Location: | Dundee |
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Salary: | £40,000 to £45,000 |
Hours: | Full Time |
Contract Type: | Fixed-Term/Contract |
Placed On: | 12th April 2024 |
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Closes: | 10th May 2024 |
Job Ref: | 4054 |
Do you have a background in Business or Product/Service Design or Innovation? Are you looking for an opportunity to lead a strategic project with societal economic impact, applying your knowledge to a real-world challenge and working within a design-led management consultancy to develop and deliver a new tailored service? The University of Dundee and Graft Design and Innovation Management Ltd. are seeking to recruit a KTP Associate to work on a 24-month Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) to design and develop design-led strategy and change management services for Small to Medium Enterprises (SMEs) to facilitate their growth plans.
This 24-month fixed-term post is jointly funded by Innovate UK and Graft Design and Innovation Management Ltd. KTP supports partnerships between businesses and universities or research organisations, placing KTP Associates to work on innovative, high-profile projects.
The Associate benefits from a personal development budget of £2,000 per year (allowing them to participate in courses and professional qualifications) and will manage other budgets, including travel and consumables.
In the role, you will be navigating multiple fields of knowledge (business and design) and a variety of sectors to gather, analyse and synthesise data from different perspectives to generate new insights to inform the development of a new design-led strategy and change management service. Around 70% of KTP Associates are offered ongoing employment by the project business partner: it is our intention, that successful completion of the project would result in a new role at Graft being created at the conclusion of the project.
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For further information about this position please contact Fiona Fyffe Lawson at f.j.fyffelawson@dundee.ac.uk.
We anticipate interviews will take place in May 2024, with the post starting in June or July 2024 at the latest. We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role.
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