Investment Opportunities Officer
| Posting date: | 07 June 2024 |
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| Salary: | £32,858 to £38,272 per year |
| Additional salary information: | National: £32,858- £34,586 London: £36,583- £38,272 |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 19 June 2024 |
| Location: | Birmingham |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 356878/3 |
Summary
The Investment Directorate leads DBT’s global investment attraction work. This is a broad, exciting and commercially driven agenda, providing end-to-end business support to foreign companies seeking to expand and grow in the UK, working in partnership with the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office’s international network.
These roles sit within the directorate’s Investment Opportunities division, which leads on the identification, product development and promotion activity for key strategic investment opportunities. Two roles are focused on coordinating the Department’s support for priority investment opportunities, focusing on Freeports and Investment Zones, and the other will provide support across Investment Opportunities including qualification of opportunities and modernising the team’s data capture and reporting approach.
All will play an active role in delivering the UK’s priority investment opportunities, including:
- Developing collateral and campaign plans to showcase investment opportunities to a global audience;
- Providing briefing to ministers and senior stakeholders on the work of the team, aligning the work of the wider department around key objectives;
- Being a point of contact for external stakeholders to access to DBT’s expertise and cadre of investment support services;
- Carrying out data analysis of priority investment opportunities to highlight success.
Two roles will be working on the promotion and support of priority investment opportunities, including Freeports and Investment Zones, with work including:
- Leading the creation of marketing collateral to showcase priority investment opportunities to international investors.
- Account management of external stakeholders that are the owners of priority investment opportunities, to support their investment strategies.
- Supporting event delivery in collaboration with regional stakeholders, including planning DBT attendance, showcasing, providing briefing and other related tasks.
- Preparation of key lines and briefing, including for Ministers and both internal and external stakeholders.
- Co-ordinating the team’s engagement with key cross-Government partners, particularly the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, including handling commissions received by the team.
- Support the development and iteration of Government policy relating to priority investment opportunities.
- Manage data and provide analysis of investments into priority opportunities.
One role will work on the identification and qualification of new investment opportunities in the UK, including:
- Secretariat support for groups responsible for origination and qualification of investment opportunities, currently including the Product Taskforce as a source of cross-Government opportunities and the Gateway Review panel, the team’s review process of approving new opportunities for promotion. Secretariat responsibilities include arrangement of meetings, ensuring accurate meeting records are captured and management of action delivery.
- Preparation of quarterly reporting reflecting the Investment Opportunities team’s assessment and portfolio performance for DBT senior leadership and ministers.
- Acting as the team’s Information Manager, helping staff to manage and understand their data responsibilities. You will ensure that the team has quality and properly protected information, which is easy to find, whilst also being innovative and embracing new technology and approaches to capture, interrogate and analyse data.
- Communicating on investment origination, using a variety of tools to display and inform a range of audiences, and maintaining a list of key contacts for distribution.
- Work to join up intelligence from different teams, thinking creatively to support decision making and promotion of opportunities.
- Maintain DBT’s global reputation by ensuring that due diligence checks are completed, alongside colleagues, at the required level, on investment opportunities before and during promotion.
- Support the wider team and sub-directorate as necessary, for example, with recruitment, data analysis, engagement with our overseas Post network and other administerial or organisational duties.
Applicants will be able to indicate a preference for a role at the interview stage; however, assignment to first preferences cannot be guaranteed and candidates will be offered roles based on the outcome of the recruitment exercise and the skills and experience shown.