Impact and Partnership Development Manager

This new full-time post is available immediately on a fixed-term basis funded from grant income from 1 April 2024 until 31 March 2025.

The post is based in the Exeter Innovation division to work closely with colleagues in the Camborne School of Mines (CSM) and the Business School.

The role offers the opportunity for hybrid working.

We welcome applications from candidates interested in working part-time hours or job-sharing arrangements.

Summary of the role
This is an exciting opportunity to work with the University of Exeter (Camborne School of Mines and the Business School) in a new International Centre of Excellence on Sustainable Resource Management in the Circular Economy. The Centre will work with the UN Economic Commission for Europe to encourage use of the UN Resource Management System. It will conduct research, teaching, training, advocacy and collaborate internationally. The centre, which will formally open in April 2024, is a collaboration between the University of Exeter and University College London (UCL), Brunel University, Swansea University and the British Geological Survey. The University of Exeter will concentrate on data for the circular economy (see CE-Hub.org, NICER CE-data observatory) and critical minerals (see Met4Tech.org and www.exeter.ac.uk/csm ). We are looking for an enthusiastic, flexible person who can deliver a variety of activities including case studies and other research related to the UN Resource Management System, organise and deliver teaching and training, help manage the new ICE activities, seek funding for new activities, make new collaborative links, and be an advocate for circular economy and the UNRMS.

Please ensure you read the Job Descriptions and Person Specification (available on the university's website, accessed by the 'Apply' button) for full details of this role.

The University of Exeter
We are a member of the prestigious Russell Group of research-intensive universities and in the top 200 universities in the world (Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2024 and QS World University Ranking 2024). We combine world-class teaching with world-class research, achieving a gold rating in the Teaching Excellence Framework Award 2023, underpinned by gold ratings for Student Experience and Student Outcomes.

Our world-leading research impact has grown more than any other Russell Group university in recent years, and we are home to some of the world’s most influential researchers, seeking to answer some of the most fundamental issues facing humankind today. More than 99 per cent of our research is of international quality and 47 per cent is world-leading (2021 Research Excellence Framework).

Benefits
We offer some fantastic benefits including:

• 41 days leave per year
• options for flexible working
• numerous discounts at leading retailers
• onsite gyms on all of our campuses and a cycle to work scheme
• sector leading policies around maternity, adoption and shared parental leave  (up to 26 weeks full pay), paternity leave (up to six weeks full pay) and a Fertility Treatment Policy
• stunning campus environments in Exeter and Cornwall, in the beautiful South West of England

Further information
Potential applicants are encouraged to contact Professor Frances Wall ([email protected] ) or Professor Peter Hopkinson ([email protected] ) or Professor Fiona Charnley [email protected] for further information on the role before applying.

Interviews are likely to be about a week after the closing date.