Business Development Manager

Location: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3QU, but will move to the Schwarzman Centre from autumn 2025, with the possibility of occasional remote working. 

The Institute for Ethics in AI, a world leading centre addressing the ethical challenges and opportunities created by rapidly advancing AI technology, is seeking to appoint a Business Development Manager. Leading the professional services team this post will take responsibility for the implementation of the institute strategy to support the delivery of the Institute’s vision.  The Institute has recently entered a period of rapid growth with the development of two new research programmes and has plans to expand and develop new business opportunities. This post is fixed-term for five years in the first instance. 

This is a wide-ranging role demanding a capacity for strategic thinking, extensive financial and team management skills and ability to build successful collaborations with a variety of stakeholders. The successful candidate will also require strengths in governance, relationship management, and an ability to sustain and develop the current portfolio of activities as well as supporting the development of new partnerships, including but not limited to Professional and Executive Education programmes and Knowledge Exchange activities. 

In addition to a good honours degree, or equivalent, and evidence of strong intellectual capability, the successful candidate will have extensive experience of working at senior management level preferably in higher education administration; considerable experience of personnel management involving a diverse workforce; planning and project management skills, excellent analytical and organisational skills, with a proven ability to build collaborative partnerships, and handle and prioritise a complex portfolio of responsibilities and projects in a challenging and fast-moving environment. Excellent skills in written and oral communication are also required. 

Applications must be made online via the Oxford University jobs website (vacancy ID:179409) where further particulars for the post are available. Applicants will be required to upload a CV and supporting statement as part of their online application. 

The deadline for all applications is 12.00 noon (UK time) on 28 May 2025.  In person interviews will take place towards the end of June 2025.

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