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About The Department
The Strategic Alliances division of the Office of Principal Scientific Adviser facilitates partnerships between Industry, Foundation, academia, startups, and MSMEs, through coalitions, and consortia both national and international. The deliberations that followed saw demand from the industries and foundations feeding into academia and the start-up ecosystems strategy of developing innovative solutions to meet them. The Industry-Academia collaborations over the last year have supported (a) joint R&D or contracted industry R&D (b) the establishment of Centers of Excellence (CoE) by industry inacademia, and (c) finding innovative solutions for social development through the Manthan Platform. This division also supports sourcing partnerships for the National Research Foundation
Key Responsibilities
Promote and forge partnerships on scientific research and innovations from Indias premier academia for social impact with Industry, philanthropic, and CSR organizations.

• Sector-agnostic marketing and sourcing of industry partners for the National Research Foundation and Manthan Platform.
• Engage with Industry to address their challenges through academia and startup collaboration.
• Engaging with science & technology institutes, incubators, centres of excellence, and the entire start-up ecosystem
• Secondary research, outreach, and communication.
  
• Proactive in developing relationships and strategies to accomplish objectives and accountability in delivering results.
• Streamline engagements with industry partners and ensure timely communication based on best practices
• Supporting in motivating institutions and startups to apply for those projects and potential collaborations on the platform
• Any other responsibility that may be assigned
  

Qualifications

• Bachelors degree
• Masters degree (MBA or MS or equivalent) is preferable

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• Prior professional experience in business development, pre-sales and consulting sales, program management.
• R&D collaborations, CSR, sustainability or similar backgrounds preferred
• Attention to detail and taking end-to-end ownership.
• High degree of responsibility, with demonstrated supporting experience.
• Excellent client-facing and communication skills; the ability to communicate clearly, concisely, and simply, in writing and verbally, to technology and funding decision-makers at senior level.
• Must understand a sense of urgency and demonstrate strong problem-solving skills.
• Strong management skills with demonstrated ability to work effectively in teams as well as independently
  

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