NRAP Programme Coordinator - 0.5 FTE

NRAP Programme Coordinator - 0.5 FTE

Location: Liverpool

Salary: £27,962 pro rata 0.5 FTE (actual salary - £13,981)

Contract type: Fixed term contract (until 31 May 2028, with option to extend upon successful award of the new NRAP contract)

Working hours: Part time (17.5 hours a week) with 3 days per month in the office. This post will be a job share with desired working hours – Wednesday: 3.5 hours, Thursday: 7 hours, Friday: 7 hours. Standard working hours between 8am and 5pm, Monday to Friday.

Working arrangements: Hybrid homeworking (minimum 3 days per month in the office)

Proposed start date: 1 October 2026

The Royal College of Physicians is recruiting a programme coordinator to join the National Respiratory Audit Programme. The successful applicant will work in collaboration with the project management team to ensure the successful delivery of both the adult asthma and children and young people asthma secondary care workstreams of the audit, the healthcare improvement education programme as well as being responsible for ensuring that the audit programme’s meetings and events, communications activities, helpdesk, social media, reporting and finance processes are coordinated effectively; and that support of the wider team ensuring work is delivered to a high standard.

Purpose and scope

About the role

As programme coordinator, you will make an impact by:

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• Ensuring the smooth running of meetings and events through detailed planning, organisation and note taking.
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• Coordinating the Programme’s communications including promoting service participation, delivering support sessions for clinical teams, producing a quarterly newsletter and maintaining a contact database.
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• Upholding strong working relationships with clinical teams and wider stakeholders including managing correspondence with sites who are not doing well.
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• Working with analysts and webtool developer to support data checking and cleaning
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• Supporting the production of audit materials and reports, including proof reading and liaison between the project teams and RCP design team and communications team
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• Independently managing sub-projects as directed by the project management team.
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About you

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• Experience of co-ordinating activities for complex/substantial work programmes, with numerous ‘external’ customers, to challenging deadlines.
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• Excellent communications skills, both written and verbal, and an ability to establish relationships and communicate effectively with people from a wide variety of backgrounds.
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• Excellent time management and task prioritisation skills.
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• Advanced knowledge and application of Microsoft Word, Access, Excel, Outlook and Power Point.
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• Experience of meetings and workshop management including: planning, organisation, hosting and minute/note taking.
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• Experience of using different media, including social media platforms, to communicate creatively with a wide range of audiences and to build and maintain stakeholder relationships.
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• Accuracy and attention to detail
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• Have a passion for improving healthcare and its services
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For more information about the role, please view the job description and person specification.

How to apply

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Closing date: 10 August 2026

Interviewing date: TBC

Closing date: 10th August 2026

Shortlist date: 11th August 2026

Interview date: TBC