The incumbent will be responsible for the provision of strategic and technical leadership to the research groups, and including people management, business development, financial sustainability, and operations management of the Impact Area. 

Provide and coordinate strategic leadership within the Impact Area;

• Develop, provide and motivate capacity to deliver on the Cluster’s strategy;

• Integrate complete solutions aligned with the focus of the Impact Area;

• Develop and implement appropriate components of Cluster research, development and innovation (RDI) strategy with specific sub-sectors and specific impacts;

• Contribute to strategic investment goal setting for the Cluster and development of an RDI strategy for the Impact Area;

• Drive and implement the business development and commercialization strategy;

• Ensure high-quality science, engineering, and technology (SET) expertise and develop appropriate SET capacity and profiles;

• Drive and implement a business plan for the operation, sustainable growth, impact and robustness of area (including strategy, goals, mission, HR, finances, technology transfer, Intellectual Property (IP) and commercialization);

• Manage RDI groups;

• Grow effective management of staff (effective utilization of performance management systems);

• Ensure demographic transformation of the Impact Area;

• Lead strategic stakeholder interaction (internal and external);

• Establish and service strategic alliances (institutional) according to RDI strategy;

• Account for the financial sustainability of the Impact Area and attract funding;