Senior Investment Opportunities Advisor

**Details**:
**Reference number**:

- 265545**Salary**:

- £38,052 - £45,354- National: £38,052 - £41,912; London: £41,553 - £45,354**Job grade**:

- Senior Executive Officer**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- DIT - SI: Investment**Type of role**:

- International Trade
- Operational Delivery**Working pattern**:

- Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time**Number of jobs available**:

- 1Contents

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- Darlington, LondonAbout the job

**Job summary**:
This is an exciting time to join the Department for International Trade (DIT) as we promote UK trade and investment around the world. This important work is vital to UK’s economic growth.

Within DIT, the Investment Directorate focuses on attracting inward investment into the UK’s most attractive and transformational projects and sector clusters. This role sits within the High Potential Opportunities (HPO) team, within a sub-directorate of the Investment Directorate focused on business development. You will be directly contributing to delivering on the Government’s science superpower, levelling up and net zero objectives.

As Senior Investment Opportunities Advisor, you will be supporting the promotion of investment opportunities from the HPO programme, which focuses on promoting emerging sub-sectors, technologies and other strategic opportunities as well as more widely, as the team expands its business development function to support the rest of the department. You will primarily be working with a contracted provider ensure the provision of high quality investment leads.

This is a role that covers a variety of different responsibilities from managing your own portfolio to supporting colleagues by providing practical support on lead generation as well as expert advice. It requires the ability to manage competing priorities and different stakeholders effectively, at pace.

In return, you will learn about the different types of investment DIT supports, build a wide-ranging network across different specialisms and support the sub-directorate’s vision of being the experts at generating high value investment pipelines promoting our best-in-class investable propositions.

In this role, there is ample opportunity to learn about the UK’s sectoral and regional strengths, as well as where further investment is needed to realise the UK’s ambitions across different priorities, such as attaining net zero by 2050. DIT is an international department and we embrace diversity in all its forms. If this role excites you, please apply

**Job description**:
This role requires strong stakeholder and project management skills and the ability to work with a diverse range of organisations with different objectives. Key responsibilities include:

- Business Development: Working with a contracted provider, supporting DIT’s investor facing teams in HQ and overseas promote investable opportunities through managing the provision of high quality leads. A lead is a company with potential interest in setting up or investing in the UK. This involves setting the criteria for targeting such leads, providing quality assurance that these leads fit the relevant profile and providing advice on engagement strategies for teams to contact these leads. You will work with colleagues across the team tracking the progress of these leads;
- Lead Generation and expert advice: Support the wider transformation of the team’s work to enable more investor facing colleagues to use lead generation tools and relevant propositions in building their pipelines of potential investors to ensure DIT’s objective of pursuing high quality leads over quantity is being delivered;
- Investment Promotion: Support the Head of the HPO team promote the wider HPO portfolio by working with investor facing colleagues, Marketing, DIT’s Nations and Regions teams and local partners such as Local Enterprise Partnerships (LEPs). This includes educating teams about the HPO portfolio, for example, though arranging webinars and holding them to account on promoting the opportunities through their campaign plans. You will be expected to lead on a selection of HPOs as part of the wider team.
- Investment Promotion: Contribute to the wider team’s promotion of DIT's key investor-facing website - the Investment Atlas. Also contribute to the ongoing creative development and evolution of the website, which is an Investment Directorate priority.
- Team Player: Be flexible when required to support the wider team and sub-directorate’s work, representing and/or deputising as required in various investment-promotion related forums including in meetings with internal and external stakeholders, Ministers and HMG senior officials.

**Person specification**:
**Essential Criteria**
- The ability to set clear plans in order to successfully manage a broad suite of competing priorities effectively with focus and drive
- The ability to de