Location: | Exeter, Hybrid |
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Salary: | The starting salary will be from £ 42,632 on Grade F per annum pro rata, depending on qualifications and experience. |
Hours: | Full Time, Part Time |
Contract Type: | Permanent |
Placed On: | 21st October 2024 |
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Closes: | 6th November 2024 |
Job Ref: | R97453 |
This role offers the opportunity for hybrid working – some time on campus and some from home.
This full–time, permanent post is available from 1st January 2025. We would prefer to appoint to this role at 0.8FTE but would consider candidates wishing to work at 1.0FTE, subject to funding.
Summary of the role
The University of Exeter is seeking an Impact and Partnership Development Manager (IPDM) to build external collaborations between our Business School and industry, government and the third sector. The IPDM will provide support to the Economics and Finance & Accounting departments focussing on the themes of Sustainable Finance, Transition Economics and ESG (Environmental, social and governance), where the Business School has world-renowned expertise. This expertise is in increasing demand as partners from across the public and private sectors seek ways to ensure their own operations can deliver a better world.
The IPDM will match our exciting range of academic, research and education offers to the needs of regional, national and international organisations. They will be responsible for developing research, consultancy, knowledge exchange and professional education activities for the Business School, working with researchers across disciplines and identifying opportunities to deliver greater value to our partners. They will proactively identify new opportunities for impact across the Faculty and the University, working closely with our academic staff and our Green Futures Solutions initiative.
The post sits within Exeter Innovation (EI), the professional services team that supports and drives this critical work. The key aim of EI is to secure significantly greater value and impact from relationships with partners drawing on the University’s education, research and physical assets.
The successful candidate will have a well-established external network, an understanding of the Financial sector and a track record of collaboration and relationship building. They will be experienced in business development and income generation, demonstrating extensive problem solving, negotiation and management experience, ideally in a Higher Education context. They will be able to provide great customer service to a wide range of internal and external corporate clients, as well as having the ability and motivation to see tasks through from ideation to completion.
Please ensure you read the Job Description and Person Specification for full details of this role.
The University of Exeter
We are a member of the prestigious Russell Group of research-intensive universities and in the top 200 universities in the world (Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2024 and QS World University Ranking 2024). We combine world-class teaching with world-class research, achieving a Gold rating in the Teaching Excellence Framework Award 2023, underpinned by Gold ratings for Student Experience and Student Outcomes.
Our world-leading research impact has grown more than any other Russell Group university in recent years, and we are home to some of the world’s most influential researchers, seeking to answer some of the most fundamental issues facing humankind today. More than 99 percent of our research is of international quality and 47 percent is world-leading (2021 Research Excellence Framework).
Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Commitment
We are committed to ensuring reasonable adjustments are available for interviews and workplaces.
Whilst all applicants will be judged on merit alone, we particularly welcome applications from groups currently underrepresented within our working community.
Further information
Please contact B.Clifford-Kitching@exeter.ac.uk
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