Bragg Centre Manager

Location: Leeds - Main Campus

Working time: 37.5 hours per week

Contract type: Ongoing

Interview date: Monday 30^th June 2025

Are you an experienced professional looking to further your career in one of the UK’s leading research-intensive universities? Are you keen to help progress a leading advanced materials research centre by building new relationships across a diverse range of research disciplines and with external partners? Do you have a background in developing high-quality research and innovation?

We are looking for a confident and proactive individual to help implement the Bragg Centre’s research and innovation strategy, and to maximise the reputation, research impact, and internal and external partnerships of the Centre.

As Manager of the Bragg Centre for Materials Research (www.leeds.ac.uk/bragg), you will drive engagement, collaboration, and cohesion across the breadth of the advanced materials research community at Leeds, comprising more than 400 members. Alongside the Director, and taking guidance from the management committee and external advisory board, you will set the Centre’s strategic direction. You will take responsibility for translating that vision into practice to build the Centre’s reputation as a place in which to conduct world-leading materials research and engineering. Your role will also require the co-development of new activities with the Henry Royce Institute of Advanced Materials (www.royce.ac.uk) of which Leeds is a founding partner.

You will maximise research impact by leading promotional, communication and engagement strategies. You will harness existing and develop new relationships to align the Centre strategically with other research Centres and Institutes at the University of Leeds, helping to develop a network of research and innovation strengths. 

Your role will require management, engagement, reporting and administrative functions, as well as a willingness to support public engagement and schools outreach commitments. You will be part of an established team, and will be supported in your role by a Centre Administrator and Communications Officer, both of whom you will line manage. The role will necessitate working with a wide range of stakeholders across and beyond the University of Leeds, including: senior University management; senior academics and early career researchers; industrial partners; marketing and communications staff; facility managers and technical officers; research and innovation professionals; and, professional support staff. 

You will bring a proven track record of leadership and management and/or administrative experience in a Higher Education institution, or equivalent, along with the ability to develop and implement new strategies to ensure the long-term sustainability of the Centre. You will possess outstanding interpersonal and communication skills, and have a demonstrable track record of showing initiative, creativity and diplomatic problem solving.

We are open to discussing flexible working arrangements

To explore the post further or for any queries you may have, please contact:

Professor Edmund Linfield, Director of the Bragg Centre for Materials Research, and Research Area Lead for Atoms to Devices in the Royce Institute

Email: e.h.linfield@leeds.ac.uk

Dr Rachel Curwen, Director of Research and Innovation Development, Research and Innovation Service

Email: r.curwen@leeds.ac.uk

For informal enquiries, please contact the Bragg Centre Team on BraggCentre@leeds.ac.uk

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