Salary range: Up to £34k per annum plus £4k training and development budget
FTE: 1
Term: Fixed Term (21 months)
Closing date: 13 February 2022
This is an exciting opportunity for an ambitious, business-oriented
graduate to further develop their career by working on a 21-month Knowledge
Transfer Partnership (KTP) project between SSEN Transmission and the University
of Strathclyde. The role seeks to engage the business organisation in the
achievement of its strategic objective and goals through the design and
implementation of a strategy engagement ‘playbook’ and associated processes to
ensure strategy is intrinsic to day-to-day business operations.
SSEN Transmission owns, operates and invests in the high voltage
electricity transmission network in the north of Scotland. The region is home
to a vast renewable energy resource and the transmission system transports this
energy over long distances to homes and businesses across GB and beyond. This ensures
a safe and reliable supply of clean, green energy to power our lives.
It is SSEN Transmission’s strategic plan to build ‘a Network for Net Zero’.
Analysis shows that for the UK to achieve its decarbonisation targets there needs
to be a significant growth in the use of electricity, and hence in the
production and transportation of that power. SSEN Transmission forecasts that
it will invest over £4 billion in the next five years to enable that
transition. To measure success, the business has ambitious goals to connect the
renewable energy that will power 10 million homes and businesses, while at the
same time reduce its own business greenhouse gas emissions in line with a 1.5
degree warming pathway. Achieving these strategic and sustainability goals will
require significant innovation and commitment from the business and its
stakeholders.
This KTP seeks to develop and embed the business systems and people
behaviours that will enable SSEN Transmission to achieve - and go beyond - its
goals. The KTP is intended to support strategic transformative change in the
ways of working and mindset of the organisation. This is not an incremental
revision to existing working practices, but instead will bring current best
practice in management thinking to address the strategic challenge of our
generation – climate change. The successful candidate will have the opportunity
to develop their strategic, technical and operational skills in an industry at
the forefront of supporting the transition to a low carbon economy and
supporting ‘A Network for Net Zero’.
What is the Role?
The role of the Strategy Engagement Manager will be to support steps to shift
a traditional engineering culture towards high engagement implementation
practice. By exploring options for human centred and creative approaches to inclusion
and engagement, the requisite collaborative implementation knowledge, skills
and behaviour to achieve the businesses strategic goals will be embedded into
the management and operational teams. In this role there will be real
responsibility for the identifying and installing the required methods to
engage, along with implementing the processes and systems to create structural
conditions conducive to engaged strategic practice across a live business
environment.
What do I need?
To be considered for the role, you must be passionate about the role of
business in the transition to net zero. You will have at least 3 years relevant
work experience, including people-facing and team building initiatives. A
Master’s degree in a relevant business or management subject (ideally an MBA) is
desirable.
Practical experience of creative, innovative thinking to organisational
engagement is key. In addition, you will have a demonstrable interest in systems
and process design. As a strong communicator with excellent influencing and
negotiation skills you will be comfortable liaising across all levels of the
business, with academic partners and wider stakeholders. You will have high
self- and cultural- awareness and a collaboration mindset. It is essential that
you have a proactive approach and are self-motivated in identifying the best
way to deliver goals and objectives. This should be supported by a willingness
to experiment with new approaches when delivering change.
The position offers the KTP Associate the following benefits:
- A challenging and rewarding
job, with real responsibility within the work environment
- A planned programme of training
courses, including a £4,000 personal development budget
- Mentoring from industrial and
academic supervisors
- Support and resources from the
University
- The opportunity to make
important and tangible improvements in large and dynamic company
The post will be mostly based remotely (subject to Covid-19 guidelines)
or at the company premises in Glasgow.
This role will support a project that is part of the
Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) programme that aims to help businesses
improve their competitiveness and productivity through better use of knowledge,
technology and skills that reside within the UK knowledge base. Successful
Knowledge Transfer Partnership projects are funded by UK Research and
Innovation through Innovate UK and are part of the government’s Industrial
Strategy. To find out how KTP works and the vital role you will play if you
successfully secure a KTP Associate position please visit: www.ktpws.org.uk. There are over 200
vacancies currently available at www.ktp-uk.org/graduates or search ‘KTP jobs’
Please
note this is a fixed term appointment (expected duration 21 months).
Formal interviews
are expected to be held 9 March 2022.
Informal enquiries about the post
can be directed to Professor Dave
Mackay, Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship
(david.makay@strath.ac.uk/0141 548 3502).
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