The Royal Academy of Engineering is seeking a talented leader to oversee our research fellowships and partnership schemes, supporting outstanding engineers to become future research leaders and strengthening collaborations between academia and industry to deliver societal, economic and environmental benefit.
What you’ll do
- Provide strategic leadership for the Academy’s Research Fellowship and partnership schemes, ensuring they remain relevant to user needs, aligned to Academy priorities and delivered to a consistently high standard.
- Oversee a high-volume, high-profile portfolio, maintaining robust governance, assurance and value for money, and ensuring delivery against agreed objectives, timelines and quality standards.
- Lead continuous improvement across programme design and delivery, strengthening repeatability, scalability, user‑centred practice and system‑level impact, and embedding inclusive practice throughout.
- Develop and strengthen industrial and corporate partnerships, working with colleagues to sustain existing funding and secure new income streams for research schemes.
- Build and maintain senior relationships across the UK research and higher education landscape, industry, government departments and partner organisations, representing the Academy externally as appropriate.
- Work closely with colleagues across grant operations, monitoring and evaluation, policy, communications, education and EDI to deliver a joined‑up offer for awardees and maximise impact.
- Lead and develop high‑performing teams through two Senior Programme Managers, setting clear objectives, enabling delivery and supporting professional growth.
What you’ll bring
- Substantial experience leading large‑scale grant, fellowship or research funding programmes, with strong strategic oversight and end‑to‑end delivery expertise.
- Experience developing and managing academia–industry partnership schemes, with credibility and influence across relevant stakeholders.
- A strong track record of senior leadership, including line management and development of talented, diverse teams.
- Strong financial judgement, with experience managing multi‑year budgets, forecasting and reporting within an appropriate risk framework.
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to build trusted relationships with academia, industry, government and other partners.
- A good understanding of the UK research and higher education landscape and best practice in research and fellowship programme management.
- A strong commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion, and to upholding high standards in governance, compliance and data handling.
Our location
Our light, spacious head office is based in a fantastic location in central London with views over St James’s Park and close to the West End. We operate hybrid, flexible working practices with a baseline for office based working of a mandatory weekly team day plus further days each week as required for the role and the Academy.
The Academy is committed to making reasonable adjustments to remove barriers that hinder applicants from applying or staff from working effectively and comfortably.
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