Co-Heads of Europe, Office for Investment

Posting date:	14 July 2025
Salary:	£55,836 per year
Additional salary information:	National: £55,836 - £62,823; London: £59,450 - £66,338
Hours:	Full time
Closing date:	28 July 2025
Location:	Edinburgh
Company:	Government Recruitment Service
Job type:	Permanent
Job reference:	414084/5

Summary

Increasing private investment, foreign and domestic, is crucial to the UK’s economic growth and the future prosperity of its citizens. Leveraging private investment is also fundamental to delivering energy transition and establishing international leadership as a science and technology driven economy.

The Office for Investment (OfI) was spun out of Downing Street in January 2021 and is now a joint unit between No.10, HMT and the Department for Business and Trade (DBT). The OfI is an exciting, creative and dynamic place to work among a motivated and driven team with both commercial and public sector backgrounds. The Office works closely with Secretaries of State, Junior Ministers, and No.10 to deliver the highest-value, highest profile investment propositions.

The team operates a flexible and flat structure which means that staff across all grades have the opportunity to work directly alongside the senior leadership and have direct exposure to ministers and senior business executives.

OfI's vision and mission is to secure investment to drive growth, job creation and increased productivity across the UK. We are proactive and entrepreneurial, delivering ambitious outcomes aligned to the Industrial Strategy and HMG Missions. To become a centre of excellence for attracting and growing investment we want to attract talented people from the private sector and across government who are curious, creative and agile in pursuing emerging opportunities for the UK.

This is a wide-ranging role where you will get to develop new skills and build on existing ones to increase investment opportunities and shape the wider Government policies investors will operate under.

You will have a unique opportunity to engage directly with varied stakeholders across all levels of seniority, including established and new businesses, investors, colleagues overseas, sector specialists, DBT Senior Leadership, and Ministers.

• Leading strategic relationships between the UK Government and large institutional investors, such as pension funds, infrastructure asset managers and developers, from Europe.
• Identifying and leading the landing of high impact new investment projects.
• Collaboration and leadership across Government, both in the UK and within Posts overseas to move high impact projects forward.
• Representing DBT at external events to engage with investors leading to potential investment and help HMG gain insights into investor sentiment.

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