Deputy Director of Undaunted – London

Imperial College London is seeking a full-time Deputy Director for Undaunted in London. The role involves leading climate innovation programs, managing a team, and contributing to strategic development and fundraising. Candidates should have experience in strategic leadership, project management, and cleantech innovation. The position includes teaching responsibilities and aims to support climate change innovation through ecosystem building and talent development.
Deputy Director of Undaunted

Job Type: Full-Time.

Starting Salary: £68005 – £77703 per annum plus benefits

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About the role

We are looking for a candidate with passion and expertise in building programmes and ecosystems to support climate change innovation to take a leadership role in Imperial’s green innovation activities. You will work directly with the Director of Undaunted to continue to deliver and develop many of Undaunted’s existing programmes, and to develop and explore new opportunities to deliver real-world impact through science-based innovation.

What you would be doing

You will act as a complement to the current Director of Undaunted, acting as their Deputy overall and leading a number of Undaunted’s activities. As a senior member of the Undaunted management team, the postholder will help us determine and develop our direction and growth within the current and changing landscape of climate innovation, bringing strategic ideas and leadership capabilities to the job.

Undaunted’s work is currently organised across four areas: Building the pipeline of ideas and talented individuals that can become the climate inventions and entrepreneurs of tomorrow; Incubating early stage businesses emerging from that pool and wider; Enriching and supporting climate innovation ecosystems in London, the UK and globally; and Building the bridge between early-stage innovators and the markets and businesses that they serve. This post-holder will hold primary responsibility for running and developing two of these strands: pipeline development, and ecosystem building.

As part of your role in leading those areas of our work, you will manage six direct reports, and a wider sub-team that totals 10 people, contribute to our strategic development and fundraising efforts and will take on responsibility for a number of key internal and external stakeholders.

As an expert in climate innovation, the postholder will also have a formal teaching role, leading modules on our Master’s programmes in CleanTech Innovation and in Climate Change, Management and Finance.

You will work with colleagues in the Imperial Enterprise community and in Undaunted to ensure the delivery of a wide range of high-quality support programmes for the climate innovation community and continued insight into what is needed by our various communities. In this role you will be creative and ambitious – helping us to innovate our role in the innovation community.

What we are looking for
• A track record of strategic leadership
• All round programme and project management skills, ideally with experience of managing a variety of diverse projects
• Successful experience of innovation delivery activities, preferably with an impact focus
• Understanding of prevailing market barriers to cleantech innovation development, commercialisation and growth and how these can be addressed
• Team management experience
• Excellent communication, stakeholder engagement and commercial skills

What we can offer you
• Become a leader at Undaunted – one of the largest dedicated climate innovation units in Europe.
• The opportunity to continue your career at a world-leading institution and be part of our mission to continue science for humanity
• Benefit from sector-leading salary and remuneration package (including 39 days off a year and generous pension schemes)
• Get access to a range of workplace benefits including a flexible working policy from day 1, generous family leave packages, on-site leisure facilities and a cycle-to-work scheme
• Interest-free season ticket loan schemes for travel
• Be part of a diverse, inclusive, and collaborative work culture with various staff networks and resources designed to support your personal and professional wellbeing.

Further information

This role is full-time, fixed term for three years.

If you are thinking about applying for this job and want to discuss it further please contact Director of Innovation Alyssa Gilbert – a.gilbert@imperial.ac.uk .

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Should you have any queries about the application process, please contact Gosia Gayer, g.gayer@imperial.ac.uk .