Impact and Partnerships Manager

Are you an experienced and capable motivated and experienced impact professional interested in supporting and enabling research being applied to the public good? This role offers an excellent opportunity for those keen to work in a dynamic, multidisciplinary environment.

We are seeking to appoint a talented and highly motivated individual to join the Healthy and Sustainable Places (HASP) data service. HASP is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) as part of its Smart Data Research UK programme.

HASP will provide a platform for place-based research utilising data from a diverse range of sources, enabling society’s most pressing and persistent challenges in health and sustainability to be assessed together. HASP has a particular focus on two thematic pillars: Healthy and Sustainable Food and Lifestyles; and Healthy and Sustainable Mobility. Through extensive partnerships with data owners in retail, business, mobility and infrastructure domains, HASP will introduce new ‘Smart Data’ (e.g. from sensors, transactions, and devices) into established challenge areas, providing unprecedented opportunities for generating novel research questions that cut across disciplines and maximise the benefit and impact of Smart Data research.

As Impact and Partnerships Manager, you will have excellent knowledge and understanding of engagement and impact in the academic context. You will be responsible for supporting, tracking and reporting impact that arises from the research that the service supports. This includes building relationships with academic research teams, data and delivery partners in the public and private sector to develop impact narratives that represent a range of stakeholder inputs. You will support the service’s objective to maintain and build relationships with existing data providers and encourage new partners, including owners of data, to work with us. You will also oversee and carry out work alongside professional service teams across the University of Leeds to execute legal- and data-sharing agreements which underpin smart data research supported by the service.

Please note that this post may be suitable for sponsorship under the Skilled Worker visa route but first-time applicants might need to qualify for salary concessions. For more information please visit: www.gov.uk/skilled-worker-visa.

For research and academic posts, we will consider eligibility under the Global Talent visa. For more information please visit: https://www.gov.uk/global-talent.

• 26 days holiday plus approx. 16 Bank Holidays/days that the University is closed by custom (including Christmas) – That’s 42 days a year!
• Generous pension scheme plus life assurance – the University contributes 14.5% of salary
• Health and Wellbeing: Discounted staff membership options at The Edge, our state-of-the-art Campus gym, with a pool, sauna, climbing wall, cycle circuit, and sports halls.
• Personal Development: Access to courses run by our Organisational Development & Professional Learning team.
• Access to on-site childcare, shopping discounts and travel schemes are also available.

And much more!

Nik Lomax
Email: N.M.Lomax@leeds.ac.uk