Senior Manager, Strategic Partnerships and Operations

Staff - Non Union Job Category M&P - AAPS Job Profile AAPS Salaried - Administration, Level C Job Title Senior Manager, Strategic Partnerships and Operations Department Academy of Translational Medicine - Leadership | Faculty of Medicine Compensation Range $8,087.08 - $12,117.08 CAD Monthly The Compensation Range is the span between the minimum and maximum base salary for a position. The midpoint of the range is approximately halfway between the minimum and the maximum and represents an employee that possesses full job knowledge, qualifications and experience for the position. In the normal course, employees will be hired, transferred or promoted between the minimum and midpoint of the salary range for a job. Posting End Date September 21, 2026 Note: Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the Posting End Date. Job End Date September 30, 2028 This position will be filled internally. It is posted for informational purposes only. At UBC, we believe that attracting and sustaining a diverse workforce is key to the successful pursuit of excellence in research, innovation, and learning for all faculty, staff and students. Our commitment to employment equity helps achieve inclusion and fairness, brings rich diversity to UBC as a workplace, and creates the necessary conditions for a rewarding career. Job Summary The Senior Manager, Operations and Innovation is responsible for providing comprehensive strategic oversight and management in all areas of administration, operations, innovation strategy, ecosystem development for the Academy of Translational Medicine (ATM). Working closely with the ATM Director, this senior leadership role oversees human resources, financial planning, strategic partnerships, policy development, commercialization initiatives, innovation programming, and facilities management in support of the Academy's mission and strategic priorities. The position provides leadership in establishing innovative programs, partnerships, and operational practices that advance translational medicine, regulatory science, health innovation, and commercialization. The incumbent serves as a trusted advisor to the Director on operational, financial, human resource, innovation, and strategic matters, while leading initiatives that strengthen ATM's role within the broader life sciences and health innovation ecosystem. The incumbent exercises a high degree of independent judgment and executive decision-making, requiring the ability to assess opportunities, develop strategy, implement complex initiatives, manage competing priorities, and build effective relationships across academia, health systems, government, industry, regulatory agencies, investors, and partner organizations within direction established by the ATM Director. The position provides direct and indirect supervision of staff and contributes to the development of institutional capacity that supports research, education, innovation, commercialization, and societal impact. Organizational Status The University of British Columbia is a global centre for research and teaching, consistently ranked among the top 20 public universities in the world. Since 1915, UBC’s entrepreneurial spirit has embraced innovation and challenged the status quo. UBC encourages its students, staff and faculty to challenge convention, lead discovery and explore new ways of learning. At UBC, bold thinking is given a place to develop into ideas that can change the world. Our Vision: To Transform Health for Everyone Ranked among the world’s top medical schools with the fifth-largest MD enrollment in North America, the UBC Faculty of Medicine is a leader in both the science and the practice of medicine. Across British Columbia, more than 12,000 faculty and staff are training the next generation of doctors and health care professionals, making remarkable discoveries, and helping to create the pathways to better health for our communities at home and around the world. The Faculty of Medicine —comprised of approximately 2,600 administrative support, technical/research and management and professional staff, as well approximately 620 full-time academic and over 14,000 clinical faculty members—is composed of 19 academic basic science and/or clinical departments, 3 schools, and 26 research centres and institutes. Together with its University and Health Authority partners, the Faculty of Medicine delivers innovative programs and conducts research in the areas of health and life sciences. Faculty, staff and trainees are located at university campuses, clinical academic campuses in hospital settings and other regionally based centres across the province. The UBC Vancouver Campus is located on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) people. The City of Vancouver is located on Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations territory. The Academy of Translational Medicine (ATM) at the University of British Columbia (UBC) is being established by the Faculty of Medicine. The ATM is a nucleus for translational medicine, regulatory science, innovation, commercialization, education, and training. The ATM is a strategic imperative for the Faculty of Medicine and has a mandate to collaborate with units across UBC, health authorities, government, industry, and other partners to accelerate the translation of discoveries into patient, social, and economic impact. The ATM drives impactful research, develops innovative educational programs, and strengthens pathways from discovery through implementation, commercialization, and health system adoption. The Senior Manager, Operations and Innovation is the ATM's senior administrative and strategic liaison for the Faculty of Medicine and central UBC units, responding to queries and directives, contributing to administrative policies and processes, participating in committees, and disseminating communications and changes in institution and specific policies of the ATM. This position develops relationships with those internal to UBC and the Faculty of Medicine as well as those external including partner institutions, health authorities, industry, collaborative research partners and others as required to facilitate appropriate administrative support and ensure consistent application of policies and practices in ATM operations and relationships. Work Performed Strategic Initiatives and Direction • Participates as a member of the ATM's Leadership Team in the development of strategic priorities, goals and objectives for the ATM; establishes and participates in ATM committees, and working groups as required in support of strategic priorities and administrative and operational efficiencies ensuring stakeholder representation. • Works under the direction of and in partnership with the ATM Director, meeting weekly to develop strategies to improve ATM operations, advance strategic priorities, and implement new initiatives. • Develops and provides leadership, direction and guidance for strategic administrative and financial efficiencies for the ATM and its members; aligns overall management and administrative functions of the ATM within its mission, vision and strategic priorities and those of the Faculty of Medicine and UBC. • Responsible for working with ATM leadership to champion a regulatory and translational science and develop and implement a related strategy with recommendations to maximize opportunities in these spaces. • Directs the development and implementation of specific initiatives in support of ATM strategic and operational priorities and opportunities; provides administrative leadership, project oversight and reporting as needed. • Works with the ATM Director and other Faculty of Medicine leadership to develop, further advance and improve interfacing education programs and to establish related priorities. • Develops and implements ATM policies and procedures to achieve administrative and financial e