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Engagement Lead

3 months ago

Bristol, United Kingdom UK Research and Innovation Full time
Research England

Engagement Lead

Salary: £54,043 per annum
Hours: Full time
Contract type: Open Ended
Location: Research England, Bristol
Grade: UKRI: Band F
Positions available: 1

Closing date: 15 September 2024
Proposed interview dates: 30 September 2024 (first interview) & 08 October 2024 (second interview)

About us

Research England is a funding council within UK Research and Innovation (UKRI). UKRI is the national funding agency investing in science and research in the UK. UKRI works in partnership with universities, research organisations, businesses, charities and government to create the best possible environment for research and innovation to flourish.

Research England aims to create and sustain the conditions for a healthy, dynamic, diverse and inclusive research and knowledge system in English universities. We provide government grant funding for high quality research, knowledge exchange activities and infrastructure. We provide funding and long-term strategic direction to English universities for research and knowledge exchange activities. In 2024, we funded 135 universities; a public investment totalling £2.7bn.

Purpose of the Role

You will be part of a friendly and productive engagement team, part of the Insight and Engagement (I&E) directorate at Research England, UKRI. The engagement team comprises five posts who work together to engage across the range of universities funded by Research England; the team is the face of Research England, and we foster positive and trust-based relationships with our sector.

In line with our engagement strategy, you will nurture strong relationships with senior R&D leaders, (predominantly pro vice chancellors and directors within universities, and chief executives of stakeholder groups).

We need to work collaboratively to represent Research England well. This is a key part of working in our small engagement team of five. We support each other by:
  • Sharing the work to ensure we are well-informed about internal and sector-wide policy issues, including liaising internally, keeping attuned to debate, emergent thinking, and decision-making, both within the Research England and UKRI, and wider HE, policy contexts
  • Working together to share policy insight externally to help influence and inform our sector
  • Sharing sector insight with colleagues to help inform emergent policy and the wider HE policy landscape


Person specification overview

To be successful in this role:
  • You will have extensive experience of building and sustaining successful relationships with senior external stakeholders
  • You will have (or quickly develop) a strong understanding of the HE sector
  • You will work with autonomy
  • You will be confident in your ability to influence senior leaders and will use nuanced judgement to shape your conversations with the sector
  • You will be articulate, considered, diplomatic and self-assured, remaining resilient in challenging and fast-paced situations
  • You will need to constantly strive to see the bigger picture and have an enquiring outlook that seeks out new insights
  • You will have the ability to professionally challenge and guide people to help them understand sector developments and what these developments could signify


Main job function

The engagement team works proactively to form meaningful relationships across all the universities we fund. You will establish trust-based relationships that take the temperature of the sector. Your portfolio will be geographically spread across England with responsibilities in identified cities. Currently, this represents a strategic investment of approximately £0.5bn (2024). Within your portfolio, there will be large, medium, and smaller multi-discipline universities, as well as institutions that have a particular specialism, for example, medical and life sciences, or arts. You will visit and engage with a diverse portfolio of universities regularly, both online and in person, and seek to understand their missions, seeing their world-leading research and knowledge exchange activities first-hand.

You will take note of university strengths and characteristics and be alert and responsive to emerging issues. You will feed back the experiences, challenges and the risks faced by the universities in your portfolio and play a key role in identifying sector trends, providing advice to colleagues across Research England and UKRI. Through our work, colleagues are kept abreast of contextual issues and have access to high-quality insight. Our work enables Research England to engage in discussions which affect the health of research and innovation in England and, working with the devolved nations, develop a collective understanding of the wider UK research and innovation system. The intelligence the engagement team gathers shapes the HE policy landscape.

You will contribute to the wider activities of Research England through discrete project work alongside engagement activity. This may include projects with a strategic, policy-based or operational focus that will involve close working with colleagues across Research England or UKRI.

Activities

Externally facing:
  • Build vital, enduring relationships, engendering credibility and respect from key contacts in universities
  • Act as a source of expert advice for senior contacts in universities
  • Implement Research England's engagement strategy within jointly agreed engagement practices
  • Attend external events on behalf of Research England to engage and build relationships with key contacts
  • In partnership with other engagement colleagues, convene groups of sector leaders
  • Promote and act as a sounding board for funding opportunities administered by Research England including, UKRPIF, CCF, E3, SIPF, RED
  • Proactively seek to understand the impact of Research England's funding in universities in your portfolio
  • Work collaboratively with colleagues to keep abreast of HE policy developments and assess their likely impact upon research and knowledge exchange within universities
  • Horizon scan to educate yourself on potential sector issues

Internally facing:
  • With the other Engagement Leads, develop and implement a strategic engagement programme, primarily for self and other senior leaders of Research England
  • Work with the Head of Insight and other I&E team colleagues to support processes that systematically capture insights and intelligence, as well as contributing expert knowledge of institutions to give shape and nuance to outputs
  • Lead work with senior leaders across Research England to enhance the engagement team's understanding of emergent policy
  • Work closely with senior leaders across Research England and identified UKRI teams to share sector intelligence and enhance sector understanding
  • Support periodic reviews of the engagement strategy, helping to ensure our work is meeting the needs of Research England
  • Positively engage in identified cross council working, and task and finish groups

Outputs:
  • Co-create visit programmes/ events (for self and other senior leaders) in collaboration with your universities to provide meaningful insight into the sector to help build knowledge and understanding of our sector
  • Develop and deliver presentations and briefings on rapidly evolving sector issues
  • Represent Research England to key stakeholders, drawing on policy, analysis and insights
  • Produce or contribute to high-quality briefings and reports for senior officials, crystallising and highlighting issues of importance.

Other:
  • Undertake discrete project work alongside engagement activity
  • Undertake other work, as appropriate, at the discretion of your line manager
  • There are no direct line management responsibilities for this role.


Shortlisting criteria

(S) - Assessed at shortlisting

(I) - Assessed at interview

(S&I) - Assessed at both shortlisting and interview

Essential:
  • External relationships: successful track record in building mutually beneficial relationships with senior external stakeholders. Must be over a sustained period and in a complex sector (for example: university, the public sector, a research funder, health service, local government etc) (S&I)
  • Internal relationships: experienced in building relationships and influencing senior internal colleagues. (S&I)
  • Team player: demonstrable experience of working successfully through collaboration. Contributing to the success of other teams and contributing to corporate goals (S&I)
  • Decision making: the ability to adapt to changing situations, take the initiative and originate action (S&I)
  • Change: ability to be innovative and challenge established thinking in self and others and to offer insights and ideas with practical application coupled with the ability to drive change (S&I)
  • Written work: engaging and accurate, and suitable for advising senior leaders (S)
  • Organisation: works proactively and can plan work in line with appropriate strategies, policies, processes, and protocols (S)
  • Education/ experience: to degree level or equivalent professional experience/ qualifications (S)
  • Analysis: subtle, nuanced analysis of intelligence, using your own intuition and judgement (I)
  • Resilience: demonstrable personal resilience and the ability to remain focused on the bigger picture, responding to challenges in a calm and measured manner (I)
  • Knowledge/understanding - complex messages: ability to develop thorough understanding of and distil complex information, to communicate in a straightforward and articulate manner. Operate with political understanding and sense, in a complex environment of change and uncertainty (I)
  • Communication - influencing: excellent listening, influencing, and negotiating skills, including influencing senior leaders and external stakeholders to achieve optimal outcomes (I)
  • Communication - speaking: an engaging manner with the ability to communicate in a succinct, engaging, and convincing way? (I)

Desirable:
  • A sophisticated understanding of higher education policy (S&I)


Operational Information

Research England is based in Bristol, co-located with the Office for Students. UKRI's head offices are in Swindon and London. The post holder should expect regular travel to these sites. While expenses will be paid for travel to universities, Swindon and London offices, expenses will not be paid to travel to Research England's office in Bristol.

The post holder must be able to travel across England on a regular basis (expect to travel at least once a month, which will probably involve an overnight stay). Travel to universities/ institutions is usually made by public transport, however having a full driving licence and access to a car would be helpful for this role.

Applications

Online applications only for this role. Please submit a CV and covering letter to the attachments section (ignore free textbox for cover letter under 'Experience' section) which clearly outlines how you fulfil the criteria specified along with your motivation for the role. Ensure that the job reference number is included in the filename description of each document uploaded. Note that failure to address the above criteria or submit an application without a covering letter may result in the application not being considered. Assessment will only be based upon the content of your submitted covering letter and CV and not the 'Experience' section of the application process.

Additional information

Developing talent :

We are committed to developing employees in their roles throughout their career. Learning and development plans enable employees to continue their professional development through training and development opportunities such as e-learning, classroom training and on-the-job experiences. We encourage our employees to share their learning across teams and organisations.

Benefits:

UKRI can offer the successful candidate:

- Flexible Working

- 30 days annual leave + Public Holidays

- Access to Civil Service Pension Scheme

- Various everyday discounts through our dedicated provider

Visit our dedicated benefits webpage for more info: Benefits of working at UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)

About Research England

Research England is one of the nine Councils within UK Research and Innovation. As a key component of the research funding system, Research England will oversee UKRI's England-only functions in relation to university research and knowledge exchange (KE). This includes providing grant funding to English universities for related activities; developing and implementing the Research Excellence Framework in partnership with the UK Higher Education funding bodies; supervising the sustainability of the Higher Education research base in England; guide the UK Research Partnership Investment Fund; and coordinate the Higher Education Innovation Fund (HEIF). Research England will build and sustain the conditions for a healthy and dynamic research and KE system in English universities. They also work closely with their counterparts in the Devolved Administrations.

For more information about Research England, click here .

About UK Research Innovation (UKRI)

UKRI is an organisation that brings together the seven disciplinary research councils, Research England and Innovate UK. Together, we build an independent organisation with a strong voice and vision ensuring the UK maintains its world-leading position in research and innovation.

Supporting some of the world's most exciting and challenging research projects, we develop and operate some of the most remarkable scientific facilities in the world. We are pushing the frontiers of human knowledge through fundamental research and delivering benefits for UK society and the economy through world-class research, skills and business-led innovation.

More information can be found at www.ukri.org.

Choosing to come to work at UKRI means that you will have access to a whole host of benefits from a defined benefit pension scheme, excellent holiday entitlement, access to employee shopping/travel discounts and salary sacrifice cycle to work scheme. For more details, visit Benefits of working at UK Research and Innovation (UKRI).

The role holder will be required to have the appropriate level of security screening/vetting required for the role. UKRI reserves the right to run or re-run security clearance as required during the course of employment.

How we support EDI in the workforce

At UKRI, we believe that everyone has a right to be treated with dignity and respect, and to be provided with equal opportunities to thrive and succeed in an environment that enables them to do so. We also value diversity of thought and experience within inclusive groups, organisations and the wider community. For further information, please visit 'How we support EDI in the workforce' .

Disability Confident Employer

As users of the disability confident scheme, we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the vacancy/ies. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

How to apply

Online applications only preferred for this role. Please submit a CV and covering letter which clearly outlines how you fulfil the criteria specified along with your motivation for UKRI and the role. Ensure that the job reference number is included in the filename description of each document uploaded. Note that failure to address the above criteria or submit an application without a covering letter may result in the application not being considered. Assessment will only be based upon the content of your submitted covering letter and CV and not the 'experience' section of the application.

UKRI seeks to ensure it creates and maintains a system of openness, fairness and inclusion - a collaborative, trusted environment, which is attractive to and accessible to everyone who is interested in developing their career with us.

Additional Information
  • Organisation: Research England (RE)
  • Contract Type: Open Ended
  • External Closing Date: Sep 15, 2024
  • Minimum Salary: Pound Sterling (GBP) 54,043
  • Hours: Full-time / Part-time