Bid Development Manager

About the role

Join Imperial College London and Shape the Future of Large-Scale, Impact-Driven Interdisciplinary Research.

Are you passionate about driving real-world change through research? Do you thrive at the intersection of strategy, innovation, and societal impact? Are you motivated by the pressing societal challenges of our time – whether at the intersection of human and artificial intelligence, health and technology, environmental sustainability and/or new frontiers of space, security and telecoms? If so, we invite you to join Imperial College London as a Bid Development Manager for one of our Schools of Convergence Science.

We are building a dynamic Bid Development Team to help turn Imperial’s bold research visions into real-world impact. As we launch our pioneering Schools of Convergence Science – a cornerstone of Imperial’s new Strategy – we are seeking exceptional Bid Development Managers to be part of this new team.

As a Bid Development Manager, you will work closely with the Co-Directors of one of the four Schools to write, coordinate and deliver strategic bids and proposals that will help secure the support needed to translate cutting-edge research into global solutions.

These four Schools are designed to accelerate convergence research, amplify global influence, attract top talent and investment, and, most importantly, deliver tangible benefits in areas of critical importance to society. The Bid Development Manager will play a pivotal role in developing compelling, insight-driven narratives that align the Schools’ bold ambitions with the priorities of foundations, philanthropists, industry partners, and research funders.

With an aspirational funding target of £50 million and beyond per project, this role will be central to building strategic cases for support that demonstrate how convergence science can deliver measurable impact.

Announced as a key pillar of Imperial’s new Strategy, these four Schools will enhance our interdisciplinary research capacity, global visibility, talent attraction, and funding, driving societal impact in the respective critical areas as follows:

• Human and artificial intelligence - We envision AI that augments human intelligence and benefits everyone. Understanding how we think and learn helps us build better AI. Our goal is AI that is sustainable, trustworthy, and truly human-centered.
• Health and technology - We envision health and wellbeing for all, focused on prevention over treatment. Despite progress, challenges like chronic illness and inequality remain. Solving them requires bold, cross-disciplinary collaboration
• Sustainability - We envision a world where people live prosperously and meaningfully, in harmony with the planet. Our mission is to provide evidence and solutions for realistic, sustainable pathways, working closely with partners to drive change.
• Space, security and telecoms – We envision the convergence of these areas for the benefit of everyone, in the short and the long term, with a mission to protect, connect, and know our worlds.

This role will be supporting the Co-Directors to achieve their individual School’s impacts.

For more background and information on the Schools: 

Schools of Convergence Science | About | Imperial College London

About Imperial

Welcome to Imperial, a global top ten university where scientific imagination leads to world-changing impact.  

Join us and be part of something bigger. From global health to climate change, AI to business leadership, here at Imperial we navigate some of the world’s toughest challenges. Whatever your role, your contribution will have a lasting impact.  

This is your chance to help shape the future. We hope you’ll join us at Imperial College London.