Technology Transfer Strategic Partner

Cardiff, Salford Job Summary At DSIT we’re all about improving people’s lives by maximising the potential of science & technology. We accelerate innovation, investment and productivity through world-class science, research and development. We use technology for good by ensuring new and existing technologies are safely developed and deployed across the UK, with the benefits more widely shared. We are driving forward a modern digital government which gives citizens a more satisfying experience and their time back. We do all this to enable the Government’s 5 national missions: kickstarting economic growth, making Britain a clean energy superpower, taking back our streets, breaking down barriers to opportunity and building an NHS fit for the future. Above all, we focus on improving people’s lives. Whether it’s researching new treatments for disease, developing better batteries, reducing burdens through better public services, keeping children safe online, and much more, outcomes for citizens are at the heart of what we do. Our Inclusive Environment We offer flexible working benefits, employee well-being support and a great pension. We are enormously proud to be a Disability Confident Leader employer. We support candidates with adjustments throughout our recruitment process. Information about disability confidence and just some examples of the adjustments that you can request can be found in the reasonable adjustment section below. The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan and the Civil Service D&I Strategy. Find Out More We regularly run events where you can find out more about the department and tips for the application and interview process. You can sign up for upcoming events here: https://forms.office.com/e/Jae3B4w7xm You can also follow our LinkedIn Page: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/dsitcareers/ Job Description The Government Office for Technology Transfer has developed an exciting portfolio of projects and found untapped potential across a range of public sector organisations. We’re looking for someone to join our team with the right skills and aptitudes to help us translate these opportunities into impactful commercial outcomes. If you’d like to be part of our dynamic and fun team, enthused by the chance to make a difference, read on. The UK’s public sector is a thriving source of innovation and the Government Office for Tech Transfer (GOTT) has been set up to deliver a step change in the management and exploitation of public sector Knowledge Assets (KAs).KAs are intangible assets such as inventions, designs, data and information, creative outputs, know-how and expertise. Current guidance on managing and exploiting KAs is summarised in the Rose Book, that the team published in late 2021 and that is available on GOV.UK. GOTT sits within the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT), based in the Science, Innovation and Growth group. GOTT is a multi-disciplinary team that includes policy, operations, and technology transfer expertise. We value diverse experiences and skills within our team – these are necessary to deliver our ambitious agenda and they make GOTT an interesting, innovative, and exciting place to work. The Government Office for Technology Transfer has developed an exciting portfolio of projects and found untapped potential across a range of public sector organisations. We’re looking for someone to join our team with the right skills and aptitudes to help us translate these opportunities into impactful commercial outcomes. If you’d like to be part of our dynamic and fun team, enthused by the chance to make a difference, read on. The UK’s public sector is a thriving source of innovation and the Government Office for Tech Transfer (GOTT) has been set up to deliver a step change in the management and exploitation of public sector Knowledge Assets (KAs).KAs are intangible assets such as inventions, designs, data and information, creative outputs, know-how and expertise. Current guidance on managing and exploiting KAs is summarised in the Rose Book, that the team published in late 2021 and that is available on GOV.UK. GOTT sits within the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT), based in the Science, Innovation and Growth group. GOTT is a multi-disciplinary team that includes policy, operations, and technology transfer expertise. We value diverse experiences and skills within our team – these are necessary to deliver our ambitious agenda and they make GOTT an interesting, innovative, and exciting place to work. Person specification Key Responsibilities We are looking to appoint a Grade 7 Technology Transfer Strategic Partner (TTSP) to join the TT Strategic Partnerships team in GOTT. The TTSP will collaborate closely with public sector organisations to improve their understanding and awareness of KA management and, in turn, unlock potential value, helping to create a more entrepreneurial culture. This includes supporting exploitation (as a lead, or as an advisor), to drive tangible outcomes and enhance awareness and capability across the public sector. As a TTSP, You Will Join a Relatively New Team And Play Your Part In Creating a New Model To Deliver KA Commercial Outcomes Across The Public Sector. You Will Work Across a Range Of Public Sector Organisations (our “clients”) To

• Support KA strategy development and provide advice on KA management specific to each organisation within your portfolio.
• Closely collaborate with clients to seek out opportunities for KA commercialisation and actively support the next steps to do this.
• Identify gaps in currently available support, and signpost to other support mechanisms where additional specialist expertise is required.
• Engage with external partners including professional service providers, potential ustomers and investors.
• Support the organisations in your portfolio to develop skills and mechanisms for identifying, protecting, and prioritising KAs, helping to grow the maturity of theirstrategies and operations.
• Condense and communicate your findings for wider GOTT and senior officials, ensuring clarity and concision when speaking to a non-technical audience.
• Act as an ambassador for GOTT, helping to boost its external reputation.
• Support the continuous improvement of GOTT's business model so it becomes a “go to” source of expertise.

GOTT is headquartered in DSIT’s Salford office, with some staff based in other DSIT locations. This role is being recruited to either the DSIT’s Salford or Cardiff office. Although based in a regional hub, your portfolio will reflect the sectors for which you are responsible, so you'll work with relevant clients outside of your region. Travel to client sites and other office locations in the UK will be required. There may be opportunities in the wider team for reserve list Candidates. Essential Criteria

• Demonstrable expertise in supporting the commercialisation of new technologies, products and/or processes.
• Demonstrable expertise in identifying and evaluating the market potential for new products or services based on intellectual property or other intangible assets, or more general expertise in R&D or innovation management.
• Demonstrable strong leadership skills, with a track record of working collaboratively and building positive relationships with senior leaders and external customers.
• Demonstrable excellent written and verbal communication skills which you can adapt to suit different audiences.
• Demonstrable ability to operate across multiple domains and subject areas, including those in which clients and customers operate.

Desirable Criteria

• A strong understanding of intellectual property and the role it plays in innovation and business.
• Professional experience in developing or supporting IP management and commercialisation strategies, licensing, corporate partnerships and new venture creation.
• Professional experience working with venture capital investors and/or start-up support programmes.
• The ability to develop effective written briefings for senior decision makers, including ministers.
• Familiarity with software and data commercialisation.

Behaviours We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Leadership
• Working Together
• Communicating and Influencing
• Making Effective Decisions

Alongside your salary of £54,415, Department for Science, Innovation & Technology contributes £15,764 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides. The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology offers a competitive mix of benefits including:

• A culture of flexible working, such as job sharing, homeworking and compressed hours.
• Automatic enrolment into the Civil Service Pension Scheme, with an employer contribution of 28.97%.
• A minimum of 25 days of paid annual leave, increasing by 1 day per year up to a maximum of 30.
• An extensive range of learning & professional development opportunities, which all staff are actively encouraged to pursue.
• Access to a range of retail, travel and lifestyle employee discounts.

Office attendance The Department operates a discretionary hybrid working policy, which provides for a combination of working hours from your place of work and from your home in the UK. The current expectation for staff is to attend the office or non-home based location for 40-60% of the time over the accounting period. Selection process details This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours and Experience. After submission of the first stage of your application you will be invited to complete a Civil Service Judgement Test and Civil Service Work Strengths Test. If you successfully pass the test, you will be invited to complete the final stage of the application. Please complete the online tests as soon as possible (within 24-48 hours is recommended), the closing date for the tests is 23:55 on 24/04/2025. If you fail to complete the online test before the deadline your application will be withdrawn. Guidance for the test will be available when you are invited to take the test. The tests are administered online and accessed via the CS Jobs website. As part of the application process you will be asked to complete a CV, personal statement, and behavioural statements. Further details around what this will entail are listed on the application form. Please use your personal statement (in no more than 500 words) to explain why you would like to be a Technology Transfer Strategic Partner, and why you think you would be suitable for the role. You should provide evidence which demonstrates how your skills and experience align with the requirements of this role. We recommend that you give clear and specific examples for each criteria, including the impact of your actions. Applications will be sifted on behavioural statements and personal statement. Please note - the CV incorporated into the application form is for information purposes only and will not be scored. In the event of a large number of applicants, applications will be sifted on the personal statement. Candidates who pass the initial sift may be progressed to a full sift, or progressed straight to assessment/interview. The interview will consist of behaviour questions. Interviewees will be asked to deliver a presentation; further details will be provided nearer the time. Sift and interview dates to be confirmed. Further InformationReasonable Adjustment We are proud to be a disability confident leader and we welcome applications from disabled candidates and candidates with long-term conditions. Information about the Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) and some examples of adjustments that we offer to disabled candidates and candidates with long-term health conditions during our recruitment process can be found in our DSIT Candidate Guidance. A DSIT Plain Text Version of the guidance is also available. We encourage candidates to discuss their adjustment needs by emailing the job contact which can be found under the contact point for applicants section. If you are experiencing accessibility problems with any attachments on this advert, please contact the email address in the 'Contact point for applicants' section. If successful and transferring from another Government Department a criminal record check may be carried out. New entrants are expected to join on the minimum of the pay band. A location based reserve list of successful candidates will be kept for 12 months. Should another role become available within that period you may be offered this position. Please note terms and conditions are attached. Please take time to read the document to determine how these may affect you. Any move to the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology from another employer will mean you can no longer access childcare vouchers. This includes moves between government departments. You may however be eligible for other government schemes, including Tax Free Childcare; for further information visit the Childcare Choices website. DSIT does not normally offer full home working (i.e. working at home); but we do offer a variety of flexible working options (including occasionally working from home). DSIT cannot offer Visa sponsorship to candidates through this campaign. DSIT holds a Visa sponsorship licence but this can only be used for certain roles and this campaign does not qualify. In order to process applications without delay, we will be sending a Criminal Record Check to Disclosure and Barring Service on your behalf. However, we recognise in exceptional circumstances some candidates will want to send their completed forms direct. If you will be doing this, please advise Government Recruitment Service of your intention by emailing Pre-EmploymentChecks.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk stating the job reference number in the subject heading. Applicants who are successful at interview will be, as part of pre-employment screening, subject to a check on the Internal Fraud Database (IFD). This check will provide information about employees who have been dismissed for fraud or dishonesty offences. This check also applies to employees who resign or otherwise leave before being dismissed for fraud or dishonesty had their employment continued. Any applicant’s details held on the IFD will be refused employment. A candidate is not eligible to apply for a role within the Civil Service if the application is made within a 5 year period following a dismissal for carrying out internal fraud against government. Feedback Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment. This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours and Experience. Security Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check. People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks. Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check. People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks. Nationality requirements This Job Is Broadly Open To The Following Groups

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window) Working for the Civil Service The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants. We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window). The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria. The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy. The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants. We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window). The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria. The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy. Diversity and Inclusion The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan (opens in a new window) and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window). This vacancy is part of the Great Place to Work for Veterans (opens in a new window) initiative. The Civil Service welcomes applications from people who have recently left prison or have an unspent conviction. Read more about prison leaver recruitment (opens in new window). Once this job has closed, the job advert will no longer be available. You may want to save a copy for your records. Contact point for applicants Job Contact

• Name : Ben Oakley
• Email : ben.oakley@dsit.gov.uk

Recruitment team

• Email : dsitresourcing.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk

Further information Appointment to the Civil Service is governed by the Civil Service Commission’s Recruitment Principles. If you feel that your application has not been treated in accordance with the recruitment principles, and wish to make a complaint, then you should contact in the first instance DSITrecruitment.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk . If you are not satisfied with the response that you receive, then you can contact the Civil Service Commission. For further information on bringing a complaint to the Civil Service Commission please visit their web pages: Click here to visit Civil Service Commission/Complaints.