Stakeholder Engagement & Cohort Manager
Knowledge Exchange & Enterprise
Location: Highfield Campus
Salary: £44,263 to £56,021 per annum
Full Time Permanent
Closing Date: Wednesday 10 January 2024
Interview Date: To be confirmed
Reference: 2556523TW
Innovation is the lifeblood of the University of Southampton and together with SETsquared Partnership we deliver a number of programmes helping turn ideas into thriving businesses. Our next major programme IMPACT-IP focusing on deal readiness aims to harness the collective capability across our SETsquared Partners with investors, entrepreneurs and professional service firms to transform how we support spinout outs and commercialisation.
Join us as Stakeholder Engagement & Cohort Manager and you’ll play a pivotal part in transforming how we work, build capacity, increase commercialisation skills and improve productivity so we smooth the pathway of launching new innovations to benefit the UK and globally.
Your role
At Southampton you’ll be joining not only a Russell Group university but you will also be joining the prestigious SETsquared Partnership of the six research-intensive universities of Bath, Bristol, Exeter, Southampton, Surrey, and Cardiff. It is a business support network that provides training for entrepreneurs, incubation for start-ups and accelerates the growth of scale-up businesses. Celebrating 20th years in 2022 a recent report shows SETsquared has contributed GVA £15.7 billion to the economy since its foundation.
You will:
- Build and manage relations with investors, founders, entrepreneurs and professional service firms so we co-create playbooks, guidance, templates, training and processes in order to speed of deals.
- Manage the cohort of Commercialisation Fellows harnessing the expertise of SETsquared and our external stakeholders to develop training, provide placements, secondments and mentorship.
- Manage the wider engagement and consultation across the UK university sector. Rolling out the playbooks, guidance, templates and training for wider use across the sector.
- Use your strong organisational and inter-personal skills to successfully deliver workstreams of the IMPACT-IP programme.
- Be at the heart of co-creating processes, guidelines and templates between universities, investors, entrepreneurs, founders and professional service firms so deals can happen quickly.
You
Previous experience of project/programme management, securing placements/secondments and managing training is essential. A passion for innovation and an understanding of the process of intellectual property commercialisation and/or start up creation is highly desirable for this role.
What we can offer you
In return, you can look forward to an excellent benefits package, a generous holiday allowance and a flexible home/office hybrid working model supporting work/life balance. We will support your long-term future too, with access to a pension scheme, subsidized health and fitness facilities and a range of discounts. All our benefits can be viewed (link opens benefits page)
As a university we aim to create an environment where everyone can thrive and are proactive in fostering a culture of inclusion, respect and equality of opportunity. We believe that we can only truly meet our objectives if we are reflective of society, so we are passionate about creating a working environment in which you are free to bring your whole self to work.
If you wish to discuss the role informally in more detail please contact Diana Galpin, Director Enterprise & Knowledge Exchange. Telephone: 07979 852362 or 023 8059 8673; email: d.galpin@soton.ac.uk