Junior Programme Manager - Emerging Technologies and Robotics

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Job Title: Junior Programme Manager - Emerging Technologies and Robotics
Location: London / Hybrid
Salary: £28,000 - £33,000 per annum based upon experience plus discretionary bonus and comprehensive benefits
Job Type: Permanent, Full-Time
Role Purpose
This new role offers an exciting opportunity to join our fast-paced Tech and Innovation programme that leads techUK's activity around a range of emerging technologies including Robotics, Quantum, Web3, and more. Through our emerging technologies activity, techUK plays an active role in convening the UK's technology sector, showcasing world-leading innovations, exploring the opportunities for cutting edge technology development to the UK, and identifying key challenges or barriers that need to be addressed on behalf of our membership.
The Junior Programme Manager for Emerging Technologies and Robotics will support the wider Tech and Innovation team to deliver a successful programme of activity and engagement with techUK member companies, key stakeholders, and the wider technology and innovation sector, building on techUK's already established work in this area. It will also play an instrumental part in helping to set up and deliver techUK's new Robotics activity, including by launching and managing a Robotics Working Group, planning and delivering techUK's inaugural UK-US Robotics Summit, and bringing the learnings and policy recommendations of our upcoming Robotics report to life.
Their main deliverable for this role will working closely with the Head of Emerging Technology to deliver a regular drumbeat of varied activity and range of outputs that add value for techUK's members and stakeholders. This will include member meetings, events and campaign weeks to showcase world-leading innovations, technologies or industries, each of which will require a strong sense of ownership, creativity, the development of a clear and consistent narrative. This role will play an instrumental part in working with members to develop and support the creation of the Robotics programme as well as support our horizon scanning and future gazing work as well as help to deliver techUK's annual Tech & Innovation Summit.
A central focus for this role is to work to ensure that techUK's Emerging Technologies content, activity, policy asks, strategy, and other outputs remain relevant and credible, in particular through its recommendations for key audiences, such as Government, to ensure the UK has an ecosystem and environment in which innovation and R&D can be not just supported by supercharged.
Key Responsibilities:

  • Ensuring techUK's Emerging Technologies content, activity, policy asks, and strategy are relevant, credible and influential by becoming an active and trusted participant in the UK's emerging technologies communities, cultivating excellent relationships with key stakeholders, and ensuring key web pages and spreadsheets are accurate and current.
  • Assisting with the scoping, planning, launch and delivery of the brand-new Robotics programme, conducting insightful research and creating a calendar of impactful activities including roundtables and workshops to help equip techUK with an understanding regarding the strategic importance Robotics technologies to the UK
  • Effectively leveraging techUK's networks, reach, and expertise to support team objectives and goals by convening the UK's emerging technologies sector through panel discussions, workshops, roundtables, and more to advance the development, application, and commercialisation of emerging technologies or industries
  • Serving as an ambassador for the Tech and Innovation programme, techUK, and the organisation's emerging technologies activity by writing articles, speaking at events, and networking
  • Contributing to the planning and delivery of Tech and Innovation initiatives that have an emerging technologies focus, including but not limited to events, reports, policy formulation, insight or interview series, Councils or Working Groups, and annual campaign weeks or Summits. In particular, support the development and delivery of techUK's annual Tech & Innovation Summit by liaising with sponsors, partners, and members
  • Proactively maintaining and growing techUK's membership base in emerging technologies and Robotics, including by playing an active role in the identification and recruitment of new techUK members and by supporting colleagues by suggesting and exploring new business ideas or processes
    Skills, Knowledge and Expertise
    Essential Knowledge and Experience:
  • Strong capability in researching, collating, and presenting information
  • Experience of planning and hosting webinars or events
  • Experience of developing a programme of work or conducting product / programme management
  • Experience in stakeholder and membership engagement including recruitment
    Additional Information:
    This is a full time role based out of techUK's London offices, however techUK operates a flexible working policy.
    This role profile is a guide to the work that is required but does not form part of any contract of employment and may change from time to time to reflect changing circumstances.
    The successful candidate must have permission to work in the UK prior to the commencement of employment.
    Please click APPLY to be redirected to our website to apply for this role.
    Candidates with experience of: Junior Programme Management, Policy Manager, Junior Programme Manager, Trainee Program Manager, Robotic Technologies Trainee Project Manager, Robotic Programme Manager may also be considered for this role

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