{"id":1155542,"url":"https://alion.io/job/our-future-health-quality-assurance-officer","title":"Quality Assurance Officer","company":{"id":3701,"name":"Our Future Health","domain":"ourfuturehealth.org.uk","url":"https://alion.io/company/our-future-health","size_band":"5000+","is_staffing_agency":false,"is_intermediary":false,"ats_vendor":"Workable","truth_index":{"grade":"A","score":88,"open_postings":4,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":0.5,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":25,"computed_at":"2026-09-23T05:45:00Z"}},"role":"Industrial Engineering","role_family":"Industrial Engineering","seniority":null,"employment_type":null,"work_mode":"remote","remote_scope":"stated_countries","hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["London, United Kingdom"],"countries":["GB"],"hiring_countries":["GB"],"hiring_countries_total":1,"salary":{"min":40000,"max":null,"currency":"GBP","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":53143},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"ISO 27001","optional":false},{"name":"Microsoft Office","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-09-23T21:23:24Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-09-23","last_verified_at":"2026-09-24T02:50:38Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":0,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":0},"description":"The Quality Assurance Officer will play an important role in supporting and embedding effective quality assurance across Our Future Health. Working closely with the Quality Assurance Manager and teams across the organisation, you’ll help ensure our quality management processes are effective, well coordinated and continually improving.\nYou’ll take ownership of key day-to-day quality assurance activities, including document control, audit coordination, corrective and preventive actions (CAPAs), quality records and reporting. This is a great opportunity to help shape and strengthen quality practices within a growing and complex organisation, while supporting the delivery of the UK’s largest ever health research programme.\nDespite big improvements in healthcare in our lifetimes, today millions of people in the UK still live in poor health as they get older. Diseases like cancer, dementia, diabetes, and heart disease affect the lives of many people in our communities. Our goal is to create a world-leading resource for health research, to improve our understanding and spot the patterns of how and why common diseases start, so treatments can begin sooner and be more effective.\nOur Future Health will be the UK’s largest ever health research programme, bringing people together to develop new ways to detect, prevent, and treat diseases. We are a charity, supported by the UK Government, in partnership with charities and industry. We work closely with the NHS and with public authorities across all nations and regions of the UK.\nWhat you’ll be doing:\nIn this role, you’ll work with the Quality Assurance Manager and colleagues across Our Future Health to coordinate and deliver operational quality assurance activities and help embed a culture of quality and continual improvement.\nYour key responsibilities will include:\nSupporting the development, implementation and continual improvement of Our Future Health’s management system and quality assurance processes.\nLeading the day-to-day delivery of operational quality assurance activities across the organisation.\nOwning and coordinating document control, ensuring controlled documents are appropriately maintained, reviewed, approved and accessible.\nCoordinating the planning, delivery and follow-up of internal and external audits, assessments and certification activities.\nCoordinating corrective and preventive actions (CAPAs), monitoring progress and supporting their timely and effective resolution.\nMaintaining quality records and assurance evidence to support governance activities and future accreditation requirements.\nProducing clear quality reports, analysis and management information to support governance and organisational decision-making.\nWorking collaboratively with teams across the organisation to embed effective quality management practices and identify opportunities for improvement.\nSupporting the implementation of new quality processes and assurance initiatives as they develop.\nContributing to the continued development of the Assurance function through collaboration, knowledge sharing and good practice.\nRequirements\nWe recognise that candidates may have developed relevant experience through different career paths and welcome applications from those who can demonstrate many, though not necessarily all, of the skills and experience listed below:\nExperience supporting quality assurance, quality management, governance, audit or compliance activities within a complex organisation. Experience within healthcare, clinical or research environments would be particularly relevant.\nA good understanding of quality management principles, document control and continual improvement approaches.\nExperience coordinating activities such as audits, document control, CAPAs or quality improvement initiatives.\nFamiliarity with quality management standards, such as ISO 9001, ISO 15189, ISO 13485 or ISO 27001, or comparable standards.\nThe ability to analyse information and turn it into clear, useful reports and management information.\nStrong organisational skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities and coordinate effectively with different stakeholders.\nStrong communication and relationship-building skills, with a collaborative and pragmatic approach to working with multidisciplinary teams.\nGood attention to detail and a commitment to producing high-quality work.\nA proactive and adaptable approach, with curiosity and an interest in continual improvement.\nConfidence using Microsoft Office applications. Experience with Atlassian Suite applications would also be useful.\nA relevant degree or equivalent professional experience. A quality or governance qualification, or working towards one, would be advantageous but is not essential.\nHiring Process\nWe feel hiring should be transparent and give you a real sense for what Our Future Health is like. Here's what you can expect from our remote process:\nInitial chat with our Talent team (30 min) to get to know each other, discuss the role, and answer any questions you have.\nCompetency based interview with with a small cross-functional panel with your potential new manager and some of your stakeholders (60 min). It is designed to get a sense of how you collaborate and with stakeholders, and how you'd approach the real-world responsibilities of this role.\nBenefits\nFrom £40,000 per annum basic salary.\nGenerous Pension Scheme - We invest in your future with employer contributions of up to 12%.\n30 Days Holiday + Bank Holidays - Enjoy a generous holiday allowance with the flexibility to take bank holidays when it suits you.\nEnhanced Parental Leave - Supporting you during life’s biggest moments.\nCycle to Work Scheme - Save 25-39% on a new bike and accessories through salary sacrifice.\nHome & Tech Savings - Get up to 8% off on IKEA and Currys products, spreading the cost over 12 months through salary sacrifice.\n£1,000 Employee Referral Bonus - Know someone amazing? Get rewarded for bringing them on board!\nWellbeing Support - Access to Mental Health First Aiders, plus 24/7 online GP services and an Employee Assistance Programme for you and your family.\nA Great Place to Work - We have a lovely Central London office in Holborn, and offer flexible and remote working arrangements.\nJoin us - let’s prevent disease together.\nClosing date: 07 October, at 5:00 pm\nWe may close this vacancy earlier than the advertised closing date if we receive a high volume of applications, so we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.\nAt Our Future Health, we recognise the importance of having a diverse workforce and ensuring that all candidates, regardless of their background, have equitable access to our application process. We proactively encourage applicants who identify as having a disability, neurodiversity, or long-term health conditions to let us know if they require any reasonable adjustments as part of their application process.\nIf you do require any reasonable adjustments, please email us at .","description_format":"text","description_chars":6996,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Parental leave"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United Kingdom","iso":"GB","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Web Analytics","Product Analytics","Nonprofits & Foundations"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-23T21:23:24Z"}],"liveness":{"score":86,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.86,"p_room":1,"age_days":0,"expected_fill_days":25,"reasons":["conf:2","win:early"],"computed_at":"2026-09-24T05:05:43Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":53143,"is_top_pay":false},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/our-future-health-quality-assurance-officer","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/our-future-health-quality-assurance-officer.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-09-24T05:05:43Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers"}}