Innovation Lead - Swindon, United Kingdom - Spinwell

Spinwell
Spinwell
Verified Company
Swindon, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

Tom O´Connor

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Role:
Innovation Lead REF 65611

Contract Length: 6 months

Location:

Hybrid/Swindon - attend the office at least twice a month in Swindon and the remaining time can be worked remotely.


IR35:
Inside

Pay Rate to Intermediary:
£650 per day

Security Clearance:

DBS
Spinwell is recruiting for an Innovation Lead for an excellent opportunity within the public sector.


RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE INNOVATION LEAD

  • As the Innovation Lead, this role will be responsible for managing, implementing and delivering Agency's Smart Accelerator programme, ensuring significant, measurable positive impact to UK's innovation based SMEs in particular, and the UK economy in general.
  • The individual needs to reflect our ambition in helping to demonstrate the amazing role that the agency plays as part of client, and as the UK's Agency in keeping the UK at the forefront of worldwide innovation and technologies.

SKILLS/EXPERIENCE OF THE INNOVATION LEAD

  • Have a current level of experience which corresponds to completed R&D with a view to swift commercialisation, of at least four years in a field related to breakthrough technology and/or deeptech innovation
  • Proven, verified experience recognised by peers in an area of science and technology research and entrepreneurship, taking innovative / novel concepts to commercialisation and how these can be concretely supported and promoted by IUK's Smart Accelerator
  • Proven ability to swiftly identify and understand critical criteria necessary for the successful implementation of the client corporate framework as well as any other metrics on which the programme needs to be based
  • Be responsible and accountable for delivery of the programme
  • Proven ability to identify and effectively engage key stakeholders including line manager with regular reporting arrangements in the required formats (to be agreed)
  • Demonstrate the necessary experience that will help understand the value of, and how to capitalise on client's EDI arrangements
  • Quickly gain traction in engagement with the broader Research and Innovation ecosystems to stimulate synergies and coherence across initiatives, programmes and challenge teams within and outside of the client, for higher impact from Smart Accelerator funded deeptech
  • Ability to set up a practical, deliverable and value for money framework assisting funding awardees on their journey from earlystage research to impact. Eg. by working with partners such as KTN and EDGE as well as other govt bodies to ensure timely IP protection; or connecting them to other relevant researchers, potential users, businesses, innovators or investors, to pickup emerging trends, know the leading researchers, innovators and investors; and so be able to quickly pivot projects, launch timely initiatives and identify experts to advise on, for example, technical due diligence.
  • Demonstrate experience in, and understanding of, how to encourage serendipitous crossfertilisation between different disciplines ('hard' and 'soft' ones) or sectors

Job Types:
Full-time, Temporary contract
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