Senior Data Manager - COBALT Trial Clinical Trials Unit Grade 5

Position Details

Birmingham Clinical Trials Unit, School of Health Sciences, College of Medicine and Health

Location:

University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham UK

Full time starting salary is normally in the range £29,647 to £31,460, with potential progression once in post to £35,388

Grade: 5

Full Time, Fixed Term contract up to March 2029

Closing date: 11th February 2026

People are at the heart of what we are and do.

The University of Birmingham is proud to have been a part of the City of Birmingham and the wider region for over 100 years, and we are equally proud to be recognised as a leading global university. We want to attract talented people from across the city and beyond, support them to succeed, and celebrate their success.

We are committed to helping the people who work here to develop through our sector‑leading Birmingham Professional programme which provides all professional services staff with development opportunities and the encouragement to reach their full potential. With almost 5,000 professional services jobs in a wide‑range of functions in Edgbaston and in our campus in Dubai, there are plenty of opportunities for you to develop your career at the University.

We believe there is no such thing as a typical member of staff and that diversity is a source of strength that underpins the exchange of ideas, innovation, and debate. We warmly welcome people from all backgrounds and are committed to fostering an inclusive environment where diversity is at the heart of who and what we are, and how we work.

Supporting our people to achieve a healthy work/life balance is important both to our employees and to the success of the University and, depending on the role, we offer a variety of flexible working arrangements. We therefore welcome discussions on all forms of flexible working. In addition, you will receive a generous package of benefits including 40 days paid holiday a year, one paid day a year for volunteering, occupational sick pay, and a pension scheme.

We also have three high quality subsidised day nurseries.

The University is situated in leafy Edgbaston and there are excellent transport links to our beautiful campus, including main bus routes and a train station on site. On campus we have a state‑of‑the‑art sports centre with pool, shops, places to eat and drink, our own art gallery, museum and botanical gardens.

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The Senior Data Manager is responsible for the administration and collection of clinical research data for one or more trial protocols. They provide secretariat services to multi‑disciplinary collaborative research group(s) engaged in clinical trials designed to improve the treatment and care of patients. Post holders work closely with the Trial Manager, ensuring the smooth process of trial administration, whilst providing support to colleagues, both inside and outside the unit, and give day-to-day operational guidance to Data Manager.

• Ensure smooth day-to-day running of the study/trial protocol and data collection. This will involve the post holder ensuring they have a good understanding of how the general concepts underlying the design, conduct and analysis of clinical trials apply to routine trial management procedures and also how the clinical background and specific research questions being addressed applies to trial administration and data management.
• Responsible for ensuring that trial data set(s) are complete, accurate and up to date. This will be achieved by running queries to interrogate trial databases and performing regular, systematic checks of information on the data base(s) and taking steps to correct any missing, contradictory or incorrect data. In addition the post holder will produce reports and lists on both a regular and ad-hoc basis.
• Maintain research & administrative databases to produce clean data sets for statistical analysis. This will involve the management of medical data and operation of complex data base and information systems in order to code and abstract medical data and routine data entry.
• Record and code incoming forms etc,…