Senior Fellowship & Community Manager – Biosecurity Policy Unit

• Appointment of Senior Fellowship and Community Manager
• Biosecurity Policy Unit · November 2026

INTRODUCTION

A note from the hiring manager

Thank you for your interest in joining the Centre for Long-Term Resilience as our Senior Fellowship and Community Manager. CLTR is an independent, non-partisan think tank based in Whitehall. Our mission is to transform global resilience to extreme risks — principally those from frontier AI and biological capabilities. The Biosecurity Policy Unit works directly with the UK government, the frontier AI labs and the international policy community to prevent, prepare for and respond to extreme biological risks. The pool of people who can work credibly on extreme biological risk is small and it is our intent to grow it. This role exists to do exactly that: to design and deliver our first Biosecurity Fellowship cohort, and then to build the wider community of practice that the UK biosecurity system needs. What we need now is the person who will make it happen. In the role, you will work closely with Unit and Organisation Directors, as well as with our wider Strategic Comms and Operations teams. You will have significant freedom to shape the programme, and the backing of an organisation that takes its people seriously. This is a senior delivery role, not a technical one, and you do not need a scientific background to thrive in it. But this is a challenging and rapidly developing policy area, so you do need a record of owning and delivering programmes under tight deadlines, the ability to earn trust quickly with people inside and outside government, and the judgement to turn a strategic scope into plans that others can follow. If this sounds like you, we look forward to hearing from you. Our search partners at Perrett Laver would be glad to have a confidential conversation first.

AT A GLANCE

ROLE Senior Fellowship and Community Manager

UNIT Biosecurity Policy Unit

• REPORTS TO Associate Director of Biosecurity Policy
• CONTRACT Permanent, full-time (40 hours a week)
• LOCATION Westminster, London. Flexible UK location with at least one day a week in the office, including Mondays
• SALARY c.£91,000–£95,000 depending on experience
• CLOSING DATE 09:00 GMT, Monday 30 November 2026

WORK TEST Mid-December 2026

FINAL INTERVIEWS Early January 2027, in person in Westminster