Senior Consultant, Enabling Research and Science, Going Global Partnerships London, England
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You will Ensure global delivery of the Enabling Research strand of the Going Global Partnerships programme, including complex and innovative activities to support sustainable institutional partnerships in research and research capacity.
Delivery includes both ensuring consistent and quality activities across regional and country teams, and leading on the delivery of centrally/globally led activities.
Embed EDI, especially gender, throughout the Enabling Research strand of the programme.
Lead and manage the global EDI Review and Action Group to ensure that the whole programme embeds and strengthens EDI into the management, delivery and activities of the programme.
Accountabilities are, but are not limited to:
Programme management.
Manage the Enabling Research strand within the Going Global Partnerships programme.
Leadership & management
Support the professional development of team members globally through guiding them on the Enabling Research strand within the Going Global Partnerships programme.
Relationship and Stakeholder management.
Actively network and build trusted relationships with internal and/or external clients and partners to promote Going Global Partnerships’ impacts and interests.
Consultancy, analysis and problem solving.
Apply areas of expertise to build capability, embed/share good practice and improve performance globally within the Enabling Research strand of Going Global Partnerships
Commercial and financial management.
Manage the Income & Expenditure accounts for the centrally/globally led activities within the Enabling Research strand and contributes to business planning exercises.
Business Development.
Develop a sustainable global programme of interventions with partners with a view to growing the turnover and increasing sponsorship.
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- Experience of managing projects in the higher education and/or science sectors.
- Experience of managing internal stakeholders and working across multiple teams/regions effectively.
- Knowledge of the UK science and research sector
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32 days annual leave, plus public holidays.
Excellent Civil Service pension scheme.
3 days volunteering leave.
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To find out more about the role and to apply, please visit the British Council website by using this link: https://careers.britishcouncil.org/job-invite/39245/
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This job is broadly open to the following groups:
- UK nationals
- nationals of the Republic of Ireland
- nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
- nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
- nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
- individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
- Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service
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