About us

UCL Innovation & Enterprise are a group of specialist teams working with students and staff to encourage a spirit of enterprise, create links with the outside world and accelerate UCL’s innovation and impact. UCL Innovation & Enterprise's work is at the heart of UCL’s ambition to change the world for the better and plays a vital part in our shared mission to tackle the great global challenges of our time.

About the role

As our Senior Partnerships Manager (Creative Sectors), you’ll leverage UCL’s academic expertise into the creative and cultural sector in order to develop robust, exciting, ongoing and mutually beneficial partnerships. At the heart of this job will be the following:

• Advise: provide advice and guidance to internal colleagues on industry relationship management and other complex matters that leverage our collective experience.
• Link: Find and identify major partners and help create new impactful partnerships.
• Amplify: Scale and broaden existing major business and innovation partnerships across UCL.
• Convene: Host events and activities that connect UCL's innovation partners with each other and our researchers.
• Deliver: Deliver the I&E component of very large, multi-year, multi-country, multi-million, strategic innovation initiatives, providing support from conception through to maturity.

A full job description is attached to this advert.

About you

Things you'll need to do this job include:

• Strong current area knowledge and its deployment into industry and public sector
• Degree and/or previous relevant experience in a relevant subject
• Proven experience of building partnerships between business and the research base
• Experience of working with the creative and/or cultural sectors

Please read our job description, paying particular attention to the Essential and Desirable criteria, and ensure these are covered in your application.

What we offer

As well as the exciting opportunities this role presents, we also offer some great benefits some of which are below:

• 41 Days holiday (27 days annual leave 8 bank holiday and 6 closure days)
• Additional 5 days’ annual leave purchase scheme
• Defined benefit career average revalued earnings pension scheme (CARE)
• Cycle to work scheme and season ticket loan
• Immigration loan
• Relocation scheme for certain posts
• On-Site nursery
• On-site gym
• Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption pay
• Employee assistance programme: Staff Support Service Discounted medical insurance

Visit https://www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/rewards-and-benefits to find out more.

Our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

As London’s Global University, we know diversity fosters creativity and innovation, and we want our community to represent the diversity of the world’s talent. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where we all belong.

We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are likely to be underrepresented in UCL’s workforce.

These include people from Black, Asian and ethnic minority backgrounds; disabled people; and for our Grade 9 and 10 roles, women.

Customer advert reference: B09-01350