Senior International Partnerships Manager (Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry)
About the Role
As a senior member of the International Research and Innovation Team, the postholder will lead the research and partnership development and pre-award support for the international research funding portfolio at the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry. The postholder is responsible for strategically engaging international funders and partners in order to maximise the proposal/income opportunities. He/she will assess research ideas against funding requirements; facilitate large-scale proposal preparation; supervise accurate costing and contracting; monitor compliance with the international funding requirements and ensure that best practice is adopted across all activities of the team.
About You
Educated to ideally a PhD degree or equivalent professional experience in the field of biomedical science or healthtech, you will have extensive experience in a partnership development and income generation role within high education institutes, as well as track record in supporting large-scale multi-disciplinary research applications involving multiple overseas research/innovation partners. Good experience in research contract preparation/negotiations and ability to handle partner due diligence and research IPs is also essential.
About the Department
The International Research and Innovation team will manage research and partnership development plus pre and post-award support for EU and international research collaborations across all three Faculties. It aims to provide strategic engagement of international partners and funders externally, deliver competitive and high quality proposals and projects internally, and to ensure compliance with the UK, EU and international regulations and funder requirements.
About Queen Mary
At Queen Mary University of London, we believe that a diversity of ideas helps us achieve the previously unthinkable. Throughout our history, we’ve fostered social justice and improved lives through academic excellence. And we continue to live and breathe this spirit today, not because it’s simply ‘the right thing to do’ but for what it helps us achieve and the intellectual brilliance it delivers. We continue to embrace diversity of thought and opinion in everything we do.
Benefits
We offer competitive salaries, access to a generous pension scheme, 30 days’ leave per annum (pro-rata for part-time/fixed-term), a season ticket loan scheme and access to a comprehensive range of personal and professional development opportunities. In addition, we offer a range of work life balance and family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements, and campus facilities including an on-site nursery at the Mile End campus.