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Job Opportunity: Head of Productivity and Growth:Job description:Job location: Swindon We are pursuing a strong leader with excellent communication, collaboration and influencing expertise to lead ESRC's new Productivity and Growth Team. You will be developing and delivering an outstanding portfolio of research on productivity, innovation, and growth. ESRC is the UK's largest organisation for funding research in the social sciences. We support independent, high quality research which has an impact on the public sector, business, and civil society. You will build a new team that develops, commissions, and leads all aspects of ESRC's high profile research investments in economics, productivity, growth, innovation, and technology. You will work across the different social science disciplines that cover these fields and engage and influence key partners in government and business. You will deliver and manage our £42m Productivity Institute Programme, supporting The Productivity Institute (TPI) at the University of Manchester; the Programme on Innovation and Diffusion (POID) at the London School of Economics (LSE); and thematic research investments on different aspects of productivity. You will build strong links with academic, policy, and business communities to catalyse research ideas and drive forward their subsequent development and delivery. To succeed in this function, you will have: » A degree or equivalent significant practice » expertise of the landscape of social science research in productivity, growth and the social science of innovation-or a demonstrable capability to acquire this rapidly » Strong track record of project and programme management » Excellent collaboration and influencing practice, including building a diverse network of key contacts and potential partner organisations » practice working and delivering in a fast-paced research or research funding environment » Excellent numeracy expertise, with practice of handling budgets and exercising financial control Please be aware that this is an office-located contract, however we are trialing hybrid office-home working. We support flexible working, and all working arrangements will be considered. Choosing to come to work at UKRI means that you will have access to a whole host of benefits including a flexible working scheme, a Career Average Revalued Earnings pension scheme, 30 days annual leave allowance, access to employee shopping/travel discounts and income sacrifice cycle to work scheme. Applications are handled by UK Shared Business Services, to see more details and to apply please click apply. Please include a covering letter outlining how you fit the function criteria. candidates who are unable to apply online should contact us by telephone on +44 (0)1793 867000. The closing date for applications is 17th January 2022 and interviews will the w/c 31st January 2022. Skills:
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