We recruit for both senior and public appointments. These include members of the UKRI Board, Executive Chairs, part-time office holders and all other senior roles across UKRI at Band X and Y (equivalent to Senior Civil Service).
We employ a strong focus on equality, diversity and inclusion, ensuring recruitment that is diverse, fair and open, creating equal opportunity at all times. Public appointments are ultimately made by the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology.
Executive Director, Digital and Technologies, Innovate UK
- Closing date
- 31 January 2025, 11:59pm UK time
- Salary
- From £130,000 plus opportunity for performance related pay
- Contract type
- Open ended
- Hours
- Full time
- Grade
- Y
- Interview date
- To be confirmed
- Outcomes communicated
- February 2025
This role will lead and be accountable for programme delivery, strategic engagement and business development for the digital and technologies domain, with local, national and global impact.
You will engage at senior executive level with external stakeholders to provide thought leadership across the digital and technologies domain. You will involve businesses, government and innovation ecosystem senior leaders to shape innovation policy and delivery in the UK.
You will seek and develop collaborations to optimise impact, drive up private investment and build the most effective and connected ecosystem. You will inspire both externally and internally, by leading the development of the digital and technologies domain operating model.
As a significant influencer across business, government, and other business innovation ecosystem leadership groups within digital and technologies, you will invest to drive significant positive economic and societal impact.
Chief People Officer, UKRI
- Closing date
- 2 March 2025, 11:59pm UK time
- Salary
- £130,000 to £140,000 each year
- Contract type
- Open-ended
- Hours
- Full-time
- Grade
- Y
- Interview date
- 27 and 28 March 2025
The Chief People Officer is the human resources (HR) professional leader for UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) and a member of the UKRI Executive Committee.
You will lead in determining the organisation’s strategic people agenda, its culture and the professional HR function that works to deliver on it.
Read the UKRI Chief People Officer candidate prospectus.
Apply for the UKRI Chief People Officer role on the UKRI Careers Portal.
Deputy Executive Chair, EPSRC
- Closing date
- 10 March 2025, 11:59pm UK time
- Salary
- £91,943 to £99,000
- Contract type
- Open-ended, secondees and transfers welcome, minimum duration two years
- Hours
- Full-time or part-time, minimum 0.6 full-time equivalent
- Location
- Based at Polaris House, Swindon, with regular travel required
- Grade
- X
- Interview date
- 10 and 16 April at Caxton House, London
As Deputy Executive Chair of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) you will be a senior member of UK Research and Innovation. You will use your in-depth understanding of engineering and physical sciences research and its potential to advance all areas of science to:
- drive innovation in the research funding system
- develop priority areas for future investment
- communicate this vision passionately to our key partners
Read the Deputy Executive Chair Candidate Prospectus.
Apply for the EPSRC Deputy Executive Chair role on the UKRI Careers Portal.
Director of HR Business Partnering, UKRI
- Closing date
- 10 March 2025, 11:59pm UK time
- Salary
- £91,943 to £99,000 each year (depending on skills and experience)
- Contract type
- Open-ended
- Hours
- Full-time
- Location
- Swindon. Hybrid working available with regular travel to UKRI locations
- Grade
- X
- Interview date
- In person in London, early April 2025
We are seeking an experienced human resources (HR) leader to join us as the Director of HR Business Partnering.
You will lead a team of 16 HR Business Partners, supporting leaders across UKRI to maximise the potential of our 8,500 people.
Reporting to the Chief People Officer and as a member of the Senior Leadership Team, you will be responsible for delivering outstanding strategic HR business partnering across UKRI.
Read the Director of HR Business Partnering, UKRI candidate pack.
Last updated: 13 February 2025