Head of Ventures - Maternity Cover

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About us

We undertake ground-breaking research that improves the way people do business. And we engage with organisations around the world to create real value for society.

Since 1989, we have grown into a leading management institution, becoming King's Business School and the university's ninth faculty in 2017. We're rated in the top five for business and management undergraduate studies in the UK.

We're a friendly, diverse community committed to the highest quality teaching and research. People from over 80 countries come here to study with us, and we're proud of the varied perspectives they bring to our School.

Being in the heart of London, our students and academics have unlimited opportunities for collaboration, research, and developing their career prospects. From bold new startups to multinational conglomerates, businesses inform our teaching and benefit from our work.

About the role

The Head of Ventures at the Entrepreneurship Institute is a senior professional services leader at King's, accountable for the delivery and development of high-quality and professional support services for venturing, acceleration and investor relations that will create a seamless pipeline and increase commercial innovation across our university. This role leads a small team to deliver one-year accelerator programmes, one for start-ups (King's students and alumni) and one for spinouts (King's research staff), including application outreach, along with an extensive network of investors, the King's Investor Network. Accelerators are delivered through a small group of experts-in-residence who are managed by the Head of Ventures.

This is a full-time role for a fixed term contract relating to maternity cover.

The key responsibilities can be found in the job description.

About you

To be successful in this role, we are looking for candidates to have the following skills and experience:

Essential criteria

1. The applicant must have experience of working with start-ups and spinouts including 1:1 support.

2. The applicant must have experience of running accelerator programmes successfully.

3. The applicant must have experience of liaising with investors.

4. The applicant must have strong project management and delivery skills.

5. The applicant must have exceptional interpersonal skills.

6. The applicant must have experience of managing people and budgets along with leadership skills.

Desirable criteria

1. Experience of university innovation and entrepreneurship programmes and support.

Downloading a copy of our Job Description

Full details of the role and the skills, knowledge and experience required can be found in the Job Description document, provided at the bottom of the next page after you click "Apply Now". This document will provide information of what criteria will be assessed at each stage of the recruitment process.

Further Information

We pride ourselves on being inclusive and welcoming. We embrace diversity and want everyone to feel that they belong and are connected to others in our community.

We are committed to working with our staff and unions on these and other issues, to continue to support our people and to develop a diverse and inclusive culture at King's.

We ask all candidates to submit a copy of their CV, and a supporting statement, detailing how they meet the essential criteria listed in the advert. If we receive a strong field of candidates, we may use the desirable criteria to choose our final shortlist, so please include your evidence against these where possible.

To find out how our managers will review your application, please take a look at our ' How we Recruit ' pages.

We are not able to offer sponsorship for candidates who do not currently possess the right to work in the UK.