Accelerator Programme Manager

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Accelerator Programme Manager

Ordnance Survey has an opportunity available for an Accelerator Programme Manager to join the team based at our Innovation Hub in London. You will join us on a full time, permanent basis and in return, you will receive a competitive salary of circa £30,000 per annum plus excellent benefits - this is a fantastic opportunity to develop a rewarding career.

About us:

Geovation is a business unit of Ordnance Survey (OS), the national mapping agency for Great Britain and a world-leading geospatial data and technology organisation. OS data underpins billions of pounds of economic activity and plays a key role in delivering a range of technology advances - from autonomous vehicles and UAVs to digital building design and smart cities.

Geovation provides skills, space and funding for location-data and PropTech startups looking to make positive change happen. We’re based at a brand-new innovation centre in Clerkenwell, at the heart of London’s startup community.

Geovation supports an extended community of more than 1,200 entrepreneurs, investors, developers, academics, students and corporate innovators. Our accelerator programmes provide startups up to £20,000 in grant funding, business mentorship and coaching, access to data, experienced product development capabilities, geospatial expertise from Ordnance Survey and land and property insight from HM Land Registry. To date we’ve helped 65 technology start-ups raise £18M in external funding, creating hundreds of new jobs.

We offer fantastic benefits to our Accelerator Programme Manager:

- Salary - circa £30,000

- Competitive pension

- 37 hour working week with flexible working hours

- 25 days annual leave - (30 days after five years) bank holidays and an extra 3 over Christmas

- Training & Development

- Paid volunteer day

- Bike to Work scheme (with secure bike storage and excellent changing facilities)

- Free onsite parking

- Subsidised on-site staff restaurant

- On-site nursery

- Very generous staff benefits including over 500 discounts from national stores

- Wide variety of sports and social clubs

- Support for your health and wellbeing from eye care vouchers to health checks

About the role:

We are looking for an Accelerator Programme Manager who shares our passion for startups, problem solving, innovation and teamwork. This is the perfect position for some who wants to help startups launch and grow their business; connecting them with the resources, people and partners that can contribute to their success.

You’ll manage the successful delivery of Geovation’s Accelerator Programme and act as day to day point of contact for participating companies. You’ll schedule workshops with our existing mentors and content providers and help us extend the network of contacts and partners supporting the Accelerator Programme delivery.

Working alongside your colleagues, you will develop marketing content to attract quality applications, award grant funding based on agreed milestones and set up software development agreements to help teams build their initial products.

The Accelerator Programme Manager will have their finger on the pulse of the tech startup and venture capital community and keep up-to-date with the latest challenges and opportunities in location-data services and innovation. You’ll represent Geovation at networking events and meetups and proactively engage with the extended Geovation community in person and on social media.

Skills and experience required to be our Accelerator Programme Manager:

You will have a proven track record delivering startup support activities, workshops or other content programmes. You’ll be confident preparing written collateral and in providing qualitative and quantitative reports and analysis as required.

You must demonstrate your track record against the following essential criteria and competencies in your application:

- Experience in running or supporting innovation programmes

- Able to work independently

- Organized and detail oriented while not losing sight of the bigger picture

- Collaborative and positive attitude

- Strong coordinating skills

- Creativity in getting things done

- Understanding of startup tools and methodologies

- Excellent communication skills, with technical and non-technical people

Why not click ‘apply’ today? Don’t miss out on this opportunity to join the world’s leading map making and big data organisation as our Accelerator Programme Manager.

Closing date: Monday 1st October 2018