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<div class="mds-edited-text mds-font-body-copy-bulk"><p><strong>Academic Affairs Manager <br />
Permanent role <br />
Location – London campus <br />
Hybrid working </strong> <br />
<b>Closing date 22^nd March 2022 </b></p>
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<p>We have a new opportunity for an Academic Affairs Manager to join the Research Publishing team. Reporting directly to the Vice President of Academic Affairs, you’ll help coordinate Springer Nature’s efforts to proactively and systematically engage with key stakeholders in the research ecosystem. Your role will be to understand their needs, influence their decisions and profile Springer Nature as constructive partners for collaboration.</p>
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<p>As Academic Affairs Manager you’ll be responsible for coordinating the outreach efforts across the Springer Nature Research Publishing division and the broader organisation. Supporting and working closely with your line manager, you will manage and coordinate mechanisms for building relationships, tracking policies and communicating/disseminating information collated from funder touch-points across Springer Nature.</p>
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<p>Summary of responsibilities:</p>
<p><strong>Manage and collate data on funders, governmental and institutional stakeholders and our relationships with them</strong></p>
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<li>Manage, maintain and iteratively improve a database that provides a prioritized summary of global funders, governmental research institutes, higher education institutions and other key organisational stakeholders. Develop and manage tactics and strategies for systematically establishing and sharing connections between funders and relevant parts of the Spring Nature organisation, including Journals, Books, research solutions and sales; identify and facilitate initiatives that leverage Springer Nature expertise and capabilities.</li>
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<p><strong>Coordinate funder/institution policy tracking</strong></p>
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<li>Based on Springer Nature staff knowledge and contact with research ecosystem stakeholders, help develop and manage a repository of policies in relevant areas (e.g. research assessment) that can be accessed by a range of relevant Springer Nature functions. Help cross reference this resource with Springer Nature public policy stakeholders to understand how government policy is impacting or will impact future funder policy.</li>
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<p><strong>Disseminate learning internally</strong></p>
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<li>Manage mechanisms to disseminate key findings from funder interactions to stakeholders across Springer Nature, potentially including but not limited to a funder relations stakeholder Hive intranet group, a monthly funder trends newsletter and ad hoc webinars/ blogposts. Complete strategic analyses of funder policy trends as required and make recommendations based on these for funder relation priorities and broader company strategies.</li>
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<p><strong>Coordinate relationships and approaches across Springer Nature</strong></p>
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<li>Help line manager to ensure that funder outreach efforts across Springer Nature are coordinated. Work closely with other parts of Springer Nature that have contact with research ecosystem organisations, including Institutional Sales, Institutional Partnerships, Journals, Books and senior management, to ensure optimal coordination of funder interactions. Help develop and maintain the systems deployed to manage key contacts and interactions in order to coordinate messaging and avoid duplication of effort.</li>
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<p><strong>Manage and track relations with a subset of target organizations  </strong></p>
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<li>As directed by your line manager, systematically build contacts and regularly liaise with a defined subset of target organisations, including funders, institutions and other organisations with overlapping interests/responsibilities such a policy-making bodies. Build a systematic understanding of key stakeholders within the target organisations, their responsibilities and the command structure among them.</li>
<li>Represent to these organizations the breadth of areas of common interest with Springer Nature (including those relevant to Springer Nature services etc.) our thought leadership activities in such areas and our constructive, open-minded and progressive approach to collaboration in such areas. Contribute regular updates of all interactions with contacts to the VP, Director and other Academic Affairs stakeholders as required and the Academic Affairs CRM.</li>
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<p><strong>Experience, skills and qualifications</strong></p>
<p>Our ideal candidate will come with experience of working in publishing and/or academic communication. They will have some knowledge of and experience with the funder landscape. To be successful in the role they will develop sound understanding of the internal and external strategic imperatives for Springer Nature.</p>
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<p>Skills/Knowledge required by our ideal candidate:</p>
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<li>Excellent relationship-building skills and knowledge of different internal functions and priorities</li>
<li>Proven strategic abilities and ability to adapt tactical implementation to changing circumstances/priorities</li>
<li>Attention to detail</li>
<li>Through understanding of the needs of key customers</li>
<li>Strong analytical and problem-solving skills</li>
<li>Strong presentation skills</li>
<li>Highly self-motivated, resourceful and achievement oriented  </li>
<li>Good collaboration skills and ability to work with cross-functional teams to achieve company goals</li>
<li>Good level of skills in data and statistical analysis</li>
<li>Attention to detail in anticipating and ensuring that key aspects of performance and of new initiatives proceed as they should.</li>
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<p>When applying for this role please submit your cover letter and CV, highlighting your motivations behind applying for this exciting opportunity. </p>
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