Awareness and Advisory Manager
University College London
United Kingdom

Costing and Pricing Awareness and Advisory Manager (Secondment)

Grade: 8  (£51,474 - £60,521 inc LWA)

Departments: Innovation & Enterprise & Research & Innovation Services 

Location: Tottenham Court Road 

Please note this roles duration lasts until 31^st July 2025 only.

About Us

UCL is one of the UK’s leading universities, a world-class multidisciplinary research and teaching institution. With over 29 Nobel Prize winners and a legacy of pioneering innovation, UCL is dedicated to tackling global challenges and fostering academic excellence. Our dynamic community is at the forefront of research and innovation, creating impactful solutions to complex global problems.

Business Innovation

UCL Innovation & Enterprise is a group of specialist teams working with students and staff to foster innovation and enterprise, create links with the outside world, and accelerate UCL’s innovation and impact. Business & Innovation Partnerships (BIP) focuses on engaging with industrial partners, government entities, external organizations, and stakeholders, linking them with UCL’s community and experts. The work of UCL Innovation & Enterprise is central to UCL’s mission to change the world for the better and plays a vital role in addressing global challenges.

Research Innovation

Research & Innovation Services (RIS) provides dedicated, specialist support throughout the research and innovation lifecycle, helping to sustain and advance UCL’s position as a world-class, research-led university. The team’s remit covers awards, contracts, compliance and assurance, planning, insight, and improvement, ensuring that UCL’s research and innovation activities are conducted to the highest standards and have maximum impact.

Context

We seek a highly motivated and experienced individual to join our team as the Costing and Pricing Awareness and Advisory Manager. This role involves developing and delivering training programs and an advisory service to embed new costing and pricing practices for industrial collaborations across UCL’s faculties. The successful candidate will identify advisory needs, provide support and training on negotiations, and foster a culture of best practices in costing and pricing.

Main Purpose of the Job

• Develop and deliver awareness, advisory, and training programs, including seminars, guides, and training videos.
• Raise awareness of new costing and pricing practices and build positive relationships to embed these principles.
• Provide advisory services on costing and pricing for industry funding and support negotiations.
• Monitor and update training programs to ensure their effectiveness.
• Build relationships across UCL’s faculties to embed new principles and address issues.

Key Working Relationships

Work with stakeholders across UCL’s faculties, including the TRO, Life and Medical Sciences, Brain Sciences, and Population & Health Sciences, as well as the wider Innovation & Enterprise team, Deans, Vice Deans of Enterprise, Faculty Managers, Operational leads, and PIs.

Duties and Responsibilities

Raise Awareness

• Network and liaise to promote new costing and pricing principles, outlining their implementation context in industry-funded programs.
• Facilitate the embedding of principles across departments and faculties by working with responsible individuals to clarify requirements and decision-making processes.
• Promote understanding of how UCL’s costing and pricing principles enable equitable partnerships with industry funders.
• Encourage good practices in negotiations with industrial partners.

Costing and Pricing Policy Training

• Create and deliver tailored training programs to academics and staff where needed, including web-based seminars, printed guides, group sessions, and training videos.
• Monitor and update training programs to ensure effectiveness and relevance.
• Report progress to senior management and modify materials to meet specific needs.
• Schedule and present in-person and online training sessions and create guides and materials.

Advisory (Governance and Continuous Improvement)

• Provide advice and support for the costing and pricing of identified projects according to policy.
• Advise academics and departmental administrators on project finances and strategies to ensure full cost recovery.
• Develop insights for continual process improvement and informed decision-making.
• Undertake duties in line with UCL policy and carry out any other duties commensurate with the grade and purpose of the post.

As well as the exciting opportunities this role presents we also offer some great benefits some of which are below:

As London’s Global University, we know diversity fosters creativity and innovation, and we want our community to represent the diversity of the world’s talent. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where we all belong.

We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are likely to be underrepresented in UCL’s workforce.

These include people from Black, Asian and ethnic minority backgrounds; disabled people; LGBTQI+ people; and for our Grade 9 and 10 roles, women.

You can read more about our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion here : https://www.ucl.ac.uk/equality-diversity-inclusion/