The Knowledge Exchange Manager

Leeds Beckett University is committed to making the interaction with the university simple. Part of that is part of why it has opened the doors to The Knowledge Exchange, a new professional, city centre, space for regional stakeholder engagement. We have an excellent reputation for working and engaging with businesses and this is an opportunity to elevate this further. For more information about The Knowledge Exchange, please visit www.leedsbeckett.ac.uk/TKE .

We are seeking a driven individual with exceptional communication capabilities, with a strong marketing and events skill set to raise awareness, manage, and further develop ideas for interaction in this new space. This is an exciting opportunity for a self-motivated, enthusiastic individual to join our newly developed Knowledge Exchange Team. They will be supporting to build our business community and to take a lead on this new initiative and work with the team and wider service to ensure this is embedded and joined up with existing activity.

The successful candidate will have demonstrable experience of an ability to design, develop, coordinate, and deliver internal and external marketing, events, and communication campaigns. They will have good commercial awareness and the capabilities to support the engagement activity of The Knowledge Exchange to establish, maintain and grow business use whilst supporting engagement and interaction with other regional stakeholders such as local and regional government and other intermediaries or partners.

The post offers a competitive salary with an excellent annual leave allowance and pension scheme, and access to several staff benefits including NUS membership. The role is highly varied - you will have the chance to be involved in projects and events and have excellent training and networking opportunities both internal and external to the University.

To arrange an informal discussion about this post, please contact Natalie Allen (Head of Business Partnerships) at [email protected] .

Closing date: Monday 22 January 2024 (23:59)

Working here means you’ll also have access to a wide range of benefits including our generous pension schemes, excellent holiday entitlements, flexible working, reduced study fees, subsidised fitness facilities and a lot more.

We welcome applications from all individuals and particularly from black and minority ethnic candidates as members of these groups are currently under-represented at this level of post. All appointments will be based on merit.