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    Licensing Portfolio Specialist - United Kingdom - Jisc UK

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    Salary:
    From £47,000 per annum, negotiable dependant on experience


    Job title:
    Licensing Portfolio Specialist

    Salary:
    From £47,000 per annum, negotiable dependent on experience


    Contract:
    Permanent


    Location:
    Hybrid - flexibility to work from home and at any of our main hubs (London, Bristol, Manchester and Milton Park - Oxfordshire)
    Jisc is the UK digital, data and technology agency focused on tertiary education, research, and innovation.

    We are a not-for-profit organisation with a big ambition to improve lives through education and research by providing hardware, software, and networking solutions.

    Join us and your contribution will help us to empower UK universities, colleges, research institutions and wider customers with technology so that everyone prospers.


    About the role:

    As a Licensing Portfolio Specialist, you will lead your team of licensing managers providing expert knowledge and insight to ensure that your portfolio is continually enhanced to satisfy our members, customers, and funders and aligns with Jisc strategy.

    You will deputise for the Head of your portfolio as required.

    How? Working with sector groups, funders, customers, and other Licensing Portfolio Specialists you will develop the strategy, processes and policies, including high level requirements, that translate strategy into a portfolio that responds both to our member and customer's requirements and to the markets that your agreements operate within.


    Responsibilities will include:

    You will be accountable for the development, performance and direction of your portfolio and team prioritising resourcing, investment and enhancements in line with Jisc's product and service management frameworks.

    To keep our work at the forefront of licensing worldwide and to meet our operational, financial and environmental requirements you will regularly review, monitor and evaluate its value to achieve high levels of customer satisfaction, taking necessary action to stop, start or continue activity.

    You will set the yearly programme for Jisc's strategic groups against key sector and licensing milestones, for example the review of sector requirements.

    Reporting internally and externally to members, funders and customers, to demonstrate outcomes, impact and value. Formulate strategies, tactics, workplans and other relevant documentation to secure high level support and mandates for our negotiation approach.

    Develop excellence in staff, ensuring that staff have clear objectives against which performance and outcomes are measured and embedding the Jisc behaviours framework within the team.

    Working with our data and intelligence team to facilitate knowledge transfer across your team, across Licensing and the wider Directorate to ensure staff are kept abreast of latest developments in your specialist area to the benefit of Jisc, our members, customers and funders.


    Key Skills and Experience:

    • Ability to draft high level technical, legal or product specifications.
    • An outstanding communicator– able to effectively convey and synthesise detailed, technical and non-technical, complex requirements to all audiences
    • Empowering – creates the conditions for individuals and a team to perform at their best
    • A track record of successfully leading, motivating and developing a team of professional staff to achieve high performance and continual service improvement
    • Representing an organisation in an external environment, conferences.
    • Creating reports, briefings and presentations to senior level stakeholders Please refer to the job description for full details. Don't meet every single requirement?

    We know that sometimes people can be put off applying for a job if they think they can't tick every box, but we realise the 'perfect candidate' doesn't exist.

    So, if you can do most of what we're looking for, go ahead and apply. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles Why work for us?

    At Jisc, everyone plays a key role and gets the chance to feel part of it, that to us is the definition of a meaningful career.

    We want to create a culture of lifelong learning.

    You can look forward to a rewarding job with opportunities to develop and make a real difference to the education and research sectors.

    We believe a balance between your personal and professional life is essential to your happiness and fulfilment.

    We work flexibly at Jisc and focus on outputs rather than presenteeism and are open to a whole range of ways of working.

    It isn't about how many hours you spend at home or at work; it's about the flow you establish that brings energy to both parts of your life.

    Our hybrid working policy is flexible, and the frequency of time spent in your nominated office will vary across teams and job roles.

    Take a look at our fantastic benefits We offer:


    • Flexible work pattern, which can adapt to suit your schedules and personal commitments
    • 31 days annual leave (plus bank holidays) that includes an additional three closure days over Christmas
    • A generous pension scheme
    • A range of leave options, including parental leave, 3 days volunteer leave per annum and even career breaks
    • A generous budget to support you with external learning and Continuous professional development
    • Allocated allowance of up to £250 to equip your home office
    • A company culture which supports and promotes personal learning and development, including access to thousands of courses on LinkedIn Learning
    • Mental health first aid trained staff and supportive environment
    • Financial well-being support
    • The opportunity to donate to charity tax-free with our Payroll Giving benefit
    • A wide range of discounts from retailers and big-name high-street stores
    • Cycle to work scheme
    • Employee recognition awards and travel loans
    • Additional Flexible benefits include Holiday Buying - Purchase 1-5 days' additional holiday per annum, Healthcare Cashplan, Electric Car Lease Scheme and option to purchase SmartTech Equality, diversity and inclusion

    We celebrate diversity, embrace our differences, through our culture and employee networks and know that this is critical for our success.

    We work hard to make sure we're inclusive and we are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. Striving to be best in practice, we are working hard to achieve progressive change.

    'Always inclusive' is one of our six guiding principles - a principle which actively encourages acceptance of differences within individuals.

    We are committed to equal employment opportunities regardless of race, colour, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, class, citizenship, marital status, disability, neurodivergence, trans status, veteran status, or gender identity.


    Application process:

    Please do let us know what reasonable adjustments you need made to the application or selection process so you can do your best.

    We will be happy to help you.

    Just so you know, we review CVs as soon as we can and aim to provide an update on your application within 4 weeks of receiving it.

    However, you may hear from us a lot sooner, so please keep an eye out for our emails or calls We advertised this role on 9th May 2024#J-18808-Ljbffr


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