Job Description

Job Title: Connected Capability Fund Partnership Development Manager

Location: Lancaster

Salary: \xc2\xa346,974 \xe2\x80\x93 \xc2\xa354,395 per annum

Job type: Fixed Term Contract, Full time

Closing Date: Tuesday 21 November 2023

Interview Date: Thursday 30 November 2023

The Role:

The Connected Capability Fund Partnership Development Manager will work in the department of Research & Enterprise Services.

Lancaster has recently been awarded \xc2\xa31.2M from Research England\xe2\x80\x99s Connecting Capability Fund (CCF) to work with partner universities across the North West to capture the very latest cyber security innovations and partner with entrepreneurs, investors, government and businesses to transform cutting-edge knowledge into innovative new products, services and policy, to better protect consumers, businesses and UK infrastructure.

The North West Cyber Security Connect for Commercialisation (NW CyberCom) project will involve the universities of Lancaster, Manchester, Salford, Liverpool, Manchester Metropolitan University and the University of Central Lancashire. It will also be supported by Plexal, a Manchester-based innovation company helping businesses, startups and industry to collaborate with government to help deliver national security and prosperity; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and lead consultancy, CRSI.

NW CyberCom will draw on established partnerships with the National Cyber Force and GCHQ to develop an innovation ecosystem across the North West Cyber Corridor and provide bespoke training for university researchers focused on maximising commercialisation opportunities. The ecosystem will act as a platform for sustained cyber focused research commercialisation, bringing together industry, innovation, universities and investment to accelerate growth. It will ensure the North West becomes the \xe2\x80\x9cgo to\xe2\x80\x9d place for companies looking for investment, investors looking to enhance their deal flow and businesses who need access to the latest technology and thinking in the cyber space through an ongoing pipeline of intellectual property emerging from academic research.

It follows Lancaster University\xe2\x80\x99s recent once-in-a-generation \xc2\xa319M investment into Security and Protection Science \xe2\x80\x93 an initiative that will also see Lancaster recruit 33 new cross-disciplinary academics, plus 15 professor in practice roles as well as 10 support staff. It also comes after Lancaster\xe2\x80\x99s move to set up a new Digital Security Hub in Manchester with a consortium of leading cyber security specialists last year, to help foster innovation and growth in the region and wider UK\xe2\x80\x99s digital and cyber security sectors.

To ensure successful delivery of the project, we are recruiting two roles encompassing all elements of project delivery, partnership development and research commercialisation pathway identification.

These are:

• CCF Research Commercialisation Manager (Grade 8P) \xe2\x80\x93 to assess and support commercialisation opportunities arising from the project, including identifying appropriate routes for impact and managing commercial due diligence.
• CCF Partnership Development Manager (Grade 8P) \xe2\x80\x93 who will be responsible for overall management of funds and developing relationships across CCF partners, to enable opportunities for research commercialisation.

Role holders will be expected to build relationships right across the NW CyberCom partnership.

These roles are fixed term in the first instance until 30th November 2025.

There is real scope to create new and innovative mechanisms to support research commercialisation, knowledge exchange collaborations and impact pathways aligned to cyber security and broader security and protection sciences.

We will also encourage flexible and elements of remote working given the nature of the roles, learning from our experience during the pandemic in ensuring the role holder is well supported in doing so. We do expect there to be travel across the North West in building relationships and undertaking project activity with all NW CyberCom partners.

The Benefits of the Role:

• Generous holiday (25 annual leave days plus university closures and bank holidays)
• Attractive pension scheme
• Excellent flexible benefits
• Family friendly policies \xe2\x80\x93 including flexible working.
• Great Learning & Development Opportunities
• Parking (site specific)

Extra Information:

We warmly welcome applicants from all sections of the community regardless of their age, religion, gender identity or expression, race, disability or sexual orientation, and are committed to promoting diversity, and equality of opportunity.

We welcome applications from people in all diversity groups.

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Candidates with the relevant experience and job titles of: Project Management, Project Administrator, Project Estimator, Project Planning, Project Coordinator, Policy Manager, Project Development, Partnership Manager, Partnership Administrator, IT Project Manager, Senior Project Lead, Senior Project Manager, Senior Project Coordinator, Project Manager, Project Lead, Lead Project Manager may also be considered for this role.

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