Wellcome Sanger Institute
🧬 Our Campus
Life at the Sanger Institute is unique. We are tackling some of the most difficult challenges in genomic research. This demands science at scale; a visionary and creative approach to research that pushes the boundaries of our understanding in new and exciting ways.
Set across 130 acres, just outside of Cambridge, our people are shaping the future by delivering life-changing science with the reach, scale, and creativity to solve some of humanity’s greatest challenges.
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🤲🏽 Our Culture – supporting each other
We support our colleagues to reach their full potential and to help each other thrive in their work. The diversity in skills and knowledge that we all bring combine to make the Institute the thriving ideas factory that it is. We encourage everyone to value each other’s differences in thought, background, experience and perspective.
We are committed to delivering impactful and sustained changes that promote and deepen our culture of equality, diversity, and inclusion to ensure that our work benefits from widest range of knowledge, creativity and expertise possible. A key part of this work is our programme of long-term, targeted activities that promote equity in all our people processes; from recruitment to development and progression.
💙 The Benefits
There’s an attractive benefits package on offer at the Wellcome Genome Campus. We appreciate the importance of achieving work-life balance and support this with a number of family and carer-friendly policies, plus a flexible working policy for those who may wish to amend their working pattern or arrangement.
25 days annual leave (extra 1 day to a maximum of 30 days for every year you work)
Auto-enrolment into a generous Group Defined Contribution Pension Scheme, with enhanced company contribution
Up to 2 days annual paid volunteering leave
Up to 10 days paid Emergency Carers Leave per year
Family friendly environment including options for flexible and part-time working, an on-site Workplace Nursery salary Sacrifice Schemes for pre-school children and Summer holiday club
Life Assurance – six times your pensionable pay if you are a member of our pension scheme
Group Income Protection Scheme (if on a contract exceeding 12 months)
Enhanced maternity, parental and adoption leave
Access to substantial number of courses and training events onsite
Private Healthcare Scheme
Eyecare and Dental payment plans
Concessions and discounts from our corporate perks site
We recruit locally, nationally and internationally and welcome applications and expressions of interest at every level. Sanger Institute is an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, or pregnancy and maternity.
We take great pride in our Campus and currently have many green initiatives to sustain our environment and surroundings, including our Energy Campaign, Award winning Green Travel Plan and Wetlands Nature Reserve.