Director, Innovation, Office Vice-Principal Research and Innovation

Director, Innovation, Office of the Vice-Principal Research and Innovation

M&P - AAPS

AAPS Salaried
- Industry Liaison, Level E

Staff
- Non Union

UBCO | Innovation UBC | Vice Principal Research Office

$10,459.67 - $15,675.58 CAD Monthly The Compensation Range is the span between the minimum and maximum base salary for a position. The midpoint of the range is approximately halfway between the minimum and the maximum and represents an employee that possesses full job knowledge, qualifications and experience for the position. In the normal course, employees will be hired, transferred or promoted between the minimum and midpoint of the salary range for a job.

Ongoing

November 13, 2026

Note:

Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the Posting End Date.

This position is subject to the satisfactory completion of required background checks

At UBC, we believe that attracting and sustaining a diverse workforce is key to the successful pursuit of excellence in research, innovation, and learning for all faculty, staff and students. Our commitment to employment equity helps achieve inclusion and fairness, brings rich diversity to UBC as a workplace, and creates the necessary conditions for a rewarding career.

The Office of the Vice-Principal Research and Innovation (OVPRI) provides leadership, strategic planning, and support for research, innovation, and creative activity on the Okanagan campus. This diverse Research & Innovation portfolio includes teams focused on strategic initiatives; internal and external research grants; sponsored research, technology transfer, and entrepreneurship (Innovation UBC); partnerships; and inter- and cross-disciplinary research. This position is a senior leadership role responsible for building and leading innovation, entrepreneurship, and industry partnership activity on the Okanagan campus, in close partnership with Innovation UBC's university-wide technology transfer, sponsored research, and venture creation services.

The Director, Innovation champions a campus-wide culture of entrepreneurship among UBC Okanagan faculty, staff, and students, and serves as the Okanagan campus's primary point of contact and advocate for Innovation UBC's centralized technology transfer, sponsored research, and venture creation resources, ensuring Okanagan researchers and entrepreneurs are well served by, and bring an Okanagan and interior-BC perspective into, UBC's university-wide innovation infrastructure.

This position reports primarily to the Vice-Principal Research and Innovation and works in close, coordinated partnership with the Managing Director, Innovation UBC, Innovation UBC Associate Directors and other senior academic and administrative leaders, to ensure strategic alignment with the portfolio, university, provincial, and national priorities.

Under broad direction, the position reports to the Vice-Principal, Research and Innovation, and collaborates with the Managing Director, Innovation UBC, to ensure close functional alignment with UBC's university-wide technology transfer, sponsored research, and venture creation services. The position works collaboratively with leadership across the Research & Innovation portfolio, UBC Okanagan researchers and faculties, and central administrative units, including Finance, Human Resources, and Legal and Risk Management Services.

This position is a member of the unit's senior leadership team. The position serves as UBC Okanagan's principal point of contact and champion for entrepreneurship, technology transfer, and industry engagement, building relationships with regional and provincial innovation ecosystem partners (such as incubators and accelerators), federal and provincial innovation funding programs, investors, and industry. This position works closely with Innovation UBC to ensure Okanagan researchers and entrepreneurs are well served by UBC's centralized innovation infrastructure, and to align policy, practice, and reporting across UBC's two campuses.

• Strategic Leadership & Innovation Ecosystem Planning
• Provides senior leadership for the development and execution of UBC Okanagan's innovation, entrepreneurship, and commercialization strategy, ensuring alignment with institutional research priorities.
• Leads development of multi-year strategic and operational plans for the Innovation UBC portfolio on the Okanagan campus,…