Job Vacancy Junior Programme Manager - Emerging Technologies

Job Title: Junior Programme Manager - Emerging Technologies

Location: London / Hybrid

Salary: £28,000 - £33,000 per annum based upon experience plus discretionary bonus and comprehensive benefits

Job Type: Permanent, Full-Time

Role Purpose:

Their main deliverable for this role will be the delivery of techUK's regular ‘sprint campaigns' around particular technologies or industries. These are campaigns that span several months, are focused on identifying opportunities for UK leadership on the development or application of future technologies, facilitate considered interventions (such as events, reports, and policy asks) by industry that will drive tangible progress for the sector, and convene a varied cross-section of stakeholders from across the UK's technology sector.

Each sprint campaign will require a strong sense of ownership, creativity, the development of a clear and consistent narrative, as well as a regular drumbeat of varied activity and range of outputs that add demonstrable value for techUK's members and stakeholders.

A central focus for this role is to work with the Senior Programme Manager to ensure that techUK's Emerging Technologies content, activity, policy asks, strategy, and other outputs remain relevant and credible, in particular through its recommendations for key audiences, such as Government, to ensure the UK has an ecosystem and environment in which innovation and R&D can be not just supported but supercharged. 

Key Responsibilities

• Assisting with the scoping, planning, delivery, and evaluation of regular ‘sprint campaigns around particular technologies or industries which span several months,
• Focused on identifying opportunities for UK leadership on the development or application of future technologies,
• Facilitate considered interventions (such as events, reports, and policy asks) by industry that will drive tangible progress for the sector,
• Convene a varied cross-section of stakeholders from across the UKs technology sector, and equip techUK with an understanding regarding the strategic importance of continued activity in the area.

About you:

Essential Knowledge and Experience:

• Strong interest in innovation, future technologies, or policy.
• Experience of planning and hosting webinars or events.
• Experience of writing articles or communications for external audiences.
• Experience in stakeholder and membership engagement including recruitment.

Desirable Knowledge and Experience:

• A broad understanding of the key emerging technologies set to transform industries and drive economic growth.
• An appreciation of the policy and regulatory issues facing the UKs technology sector.
• Experience providing administrative support to a committee.

Additional Information

The successful candidate must have permission to work in the UK prior to the commencement of employment.

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Candidates with experience of; Junior Programme Management, Policy Manager, Junior Programme Manager may also be considered for this role.