Job Title

Senior Manager, Innovation Partnerships—Clean Energy, Critical Minerals and Mining

Job Category

M&P; - AAPS

Job Profile

AAPS Salaried - Business Development, Level E

Job Family

Group Staff - Non Union

Department

Leadership | Innovation Partnerships

Compensation Range

$10,459.67 - $15,675.58 CAD Monthly

Job End Date

November 1, 2028

Posting End Date

October 28, 2026

Note

Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the Posting End Date. This position is subject to the satisfactory completion of required background checks. This position is expected to be filled by promotion/reassignment and is included here to inform you of its vacancy at the University.

At UBC, we believe that attracting and sustaining a diverse workforce is key to the successful pursuit of excellence in research, innovation, and learning for all faculty, staff and students. Our commitment to employment equity helps achieve inclusion and fairness, brings rich diversity to UBC as a workplace, and creates the necessary conditions for a rewarding career.

Job Summary

The Senior Manager, Innovation Partnerships—Clean Energy, Critical Minerals and Mining is a senior business development and partnership architecture role within Innovation UBC. The role focuses on clean energy, critical minerals and mining, and advances partnerships in other industries by drawing on research strengths across the University.

Reporting to the Associate Director, Innovation Partnerships, with dotted line reporting to the Associate Dean, Research and Graduate Studies, Faculty of Applied Science, the incumbent initiates, develops, structures, negotiates within delegated authority, and advances high-value partnerships with industry, government, not-for-profit organizations, foundations,



and other external partners.

The role is accountable for generating and advancing opportunities that convert UBC research strengths, innovation assets, talent, intellectual property, and facilities into strategically significant, externally funded collaborations that deliver measurable research, innovation, economic, environmental, health, and societal impact. This position is focused on complex and multi-faceted public-private partnership opportunities, including multi-party research consortia, anchor partner relationships, challenge-based initiatives, and major strategic alliances.

The Senior Manager applies scientific and/or technical fluency, business acumen, senior relationship management, opportunity qualification, and knowledge of sponsored research, technology transfer, commercialization, entrepreneurship, and public/private innovation funding models to create collaborations that are larger in scope, longer in duration, and more strategically important than incremental project-by-project research contracts.

The Senior Manager is expected to independently generate opportunities for review, lead assigned initiatives, and drive them to completion with regular progress check-ins and direction from the Associate Director. The Associate Director retains ultimate responsibility for partnership strategy, escalated negotiations,



institutional commitments, and signing authority.

Organizational Status

Internal reports directly to the Associate Director, Innovation Partnerships, and has a dotted line reporting relationship to the Associate Dean, Research and Graduate Studies, Faculty of Applied Science. Works with the Associate Dean to align relevant partnership opportunities with the Faculty’s research priorities and connect with its researchers, while maintaining a university wide partnership mandate across faculties, departments, research centres and campuses.

Works closely with Innovation UBC Sponsored Research, Technology Transfer, Entrepreneurship, and other Innovation UBC colleagues to ensure external partners receive coordinated and coherent outreach and responses. Engages with UBC faculty, research clusters, research centres, institutes, Deans, Associate Deans Research, VPRI Office colleagues, Development and Alumni Engagement, Government Relations, legal and contracting resources, finance and administrative units, and other UBC staff in partnership-facing roles.

May provide project direction and coordination to project managers, contractors, or other resources assigned to specific partnership initiatives. The role does not have overall responsibility for managing the Innovation Partnerships team.

Work Performed

Strategy, Planning, and Opportunity Development

Contributes to the development and execution of Innovation UBC's partnerships strategy, annual work plan, and strategic chance pipeline. Independently identifies and generates new partnership opportunities for review, prioritization, and direction by the Associate Director.

Identifies areas where

📌 Senior Manager, Innovation Partnerships—Clean Energy, Critical Minerals and Mining (Greater Vancouver A)
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