Partnerships Manager

Job id: 086587. Wage: £62,696 – £71,857 every year, together with London Weighting Allowance.

Posted: 20 March 2024. Cut-off date: 17 April 2024.

Enterprise unit: Analysis Administration & Innovation. Division: IP & Licensing.

Contact particulars:Dr. Mike Shaw. [email protected]

Location: Man’s Campus. Class: Skilled & Help Providers.

Job description

King’s is a number one UK research-intensive college, with strengths throughout a breadth of disciplines and a powerful ethos of collaborative analysis with companions to develop innovation. 

Innovation@King’s (I@Okay), brings collectively the interdependant capabilities of Trade Partnerships, Translational Analysis help and Mental Property & Licensing as a single staff.

King’s Faculty London is looking for a Partnerships Supervisor with a major focus sourcing, creating and securing partnerships with third events which can be constructed round externally-funded analysis and analysis associated initiatives, proactively looking for new funding alternatives and muti-disciplinary initiatives, creating relationships with analysis companions (together with industrial each massive and SME) and key exterior funding companies. The Partnerships Supervisor is anticipated to have various give attention to quite a few of the KCL analysis Schools.

The Partnerships Supervisor will play a central position within the scoping, initiation, improvement and ongoing administration of analysis partnerships with {industry} and different exterior organisations which can be enabled by exterior analysis funding alternatives.  They are going to work with senior educational employees to outline precedence areas for partnership, establish and interact with appropriate companions, and handle ongoing relationships to make sure success. As importantly, they’re anticipated to proactively establish candidate companion organisations and purchase information of key market verticals that align with KCL analysis as goal areas for potential collaboration. 

The position will work intently with the established groups inside I@Ks, to establish exterior funding alternatives that allow innovation improvement and impression by partnership.

The best candidate will deliver expertise of academic-industry partnership and key strategic exterior funding companies similar to Analysis Councils, Innovate-UK, and UK Authorities Departments.  They are going to mix sturdy strategic, challenge administration and analytical capabilities with diplomacy, negotiation abilities and a capability to work nicely throughout capabilities and educational disciplines.

This put up might be provided on an 3 12 months fastened time period contract.

It is a full-time put up.

Key tasks

Driving a considerable enhance in externally funded analysis partnerships, by: 

• Offering management and help to the event of methods and actions plans for main externally-funded analysis and research-related (together with analysis infrastructure) initiatives, proactively looking for new innovation funding alternatives and multidisciplinary innovation initiatives, creating relationships with analysis companions and key strategic exterior funding companies – Analysis Councils, Innovate-UK, Charities, Nationwide Academies, Authorities Departments, Trade, EU & Worldwide organisations;
• Working with senior educational leaders and College based mostly innovation and enterprise help roles to outline precedence areas for the event of such externally funded partnerships.
• Identification of related {industry} companions and relationship-building to acquire a powerful understanding of their priorities and desires.
• Identification of sources of exterior funding alternatives that allow massive and small innovation partnerships.
• Creating a complete information of King’s strengths and capabilities, together with by collaboration with fellow I@Okay colleagues.
• Supporting and guiding educational employees and College based mostly innovation and enterprise help roles in creating strategic partnerships with {industry}, together with organisation of key conferences and improvement of supplies highlighting College strengths focused to particular person companions.
• Creating and updating information of potential companions’ key software areas that align with King’s analysis capabilities.
• Working with the Director I@Okay and different members of I@Okay in direction of defining and delivering on KPIs and wider technique of the I@Okay staff and College Innovation Plans.
• Contribute to the supply of contracts and agreements for innovation partnerships together with costing and pricing of actions, and helping wit reviewing regulatory, moral, insurance coverage and indemnity preparations appropriate for the partnerships in query.
• In creating partnerships, be certain that key partnership dangers have been understood and accepted or mitigated by the supply groups within the Schools and that key supply companions (inner and exterior) have been engaged within the design and improvement of partnerships and their innovation improvement actions.
• Be the I@Okay lead for sustaining, and offering crucial opinion for optimising, the strategic hyperlinks with an recognized portfolio of key funders related to your areas of accountability so as to affect and align funder alternatives with the pursuits and priorities of the Schools.  It will embrace supporting improvement and administration of inner technique teams; maximising institutional engagement and sustaining shut relationships with College based mostly innovation and engagement employees.

Expertise, information, and expertise 

Important standards

1.       Postgraduate analysis expertise in a topic related to life sciences or in engineering sciences with a cross-disciplinary thesis topic and postdoctoral analysis in utilized life sciences (for PhD holders). 

2.       Expertise and understanding of the innovation funding ecosystem. 

3.       Expertise in and understanding of educational or {industry} R&D and demonstrable capacity to map {industry} must educational experience. 

4.       Means to steer and contribute to advanced, tough initiatives, from conception to supply and expertise of partaking, and collaborating, with inner and exterior stakeholders to construct groups, ship key outcomes or resolve advanced challenges throughout a variety of actions. 

5.       Effectively-developed management and influencing abilities with the power to encourage and contain people and groups and the power to barter in a posh atmosphere. 

6.       Glorious verbal and written communication abilities. 

7.       Demonstrable presentation abilities, together with capacity and keenness to current to audiences of educational and {industry} specialists and different senior stakeholders, together with inner and exterior conferences. 

8.       Excessive stage of numerical and information analytical abilities, together with spreadsheets and databases with demonstrable proficiency in use of MS packages (e.g. capable of design advanced spreadsheets). 

9.       Excessive stage of labor organisation, self-motivation, drive for efficiency and enchancment, and adaptability in method and angle, possessing resilience, dedication and diplomacy. 

10.   Snug working independently and capable of construct skilled networks. 

11.   Constructive and constructive method, together with when below strain. 

Fascinating standards

1.   PhD or an equal stage of expertise in a topic related to life sciences or in engineering sciences with a cross-disciplinary thesis. 

2.   Expertise in improvement and administration of industry-academic analysis partnerships, or different related expertise within the {industry}/educational sectors, together with enterprise improvement or administration consultancy roles. 

3.   Vital expertise in creating strategic reviews and enterprise circumstances to help novel analysis and know-how improvement in addition to expertise in supporting and advising/collaboratively working with others to develop enterprise circumstances or challenge plans. 

The choice course of will embrace a panel interview and a presentation.