Water Research Challenge Manager at Arup

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Joining Arup

Arup’s purpose, shared values and collaborative approach has set us apart for over 75 years, guiding how we shape a better world.

Arup is the creative force at the heart of many of the world’s most prominent projects in the built and natural environment. Working in more than 140 countries, the firm’s designers, engineers, architects, planners, consultants, and technical specialists work with our clients on innovative projects of the highest quality and impact. As a wholly independent organisation, we are owned in trust for the benefit of our employees and their dependants: with no shareholders or external investors we determine our own business priorities and direction.

About Arup University

Established in 2009, Arup University (AU) sits at the heart of how Arup learns, innovates, evolves, and delivers its best work. We enable our firm to see further, design better, and create lasting impact. Our mission is to help our members, leadership, and clients navigate change, deliver excellence, and thrive in a fast-changing world.

The core focal areas of Arup’s Strategy – enabling Total Design, being immersed in our markets, being agile and borderless, and providing an industry leading member experience – are all enabled by the capabilities, programmes, and services provided by AU. This includes our strategic foresight, research and innovation capability, our learning function, capabilities in knowledge- and information management, as well as our global skills networks and work in heritage.

The Opportunity

In this role, you will be responsible for delivering our Water Research Challenge, one of our three strategic Research Challenges, each aligned with an Arup’s accelerator businesses (water, energy, and SIT). No single discipline can solve these research challenges alone. Diverse disciplines must be brought together and their collaboration facilitated to develop integrated, practical, and scalable solutions and take them to market. It also requires partnerships - working closely with our clients, universities, and governments to drive meaningful societal impact and ROI for Arup.

As a Water Research Challenge Manager, you will own and coordinate the full research portfolio aligned with a research challenge and be responsible for driving high quality research with clear ROI. You will keep abreast of the external water research landscape, Arup water-related client projects, water client needs, and relevant Arup water foresight work. Drawing on your knowledge of the internal and external water research landscape, you will work closely with the Water Challenge Steering Committee to set research priorities and help Arup researchers turn their research ideas into high quality projects that align with our priorities and deliver ROI for Arup. You will facilitate research ideation activities, connect researchers across the business, and connect researchers with e.g. skill leaders, business leaders, client relationship managers, and marketing and communication teams. You will support the Research Value & Impact Lead in assessing and driving the value and impact of research across your challenge, and the Research Engagement & Partnership Lead to facilitate internal engagement and external partnerships in support of your challenge.

At Arup, you belong to an extraordinary collective – in which we encourage individuality to thrive. Our strength comes from how we respect, share and connect our diverse experiences, perspectives and ideas.

You will have the opportunity do socially useful work that has meaning – to Arup, to your career, to our members and to the clients and communities we serve. 
 

Key responsibilities:

The successful candidate will have strong programme management skills, excellent communication capabilities, and the ability to manage structured processes involving multiple stakeholders across the firm. Responsibilities include:

Is this role right for you?

What we offer you

At Arup, we care about each member’s success, so we can grow together.

Guided by our values, we provide an attractive total reward package that recognises the contribution of each of our members to our shared success. As well as competitive, fair and equitable pay, we offer a career in which all of our members can belong, grow and thrive – through benefits that support health and wellbeing, a wide range of learning opportunities and many possibilities to have an impact through the work they do.

We are owned in trust on behalf of our members, giving us the freedom, with personal responsibility, to set our own direction and choose work that aligns with our purpose and adds to Arup’s legacy. Our members collaborate on ambitious projects to deliver remarkable outcomes for our clients and communities. Profit Share is a key part of our reward, enabling members to share in the results of our collective efforts.

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Job Info:

• Company: Arup
• Position: Water Research Challenge Manager
• Work Location: Leeds
• Country: GB

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