Overview

Job Title: Partnership Development Manager
Job Reference: REQ250608
Date Posted: Wed, 23 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMT
Application Closing Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMT
Location: Loughborough
Package: Management and Specialist grade 7 from £46735 to £55755 per annum. Subject to annual pay award.


Research and Innovation Office


 


Full Time, Open ended


 


Hybrid: 3 days in the office and 2 days
remote

  

Are you passionate about
shaping the landscape of social sciences, arts, and
humanities?

 

Join us and be part of the
vibrant community at Loughborough University. 

  

As part of the Research &
Innovation (RIO) Office, you will play a key role in
delivering on the University’s research and innovation
strategy – facilitating collaborations with external
organisations and developing long-term meaningful
partnerships.

  

We’re looking for a
forward-thinking professional who understands the
challenges and opportunities in the SHAPE fields and
can navigate the UK and global innovation environment.
If you’re customer-focused, collaborative, and ready to
make a meaningful impact, this is your chance to be
part of a team driving inclusive, cutting-edge
research, innovation and partnerships.

  

In this role, you will:

  

  • Play a lead role in the
    development, growth and delivery of partnership
    activity
  • Maintain a portfolio of
    relationships with external organisations in support
    of income diversification
  • Play a lead role in the
    scoping and preparation of major innovation led
    multi-disciplinary, cross-cutting and/or strategic
    funding applications,
  • Provide leadership and project
    management for collaborative, multi-disciplinary,
    cross-cutting and/or strategic projects with
    partners.

  

For more information refer to the
Job
Description and Person Specification.

   

Informal
Enquiries

Informal enquiries should be made
to Kathryn Burchell, Head of Partnership Development
and Knowledge Exchange or Jo Barwick, Senior
Partnership Development Manager (SHAPE) by email to
J.Barwick@lboro.ac.uk
 or k.d.burchell@lboro.ac.uk.

  

Applications

The closing date for receipt of
applications is Friday 12 September 2025.

 

Interviews will take place
Tuesday 23 September 2025.

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