Academic Consultancy Business Development Manager

The opportunity
Central Saint Martins (CSM) is seeking an Academic Consultancy Business Development Manager to join our dynamic team at King's Cross. This role offers a unique opportunity to spearhead the development and management of projects, programmes, and relationships that mutually benefit local partners, communities, and the college, contributing to our university's broader placemaking initiatives.

You'll collaborate closely with our academic courses and staff to cultivate and oversee funded consultancy and contract research projects with external partners and will be responsible for developing and managing a diverse portfolio of projects, ranging from funding proposals to private and third-sector income sources.

With a focus on new business development, you'll drive efforts to expand our consultancy income and impact, while also effectively managing existing projects and grants. Collaborating with the CSM Innovation Team and Knowledge Exchange team, you'll align projects with strategic priorities and promote academic consultancy within existing partnerships and projects at CSM.

About you
We're looking for a proactive and experienced relationship manager with a track record of working to deliver art and design programmes and initiatives with diverse communities and public and third sector organisations.

You will be highly organised, with exceptional project management skills that can be brought to the college's local engagement projects and initiatives.

Strong business development acumen with the ability to identify and cultivate opportunities with new partners, and excellent networking abilities to build and maintain relationships with relevant stakeholders will be key to the role.

We are UAL
University of the Arts London (UAL) offers an extensive range of courses in art, design, fashion, communication and performing arts. We are a collegiate University spread across London with six Colleges, four Institutes and five Research Centres.

We are ranked highly across the board. We are ranked first for specialist art and design, second in the world for Art and Design in the 2023 QS World University Rankings (for the fifth year in a row), ranked fifth in sustainability and two of our colleges were rated in the top three fashion schools in the world.

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Closing date: 23:55 on 13 May 2024.

We advise you to apply early as the application closing date may be brought forward if we receive enough applications.

If you have any general questions or require any reasonable adjustments, please get in touch via jobenquiries@csm.arts.ac.uk.

Our culture
UAL is committed to creating diverse and inclusive environments for all staff and students to work and learn – a university where we can be ourselves and reach our full potential. We offer a range of family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements and Staff Support Networks. We welcome applicants from diverse backgrounds, including race, disability, age, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion and belief, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, and caring responsibility.

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