Job Description

Job Scope:
The Royal Society
The Royal Society is the independent scientific academy of the UK and the Commonwealth, dedicated to promoting excellence in science. It is a self-governing Fellowship of many of the world\xe2\x80\x99s most distinguished scientists drawn from all areas of science, engineering and medicine. The Society\xe2\x80\x99s fundamental purpose, as reflected in its founding charters of the 1660s, is to recognise, promote and support excellence in science and to encourage the development and use of science for the benefit of humanity.

Background
Business is the engine of the UK economy around two thirds of UK R&D is performed in industry. High quality research and development fuel economic growth and the creation of skills, high-value jobs and entrepreneurial businesses in our knowledge-driven economy. This means that the flow of ideas and skills between the research base, business, public and charity sectors is crucial to future prosperity.
The Society has established a science, industry and translation programme to promote industrial science and translation. It aims to bring together industry, academia and government to advance ideas and support scientists in industry and those in academia who wish to commercialise their research. The programme covers a broad range of academic disciplines and industrial sectors. Activities include a regional conference series and a scientific meeting series, bringing together representatives from industry, academia and government to discuss major scientific and technical challenges. The Society also funds industry fellowships to support researcher mobility and an Entrepreneur in Residence programme placing experienced entrepreneurs and industry scientists in UK universities.
Examples of the Society\xe2\x80\x99s industry and innovation work can be found on the Society\xe2\x80\x99s website Industry and innovation | Royal Society


The role of Head of Industry Engagement
The Society is looking to recruit an energetic, organised and innovative individual to lead the development of its science, industry and translation programme to create greater engagement between the Society and industrial science, to help promote the development of an entrepreneurial mind-set amongst the research community and to work with academia and industry to support translation and provide evidence for increased investment in the science base.
This will include working with Fellows of the Society with industry connections, current and past Industry award holders and a broader group of scientists with translation interests as well as a range of partner organisations who share the same aims. It will also involve working with colleagues in the Society to ensure that the industry voice is incorporated across the Society\xe2\x80\x99s activities including in the advice it provides to policy makers and its STEM education programmes, particularly with a view to addressing skills gaps in UK science.

Reports to: Programme Director, Industry and Sector Engagement Line manages: 2 Programme Managers, 1 Senior Officer, 2 Officers and 2 Assistants Location: Carlton House Terrace, London, SW1Y 5AG plus hybrid remote working, and the expectation of some travel across the UK. Pay Band: F Salary: \xc2\xa370,000- \xc2\xa376,882 per annum Contract type: Permanent Hours: 35 hours per week (full time) with some flexibility around working hours given the nature of the role.
Closing date: Sunday 14 January 23:59pm.

Responsibilities:
Key responsibilities

• Leading, developing and delivering the industry and translation programme of activities as agreed by the Science, Industry and Translation Committee.
• Building robust and high level networks amongst different industrial sectors, universities and partner organisations with an interest in industry and translation.
• Ensuring that industrial science is embedded into the core activities of the Royal Society and that the Society is regarded as a leading supporter of industry and translation.
• Managing the Industry Engagement team within the Society

Key Knowledge and Skills Required:
The person
The Head of Industry Engagement will require a demonstrable passion for supporting innovative businesses and researchers, considerable personal energy, sound judgement, strong written and oral communication skills and must be a willing and able team player. The individual must be able to work effectively with a broad range of stakeholders and command their respect.


Skills and experience

• Extensive experience of working in or with Industry Research and Development teams or in a university or technology organisation with a track record of translating research ideas into commercial products.
• Demonstrable track record of developing and implementing projects.
• Demonstrable track record of developing effective relationships with multiple stakeholders and partnership working.
• The ability to motivate and grow high performing teams.

Competencies:




Self-management

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  Identifies difficult situations

• Recognises stress in others and takes steps to reduce it

• Controls pressurised situations

• Effectively enthuses those in the team

• Proactively sets goals and targets for own work

• Embraces new opportunities, responds to new risks and takes on new responsibilities

• Encourages others to seize opportunities

• Recognises when it is appropriate to resist the objections of others and remain committed to a sound course of action

Working with others

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  Actively seeks ideas and criticisms from within the team

• Resolves conflicts within and between teams

• Embeds feedback processes within the team

• Seeks out new networks that will create opportunity for the Society

• Able to present complex issues simply

• Uses discretion, tact and empathy when negotiating with and/or seeking to influence others

• Understands the need to manage expectations and to only promise what is deliverable

• Demonstrates compassion in delivering hard messages

• Leads and facilitates group discussions, surfaces and clarifies issues and keeps conversations focused, productive and constructive

• Enlists champions to keep key messages alive and make them real

• Acts as a role model, continuously demonstrating communication excellence and regard for the value of building shared vision and direction

• Remains calm in front of challenging audiences, never diminishing others

• Looks for opportunities to assemble a diverse group to discuss respective views

• Keeps people at the table by articulating an outcome or goal that engages and encourages active participation

• Shares resources across organisational boundaries to meet Society needs

• Uses negotiation skills and adaptability to encourage recognition of joint concerns, collaboration, and to influence the success of outcomes

Resource management

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  Determines strategy and deployment of resources, balancing cost and benefit; risk and potential for maximum impact across significant business areas

• Manages complex cross-cutting projects to time, budget and specification

• Ensures others accept responsibility towards results or quality

• Sets the quality standards for own business areas in accordance with strategy and contributes to the formulation of quality standards across the Society

• Sets and monitors priorities

• Identifies and manages risk effectively

• Analyses potential for surplus or loss, risks and/or return-on-investment of various courses of action

• Demonstrates a solid understanding of the culture and recognises limitations in order to ensure that plans, actions and timelines will be effective.

• Directs the creation of forums and discussion opportunities to generate innovative and breakthrough ideas, exposing others to experts and ideas to stimulate new thinking

• Translates vision/knowledge to others to enable shared understanding and rapid execution

• Facilitates the team to assess the viability of ideas based on a number of likely scenarios

• Has patience and allows time for appropriate planning and engagement to take place in projects and day-to-day deliverables

Critical thinking

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  Uses questioning, analytical and probing skills to \xe2\x80\x98dig deeper\xe2\x80\x99

• Knows when enough information has been obtained and adapts presentation of information to the needs of the audience

• Evaluates the benefits, practicalities and value for money of ideas and obtains feedback

• Makes sound decisions in a complex or ambiguous environment and is able to gain support and manage challenges confidently

• Directs the creation of forums and discussion opportunities to generate innovative and breakthrough ideas, stimulates new thinking

• Sees issues and mitigates as necessary the implications of a proposal.

• Justifies key results and procedures, explains assumptions and reasons.

• Correctly evaluates the credibility of sources and correctly judges the strength of an argument

• Fair-mindedly follows where evidence and reasons lead

Adaptability

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  Actively seeks the input and opinions of others, often outside his/her section and accommodates and incorporates this thinking into any output.

• Actively seeks new challenges and projects; leads discussions surrounding new ideas, approaches and projects

• Anticipates need for innovation and seeks new ideas, approaches and solutions

• Demonstrates courage by deciding and acting in the face of uncertainty

• Works in a balanced fashion, managing tough calls by being adaptable and flexible to ensure needs of competing stakeholders are fairly and equitably met

• Acts with foresight to anticipate and analyse many different scenarios

• Acknowledges ambiguity and works with team to identify understand and manage polarities and other complex situations

Managing people and relationships

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  Sets expectations of others and ensures they deliver

• Demonstrates a positive attitude towards work, celebrating success and instilling confidence, which encourages the same from others

• Encourages others to share ideas and participate in the discussion and decisions of the team

• Assesses needs of clients/stakeholders/staff and makes plans to meet these needs

• Avoids micromanagement by delegating fully and giving latitude to others to do tasks in own way, including opportunity to make and learn from mistakes

• Acts as a talent builder by challenging people with questions and assignments that will grow their capabilities

• Coaches and mentors\xe2\x80\x99 others, providing career guidance and perspective

• Demonstrates compassion in delivering hard messages

• Establishes personal relationships with customers, building an understanding of broader needs, issues, and aspirations beyond those solely applicable to the Society products or services

• Uses knowledge to develop appropriate longer-term relationship management strategies

• Assesses the long-term value of various types of external customers and manages each type appropriately

• Ensures \xe2\x80\x98one-customer\xe2\x80\x99 mindset and offers customer exposure to the full breadth of products and services, as appropriate