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A leading association in private equity seeks a Senior Policy Manager to tackle policy challenges and advocate for the industry in the UK. This key role involves engaging with government and regulators, shaping policy development, and ensuring the industry's needs are met. The ideal candidate will possess deep knowledge of the political landscape and strong advocacy skills.
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The British Private Equity & Venture Capital Association (BVCA) is the voice of private capital in the UK. We are the industry body and public policy advocate for the private equity and venture capital industry in the UK. We have been acting on behalf of this community for almost 40 years, enabling it to uphold its vision and achieve its goals. We actively represent this diverse community of long-term investors enabling them to speak with one clear and consistent voice to wider society, including the Government, media and MPs.
The BVCA engages, sustains, and evolves the private capital community. Connecting institutional investors, fund managers, companies, advisers and service providers. Our membership comprises more than 700 influential firms, including over 325 private equity and venture capital firms, 100 institutional investors and 220 professional services firms.
Our members help companies grow and achieve their long-term ambitions, creating value for the country, economically and socially. Private capital helps create the jobs of the future in high-growth sectors like biotech, software and clean energy and it helps to attract investment and talent from around the world to the UK.From creating medicines to protect us against Covid-19, to backing innovative companies in their quest to find solutions to our low-carbon future, private capital also plays a critical role in addressing the future challenges we face as a society.
Together we are invested in a better future.
The Role
This full-time permanent position within the BVCA is a key role for someone who has a significant number of years senior Policy experience and will be responsible for leading the BVCA's response to a wide range of policy challenges facing the industry from a legal, tax, accounting, reporting and regulatory perspective. The remit is for this role is primarily focused on the UK, but also includes initiatives and developments driven by the EU and other international bodies and jurisdictions.
Your primary responsibility will be to work with the Director General and other senior members of the BVCA team to ensure the BVCA strengthens the case of the venture capital and private equity investment model to government, policy makers and regulators, as a credible interlocuter in public policy matters impacting and related to the private capital sector.
Responsibilities
Essential Skills and Experience
The BVCA Executive comprises a diverse range of staff unified in their aim to drive forward the industry and actively demonstrate its impact to the Government, media, and the public at large and to reinforce the crucial role our industry plays in the global economy. We support an environment that is based on merit and inclusiveness, where all employees can develop their full potential, irrespective of their race, gender, marital status, age, disability, religious belief, political opinion or sexual orientation.