Strategic Development Manager

About the Role

The School of Environment and Society (SSE) are pleased to announce that we are seeking an exceptional individual to take up the role of Strategic Development Manager.

The role is to support the development of SSE after a merger of three academic schools into one new school. The post-holder will drive partnership development, enhance employability by leading initiatives that bridge academic learning with real-world opportunities.

About You

As a member of the School of Environment and Society (SSE) Senior Leadership Team, the post-holder will provide a highly professional and strategic service, leading the School’s strategic partnerships agenda. The role will focus on developing, nurturing and sustaining long-term relationships with key external partners and stakeholders to enhance the School’s visibility, growth and impact.

The successful candidate will lead partnership development initiatives that strengthen employability, creating meaningful links between academic learning and real-world opportunities. They will also be responsible for maintaining and developing existing partnerships, ensuring these relationships continue to deliver value for the School.

In addition, the role will play a key part in supporting SSE’s ongoing integration and alignment of processes and procedures following the School’s recent formation, working closely with senior colleagues across academic and professional services teams.

About the School/Department/Institute/Project

The School of Environment and Society at Queen Mary University of London brings together three academic departments: History, Geography, and International Relations. Newly formed, the School comprises approximately 150 academic staff and supports a highly diverse student body.

The School offers a broad-ranging and methodologically plural curriculum across its three departments, fostering interdisciplinary collaboration and addressing some of the most pressing social, environmental and global challenges of our time.

About Queen Mary

At Queen Mary University of London, we believe that a diversity of ideas helps us achieve the previously unthinkable.

Throughout our history, we’ve fostered social justice and improved lives through academic excellence. And we continue to live and breathe this spirit today, not because it’s simply ‘the right thing to do’ but for what it helps us achieve and the intellectual brilliance it delivers.

We continue to embrace diversity of thought and opinion in everything we do, in the belief that when views collide, disciplines interact, and perspectives intersect, truly original thought takes form.

Benefits

We offer competitive salaries, access to a generous pension scheme, 30 days’ leave per annum (pro-rata for part-time/fixed-term), a season ticket loan scheme and access to a comprehensive range of personal and professional development opportunities. In addition, we offer a range of work life balance and family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements, and campus facilities.

Queen Mary’s commitment to our diverse and inclusive community is embedded in our appointments processes. Reasonable adjustments will be made at each stage of the recruitment process for any candidate with a disability. We are open to considering applications from candidates wishing to work flexibly.

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