Senior Academic Partnerships Director

Children’s Health Ireland Jobs; Dublin; On-site; EUR 85,000 - 115,000; Full time

Job summary

Children’s Health Ireland Jobs is seeking an Academic Manager to provide strategic leadership in shaping and expanding institutional partnerships across academic, research, clinical, corporate, and government sectors. The post holder will guide a cross-university approach to child health development, ensuring alignment with partners' plans and educational missions.

The role focuses on advancing CHI's mission, strengthening collaborations, and delivering measurable impact for children, families,

Qualifications

• Master’s degree or equivalent in a relevant field.
• 10+ years in senior management, with partnerships experience across health, higher education, public sector, international or not-for-profit organisations.
• Proven success in developing major institutional partnerships with governance structures, steering groups or partnership forums.
• Experience leading large-scale, multi-stakeholder programmes across locations and disciplines with milestones, interdependencies, risk management and reporting.
• Experience applying structured project management methodologies such as PRINCE2 or equivalent.
• Extensive experience negotiating with senior stakeholders in government, public services, academia and the voluntary sector.
• Ability to lead strategic planning in complex organisational or politically sensitive environments.
• Experience contributing to national or sectoral policy development, consultation processes, or legislative reform.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic leadership shaping, implementing, and expanding institutional partnerships across academic, research, clinical, corporate, and government sectors.
• Guide cross-University approaches to child health development and align with partners' strategic plans and educational missions.
• Advance CHI mission and strengthen national collaborations to deliver measurable impact for children, families, students, staff, industry and society.
• Lead governance structures, steering groups or forums for partnership programmes across multiple locations and disciplines.

Skills

Senior management

Partnership development

Governance structures

Programme planning

PRINCE2

Stakeholder negotiation

Strategic planning

Policy development

Education

Master’s degree or equivalent

Job description

Children’s Health Ireland Jobs is seeking an Academic Manager to provide strategic leadership in shaping and expanding institutional partnerships across academic, research, clinical, corporate, and government sectors. The post holder will guide a cross-university approach to child health development, ensuring alignment with partners' plans and educational missions.

The role focuses on advancing CHI's mission, strengthening collaborations, and delivering measurable impact for children, families,