Application Details: Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering Manager
Location: London
Salary: Up to £39,045 per annum + excellent benefits
The role
As Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering Manager, you will help manage and deliver the prestigious Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering (QEPrize) – a £500,000 annual prize celebrating engineering excellence with worldwide impact for humanity. You will support the work of our community of global experts as they identify game‑changing engineering innovations and collaborate with the Royal Academy of Engineering to provide the international judging panel with detailed, complete, peer‑reviewed nominations, ensuring a smooth judging process that celebrates engineering visionaries.
You will manage QEPrize cycle activities and support the delivery of our flagship events where we recognise the work of our QEPrize Laureates. You will be responsible for partnership management with senior stakeholders across industry, academia, government and more. Situated at the Royal Academy of Engineering in central London, you will work closely with colleagues across the Academy and key partners.
This is a varied manager role – part stakeholder relations and administration, part researcher – and we are looking for a highly organised, proactive, effective communicator and stakeholder manager.
Qualifications
* Experience supporting international panels of experts from industry and academia
* Highly organised and methodical, with meticulous attention to detail and excellent time‑management skills
* Experience tracking finances, negotiating with suppliers and managing multiple work streams
* Enjoy focused research to brief and inform stakeholders
* Commitment to diversity and inclusion and conviction that listening to a diverse range of voices improves outcomes
This role isn’t for you if you …
* You enjoy theory and strategy but aren’t motivated by hands‑on execution
* You are uncomfortable working under pressure and to fixed deadlines
* You are seeking remote‑first work or an environment where process outweighs delivery
Company Benefits
* BUPA cash plan
* Private medical insurance
* Non‑contributory pension scheme with 10% employer contribution
* Health and wellbeing programmes
* Wellbeing days and office‑wide Christmas leave
* Significant investment into personal and professional development
* Subsidised restaurant
Location
Our light, spacious offices are based in central London, close to St James’s Park and the West End. We operate hybrid, flexible working practices with a baseline of 2 days a week in the office.
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