Innovation Support Associate: King’s College London

King's College London is seeking an Innovation Support Associate to support an IP & Licensing team that is responsible for the identification, prosecution, marketing and transaction of IP assets arising from research undertaken at King's College London. The Innovation Support Associate works directly with staff from the IP & Licensing Team specifically to support 4 key pillars of the innovation management activities of the IP&L team.

The role will provide 4 broad pillars of support to the innovation management activities of the IP&L team.

General IP&L and RG&C team administrative support
Organise meetings (including workshops) and appointments, including room booking (electronic diary), refreshments and AV requirements as well as book travel and related accommodation, Source venues and locations for on-site and off-site meetings, training sessions and events as necessary, ensuring smooth co-ordination of all aspects and obtaining best value, Raising Purchase Orders, receipting invoices and liaising with Accounts Payable as required. Responsible for processing, validation and payment of supplier invoices and expenses, including processing urgent payments and the raising of cheques via College's Accounts Payable department.  Follow through any queries, liaising with the Management Accountant/Accounts Payable as necessary. Managing corporate telephony, including mobile phones on behalf of the teams.  This includes liaising with recognised external and internal service providers on billing or other queries and making orders. Arrange and track certain courier collections

Marketing Support and working with the Marketing and Licensing Manager: to identify, collate and maintain as current, a comprehensive inventory of pharma, biotech and investor groups, including details of: their alliance and partnering priorities, specifically areas of partnering interest and therapeutic focus; and their strategic approaches to realising their alliances e.g early and late stage venturing, clinical co-development or early stage research collaboration approaches etc. as articulated by these pharma, biotech and investor groups. assist in scheduling, organising and running workshops with investors, pharma and biotech to profile / discuss IP opportunities. To carry out desk based (web and subscriber database) research to describe qualitatively and quantitatively markets that might be relevant for realising commercial value or patient impact from new business opportunities, underpinned by King's intellectual property assets. as needed, assist the Managers with compiling target licensee lists and making initial contact with potential commercial partners; coordinate diaries for calls/meeting between potential partners, King's PIs and the Managers  

Working with the IP & L Managers, create, write and edit external marketing materials  for use in the variety of dissemination channels to profile King's IP portfolio, available for partnering, investment or licensing in order to deliver the marketing strategy for a given IP asset. Maintain such materials as current. Assist the Marketing & Licensing Manager in scheduling marketing review meetings with the team. Internal marketing and communications support. Working with the Director: To create, write and edit reference information tools for internal availability and use by the academic community regarding the innovation management and commercialisation (e.g. How to Patent, How to spin out etc) process. Tools will include printed and online publications (website), intranet communications (newsletters), employee meetings and events, videos and announcements that foster open communication about innovation and commercialisation throughout the College. To identify and engage with platforms and information channels through which the College innovation portfolio can be profiled.

Support and working with Manager's with responsibility for managing funding awards for translation support. To assist with the setting up, monitoring and accounting of funding awards and compiling reports (eg to Wellcome Trust).