Job description

Closing date: Tuesday, 1st of November 2022

Role Profile

ADAPT wishes to recruit an Intellectual Property and Contracts Manager on a fixed-term full-time contract basis with primary responsibility for leading the IP management activities of the Centre. The Intellectual Property and Contracts Manager will support the Executive Director and Business Development Managers at ADAPT in negotiating with industry appropriate contracts, licensing and IP terms in collaborative research agreements, licences, Innovation Partnerships, industry funded scholarship schemes, and consortium and data sharing agreements. This is a senior management role in ADAPT which will assist in driving successful industry collaboration and impact internationally. The role will engage with the technology and knowledge transfer offices of the partner universities as well as senior industry partner executives.

The IP and Contracts Manager will be responsible for identifying and executing IP collaboration frameworks with industry including issues related to IP and GDPR.

Duties and Responsibilities

The duties and responsibilities of the position include, but are not restricted to, the following:

• * Drafting, reviewing, and managing of collaborative research agreements in particular with respective industry partners.
• * Manage and negotiate licence agreements and negotiation with licensees between ADAPT partners and industry partners based on the existing ADAPT framework agreements.
• * Liaising with ADAPT partners and industry partners, technology transfer offices, and licensing professionals, to facilitate the commercialisation of research.
• * Collaborate with the technology transfer offices across all eight academic partners to coordinate ADAPT IP activities.
• * Manage the overall performance of contract and licensing agreements, completions and assignations to industry partners, research collaborators and university spinout companies.
• * Support the achievement of the primary objective of the ADAPT commercialisation strategy in accelerating the realisation of national economic benefits from the ADAPT Centre by ensuring that IP rights are properly appropriated and available for commercialisation. #
• * Liaise with other SFI centre IP managers in drawing up consortium and collaboration agreements to support Intercentre collaboration projects.
• * In collaboration with the ADAPT Director, and Executive Director, assist in the management of identification, capture and protection of intellectual property arising from research activities within the ADAPT Centre.
• * Maintain the ADAPT database of all background, foreground and emerging intellectual property and liaise with inventors to manage invention disclosures effectively.
• * Foster links with key personnel in Enterprise Ireland, Science Foundation Ireland and and other research funding agencies to appropriately leverage SFI-centred, EI-centred or multi-group commercialisation & IP activities for maximum impact.

Qualifications and Experience

Essential Criteria

Candidates must have an honours degree (Level 8) in an appropriate area. The successful candidate must have a minimum of five years relevant professional experience with at least two years spent in an academic or industry environment in business development or an intellectual property management role.

In addition, suitable candidates should ideally have:

• * A postgraduate qualification in business or technical management with over 3 years’ experience in business development, marketing, and/or strategy OR a Masters in Computer Science with over 3 years in a commercial setting.
• * Knowledge of AI or related disciplines particularly knowledge of one or more of the ADAPT Research areas: Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, Machine Translation, Speech Technology, Information Retrieval, Personalisation, Video Processing, human-computer interaction (VR/AR), data governance, privacy, and ethics for digital content.
• * The successful candidate must have strong influencing and interpersonal skills as well as the ability to work on multiple live projects with diverse IP policies.
• * Ability to collaboratively translate the IP management objectives into a set of instruments, and to implement, evaluate and review the resulting activities.
• * Ability to interact with and influence individuals at all levels including investors, business partners, and governmental officials.
• * An understanding and appreciation of the IP issues arising in the context of academic research and in particular software development methodologies, open-source licensing strategy, software patentability and IP management.
• * A willingness to innovate and implement change to support agile knowledge transfer.
• * A good understanding of contracts and research licences with relevant practical commercial experience.
• * Familiarity with research funding body regulations e.g. Enterprise Ireland, IRC and EU and their contractual terms and conditions

Essential Training

The postholder will be required to undertake the following essential compliance training: Orientation, Health & Safety and Data Protection (GDPR). Other training may need to be undertaken when required.

Salary Scale:

Professional 7 – €59,758.00 – €96,027.00

Appointment will be commensurate with qualifications and experience and in line with current Government pay policy

Closing date: Tuesday, 1st of November 2022

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Application Procedure:

• Application forms are available from the DCU Current Vacancies website at
• https://www.dcu.ie/hr/vacancies-current-vacancies-external-applicants

Job Type: Full-time

Salary: €59,758.00-€96,027.00 per year

Benefits:

• Bike to work scheme
• Company events
• Company pension
• Employee assistance program
• Flexitime
• Free or subsidised travel
• On-site parking
• Sick pay
• Work from home

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

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