Executive Chair, Epsrc

4 weeks ago

London, United Kingdom UK Research and Innovation Full time

**Details**:
**Reference number**:

- 282656**Salary**:

- £135,000 - £148,000- £135,000 to £148,000 per annum + an opportunity for performance related pay**Job grade**:

- SCS Pay Band 2- Executive Chair**Contract type**:

- Fixed Term**Length of employment**:

- 4-6 Years (to be discussed at interview)**Business area**:

- UKRI - Leaders**Type of role**:

- Senior leadership**Working pattern**:

- Full-time**Number of jobs available**:

- 1Contents

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- London, SwindonAbout the job

**Job summary**:
**Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)**

We are creating an innovation funding environment that embraces curiosity, creativity, and risk-taking.

At EPSRC, we’re passionate about driving innovation through discovery research, and creating knowledge in engineering and physical sciences.

**About EPSRC**:
EPSRC funds research, infrastructure, training, and partnerships over a wide field and our diverse portfolio ranges from digital technologies to clean energy, manufacturing to mathematics and advanced materials to chemistry.

We support new ideas and transformative technologies, which are the foundation of innovations that improve our economy, environment and society. In partnership and co-investing with industry, we work to deliver both national and global priorities. By investing in world-leading research and skills, we seek to advance knowledge and deliver a sustainable, resilient, and prosperous UK.

**Job description**:
To continue on this mission, through such a diverse and transformative sector, we are seeking to find the next Executive Chair of EPSRC. This is a vital and challenging role and requires a leader with the skills and attributes that will enable us to tackle today’s priorities and create tomorrow’s opportunities.

Advised and challenged by EPSRC’s Council, the Executive Chair is responsible for setting and implementing the strategic vision for EPSRC. As a visible and credible leader of both EPSRC and the wider engineering and physical sciences research community, you will provide direction, ensuring delivery of world-class research, innovation, skills development and infrastructure investment.

As the Executive Chair, you will also have a responsibility to ensure the health and vibrancy of your domain and are encouraged to work closely with and expand your connections within your domain community. This enables our Executive Chairs to harness the strategic insight they gain to build key relationships across the research and innovation system, and to foster engagement.

Engineering and physical sciences have transformed the world around us, and EPSRC’s vision is for the UK to be recognised as the place where the most creative researchers can deliver world-leading engineering and physical sciences research.

**Person specification**:
Therefore, if you are an accomplished, resilient leader, able to demonstrable a proven track record and a firm grasp of developments across this vast sector, then we would like to speak to you.

**Benefits**:

- 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 for UKRI.Things you need to know

**Selection process details**:

- Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.- This role has a minimum assignment duration of 4 years. An assignment duration is the period of time a Senior Civil Servant is expected to remain in the same post to enable them to deliver on the agreed key business outcomes. The assignment duration also supports your career through building your depth of expertise.
- As part of accepting this role you will be agreeing to the expected assignment duration set out above. This will not result in a contractual change to your terms and conditions. Please note this is an expectation only, it is not something which is written into your terms and conditions or indeed which the employing organisation or you are bound by. It will depend on your personal circumstances at a particular time and business needs, for example, would not preclude any absence like family friendly leave. It is nonetheless an important expectation, which is why we ask you to confirm you agree to the assignment duration set out above.**Security**:
- People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.**Nationality requirements**:
This job is broadly open to the following groups:

- UK nationals
- nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
- nationals of the Republic of Ireland
- relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals working in the Civil Service
- relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals who have built up th

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