Current Opportunities

NBI Partnership
HR Manager

Salary: £47,450 - £49,000

The NBI Partnership (NBIP) has an exciting opportunity for an experienced HR Manager to join the busy Human Resources team.

Post: 1006155
Posted: 15 Jul 2026
Closes: 31 Aug 2026

Salary: £30,600 - £33,920

You will work closely with Heads of Department (HoD), Group Leaders, Scientific Facilities and Laboratory Managers to support and enhance the delivery of excellent science to beneficiaries inside and outside of the organisation.

Post: 1006183
Posted: 18 Aug 2026
Closes: 16 Sep 2026
John Innes Centre
Postdoctoral Researcher

Salary: £39,000 - £46,500

Working as part of a team led by Dr Hassan Salem,you will use comparative and population genomic approaches to reconstruct the origin, maintenance, and evolutionary consequences of symbiosis in beetles.

Post: 1006175
Posted: 13 Aug 2026
Closes: 16 Sep 2026
John Innes Centre
Postdoctoral Researcher

Salary: £39,000 - £46,500

Working as part of a team led by Dr Hassan Salem, and in collaboration across the Department of Molecular Microbiology, you will lead the biochemical and structural characterisation of host traits and proteins central to symbiosis in beetles.

Post: 1006174
Posted: 13 Aug 2026
Closes: 16 Sep 2026
John Innes Centre
Postdoctoral Researcher

Salary: £39,000 - £46,500

Working as part of a team led by Dr Hassan Salem, you will investigate the developmental basis of symbiosis in beetles, focusing on how symbiotic organs form, mature, and are maintained across host life stages.

Post: 1006173
Posted: 12 Aug 2026
Closes: 16 Sep 2026
John Innes Centre
Research Assistant

Salary: £30,600 - £33,920

Research Assistants enhance the output of a research group by providing technical and administrative support to the Group Leader and group members.

Post: 1006179
Posted: 11 Aug 2026
Closes: 24 Aug 2026

Salary: £47,450 - £52,560

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Strategic Bids Coordination Lead to join the Directorate, supporting the development and delivery of high-value, strategically important research funding opportunities at the John Innes Centre.

Post: 1006145
Posted: 13 Jul 2026
Closes: 25 Aug 2026

Competitive salary

The John Innes Centre (JIC) seeks a creative junior or established researcher to set up and lead an internationally excellent, independent research programme.

Post: 1006122
Posted: 8 Jun 2026
Closes: 1 Sep 2026
Quadram Institute Bioscience
Statistician

Salary: £38,000 - £46,500

The postholder will provide statistical support across the Institute’s research areas, including study design, data analysis, interpretation of findings and communication of statistical methods and results.

Post: 1006166
Posted: 13 Aug 2026
Closes: 10 Sep 2026
Quadram Institute Bioscience
Grants Coordination Officer

Salary: £38,000 - £42,150

To coordinate and support the development, submission, and monitoring of grant applications across the organisation, helping to maximise research income and success rates.

Post: 1006153
Posted: 4 Aug 2026
Closes: 28 Aug 2026

Quadram Institute Bioscience is seeking applications for a Trustee Director position from professionals who have director level or equivalent expertise and are interested in supporting its research and role in improving human health.

Post: 1006163
Posted: 3 Aug 2026
Closes: 31 Aug 2026
Quadram Institute Bioscience
Group Leader (Microbes and Food Safety)

Competitive salary

The McLean Partnership has been engaged by Quadram Institute Bioscience to support this recruitment, please follow the link for more information.

Post: 1004850
Posted: 4 Dec 2025
Closes: 30 Sep 2026
Earlham Institute
Galaxy Workflow Expert

Salary: £38,000 - £46,500

The post holder will be responsible for leading community support, user training, and workflow curation for Galaxy as a core component of the BioFAIR Methods Commons (MC) concierge service.

Post: 1006165
Posted: 20 Aug 2026
Closes: 17 Sep 2026

Salary: £38,000 - £52,560

The post holder will take a research-active software engineering and AI systems role in the AI for Biology Group, building the AI-agent-driven platform required for Generative Digital Biology.

Post: 1006144
Posted: 23 Jul 2026
Closes: 4 Sep 2026

Salary: £39,000 - £52,560

The post holder will conduct primary research in the AI for Biology Group to develop generative, causal and decision-making AI methods for biological design and closed-loop discovery.

Post: 1006143
Posted: 23 Jul 2026
Closes: 18 Sep 2026

Salary: £39,000 - £52,560

The post holder will conduct primary research in the AI for Biology Group to develop large-scale multimodal foundation models.

Post: 1006142
Posted: 23 Jul 2026
Closes: 18 Sep 2026