Partnerships & Knowledge Exchange Manager (Engineering & Physical Sciences)


Company:	University of Sheffield
Salary:	Not specified
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	Sheffield, S10 2TN
Job type:	Permanent
Posting date:	29 Oct 2026
Closing date:	9 Nov 2026

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Summary

University of Sheffield

Do you want to play an instrumental part in ensuring that the University of Sheffield’s world-leading research creates positive change in the world? And do you have the skills required to grow the impact, partnerships and reputation of a research intensive University?

We are looking to appoint a Partnerships & Knowledge Exchange Manager for our Engineering and Physical Science activities

- we're one of the biggest providers of engineering and physical science research and education in the UK, with over 7000 students and an annual research income of over £100m.

You will use your experience, communication and interpersonal skills to help our academics build trusted relationships with external partners and facilitate a diverse range of research, education and innovation collaborations. These will deliver growth in income, impact and reputational benefit to the University – as well as creating new value and supporting the strategic priorities of our partners .

We are ideally looking for someone who:

● Is output and delivery driven, and motivated to create and support opportunities for engagement with external partners.

● Is highly collaborative, an excellent communicator and able to spot opportunities to build strong relationships to foster research impact..

● Has the confidence to make pragmatic and value led decisions, in line with organisational objectives and priorities.

● Has knowledge of sectors relevant to Engineering and Physical Sciences.

This exciting role will not only provide you with the opportunity to lead and deliver significant change across our Engineering and Physical Sciences activities, but also with the chance to work across the whole University, lead relationships with high profile companies and manage multi-million-pound strategic partnerships.

The team primarily facilitates academically-led partnerships, innovation and knowledge exchange with business and industry partners. We are particularly looking for candidates with experience of developing collaborations, leading projects across multiple teams, forming new relationships and strong communication skills.

The University of Sheffield has a strong culture of excellence in innovation and entrepreneurship. From our pioneering Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC) to our ambitious regional Made Together programme, our ambition is to grow on this success by setting up more strategic partnerships and by further strengthening our innovation, knowledge exchange and real-world impact.

We encourage applicants to use the additional information section on the application to show suitability for the role, demonstrating applicable sector knowledge or experience of knowledge exchange within Higher Education.

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.

Find out more at sheffield.ac.uk/jobs/benefits and join us to become part of something special.

We build teams of people from different heritages and lifestyles from across the world, whose talent and contributions complement each other to greatest effect. We believe diversity in all its forms delivers greater impact through research, teaching and student experience.

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