Project Coordinator - UK Cancer Vaccine AI Scientist & Supercomputing


Company:	University of Oxford
Salary:	£35,681 to £41,636 a year
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	Oxford, OX3 7DQ
Working pattern:	On-site
Job type:	Contract
Posting date:	15 Oct 2026
Closing date:	2 Nov 2026

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Summary

We are seeking to appoint a Project Coordinator (UK Cancer Vaccine AI Scientist & Supercomputing) to join the Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, working on an state of the art project funded by Advanced Research & Innovation Agency.

Reporting to Dr Lennard Lee, Programme Director, you will serve as UK Cancer Vaccine AI Scientist & Supercomputing Project Coordinator, performing a Chief of Staff function for the programme.

The UK Cancer Vaccine AI Scientist & Supercomputing Project is a government-supported national flagship research initiative hosted by the University of Oxford. The project integrates sovereign AI supercomputing, AI Scientists, automated laboratories, advanced immunology and near-patient manufacturing to accelerate the development of safer and better personalised cancer vaccines for NHS patients.

The project establishes an end-to-end strategy to connect AI-led target discovery with autonomous experimental validation, vaccine manufacturing and NHS clinical trials. Experimental and clinical results feed back into the AI Scientist, creating a recursive self-improvement cycle of learning and discovery from computational prediction through to patient delivery.

You will support the Programme Director and senior leadership team to facilitate project operations and keep this complex multidisciplinary project running smoothly. They will take ownership of defined programme processes and activities across team coordination, budgets, meetings, events, communications, external engagement and executive support, monitoring milestones and expenditure and ensuring actions are progressed. The post holder will also work closely with University, NHS, government, funder, industry and technology partners and support senior-level meetings, government and dignitary visits and project events.

Applications for this vacancy should be made online and you will need to upload a supporting statement and CV. Your supporting statement must explain how you meet each of the selection criteria for the post using examples of your skills and experience. Please restrict your documentation to your CV and supporting statement only. Any other documents will be requested at a later date.

This position is offered full time on a fixed term contract until 30 September 2030 and is funded by ARIA.

Only applications received before 12 midday on Monday, 2 November 2026 will be considered. Please quote 189249 on all correspondence.

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