Project ManagerUniversity

A community-based dietary programme for type 2 diabetes prevention and remission: clinical trial and implementation evaluation in Nepal (https://www.isrctn.com/ISRCTN13609165 )

This post is full time (35 hours per week) and open ended with funding available up until 31st March 2030. Applications for part-time hours might be considered, please indicate your preference in your cover letter.

The University of Glasgow has been changing the world for more than 570 years, and today we are one of the world's top 100 universities.  We are delighted to have recently been awarded Scottish University of the Year by the Times & Sunday Times Good University Guide 2024. Our people have always been at the forefront of innovation, and our past achievements inspire our current world changers.

We have an exciting opportunity for a Project manager to join the team within the School of Medicine, Dentistry & Nursing. You will provide leadership and oversight to optimise project management, to support staff development, and to contribute to research outputs, within a well-established international collaborative research team (UK and Nepal).

The successful candidate will play a leading role to ensure communications between sites and funders, and with external stakeholders are continually delivered, to ensure that the study is run effectively according to clinical, ethical, financial and legal requirements, and meets all milestones and targets.

The post holder will work closely with Principal Investigators (Professors Mike Lean in Glasgow, Scotland, and Biraj Karmacharya in Dhulikhel Hospital, Nepal) and with other members of the Trial Management Group (Work-Package leaders) including a Nepal-based Project Coordinator at Dhulikhel Hospital, to ensure reliable planning and implementation of research activities in line with study protocol, funder requirements and agreed project milestones.

Please note, this work will need to be conducted at times appropriate to colleagues in Nepal, which may on occasion be outside normal UK working hours.

Informal enquiries are welcomed and should be directed to Mike Lean at [email protected]

For more information and to apply please click the 'Apply' button above.

Closing date: 23:45 on Monday 2nd November 2026

All applicants must have the right to live and work in the UK or be eligible to obtain permission to work in the UK.

This role may be eligible for sponsorship under the Skilled Worker visa route, subject to meeting the relevant Home Office requirements, including any applicable tradeable points criteria. Further information can be found on the University of Glasgow’s UKVI Website:https://www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/pod/visasimmigration/skilledworkervisa/

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