CEO Auckland UniServices Limited & Pro Vice-Chancellor (Innovation and Enterprise)

• Bring your business acumen and strategic leadership to NZ’s top ranked university (#65 QS World University Rankings) and wholly-owned subsidiary Auckland UniServices Ltd, bringing ideas to life. 

The University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau, is setting ambitious and transformative goals to deliver innovation and impact both locally in the Pacific region and globally.

With $330M of our $1.5B revenue generated from our diverse range of research activities, our spirit of innovative, creative and entrepreneurial research has always been strong. Join us as we build on this to become a global powerhouse for translational research, developing new commercial, social and creative enterprises.

The Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research & Innovation) is responsible for advising the Vice-Chancellor on research policy, strategy, management and performance. This new position reporting to the DVC (R&I) incorporates the function of CEO of Auckland UniServices Ltd (AUL).

UniServices deserves its powerful reputation as a leader in research commercialisation and engagement. In 2023 it launched eight new companies and licensed 27 technoloiges, overseeing the $41M University Inventors Fund in addition to a range of other commercial and educational activity.

As CEO you will report to the Board of AUL, leading the team to develop a strategy to drive strategic change and foster a culture of research innovation and entrepreneurship, ensuring the University remains an international leader in supporting innovation and commercialisation from public research.

As Pro Vice-Chancellor (Innovation and Enterprise) you will act on behalf of the DVC (R&I) to actively seek strategic opportunities to advance knowledge translation and impact of research with industry, investors, public bodies and charities seeking to tap the expertise, inventions, technologies and intellectual property available from the University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau. This will include contributing to the development of our innovation strategy, the Newmarket Innovation Precinct, and to elevating the visibility of innovation and collaboration across the University.

Please see further detail in the position description. For further information and a confidential conversation, please contact Clare Litten, Manager, Academic Executive Search Service, c.litten@auckland.ac.nz

Applications must be submitted online, by the closing date of 25 November 2024

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