Venture Capital Programme Manager

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Increasing private investment, foreign and domestic, is crucial to the UK’s economic growth and the future prosperity of its citizens. Leveraging private investment is also fundamental to delivering energy transition and establishing international leadership as a science and technology driven economy.
The Office for Investment (OfI) was spun out of Downing Street in January 2021 and is now a joint unit between No.10, HMT and the Department for Business and Trade (DBT). The OfI is an exciting, creative and dynamic place to work among a motivated and driven team with both commercial and public sector backgrounds. The Office works closely with Secretaries of State, Junior Ministers, and No.10 to deliver the highest-value, highest profile investment propositions.
The team operates a flexible and flat structure which means that staff across all grades have the opportunity to work directly alongside the senior leadership and have direct exposure to ministers and senior business executives.
OfI's vision and mission is to secure investment to drive growth, job creation and increased productivity across the UK. We are proactive and entrepreneurial, delivering ambitious outcomes aligned to the Industrial Strategy and HMG Missions. To become a centre of excellence for attracting and growing investment we want to attract talented people from the private sector and across government who are curious, creative and agile in pursuing emerging opportunities for the UK.

This is an exciting job opportunity to join a high performing team that is made up of 4 civil servants and 3 industry specialists as well as various staff members across international offices. The role holder will be leading relationships across the UK Venture Capital ecosystem and have experience of working within Venture Capital and the technology industry. The role holder will be working with senior stakeholders within Government including Ministers.

• Leading strategic relationships between the UK Government and Venture Capital investors - both in the UK and with an emphasis on Europe.
• Identifying and leading the origination work for the Venture Capital Unit. This requires extensive knowledge of UK high growth potential technology companies aligned with the Industrial Strategy, including CleanTech, DeepTech and Life Sciences. Responsibilities extend to delivering physical events.
• Collaboration and leadership across Government, both in the UK and within Posts overseas to deliver more Venture Capital activity – including planning and hosting inward and outward missions.
• Delivering high quality showcase events 3 times a year, with over 100 investors typically attending.
• Leading specific events across the team, many of which are planned at short notice and require working under pressure.
• Leading relationships with the tech ecosystem across London and the regions. This includes universities, research institutions, incubators and accelerators.
• Leading the co-investment programme with approximately 20 high performing UK VC Funds.
• Supporting with internal Briefings, Commissions and Reporting.

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