Senior Corporate Engagement Officer

Priority Final date to receive applications: 06/17/2026

• Job :
• Category:
  Management and Professional
• Organization:
  Research Innovation & Economic Development
• Department:
  Technology Partnerships Dept
• Location:
  
  Main Campus - UCR
• Salary: $67,300.00 - $ annually (budgeted up to $110,000)
• Date Posted:
  June 3, 2026
• Final date to receive applications:
  Open Until Filled
• Schedule:
  
  8AM - 5PM
• Full/Part Time:
  Full-time (100%)
• Level of Supervision:
  General Supervision
• Personnel Program Code:
  Professional & Support Staff
• Qualifies for Employee Referral Bonus:
  No
• UC Internal Job:
  No

The Senior Corporate Engagement Officer will be responsible to identify, pursue, execute, and steward funded collaborative research opportunities and industry partnerships for life sciences, health, biotechnology related fields at the University of California, Riverside (UCR). This may include industry sponsored research, identifying and marketing of UCR intellectual property (IP) to prospective industry partners for licensing commercialization, philanthropy, and access to UCR core facilities, student engagement, and other university assets, as needed.

Working within the Office of Technology Partnerships (OTP) team, the Senior Corporate Engagement Officer will assist in initiating, maintaining, and expanding partnerships by developing mutually beneficial strategic collaboration plans between industry partners and relevant stakeholders  Senior Corporate Engagement Officer will play a key role in achieving the university's goal to foster new, significant, long-term partnerships with industry, including supporting the Southern California Opportunity to Advance Sustainability Innovation and Social Inclusion (SoCal OASIS(R)) initiative to drive regional economic development through solutions-driven applied research, innovation, entrepreneurship, and workforce development around sustainability, clean technology, and social inclusion.

The Senior Corporate Engagement Officer will work to support the OTP team in identify meaningful opportunities for corporate investment, support, and collaboration, while maintaining strong internal relationships with university faculty, staff, and administrators who carry out UCR’s mission. The Senior Corporate Engagement Officer should be an experienced, customer-service oriented professional with the ability to communicate effectively and plan, organize, and prioritize assignments and work independently to complete assignments.

This position will report to the Senior Executive Director of Technology Partnerships as part of OTP within Research and Economic Development (RED) at UCR.

• Identify, pursue, and execute funded collaborative research opportunities and industry partnerships for life sciences, health, and biotechnology related fields at UCR.
• Market UCR intellectual property (IP) to prospective industry partners for licensing, commercialization, philanthropy, and access to UCR core facilities, student engagement, and other university assets.
• Develop mutually beneficial strategic collaboration plans between industry partners and relevant stakeholders at UCR.
• Support the SoCal OASIS(R) initiative to drive regional economic development through solutions-driven applied research, innovation, entrepreneurship, and workforce development in sustainability, clean technology, and social inclusion.
• Maintain strong internal relationships with university faculty, staff, and administrators to support OTP team’s goals.
• Communicate effectively, plan, organize, prioritize, and complete assignments independently.

Must be an experienced, customer-service oriented professional with strong communication, planning, organizational, and independent work skills. Must have current work authorization when accepting a UCR staff position. Sponsorship is not available.

Salary range: $67,300.00 - $ annually (budgeted up to $110,000). Additional benefits include standard UC employee benefits per institutional policies.