Health Innovation Campus ERDF Project Manager: Lancaster University
Lancaster’s Health Innovation Campus (HIC) will develop as a globally leading centre for supporting the development of new innovative products, processes and services by businesses for the significant cross-sector market opportunities presented by an increasingly unwell and ageing population and the need to drive cost effectiveness, efficiencies and improved service delivery across health and care providers. The HIC will present a unique open innovation platform where we will bring health and care providers, world leading academics, third sector organisations and service users together with SMEs and large businesses to develop solutions to health and care problems, driving new market opportunities and business growth. The HIC will have a particular focus on enabling significant opportunities for regional SME collaboration with researchers across a range of academic disciplines.
To support this initiative, we need an ambitious and dynamic individual to lead and manage the successful delivery of a European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) revenue project, which forms part of the initial phase of investment that will ultimately total nearly £170M. Excellent project management and communication skills are essential to the role, with a clear understanding of the cross-sector SME market opportunities that health and care challenges present. The post holder will be expected to connect academic research and knowledge exchange expertise that sits across all of our Faculties, principally Health and Medicine but also Science and Technology, Management School and Arts and Social Sciences.
The role sits within the Research and Enterprise Services (RES) division. Candidates should contact Dr Mark Rushforth, Associate Director of Enterprise and Innovation, for any questions or informal discussions regarding the role (m.rushforth@lancaster.ac.uk).
You will join us on an indefinite contract however, the role remains contingent on external funding, which is currently until 30/09/2023.
We welcome application from people in all diversity groups.
Closing Date:15th July 2021
Interviews: 26th July 2021
About the Health Innovation Campus (HIC)
The HIC in its three-phased entirety, will entail an eventual investment of nearly £170M with the ambition to provide innovative and flexible facilities that enable research and development, education, innovation and knowledge exchange in health, medicine and care, bringing together businesses, academics, health and social care providers, and the general population, to co-develop and co-create transformational products and services that initially focus on the promotion of a healthy population, helping people to live as long and as healthily as possible. It will place particular emphasis on innovations targeted at the broader determinants of health, the prevention and early diagnosis of illness, and access to care.
The HIC will build on Lancaster’s strength in bringing together multidisciplinary teams to focus on the translation of world-class research into innovative products, processes, services and outcomes that will positively impact economic growth and contribute to society’s adjustment to the ageing of the population. The ultimate objective of the HIC is to create a world class centre of excellence in innovation in health that will make a major contribution to regional economic development and transform health care and practice regionally, nationally and internationally.
To find out more about the University and the Health Innovation Campus please visit www.lancaster.ac.uk and https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/health-innovation/ .