Senior Manager, Innovation Partnerships (Clean Energy, Critical Minerals and Mining)

Location: hirify.global Vancouver Campus, Vancouver, BC, Canada

Salary: $10,459.67–$15,675.58 CAD monthly

Company

hirify.global is a research-intensive university advancing research, innovation, learning, and external partnerships across faculties, departments, research centres, and campuses.

What you will do

• Develop and execute strategic partnership opportunities focused on clean energy, critical minerals, mining, and other hirify.global research and innovation areas.
• Build relationships with industry, government, not-for-profit organizations, foundations, funders, researchers, and other external partners.
• Design and advance multi-party, multi-year partnerships, including research consortia, anchor partnerships, public-private initiatives, innovation hubs, challenge-based collaborations, and strategic alliances.
• Define partnership scope, objectives, work packages, governance, membership, funding structures, milestones, deliverables, decision rights, and partner benefits.
• Coordinate researchers and internal functions including Sponsored Research, Technology Transfer, Entrepreneurship, legal, contracting, finance, Government Relations, and Development and Alumni Engagement.
• Maintain opportunity pipelines, metrics, risk assessments, reports, partner materials, and post-opportunity reviews while escalating high-risk or complex matters.

Requirements

• Undergraduate degree in a relevant discipline.
• At least nine years of related experience in a senior management position, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Willingness to respect diverse perspectives, including perspectives in conflict with one’s own.
• Commitment to enhancing awareness, knowledge, and skills related to equity, diversity, and inclusion.

Nice to have

• Graduate degree in science, engineering, health, business, law, public policy, or another relevant field, or an equivalent professional designation.
• Experience creating or materially advancing complex, high-value, multi-party public-private partnerships, research consortia, strategic alliances, or innovation initiatives.
• Experience working in or with a research-intensive university, research institute, technology company, government agency, industry consortium, or innovation organization.
• Working knowledge of sponsored research, research contracting, intellectual property, licensing, commercialization, entrepreneurship, public/private funding models, and distinctions between research, philanthropy, sponsorship, procurement, and service activity.
• Experience with Canadian and international innovation funding programs.
• Strong business development, negotiation, account management, proposal development, financial modelling, budgeting, and project management skills.
• Ability to engage credibly with senior executives, government officials, funders, faculty members, research leaders, entrepreneurs, legal and contracting professionals, and administrative stakeholders.
• Ability to synthesize complex scientific, technical, commercial, policy, and institutional information into clear written and oral communications.
• Success building interdisciplinary and cross-sectoral teams and facilitating work among stakeholders with different goals, cultures, timeframes, and decision processes.
• Exceptional judgement, discretion, diplomacy, resilience, and ability to work in ambiguous, fast-moving environments.
• Experience using CRM, pipeline management, reporting, or other tools to track business development activity and partnership outcomes.
• Knowledge of clean energy, critical minerals and mining research and innovation ecosystems, or other hirify.global priority research and innovation areas.

Culture & Benefits

• Work within a university-wide innovation partnership mandate spanning faculties, departments, research centres, institutes, and campuses.
• Collaborate with researchers, academic leaders, external partners, government representatives, funders, and professional services teams.
• Operate with a high degree of independence under the general direction of the Associate Director, Innovation Partnerships.
• Provide functional leadership to cross-functional project teams, working groups, students, interns, coordinators, consultants, and temporary project resources as assigned.
• Employment is full time, within the Staff–Non Union job family.

Hiring process

• Applications are accepted until October 28, 2026, at 11:59 PM.
• Satisfactory completion of required background checks is required.