Job title: Senior Manager, Team and Operations (maternity cover)
Reports to: CEO
Line manages: Membership Manager, Meetings and Events Manager, Communications Manager, Team and Office Assistant
Hours of work: Full time
Salary: £43,000-£48,000 based on experience
Location of work: Office based for Tuesday to Friday, option to work at home on Monday
Job type: Maternity cover – to start as soon as possible, and for an initial term ending 16^th March 2026

Job summary

RSTMH is a global society of over 2,000 members and Fellows based in more than 100 countries, run by a small and efficient team. This role oversees the team and office operations, supports the Chief Executive (CEO) and has responsibility for the success of key areas of the work of the society – membership, meetings and events and communications.  

Our activities include organising events, supporting our members and networks, publishing two journals, providing medals and awards, running an Early Career grants programme, being a tangible part of the tropical medicine and global health network, and carrying out day to day office work.

This role will report to the CEO and is full time and office based, with a current trial for Mondays working at home. It has overall responsibility for the efficient and cost-effective operations of the RSTMH office, team systems and team wellbeing. The role also involves the line management of the roles of Membership Manager, Meetings and Events Manager and the Team and Office Assistant.

Key responsibilities

ob specification

• Experience of working with relational databases and websites
• Numerate
• Good communicator, able to get on well with people of all levels
• Organised and able to juggle multiple priorities
• Demonstrable time management skills
• Open and flexible to embrace new areas of work, without the need for ongoing supervision

We will be interviewing for this role as soon as applications come in, and may finalise recruitment before the closing date of 28^th February.

Please click the apply button and send your CV and a covering letter stating how your experience and knowledge meets the job specification, it will be sent automatically to us.

No agencies please.

Infectious diseases account for approximately half of all deaths in tropical areas of the world, impacting economic development and exacerbating global inequalities.

Since its inception in 1907 RSTMH has been dedicated to changing the face of global health through its network of Fellows across the world by facilitating training, education and the exchange of information.

We work at the cutting edge of the study, control and prevention of human and animal diseases worldwide, charting changing patterns and pioneering new interpretations of modern tropical medicine and global health. Now in the early decades of the 21st century, RSTMH exists in a world where health is core to foreign policy and development agendas, and when significant funding is available to address many global health problems.