Intellectual Property Manager

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Full time
Location: Didcot
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Job offered by: UKAEA
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Category:
As an employee of UKAEA you will benefit from:

Outstanding

defined benefit pension scheme,

details of which can be found at the end of this advert.

Corporate

bonus scheme up to

7

%

and a

Relocation

allowance (if eligible).

Flexible working options

including family friendly policies and the right to request flexible working from the start of your employment.

Employee Assistance Programme

and trained Mental Health First Aiders.

Generous annual leave

allowance starting with 25 days, plus 3 days Christmas closure and 2.5 privilege days, in addition to UK bank holidays.

A vibrant

culture

committed to equality and being fully

inclusive.

The salary for this role is

£67,023 (inclusive of a Market Premium Payment (MPP)) , and

onsite working

is expected for 3

days each week.

Job Description

This role is based at

Culham, Oxfordshire.

This role requires employees to

complete an online Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) , including The Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) checks for criminal convictions.

The Role

Are you looking for an exciting opportunity to make a difference? In this role, you will drive Intellectual Property activities at UKAEA and join a dynamic team supporting the commercialisation of fusion energy. This is an opportunity to dive into a huge breadth of technical and commercial areas, from Plasma Physics to Robotics and from Advanced Computing to Material Science. You will be working with departments and programmes across UKAEA who are inventing the solutions to fusion challenges.

As

Intellectual Property Manager,

you will be a key part of the IP team which is responsible for ensuring the IP strategy and implementation supports UKAEA in achieving its goals, taking responsibility for a key division within the organisation. The role has a strong focus on collaborating with technical and business colleagues, external patent attorneys, and external partners to accelerate the exploitation of IP. This role is an opportunity to expand experience and knowledge in both technical and commercial areas and to develop a team in the same way. This role will help guide the development of an innovation pipeline to create impact including commercialisation from the fantastic ideas and technologies being developed to solve fusion challenges.

What will you be responsible for?

Working with Directors and Programme leads across the business to implement IP strategy, strengthening the overall business and devising asset-specific protection strategies.

Managing a key element of UKAEA’s broad and technically diverse IP portfolio (activities include overseeing patent and trademark prosecution).

Advising teams across the business on IP terms in third party agreements.

Utilising technical background for reviewing invention disclosures and advising on best protection strategies.

Minimum Requirements:

Strong technical background with a degree in Scientific or Engineering discipline.

Part-qualified / Qualified Patent attorney (CPA, EPA), or significant experience working in an in-house patent/IP team.

Ability to lead drafting strategy working with inventors and external patent attorneys.

Experience with reviewing and strategically advising on IP terms in contracts.

We welcome applications from under-represented groups, particularly individuals from black and other ethnic minority backgrounds, people with disabilities, and women. Our Executive team, supported by our 'Equality, Diversity and Inclusion' (EDI) Partner and Inclusion Ambassadors, actively promotes EDI and takes steps to increase diversity within our organization. We reinforce best practices in recruitment and selection and evaluate approaches to remove barriers to success.

Please note that vacancies are generally advertised for 4 weeks but may close earlier if we receive a large number of applications.

By 2050, the planet could be using twice as much electricity compared to today. Are you interested in contributing to shape the future of the world’s energy? If so, read on.

Fusion, the process that powers the sun and stars, is one of the most promising options for generating the cleaner, carbon-free energy that our world badly needs. UKAEA are at the forefront of realising energy from fusion, working with industry and research partners to deliver the ground-breaking developments that will underpin tomorrow's fusion power stations with the aim of bringing fusion electricity to the grid.

As we work towards our mission and goals, UKAEA has devised values that capture the spirit of how we work. These values include being: Innovative, Committed, Trusted and Collaborative.

What can I expect from the application process at UKAEA? Once you have submitted a formal application via our website, all CVs will be reviewed shortly after the closing date of the advert.

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