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Offer: Northern Accelerator Network Development Manager:Job description:Job location: Durham The function and Department Durham University is lead partner for Northern Accelerator, an ambitious research commercialisation initiative involving Durham, Newcastle, Northumbria, Sunderland, Teesside and York Universities. The core delivery team are located in Durham's Research and Innovation Services (RIS) department, which provides guidance, expert advice and hands-on support for all aspects of research and research-related work, including undertaking expertise exchange, demonstrating impact, and commercialising outputs. provides support that accelerates and enhances commercialisation and expertise exchange results (specifically including spinout creation), that are located on research undertaken at our partner universities. It has helped deliver a step-change in spinout activity - in support of individual institutional strategies as well as the local strategic economic plans of the significant Combined authorities and the Government's UK Innovation Strategy. We have secured funding from Research England's CCF-RED Fund to pilot a range of activity that complements and enhances Northern Accelerator's estab lished offer. We are seeking for a Network Development Manager to take responsibility for delivering key elements of this activity, engaging with partners and wider stakeholder networks to: » Support the recruitment of practiced entrepreneurs to our ?Executives into Business' candidate pool, promoting the opportunity through engagement with targeted sector and entrepreneurial business networks and maintaining engagement with regi strants; » Facilitate spinout networking for executives and founding academics of partner university spinouts providing opportunities for peer engagement and support; » Collate and curate a network of contacts in support of programme delivery (e.g. expert panellists), broader commercialisation activity (e.g. specialist consultancy), and to aid spinouts' access to specialist professional services support (e.g. accou ntants/tax advisors); and » Support Northern Accelerator engagement with target clusters and sector bodies, the wider innovation ecosystem and university commercialisation communities. The function holder will work as a key member of a small delivery team that engages with colleagues from across the university partnership. There will be scope for flexible and hybrid working arrangements to be agreed. Please note that this function is being advertised as a fixed term position, aligning with the end of our current CCF-RED funded pilot project. If it proves prosperous our intention is to seek to secure funding to continue these network activities, alongside other elements of the Northern Accelerator model. more information about the function and the responsibilities is at the bottom of this job description. Skills:
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