Job details

As a Future Telecoms Innovation Lead your main responsibilities will be to: 

• Contribute to the development of team strategies and plans, as well as shaping and managing the development and delivery of strategies and plans that deliver against Innovate UK’s Strategic Delivery Plan and priorities for the Digital & Technologies Domain and wider Transformative Technologies and critically Future Telecoms priorities.
• Lead on the implementation on parts of Transformative Technologies priorities, critically Future Telecoms to enable industry to develop and commercialise new products, processes, business models and services. This is likely to include: delivering innovation competitions; commissioning thought leadership pieces and promoting them to industry and government; managing a portfolio of projects; measuring and monitoring success of innovative projects and supporting impact analysis of programmes and projects; and supporting companies we work with to identify and exploit the business opportunities.
• Develop and maintain a community of interest and communicate the aims of the challenge as widely as possible.
• Work with peers and seniors to build strong relationships with relevant bodies and networks such as businesses, trade associations, Catapults, government departments and agencies, private investors, regulatory bodies, and research organisations.
• Provide subject matter expert support to impact and benefit analysis for Future Telecoms and wider Transformative Technologies priorities.
• Maintain awareness of external thinking on innovation related to Future Telecoms and wider Transformative Technologies priorities.

• Identify additional opportunities beyond the core work programme that will help meet the associated objectives.

You’ll have relevant experience in:

• A broad-based knowledge of innovation in Future Telecoms and related Transformative Technologies such as Artificial Intelligence, Engineering Biology, Quantum Technologies, Semiconductors and Future Telecoms
• Understanding of the barriers to implementing sustainable technologies.

• Appreciation of the wider industrial landscape in the UK.

• Innovation in a commercial environment
• Working across the specific technology field (s) and with a broad and up-to-date understanding of developments in other technology areas
• Excellent written and oral communication skills, able to present to a wide range of audiences.

If this role sounds like something that you would be interested in, please click the link to apply or get in touch with luciana-auras.popescu@publicsectorresourcing.co.uk

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In applying for this role, you acknowledge the following, this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different.

Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.