Executive Director, Digital & Technologies - Innovate UK

Moreton-In-Marsh, England, United Kingdom

12/10/2024

Job Summary

Innovation is the lifeblood of business. Businesses that invest in innovation have higher growth, higher productivity and export more. Innovation delivers economic growth, new jobs and better living standards. Innovate UK is central to delivering a better future through business innovation. Innovate UK works with a wide range of partners across UK Research and Innovation and the innovation ecosystem to design and manage programmes that deliver government priorities, address industry challenges, and turn technology driven ideas into value-added business reality. The Executive Director, Digital & Technologies will lead and be accountable for programme delivery, strategic engagement and business development for the Digital & Technologies domain, with local, national and global impact.

Job Description

• The Executive Director, Digital & Technologies will engage at senior executive level with external stakeholders to provide thought leadership across the Digital & Technologies domain, involving businesses, government and innovation ecosystem senior leaders to shape innovation policy and delivery in the UK.
• The Executive Director will seek and develop collaborations to optimise impact, drive up private investment and build the most effective and connected ecosystem. They will inspire both externally and internally, by leading the development of the Digital & Technologies domain operating model.
• As a significant influencer across business, government, and other business innovation ecosystem leadership groups within Digital & Technologies, the Executive Director will invest to drive significant positive economic and societal impact.
  
  
  

Led by an ambition to generate commercial value, stimulate growth and deliver benefits to society at large, you will be a change maker at heart, with a demonstrated ability to challenge and change the status quo. A strong collaborative executive leader, the Executive Director, Digital & Technologies will thrive, both individually and collectively, as a member of a senior leadership team. You will be able to lead, coach and motivate high calibre and diverse teams to deliver economic and productivity growth through supporting innovative businesses.

Person specification

Essential Requirements

• Degree educated, or equivalent experience, preferably in science or technology
• Exceptional leadership capability
• Strategic leadership in business research, development or innovation in all or part of the Digital and Technologies domain
• Demonstrable achievement of results through influencing skills rather than direct control
• Working extensively and have significant industry experience across the Digital and Technologies landscape
• Successful management of multiple senior and executive stakeholders with conflicting demands and priorities
  
  
  

Desirable Requirements

• Proven record of managing programmes and delivering a broad range of benefits, across the Public and Private sectors
• Postgraduate and professional qualifications in business, leadership or innovation advantageous
  
  
  

Alongside your salary of £130,000, Innovate UK contributes £37,661 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

• Learning and development tailored to your role
• An environment with flexible working options
• A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
• A Civil Service pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%
  
  
  

Selection process details

In order to apply, please submit a comprehensive CV along with a covering letter which sets out your interest in the role and encapsulates the aspects of your experience relevant to the required criteria. Please include current salary details and the names and addresses of three referees. Referees will not be approached until the final stages and not without prior permission from candidates.

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Nationality Requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service
  
  
  

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The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

Diversity and Inclusion

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Contact point for applicants

Job contact :

• Name : Matt Cockbill
• Email : matt.cockbill@odgersberndtson.com
  
  
  

Recruitment team

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