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Reference: 66104

Date Added: 23 May 2018
Closing Date: 20 June 2018

Job Title: Head of Industry, Technology & Innovation

Working For: Policy Connect

Location: London

Salary: £30,051 - £34,225

Length of Contract:

Job Details

We are looking for an experienced, enthusiastic and ambitious person to lead our work in the Industry, Technology & Innovation team, reporting to the CEO. You will have day to day management of the All-Party Parliamentary Manufacturing Group (APMG) and its arms-length research body, the Manufacturing Commission.

You will manage a team that also oversees the All-Party Parliamentary Design and Innovation Group (APDIG) and the Design Commission, the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Data Analytics (APGDA), and the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Assistive Technology (APPGAT). The ideal candidate will have some experience of either working in Parliament, public policy, research and/or public affairs; and will have knowledge and interest in one or more of the following areas:

  • Industrial strategy
  • Innovation, technology or science policy
  • Further education, engineering skills shortage, apprenticeships
  • Supply chains, international trade

Recent policy areas include:

  • Industrial Digitalisation and the Made Smarter Review
  • Industry and the Clean Growth Plan
  • Britain’s Post-Brexit Trading Future
  • R&D in the Industrial Strategy

Closing Date: 20 June 2018

Interview/Start Dates

Closing time: 5pm

Likely interview date: During the week commencing 25 June 2018

Start date: As soon as possible

Application Details

Please read the job description and candidate specification online, send your CV of no more than two A4 pages, a covering letter of no more than one A4 page and a completed equal opportunities monitoring form.

Visit www.policyconnect.org.uk/careers to download the full job description and equal opportunities form.

We are carrying out blind recruitment. Please send your documents as a word file if possible or include a second copy of your cover letter and CV with your name erased.

Website: http://policyconnect.org.uk

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