and gap analysis, feasibility studies, data migration and ETL, documentation of functional specifications and use cases, and stakeholder engagement. The role requires ERP implementation experience, strong analytical and communication skills, and knowledge of HR, payroll, and financial data migration.

Supports BGS’s Risk & Assurance function by coordinating internal and external audits, maintaining management-system documentation and risk registers, preparing performance reports, assisting with business continuity and incident-response activities, and responding to staff enquiries. The apprentice will collaborate with environment, health and safety, security, and laboratory teams while completing a Level 3 Business Administrator Apprenticeship and a work-based improvement project.

Research Assistant developing and integrating 3D-printed microfluidic devices with super-resolution optical microscopy platforms. The role supports microscopy experiments, image processing, automated cell detection, quantitative data analysis, and preclinical validation using biological samples. Responsibilities also include assessing system performance, contributing to computational workflows, preparing reports, collaborating with a multidisciplinary research team, and presenting findings at conferences.

Lead capability and talent development across UKRI’s Project Delivery and Improvements directorate, including apprenticeships, career pathways, learning interventions, succession planning, and stakeholder partnerships. Manage colleagues in talent programmes while delivering priority projects and continuous improvement initiatives. Provide project leadership, governance, risk and resource management, and ensure delivery against time, cost, quality, and benefits objectives. Promote professional excellence, capability maturity, and high performance.

Conduct research into gene regulation, genomic variation, and disease mechanisms using CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing, high-throughput screens, cellular and mouse models, and single-cell technologies. Design experiments, analyze and interpret data, prepare publications and grant submissions, present findings, support laboratory operations, and assist with supervising students and research assistants.

Conduct postdoctoral research into molecular mechanisms of neurodegeneration, focusing on forming and analysing alpha-synuclein filaments that replicate structures found in human brains. Develop and apply molecular biology, protein purification, cryo-EM, cryo-ET, immunoprecipitation, and mass spectrometry techniques. Plan experiments, develop novel methods, publish and present findings, collaborate across research groups, train students, and contribute to public engagement and laboratory operations.

Manage public-sector procurement activities from pre-tender preparation through contract award, ensuring compliance with government regulations, procurement policies, and best practices. Use e-procurement and purchasing platforms, prepare tender documentation, build relationships with internal stakeholders, support the Procurement Manager, and contribute to service transformation, operational improvements, and value delivery.

Deliver accurate and compliant payroll services across multiple client payrolls. Responsibilities include advising teams and clients, resolving complex queries, calculating overpayments, managing in-year and year-end processes, testing payroll system updates, supporting BACS submissions, reconciling PAYE and statutory deductions, submitting EPS/RTI, maintaining HMRC Gateway accounts, and improving team knowledge and processes.

Manage medium- to high-value public-sector procurement projects from stakeholder engagement through tendering, contract award, governance, and value-for-money analysis. Ensure compliance with government regulations, procurement policies, audit requirements, and e-procurement processes. Develop specifications and contractual terms with stakeholders, support procurement transformation and strategic activities, and coach team members while promoting accountability, consistency, and customer service.

Manage a large finance team or serve as a finance subject matter expert, ensuring SLA, KPI, and service delivery performance. Responsibilities include coaching staff, resolving complex queries, supporting audits, approving online banking and BACS payments, managing stakeholders, delivering training, documenting processes, and driving continuous improvement across finance operations.