Grant Application Specialist — Medtech R&D (Innovate UK / NIHR / Horizon Europe)
Posted Today by Amplifying Life
Negotiable
Undetermined
Remote
London Area, United Kingdom
Summary: The Grant Application Specialist role at Amplifying Life involves leading and managing applications for funding programs such as Innovate UK, NIHR, and Horizon Europe. The position requires a candidate with a proven track record in successful grant applications and experience in the medtech, biotech, or life sciences sectors. This is a long-term opportunity for someone looking to contribute to the company's innovative research on photobiomodulation and its applications. The role emphasizes collaboration with the founder and ongoing engagement beyond initial applications.
Key Responsibilities:
- Leading applications to Innovate UK, NIHR, Horizon Europe, and other relevant funding programmes.
- Identifying suitable programmes for application, prioritizing them, and determining timelines.
- Writing grant applications with technical input from the founder.
- Managing timelines, submissions, and follow-ups for applications.
- Handling reporting, compliance, and subsequent application cycles after successful awards.
Key Skills:
- Demonstrable track record of successful grant applications.
- Experience with Innovate UK, NIHR, or Horizon Europe.
- Background in medtech, biotech, or life sciences.
- Ability to work independently and manage deadlines.
- UK-based with tax residency considerations for funding bodies.
- Experience with wearable device applications (useful but not required).
- Familiarity with photobiomodulation or light-based research (useful but not required).
- Contacts at assessment panels or evaluators (useful but not required).
- Experience with larger awards (£100k+) (useful but not required).
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: London
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: remote
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: Other
About Amplifying Life
Amplifying Life is a London-based light research, education, and hardware company. We research photobiomodulation (PBM), we educate people about it through books and independent reports, and we build devices that put the science to work. Our book, The Sun Inside You , has a foreword by Prof. Michael Hamblin — one of the world's leading photobiomodulation researchers (600+ peer-reviewed publications) and the person who named the field. Prof. Hamblin sits on our scientific advisory board. We are members of the Royal Society of Medicine, Microsoft for Startups, Barclays Eagle Labs, and Capital Enterprise. Founded by an engineer with 20+ years in embedded electronics and intellectual property — patents cited by Microsoft, Google, Apple, Qualcomm, and Cisco.
The programme
We are researching how specific light wavelengths interact with appetite-signalling pathways — including the same pathways targeted by GLP-1 drugs such as Ozempic™ and Wegovy™, but using light rather than pharmaceuticals. This is not a speculative research project. We arrive with real work already done:
- Patent drafted on the core approach
- Hardware developed — working devices, built in London
- Software developed — control systems running
- Skin interface developed — the physical delivery mechanism is solved
What we need now is a specialist who can package this into winning applications and guide us through the process.
What you will be doing
- Leading applications to Innovate UK, NIHR, Horizon Europe, and other relevant UK and European funding programmes
- Identifying which programmes we should apply to, in what order, and when
- Writing the applications themselves, working closely with the founder on technical input
- Managing timelines, submissions, and follow-ups
- After successful awards: handling reporting, compliance, and setting up the next round of applications
We want you involved beyond the first application. This is a long-term role for someone who wants to be part of what we are building, not a one-off pitch and exit.
What we are looking for
Essential:
- Demonstrable track record of successful grant applications — please be ready to show us actual awarded grants, not just submitted ones
- Experience with Innovate UK, NIHR, or Horizon Europe. At least one of the three
- Medtech, biotech, or life-sciences background. You don't need to be a scientist, but you need to speak the language
- Ability to work independently and manage your own deadlines
- UK-based (remote work is fine, but UK tax residency matters for some funding bodies)
Useful but not required:
- Experience with wearable device applications
- Familiarity with photobiomodulation or light-based research
- Contacts at assessment panels or evaluators
- Experience with larger awards (£100k+)
The offer
Retainer during active application periods — covers the intensive writing and submission work
Success fee on awarded grants — exact percentage discussed at interview stage
Ongoing engagement after successful applications — reporting, compliance, and the next application cycle
We are open to discussing the exact structure based on experience and commitment. We are more interested in the long-term relationship than in squeezing the first contract. You will work directly with the founder. You will not be working through committees or corporate procurement.
How to apply
Apply through our website — not LinkedIn. Do not DM the founder. Visit www.amplifying.life/careers and complete the short application form (about 5 minutes). We read every application personally. If we think there's a fit, we'll be in touch.
More about what we are building: www.amplifying.life