Deputy Head of Strategic Technology
| Posting date: | 22 July 2024 |
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| Salary: | £53,560 to £63,481 per year |
| Additional salary information: | National: £53,560 - £60,118 London: £57,026 - £63,481 |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 27 July 2024 |
| Location: | Belfast |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 362110/1 |
Summary
We are the Strategic Technologies team, working across several critical technologies that our crucial to the future prosperity of the UK; Future Telecoms, AI, Semiconductors and Quantum.
In the Strategic Technologies team, we seek to understand the barriers to growth facing our critical technology companies, work with partners across industry, DBT and Government to inform on and overcome those barriers, and by making strategic interventions using the levers at DBTs disposal.
We sit at the heart of business engagement for HMG, actively seeking input from companies on their growth challenges and making sure their requirements are understood by the most relevant parts of HMG, and use our influence to ensure the growth agenda is reflected across the policy, diplomacy and regulatory activity undertaken across all of Government.
DBT also leverages the strength of its international network, with colleagues in 110 markets, and ensures the UK technology sector takes advantage of the opportunities in the global market, and through promoting the UK sector to overseas investors and buyers.
The Strategic Technologies team consists of 15 individuals, and you will be joining a team continuously evolving to meet the needs of the UK technology sector. This is an exciting opportunity to balance business engagement, xWH stakeholder management and influencing, and hands-on trade and investment activity, ensuring every day is different.
The successful candidate will work closely with colleagues in the UK and overseas to develop and deliver on growth-focused activity, including export, investment and policy work, in line with DBT’s strategic objectives. This role will report into the G6 leading on Semiconductor and Quantum activity and international activity in India and APAC. These areas of focus however may change as the business plan and sector priorities evolve.
Responsibilities:
Activity is expected to fall in to 3 key areas, which will evolve as the team’s business plan develops:
Policy: You will lead the delivery of our economic growth objectives, including trade and investment plans for Quantum & Semiconductors. You will develop strong sectoral knowledge to lead as the “go-to person” within DBT for your technology area, particularly building strong relationships with colleagues in DSIT and with other key stakeholders. Use this know-how to identify where to influence and what levers to pull to promote growth. Advocate for your technology area across DBT’s UK networks both overseas and in UK regions and nations. Support DBT’s work of upskilling the UK’s core sectors to adopt these strategic technologies to generate economic growth.
Business engagement: Building a plan of engagement with UK technology businesses and key stakeholders aligned to your technology area to develop a detailed understanding of the issues affecting their growth. This will entail managing our database of top UK technology companies, leading on some of these relationships and ensuring their concerns and insights are heard across DBT and wider HMG.
International trade and investment activities: To further international growth, build close relationships with colleagues in our priority markets for your technology area to understand better the barriers to UK tech companies doing business overseas and the challenges potential international investors face coming to the UK. Develop and lead the delivery of targeted activity to support growth ambitions including through organising trade missions to priority markets or inbound investment missions ensuring tangible outcomes e.g., export wins. Holding responsibility for the relationship management of key FDI company accounts aligned to your technology including some of the largest technology companies in the world. Leading on core projects including London Tech Week by taking on specific workstreams, working across the Strategic Technology team, wider Science and Technology directorate, DBT’s international network and across Whitehall to secure the most impactful announcements and activity during the week.
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