Director of Research and Innovation

About the Role

The Director will have overall leadership responsibility for the Research & Innovation Services Directorate (RSID) dedicated to research management and innovation support, with direct line management responsibility for the RIS leadership team and oversight of an £8.1m pay budget and £0.7m operating budget. Be responsible for working collaboratively with Faculty Vice Presidents and Directors of Operations to ensure that locally embedded resources are aligned to the functional service delivery model, alongside other senior leaders across the university and beyond.

As functional lead, the Director will own the service delivery model for research and innovation across the whole university, with responsibility for ensuring services are aligned to university strategy and business needs, developing the necessary capability and capacity to deliver against agreed service standards.

The Director and directorate leadership team is responsible for working with the Vice Presidents, ensuring that the university maintains and develops relationships and research partnerships with funding organisations both domestically and internationally. It leads the university's large scale, cross institutional bids, as well as funder relationships and supporting funding diversification.

About Queen Mary

At Queen Mary University of London, we believe that a diversity of ideas helps us achieve the previously unthinkable.

Throughout our history, we’ve fostered social justice and improved lives through academic excellence. And we continue to live and breathe this spirit today, not because it’s simply ‘the right thing to do’ but for what it helps us achieve and the intellectual brilliance it delivers.

We continue to embrace diversity of thought and opinion in everything we do, in the belief that when views collide, disciplines interact, and perspectives intersect, truly original thought takes form.

Benefits

We offer competitive salaries, access to a generous pension scheme, 30 days’ leave per annum (pro-rata for part-time/fixed-term), a season ticket loan scheme and access to a comprehensive range of personal and professional development opportunities. In addition, we offer a range of work life balance and family friendly, inclusive employment policies, campus facilities and flexible working arrangements.

Queen Mary’s commitment to our diverse and inclusive community is embedded in our appointments processes. Reasonable adjustments will be made at each stage of the recruitment process for any candidate with a disability. We are open to considering applications from candidates wishing to work flexibly.

Valuing Diversity & Committed to Equality