Cleantech Partnerships Manager

Who We Are

Simon Fraser University is a leading research university, advancing an inclusive and sustainable future. Our purpose – the essence of SFU – is to create and connect knowledge, learning and community for deeper understanding and meaningful impact. We are committed to fostering excellence, innovation, belonging and community in all that we do.

Based on SFU’s Burnaby Campus, SFU’s Partnerships Hub (SPH) champions the growth of key university partnerships and delivers on the strategic opportunities they represent. Working in close collaboration with the Vice-President, Research and Innovation and the Vice-President Advancement and Alumni Engagement portfolios, SPH plays a key role in positioning SFU as an active and responsive partner to industry, government, and community organizations. Our goal is to create value with and for SFU’s external and internal partners.

About the Role

Are you eager to support the clean energy transition through cleantech innovation? If yes, then we have the opportunity for you.

The Cleantech Partnerships Manager supports SFU’s position as a partner of choice and promotes research opportunities to help mitigate climate change by expanding academic-industry partnerships and by supporting translational research opportunities and innovation in the cleantech sector. Representing SFU Innovates, this role acts as the “face of SFU” and is responsible for establishing and managing a diverse portfolio of relationships leading to client-centric, strategic account management that fosters new and grows existing partnerships, enables innovation, facilitates revenue generation and increases research income. The Partnerships Manager works closely with researchers to support a wide variety of needs in the interest of articulating a cleantech vision, forging connections internally and externally to the university to develop and commercialize opportunities.

The successful candidate joining SFU’s Partnerships Hub will have an entrepreneurial mindset, be a creative thinker, and have strong emotional intelligence. They will build effective relationships, articulate the value of cleantech research and innovation to our partners, and manage the details while seeing the big picture.

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