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PLACE BASED IMPACT ACCELERATION ACCOUNT (PBIAA) BUSINESS ENGAGEMENT MANAGER
Grade H (£38, - £43, p.a. pro rata)
Four Years, Fixed Term
We are looking for a PBIAA Business Engagement Manager with a strong track record in fostering new academic-business collaborations to join the growing team at Nottingham Trent University (NTU). This is a new role, which will create capacity by forming new and nurturing existing relationships with industry leaders, start-ups and scale-ups, and commercial organisations, to facilitate the acceleration of world class research into ground breaking rehabilitation technologies and ensuring the success of the PBIAA programme.
About
The East Midlands is at the forefront of rehabilitation and associated technologies, recognised by the Government’s £M investment in the National Rehabilitation Centre (NRC). In, NTU won £2.5M from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council to support a four-year programme of knowledge exchange and impact activities that will catalyse on the region’s success and launch the East Midlands as the UK’s ‘RehabTech Valley’—a leading hub for RehabTech excellence, analogous to the impact of the UK’s Formula 1 Motorsport Valley.
Our PBIAA aims to build mechanisms currently missing to connect East Midlands’s cluster of MedTech SMEs with our region’s world-class research and innovation, ensuring they dominate the design, development, and delivery of pioneering RehabTech to provide a boost to regional growth and productivity and ultimately transform health outcomes and inequalities. The 30-strong consortium is led by NTU, with the Universities of Nottingham, Loughborough, and Derby, and partners spanning medical and health tech organisations, the NHS, local government, and economic development.
About the PBIAA Business Engagement Manager Role
The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate a strong track record of industry engagement, with a demonstrable understanding of the mechanisms required for fostering effective academic-business collaboration. They will be a skilled communicator and influencer, with the ability to build rapport and develop strong working relationships with individuals across disparate organisations and sectors.
The successful candidate will be genuinely interested in the role research and innovation can play in enhancing business growth and productivity. They will be someone who quickly assimilates new information and intelligence, proactively makes linkages between different people, projects, and opportunities, and has the tenacity and organisational skills to create new opportunities for knowledge exchange between our researchers and the wider MedTech sector to help progress the PBIAA programme and deliver positive outcomes and impacts.