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) offers an extensive range of courses in art, design, fashion, communication and performing arts. We are a collegiate University spread across London with six Colleges, four Institutes and five Research Centres. UAL also has two subsidiary companies, delivering specialist activities – UAL Short Courses Ltd, and UAL Arts Temps Ltd.

We’re made up of all types of people, coming together in London, the world’s creative capital. We are designers, artists, performers, thinkers, researchers and makers. Our students, staff and graduates form a global network of creatives, entrepreneurs and leaders. Together, our ideas change the world. Because the world needs creativity.

We are ranked highly across the board. We are ranked first for specialist art and design, second in the world for Art and Design in the 2023 QS World University Rankings (for the fifth year in a row), ranked fifth in sustainability and two of our colleges were rated in the top three fashion schools in the world.

Our culture

We have become one of the world’s most international Universities, welcoming over 22,000 students and 6,000 staff from 130 countries. And, as a global university, staff and students learn from different cultures and perspectives, which leads to new conversations and innovative work. At our very core, everything we do seeks to challenge the status quo by driving social purpose and standing up for what matters.

We welcome applicants from all backgrounds including those who may feel underrepresented in the workforce due to their socioeconomic circumstances such as those from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (B.A.M.E.) backgrounds. We aim to be a university where everyone can be themselves and are supported to reach their full potential.

With our commitment to inclusion and diversity, we are proud to be a Race Equality Charter (REC) member to help us reduce barriers that negatively impacts B.A.M.E. staff, a Stonewall Diversity Champion to ensure all LGBTQ+ people are valued at work, a Disability Confident Scheme Committed employer and member of the Business Disability Forum which help us to improve the lives of disabled people in the workplace.

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