Research Application Manager, Sustainability

The Alan Turing Institute; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 57,000 - 62,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private medical insurance

10% employer pension contribution

Flexible hybrid working

Family friendly policies

Job summary

The Alan Turing Institute is recruiting a Research Application Manager to support the Sustainability Mission across four themes. You will understand user needs, draft technical specifications, and create demos or proofs of concept to show potential applications.

You will strengthen stakeholder relationships, design outputs, and build software meeting specifications, with hybrid working and a strong focus on impact and collaboration with government, charities, and industry.

Qualifications

• Experience in stakeholder engagement with consortium partners, research collaborators, delivery partners, or clients.
• Basic coding skills in at least one programming language.
• Experience leading and developing internal networks.
• Ability to design and apply appropriate data gathering and analytical methods for different investigations, producing reports that identify key issues and findings.

Responsibilities

• Drive the Institute's efforts to maximise the impact of the Sustainability Mission, translating research into real-world implementations for stakeholders.
• Catalyse connections between users and researchers, through meetings or distributed channels like Slack and GitHub repositories.
• Collaborate with the Communications team to promote achievements and capabilities to stakeholders across sectors.
• Communicate technical topics to colleagues and external partners via reports, blogs, presentations, and meetings.

Skills

Stakeholder engagement

Coding skills

Internal networking

Job description

The Sustainability mission at The Alan Turing Institute focuses on the safe decarbonisation of transportation networks, manufacturing processes, and critical infrastructure, to create pathways to net-zero. To achieve this, the mission uses data-centric engineering tools, pioneered by researchers at the Turing in partnership with Lloyd's Register Foundation, a global safety charity with a mission to engineer a safer world.

The Sustainability Mission is built around the following five strategic pillars:

• Technology development and translation
• Standards and regulation
• Skills, training and knowledge exchange
• Community building
• Research and innovation

We have three existing themes of focused engineering activity: manufacturing, maritime and critical infrastructure, and a fourth pillar, interpretive technologies, focuses on the interface between engineering and society.

We are recruiting a Research Application Manager who will work across all four of these themes to provide support in the technology development and translation pillar. You will ensure that the research outputs across the sustainability mission are adopted successfully across government, the charity sector and industry. Your role will be to understand the user, develop technical specifications and create demos or proofs of concept that demonstrate the potential for these methods in application.

The postholder will work on strengthening existing stakeholder relationships and identifying new potential users of research outputs. They will develop specifications for these outputs, designing and building software that can meet these specifications.

About You

You will have experience in stakeholder engagement, working with consortium partners, research collaborators, delivery partners, or clients. You will have basic coding skills in at least one programming language and experience leading and developing internal networks. You will be able to design and apply appropriate data gathering and analytical methods for different investigations, producing reports that identify key issues and findings. The ability to recognise and accurately interpret patterns and trends to support evidence-based decision making is essential for this role.

How You Will Make an Impact

• Drive the Institute's efforts to maximise the impact of the Sustainability Mission. Ensure that the outputs of the research process are translated into appropriate real-world implementations and that they are used by stakeholders external to Turing. You will achieve this by engaging with prospective stakeholders, in close collaboration with the researchers and the Partnerships team.
• Catalyse connections and collaboration between users and researchers. This could come in the form of synchronous regular meetings or it could occur asynchronously, for example, through active engagement on distributed communication channels such as Slack and the maintenance of public and private GitHub repositories to documented ongoing work within the projects.
• Work with Turing Communications team to promote achievements and capabilities in a way which is meaningful for stakeholders across relevant sectors.
• Communicate technical topics to colleagues and external partners by preparing and presenting reports, blog posts, organising and delivering presentations, and taking an active role in meetings and discussions.
• Publish - as a lead or co-author - peer-reviewed research articles, open source training curricula, and/or perspective, opinion and commentary articles, as appropriate. This responsibility will be defined to be aligned with the successful candidate's personal career goals, through collaborative discussion when they are in post.

Closing date for applications: Wednesday 14 October at 23:59 (London, UK BST)

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early or to interview suitable candidates before the closing date if enough applications are received.

Term and Conditions

This full time post is offered on a fixed term basis with the annual salary of £57,000 - £61,500. Our offers include an excellent benefits package including private medical insurance, 10% employer pension contribution, flexible hybrid working and family friendly policies - full details can be seen here.

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

The Alan Turing Institute is committed to creating an environment where diversity is valued and everyone is treated fairly. We value diversity of background, experience, and perspective, and are proud to be an inclusive employer. We warmly encourage applications from all backgrounds, particularly from groups currently under-represented in our sector. If you feel passionate about this role but don’t meet every single requirement, please apply - we recognise that great candidates may bring strengths beyond the criteria listed.