Digital Innovation Partnerships Manager

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The opportunity

The purpose of this role is to develop and manage a portfolio of primarily income-generating digital innovation and technology partnerships for Central Saint Martins linked to the university’s Knowledge Exchange Strategy. The role will actively stimulate partnerships, collaborations and projects within this area, driving business development and increased profile for the college across programmatic areas. Further to this, the role will also provide expert project and programme management to key digital innovation initiatives across the college as required. An example of this might include management of the flagship Digital Innovation Season programme (See an overview of previous seasons here: https://www.arts.ac.uk/colleges/central-saint-martins/whats-on-at-csm/events-archive/digital-innovation-season-2022)

About the team: 

This role will work within the CSM Innovation Team to harness the potential and programming that is already in place at the college, while stimulating a pipeline of new business and partnership development linked to digital innovation initiatives and projects.

About you

You will have a strong track record of building and implementing partnership programmes, ideally within the digital technology space. You will have subject-specific knowledge and be able to quickly bring together information from academic colleagues, external sources and broader team members to create a compelling Digital Innovation offer for the college. You will have an academic grounding with some experience of higher education partnerships, and ideally have already been working with technology companies through your prior roles.

You will be comfortable working to define and develop a business area that draws together input from a large number of stakeholders, building on previous research and experience from within the CSM Innovation team. The profile will also suit someone highly organised, with strong project and programme management experience. Finally, we require the individual to have strong communication and influencing skills, in a business development context.

Questions about the role should be directed via Sam Mitchell, Strategic Partnerships Manager, Innovation and Business by email on: samuel.mitchell@csm.arts.ac.uk

UAL is committed to addressing the under-representation of staff from Black and Minority Ethnic communities, using our student profile as a reference point.

In return, University of the Arts London offers an attractive salary and pension plus a commitment to your continuing personal development and training in an environment that encourages excellence, creativity and diversity.

If you need any reasonable adjustments for your application, please email the CSM Resourcing Team on: jobenquiries@csm.arts.ac.uk

We are UAL

University of the Arts London (UAL) generates and inspires the creativity the world needs for a better future. Since 1842, our colleges have been defining creative education. With curiosity, imagination and intent we make work which creates lasting change for people and our planet. London is core to who we are, a place where we meet and share ideas with people from different backgrounds and cultures.

Our creative network influences learning, culture, industry and society on a global scale. Our academics and practitioners deliver creative education and inspire new ways of thinking through research and innovation. We work with students at every level from pre-degree and short courses to postgraduate and online learning, enabling them to build the careers they want. Together, we are a community of makers, thinkers, pioneers and storytellers redesigning the future.

Our culture

We are a global University, welcoming over 22,000 students and 6,000 staff from 130 countries. We aim to be a university where people can be themselves and feel supported to reach their full potential. That’s why we are proud to be members of the Race Equality Charter (REC) and Business Disability Forum, are a Disability Confident Scheme Committed and Living Wage employer and maintain our status as a Stonewall Diversity Champion.

Application process

We operate a fair and open anonymous selection process. Thus, you will need to create an account and submit an application through our job board. As part of this, you will need to provide a supporting statement/answer some competency questions to demonstrate your suitability. Our recruitment process involves: Application, Shortlisting, Interview and Assessment, Offer, Onboarding.

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