Main purpose of the role
The Director of Strategic Networks is an integral role for NCUB’s future: enabling the effective development, maintenance, and maximisation of NCUB’s strategic networks and partnerships with businesses, universities, government departments, public funders, sector bodies, and representative organisations.
This senior leadership position will drive this pivotal activity, ensuring members and partners benefit fully from our work, while shaping innovative approaches to collaboration and partnerships across sectors: unlocking opportunities and enabling NCUB to be further recognised as the mission critical, strategic actor in the innovation ecosystem.
This role will strengthen NCUB’s voice, deepen and diversify our networks and bring fresh commercial and strategic perspective to our organisation.
Details
Reports to: Chief Executive
Direct reports: 4/5
Salary: TBC
Location: Hybrid – The Clarence Centre, 6 St George’s Circus, London, SE1 6FE
Responsibilities
- Strategic Leadership: Be the strategic lead for all aspects of NCUB’s networks:
- devise and implement strategy across our multi-sector environment to unlock the potential of our networks and partnerships,
- ensure NCUB is delivering value, benefit and return to all our existing and future networks,
- unlock the potential of NCUB’s work for wider audiences, especially using technological solutions that bring universities and businesses together in tangible ways,
- advocate NCUB’s vision and purpose as an organisation that brings clarity to complex situations,
- bring focus to what NCUB does to ensure we are the mission critical, strategic actor in the research, innovation and skills ecosystems.
- Network Development: Build, maintain and maximise our strategic networks:
- build meaningful and impactful relationships within and across our different networks,
- deepen and diversify our networks, seeking out new ideas and opinions,
- translate our relationships into sharper influence with tangible outcomes,
- ensure systematic and robust approaches are implemented to ensure the effective management of each of our networks,
- adopt and implement integrated and collaborative approaches that maximise the benefits and insights our work can bring back to our networks.
- Network Growth: Drive opportunities to extend our strategic networks
- identify opportunities to increase membership from businesses and universities whose interests and expertise align with our strategic objectives,
- seek opportunities to extend our networks, including bringing in new partners,
- develop new collaborative models for engagement including the utilisation of digital technologies to extend our reach and connection with different networks.
- Leadership and Management: Lead, support and develop a multi-faceted team:
- line-manage a high performing team of direct reports across a diverse range of roles,
- bring expertise and leadership for Strategic networks as part of NCUB’s Senior Leadership team,
- ensure a collaborative cross-organisational approach to working with our strategic networks across NCUB,
- sharpen our focus to ensure our deep knowledge of our networks becomes central to any strategic planning.
- To undertake any other duties commensurate with the role.