Academic Partnerships Manager

We are on a mission to make science open so everyone can live healthy lives on a healthy planet

Who we are

Frontiers is the 3rd most-cited and 6th largest research publisher and we publish groundbreaking discoveries by the world's top experts.

Scientists empower society and our mission is to accelerate scientific discovery by making science open. We place the researcher at the center of everything we do and enable the research community to develop the solutions we need to live healthy lives on a healthy planet.

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The Role

We are seeking an enthusiastic Academic Partnerships Manager to support the Frontiers Planet Prize team.

Reporting to the Head of Partnerships - Foundation, and working closely with the operational and communication teams, the Academic Partnerships Manager will be responsible for making first contact, onboarding, and establishing long term partnerships with leading universities and academic institutions, with the goal of building and engaging the nomination network for the Frontiers Planet Prize.

Key Responsibilities
- Liaising with key decision makers at research institutions with the goal to build long-term partnerships for the Frontiers Planet Prize program.
- Presenting the concept of the Prize and its mission to this network, and to drive engagement from both senior administrators and leading scientists affiliated at these institutions.
- Acting as the dedicated point of contact for nominating scientists and the annual National Champion cohort, supporting their engagement throughout each yearly edition of the prize.
- Defining the project plan to drive engagement from institutions and our scientific network: mapping the project, key milestones, messaging, and deliverables, in collaboration with the Operations and Communications team.
- Ensure the day-to-day operations of managing the academic network of partners, with guidance from the Head of Partnerships.
- Supporting the wider Frontiers Planet Prize team with any _ad hoc _operational and engagement initiatives.

**Requirements**:

- Substantial experience in science engagement, and outreach to senior academic stakeholders.
- Excellent oral and written communication.
- Strong sense of prioritization, and ability to manage large networks of VIP stakeholders.
- Proven demonstration of project management and planning.
- The ability to work independently with sound and mature judgement, to proactively drive interest from academic stakeholders.
- Possess influencing skills and strong presentation abilities.
- Resilient, and determined to positively overcome obstacles.
- Experience with Salesforce and MS office skills desirable.
- A postgraduate degree, ideally a PhD, in a sustainability related discipline desirable.
- Passionate about driving system change in academia, to address Planetary Health.

**Benefits**:
With more than 50 nationalities represented in our global team, you will work regularly with teammates in other countries, and with our community of researchers, editors, and authors from around the globe.

Our mission to create solutions for healthy lives also extends to the working environment we provide for our employees.

This includes:
100% remote working

Employees now have the flexibility to choose where they want to work, with remote working available on a part
- or full-time basis (not applicable to some Workplace/IT jobs due to nature of role requiring presence onsite, in the office).

Learning and development

All employees have access to LinkedIn Learning (and Pluralsight for our technology team), an annual personal learning budget, and dedicated L&D time.

Wellbeing

We offer free online yoga classes, an employee assistance plan, access to the Headspace app, and four wellbeing days on top of your annual leave allowance.

Volunteering opportunities

Employees can dedicate three days each year to volunteer for a personal cause or through our volunteering partner platform, Alaya.
- Frontiers actively embraces diversity and is a safe and welcoming workplace. Recruitment is free from discrimination - including based on race, national or ethnic origin, age, religion, disability, sex, gender identity or sexual orientation. With over 600 employees from more than 50 different nations, our diversity creates vibrant teams and constantly challenges us to appreciate multiple perspectives._