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 Quantum, Immersive, Robotics, 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 will support the delivery of techUK’s regular ‘sprint campaigns’ around specific technologies or industries, requiring ownership, creativity, a clear narrative, and varied outputs adding value for members and stakeholders. 

This role is an opportunity to develop close relationships with leading industry figures, techUK members, decision makers, civil society, and other key stakeholders, plus much of their activity will feed directly into the wider Tech and Innovation programme’s work around current technologies such as Cloud and AI.

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
• 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
• Proactively maintaining and growing techUK’s membership base in emerging technologies, 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