Research & Innovation Contracts Manager ( Redeployee Candidates Only )
Posted 1 hour 5 minutes ago by City St Georges Students' Union
Job number PRSV01220 School / Service Professional Services Department Research and Enterprise Location Tooting Campus Contract type Permanent Job category SALC / Clerical / Technical / Support Hours Full-time Salary min £51,753 Salary max £53,301 Publication date 28-Nov-2025 Closing date 07-Dec-2025
City St George's, University of London is the University of business, practice and the professions and brings together the expertise and excellence of City, University of London and St George's, University of London into one institution.
The combined university is one of the largest suppliers of the health workforce in the capital, as well as one of the largest higher education destinations for London students.
Combining a breadth of disciplines across health, business, law, creativity, communications, science and technology, we are creating a 'health powerhouse' for students, researchers, the NHS and partners in uniting a world leading specialist health university. We are now one of the UK's largest health educators, where staff and students have access to an expanded team of brilliant academic and professional services colleagues, combined resources and facilities and more interdisciplinary opportunities.
The merger creates opportunities to generate significant change in the world of healthcare including changes to treatment, population health monitoring, workforce development and leadership, policy, and advocacy.
BackgroundResearch & Innovation Services (RIS) provides a professional support service for research and innovation
activities at City St George's. We operate a business partnering model to work with and support our six
academic Schools located across our Clerkenwell, Tooting and Moorgate campuses.
RIS is comprised of seven teams, covering the areas of pre award, post award, research & innovation
contracts, business engagement & knowledge exchange, intellectual property & commercialisation,
entrepreneurship and clinical research support.
The Research and Innovation Contracts Manager is responsible for the drafting, coordination, review and negotiation of research and innovation agreements which City St George's enters into with a variety of different UK and overseas organisations and sectors - including charities, industry, government, NHS
organisations and universities. Service provision is key to the role, and the postholder will be responsible for providing professional, customer focussed support to researchers and external partners.
The successful candidate will have substantial experience of drafting, reviewing and negotiating research
contracts, funding and collaboration agreements, and related agreements, in a university or related body,
along with knowledge and understanding of the issues relating to contracts in a university environment.
They will have excellent communication skills and experience of communicating to a variety of audiences,
together with excellent negotiation skills. They will be highly organised, with the ability to manage and prioritise
a mixed portfolio of work.
Please note: This role is only open to redeployees at City St George's. Applications from individuals who are not redeployees will not be considered at this time.
To apply, please email your CV and cover letter to , demonstrating how you meet the essential criteria outlined in the person specification.
Please Quote Reference PRSV01220
Closing date for applications: 07 December 2025 at 11:59 PM.
Interviews are scheduled to take place on 09 December 2025
The selection process will involve a written test and an interview. Further details will be confirmed at the interview stage.
City St George's offers a sector leading salary, pension scheme and benefits including a comprehensive package of staff training and development.
City St George's, University of London is committed to promoting equality, diversity and inclusion in all its activities, processes, and culture for our whole community, including staff, students and visitors. We welcome applications regardless of age, caring responsibilities, disability, gender identity, gender reassign rung, marital status, nationality, pregnancy, race and ethnic origin, religion and belief, sex, sexual orientation and socio- economic background.
City St George's operates a guaranteed interview scheme for disabled applicants. At City St George's, subject to agreement, relevant Professional Services roles may be undertaken in a hybrid way, involving a mixture of working on campus and at home each week.
Where a hybrid working arrangement can be accommodated, it is expected that colleagues will spend the majority (at least 60%) of their usual working time on campus each week. Specific details will be discussed and agreed with the successful candidate. A hybrid working arrangement will not detract from any comprehensive induction, that will include relevant on site activities.
Regardless of where colleagues are working, City St George's, University of London's premises will be their primary and contractual place of work.
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