Appointment brief Appointment of Managing Director 2021 Reference: ZANAMB

Appointment brief
Appointment of Managing Director
2021
Reference: ZANAMB

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About UCLPartners
We work in partnership across our three pillars of research, innovation and education to
improve health and clinical care for more than six million people served by our NHS
partners. Our work also has national and international influence.

Working across the translational pathway, we accelerate research and innovation into
practice.

We achieve this by:

    •   Applying the skills of our talented and flexible team, in collaboration with and
        drawing on the considerable strengths of our academic and healthcare partners
    •   Bringing together the combined strengths of six innovation and research
        commissions into an academic health science partnership
    •   Co-creating, testing and implementing innovative healthcare solutions to identified
        problems in our community, and fostering the wider spread and adoption of these
        solutions.

We work across a broad and diverse geography. Our member organisations cover a
population of more than 6 million across parts of North and East London, Essex,
Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire. We also work across London, nationally and globally to co-
create, test and implement solutions that improve health.

Our approach is entrepreneurial and flexible, so that we can respond to the most pressing
needs of our population. Our strength comes from the quality of our team and our ability
to convene and draw on the considerable strengths of our academic and healthcare
partners, facilitating collaborative working across their organisations to the benefit of
patients who live, work and access health and care across the partnership.

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The Role
UCLPartners represents and delivers on the collective ambitions of the partnership in the
areas of research, innovation and education. Six national research and innovation
commissions fall within the UCLPartners academic health science partnership and it is the
role of the managing director to find opportunity for alignment and focus to meet these
ambitions.

The Managing Director will work closely with the leaders of the innovation and research
commissions and partner NHS trust CEOs to set a strategy to improve care for the more
than 6 million people that access health and care in our partnership covering North Central
London, East London, Essex, Hertfordshire (in part) and Bedfordshire (in part). The role
requires a precise focus on population level interventions rather than single episodes of
care, developing a vision that binds every provider of health and care across the
partnership.

The Managing Director is the principal accountable executive officer of UCLPartners and
will support the Chair, the Board and its partners by ensuring that the company achieves its
annual objectives, financial sustainability, and develops the image, reputation and influence
of the partnership.

Building on the above, there are three main aspects to the role.

Leading the Company
Leading all aspects of a medium-sized company/social enterprise of 100 staff. This ranges
from business development opportunities and financial sustainability to providing guidance
and support to a high-trust organisational culture, a strong senior leadership team and a
group of extraordinary staff.

Supporting Partners
Understanding and articulating the collective vision of the partners and inspiring and
exciting them around the vision and opportunities for the partnership.

Stakeholder engagement
UCLPartners is unique in having six innovation and research commissions under one
umbrella. Harnessing the opportunities this presents at a local, regional, national and
international level is instrumental to the future of UCLPartners and the health and care
infrastructure.

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Key Responsibilities
• To prepare and implement an updated strategy for UCLPartners

• To liaise with partners to identify, work up and implement projects that will further the
aims of improved care and health in UCLPartners’ population in accordance with the
strategy

• To create opportunities that ensure a diverse portfolio of income sources to deliver future
financial sustainability for the organisation and provide freedom and flexibility on the
agenda and work programmes

• To promote the adoption of cutting-edge research, successful innovations and excellence
in education across the partnership

•To uphold successful company operations and implement business strategies that
improve care for patients across the partnership

• Provide strategic leadership and empower a team to maximise performance across a
portfolio of programmes and commissions in a highly ambiguous environment

• To build relationships with the commercial sector to promote partnership working and/or
as a source of funds

• To establish effective working relationships with a wide range of healthcare, social care
and academic partners across and beyond the membership organisations including chairs,
chief executives, board directors, research directors and NHS senior leaders

• To support the Chair in the leadership and work of the Board; and to work with the Chair
and the Academic Director to fulfil an ambassadorial role for UCLPartners

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The Candidate
UCLPartners is seeking to appoint an exceptional individual to take on this critical
leadership role. The ideal candidate will have experience as a senior executive leader of a
complex, professionally based organisation in the health and social care, voluntary,
academia or medical research sectors. They will have a demonstrable track record of
authentic leadership and the ability to work in partnership with and influence a wide range
of individuals and groups in professional organisation and with external stakeholders.
Additionally, the candidate will be entrepreneurial in their ability to generate income to an
increasingly diverse portfolio to support and enable partnership working.

Specifically, the following attributes are sought:

• A visible and dynamic leader who role-models partnership working and provides
supportive leadership from the side, has a strong personal impact and credibility, and
commands confidence, quickly gaining respect both inside the organisation and with
broader stakeholders

• Significant leadership and management experience working with healthcare and medical
science

• Experience navigating ambiguity with confidence and trust

• Demonstrable adaptability and resilience in both a personal and leadership capacity

• Experience of developing effective strategies and the proven ability to articulate and
embed the vision for an organisation

• Experience in securing funding to ensure a diverse income portfolio

• Intellectual rigour with an ability to analyse complex issues with speed, to think and plan
strategically and to exercise sound judgement

• Experience of developing strong, collaborative, and productive working relationships with
individuals at an executive level in partner organisations as well as wider stakeholders

• The ability to represent complex and challenging issues to external stakeholders in
science and healthcare and more widely across academia, the NHS and government

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Terms of appointment
The Managing Director will be accountable to the Board via the Chair who will review the
Managing Director’s performance annually. This post is based in London.
The position is permanent, and a highly attractive remuneration package will be available
for the chosen candidate.

How to apply
Saxton Bampfylde Ltd is acting as an employment agency advisor to UCLPartners on this
appointment.

Candidates should apply for this role through our website at
www.saxbam.com/appointments using code ZANAMB.

Click on the ‘apply’ button and follow the instructions to upload a CV and cover letter, and
complete the online equal opportunities monitoring* form.

The closing date for applications is noon on Monday 13th September 2021.

* The equal opportunities monitoring online form will not be shared with anyone involved
in assessing your application. Please complete as part of the application process.

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