The British Society for Immunology (BSI) is the leading UK charity organisation representing scientists and clinicians who study the immune system in humans or animals. Our mission is to support the immunology community in driving scientific discovery and making a positive impact on health. We work closely with our membership to support current and future generations of immunologists.
Part of our role is to explain immunology to the public and to others working in science and healthcare bodies. Working at the Society can give you a varied and highly interesting career, allowing you to make a real difference to the lives of those who are at the forefront of biomedical innovation. We are a friendly and accessible organisation that offers a good range of benefits and works with many different groups to pursue our aims. You can find a list of staff vacancies below. Additionally, we sometimes have positions available for our members to volunteer with us. These opportunities are also listed below.
Please note, we do not operate any research labs ourselves and are unable to offer any placements to provide you with direct experience of working in an immunology lab within our organisation. If you are interested in gaining this type of experience, you may find it useful to have a look at our funding opportunities page or our jobs board.
Work for us
BSI Chief Executive
We are looking for a collaborative and energetic leader with a genuine interest in our work and our members. A customer-centric, commercially astute Chief Executive or Executive Director/senior leader who is accustomed to member-led settings and their associated governance, able to work with boards, strategic partners and volunteers across organisational and sector boundaries to deliver outstanding results.
A democratic, inclusive and inspiring leader, your contemporary skillset and commensurate values will be more important than industry background, though prior exposure to science and more broadly STEM will be helpful.
Please visit the website of our recruiters, Gatenby Sanderson, to find out more and apply. The application deadline is 17:00 on Monday 2 June.
Training Manager
This is an exciting opportunity for a talented and ambitious training professional to join our team to grow our training portfolio, meeting the skills gaps of our members and generate income to fund the delivery of the BSI’s charitable work.
We are looking to recruit a motivated and talented individual with strong project management skills to lead the delivery of the training function within the BSI. Reporting directly to the Director of Events and Training, and in collaboration with the wider BSI team, the Training Manager will be responsible for the delivery of existing training programmes and for devising, setting up and rolling out new training courses by working with BSI members to develop content and curricula, utilising different platforms from face-to-face to remote learning and supporting marketing of the courses to relevant sectors.
This role is responsible for engaging with a wide range of stakeholders to help identify training needs and opportunities that the BSI can meet. This will include opportunities in several sectors including clinical, scientific and public/patient focused. Using strong commercial acumen, the Training Manager will be critical in the continued development and growth of the training function to generate significant new income for the BSI.
This is a full-time, permanent role. We offer a remote working model, with office space in London available for use one day a week. If you are interested in applying for this role, please read the full job description and send your CV and a cover letter outlining your suitability for the role to hr@immunology.org by 12 noon BST on Monday 9 June 2025.
Please be aware that we will review applications on a rolling basis and interviews and appointment to post may take place before the closing date. We reserve the right to close the vacancy early if a high volume of applications is received.
Volunteer with us
BSI BiteSized Immunology - Editorial Board Member
The BSI is looking for members of a new Editorial Board to oversee our popular BSI BiteSized Immunology online resource.
The BSI BiteSized Immunology pages are the most frequently visited pages of the BSI’s website, and the BSI BiteSized resources are invaluable to many of our members. It is a developing online resource designed to form a comprehensive guide to the immune system, while approaching the topic via punchy, easy-to-digest, entries that outline major learning points. All of the content is written and reviewed by immunologists and BSI members. It is written for biomedical undergraduates, but also appeals to advanced school students and others coming to the field of immunology for the first time.
The BSI is starting a review of BSI BiteSized Immunology, including the creation of a new management structure. The new Editorial Board will oversee the resource, with a group of Content Editors updating existing articles and creating new articles where they are needed.
The BSI BiteSized Immunology Editorial Board will be chaired by the BSI Careers and Education Secretary, and we are looking for 4 additional members. They will be UK-based, current BSI members, three with Higher Education teaching experience, and one Early Career Researcher. (for this purpose, ‘Early Career Researchers’ are defined as postgraduate and post-doctoral immunologists within eight years of award of PhD, who do not hold a tenured post in academia. Clinical immunology trainees up to consultant level who are not within six months of attaining a Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT) and clinical research fellows. Allowances are made for career breaks).
Members will serve an initial 3 years on the Editorial Board and will need to be BSI members in good standing.
Role of an Editorial Board member:
- Suggest strategic direction for the resource
- Decide the priority of reviewing for the resource, highlighting where articles may need updating outside of the usual review cycle due to emerging research.
- Final review of content submitted by the Content Editors before publication
- Support the recruitment and development of Content Editors
- Propose new articles/content areas where applicable
The Editorial Board will meet online three times per year. These meetings will cover the strategic direction of the resource, scope out new articles and areas to cover and ensure the current structure is working effectively. They will also be asked to review and sign off all updated or new BSI BiteSized Immunology articles and respond to emails outside of the editorial meetings.
If you would like to be considered for a position on the BSI BiteSized Immunology Editorial Board please submit a cover letter, of no more than 500 words, on why you would like to join the Editorial Board, relevant experience and what you would bring to the role to bitesized@immunology.org by Friday 23 May 2025.
BSI BiteSized Immunology - Content Editors
The BSI is looking for Content Editors to help review, refresh and update our popular BSI BiteSized Immunology online resource.
The BSI BiteSized Immunology pages are the most frequently visited pages of the BSI’s website, and the BSI BiteSized resources are invaluable to many of our members. It is a developing online resource designed to form a comprehensive guide to the immune system, while approaching the topic via punchy, easy-to-digest, entries that outline major learning points. All of the content is created and reviewed by immunologists and BSI members. It is written for biomedical undergraduates but also appeals to advanced school students and others coming to the field of immunology for the first time.
The BSI is starting a review of BSI BiteSized Immunology, including the creation of a new management structure. The Content Editors will update existing articles and creating new articles where they are needed, overseen by a new BSI BiteSized Immunology Editorial Board.
We are looking for a group of around 10 Content Editors, with expertise covering different areas of immunology. All Content Editors will be Early Career Researchers (for this purpose, ‘Early Career Researchers’ are defined as postgraduate and post-doctoral immunologists within eight years of award of PhD, who do not hold a tenured post in academia. Clinical immunology trainees up to consultant level who are not within six months of attaining a Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT) and clinical research fellows. Allowances are made for career breaks).
Members can be a Content Editor for 2 years and will need to be BSI members in good standing.
Role of a Content Editor:
- Review and refresh current BSI BiteSized Immunology articles
- Create new BSI BiteSized Immunology articles where gaps have been identified
- Review fellow Content Editors’ new and refreshed articles prior to publication
The Content Editors will be asked to work on a minimum of 5 BSI BiteSized articles per year (this includes reviewing existing articles and creating new articles) and review 5 articles for other Content Editors per year. There may also be occasional ad hoc meetings throughout the year.
If you would like to be considered for a position as a BSI BiteSized Immunology Content Editor please submit a cover letter of no more than 500 words, on why you would like to be a Content Editor, your area of immunology expertise, relevant experience and what you would bring to the role to bitesized@immunology.org by Friday 23 May 2025.