Reporting to the Chief Executive Officer, this newly created senior role is required to ensure that HIRANI’s organisational performance grows to deliver value to Stakeholders, the Board and its Funders. The post holder is responsible for developing and delivering strategic goals and organisational priorities including the communications and marketing programme, budgets and regionally important multidisciplinary projects; whilst providing leadership in connecting businesses to the region’s ecosystem enabling growth.
The post holder will be responsible for orchestrating strategic initiatives and building relationships to develop cross-sectoral programmes and attract investment at a regional, national and international stage as required. A strategic, long-term outlook and emphasis on delivering outcomes are essential components of the role.
This is a fixed term contract role, with funding initially until 31 August 2023. This may be renewed according to the success of HIRANI’s mission.
The successful candidate must have:
HIRA-NI is a not-for-profit organisation, launched in 2019 to better integrate the academic and clinical institutions with Health and Life science businesses to positively impact translation, productivity, economic growth and deliver positive health outcomes for the citizens of Northern Ireland. It is formed by an alliance of Ulster University, Queen’s University Belfast, Invest-Northern Ireland, the Department of Health and Department of Economy.
In 2020, HIRA-NI was awarded >£1m over three years by Invest-Northern Ireland to foster economic growth and help speed up the delivery of health innovations to the public. To continue to grow the ecosystem and the region’s national and international standing, HIRANI is looking to appoint a Senior Operations Manager.
HIRA-NI’s operating environment is complex working across the academic, commercial, clinical and investment sectors. You will be expected to work with a substantial degree of independence to develop and implement strategic projects and business processes. Our work is often both sensitive and challenging and the demands of the role require that we work in an agile, responsive way, often to short deadlines and with incomplete information. It also necessitates that we work with and influence very senior practitioners and policy makers on the regional, national and international stage as required.
The supporting team:
HIRANI operates as a small, diverse team, comprising of a mix of permanent and seconded staff members from across the funding partners, to ensure good communication and alignment of strategy and alliance activities. The organisation is an unbiased voice and has strong values of excellence, integrity, objectivity, and transparency. We operate this model in particular with Invest-Northern Ireland, which is the regional economic development agency whose aim is to build Northern Ireland’s reputation and to attract investment and development, creating jobs and growth.
Location
HIRANI is currently based at a Central Northern Ireland location. It is envisaged that the role can be carried out partially from home with regular local travel within the region. It is expected there will be opportunity for occasional international travel.
For full job details and criteria please see the Candidate Information link on our website by clicking ‘apply’. You must clearly demonstrate how you meet the criteria when you submit your application. For further information, please contact the Resourcing Team, Queen's University Belfast via email at resourcing@qub.ac.uk .
The University is committed to equality of opportunity and welcomes applications from all. However, our employment monitoring data tells us that individuals from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) communities, people with a disability and those who identify as LGBT+ are currently under-represented at the University. In addition, Protestants are currently under-represented in this category of work. As such, we particularly welcome applications from these individuals.
Fixed term contract posts are available for the stated period in the first instance but in particular circumstances may be renewed or made permanent subject to availability of funding.
Informal enquiries regarding the post may be directed to Dr Hakim Yadi OBE at info@hira-ni.com
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