The Deputy Project Leader (DPL) role is a full-time role to facilitate and support the Project Lead (PL) in the coordination, oversight and delivery of one of Defra’s top priority Research and Development projects “Programme of work leading to licencing of a deployable CattleBCG vaccine and associated DIVA-skin test reagent (DST-F)”. The programme is working towards marketing authorisation of Cattle BCG and associated DIVA Skin Test by 2027.