Partnerships & Exchange Manager; Engineering & Physical Sciences

Partnerships & Knowledge Exchange Manager (Engineering & Physical Sciences)

Posting

Start Date:

29/10/2026

School/Department:
Research Partnerships & Innovation

Work Arrangement:
Full Time (Hybrid)

Contract Type:
Permanent

Salary per annum (£): £39,560 - £48,337

Closing Date: 09/11/2026

The University of Sheffield is a remarkable place to work. Our people are at the heart of everything we do. Their diverse backgrounds, abilities and beliefs make Sheffield a world-class university.

We offer a fantastic range of benefits including a highly competitive annual leave entitlement (with the ability to purchase more), a generous pensions scheme, flexible working opportunities, a commitment to your development and wellbeing, a wide range of retail discounts, and much more.

The Research, Partnerships & Innovation team (RPI) supports agreed University, Faculty and School priorities for research and innovation: income generation, research excellence, PGR experience, partnership development and knowledge exchange leading to income and/or impact and commercialisation of IP and student enterprise. Our focus is on delivering professional, value-add advice and support to our community of researchers and innovators. We are a well-connected team which understands the priorities of the organisation and our stakeholders, customers and the external environment in which we operate.

Team members collaborate, reflect, develop their skills and have a risk-appropriate mindset of continuous improvement to our processes, policy and approach.

The Partnerships and Knowledge Exchange team for Engineering and Physical Sciences focuses on building partnerships in areas of research strength which will enable the University to secure income either directly or indirectly, and to lead on significant Knowledge Exchange bids.

• Support the business development and prospecting of new relationships, strategic to the Faculty/Schools
• Support the delivery of a culture of KE, Innovation and Impact and support academics on their journey
• Support key areas of impact, in partnership with the Faculties and Schools
• Facilitate internal KE Funding calls and specific impact funds, share opportunities and support applications across Faculties and Schools
• Account management and growth of existing relationships
• Support strategic KE bid development
• Impact support focusing on readiness and development across Schools

• Facilitate internal KE Funding calls and specific impact funds, share opportunities and support applications across Faculties and Schools
• Account management and growth of existing relationships
• Support strategic KE bid development
• Impact support focusing on readiness and development across Schools

• Work with colleagues in RPI and the faculty to ensure you deploy your understanding of  identify and support high quality impact case study candidates.
• Use your understanding of measuring and evaluating evidence of impact to strengthen impact case study candidates.
• Provide a first point of contact on knowledge exchange issues to an agreed set of academic Schools.
• Share opportunities and support funding bids for internal and external Knowledge Exchange funds with those Schools.
• Understand how to embed KE and Impact in research funding applications.
• Enable successful KE bids, alongside allied professional services as appropriate (e.g. finance, research support hubs), to ensure the efficient set up and launch of project processes and activities.
• Provide guidance and support to academics and researchers on translating research, innovation and education activities into KE (inc. concept, project and bid development, as well as public engagement, and…