Incubation Manager

Consortium; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 48,000 - 56,000; Full time

Job summary

LGBT Jobs in London is seeking an Incubator Manager to lead startup recruitment and bespoke support programmes within the Geovation Hub. You will collaborate with the Incubator Lead, OS teams, and external partners to empower founders and shape a thriving ecosystem.

You will build strong relationships with founders, align with the wider Geovation strategy, and drive non-technical support and community engagement across a flexible, small team.

Qualifications

• Experience with startups and ability to tailor messages for diverse audiences is essential.
• Experience creating bespoke development programmes based on needs.
• Ability to lead and develop non-technical support for startups.

Responsibilities

• Scout for startups and manage recruitment and selection process.
• Design bespoke startup-by-startup support programmes with the team.
• Lead the design and delivery of non-technical support with Ecosystem and partners.
• Build relationships with founders and OS experts to understand needs.
• Support a vibrant Geovation Hub and ensure safety responsibilities are met.

Skills

Startup scouting

Stakeholder management

Programme design

Non-technical support

Communication

Job description

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Salary range: £47,655.00 - £55,598.00 plus London Weighting (£3,500)

Hybrid location: London with minimum 3 days in the Geovation Hub

Key responsibilities include scouting and recruiting startups, developing bespoke support programmes, and leading non-technical support

Experience with startups and ability to tailor messages for diverse audiences is essential

Location-based Fire, Health, and Safety responsibilities may require additional time at the Geovation Hub

Hybrid - London

Ordnance Survey is one of the Britain's most impactful technology and data companies. We're part of everyday life, with our data being used up to 40 times by the average person. We operate an invisible layer that enables the digital world to understand the physical world.

Geovation exists to expand this impact further, we want to push the boundaries of what is possible with location data. We're passionate about bringing entrepreneurs, innovators and geospatial experts together to solve real world problems in new ways.

Our Farringdon hub is a vibrant space where first-time founders collaborate with experienced entrepreneurs and geospatial specialists. It's a place where ideas become reality. We host events, encourage creativity, and help build the next generation of data-driven applications.

Our incubation team builds and experiments directly with start-ups, helping them turn their ideas into products and building viable businesses around them.

About the Role:

As the Incubator Manager at Geovation you're responsible for making sure the startups we take into our programme can use it as a launch pad for their ambitions. You'll play a leading role in finding and selecting which startups we support, and it will be up to you to develop bespoke support programmes that enable them to build sustainable businesses around the products that the technical part of the team helps to build.

You will work closely with the Incubator Lead and our technical and ecosystem teams along with third parties and OS experts to deliver this support. You'll also have a role in the wider community - as one of the key people in the team who really 'gets founders' and know what they need. You will build strong relationships with founders and understand the challenges facing their business, but you will also be responsible for making sure the detail behind the programme works.

We're looking for someone who thrives on building relationships, influencing others and making things happen. You'll take the lead on some of our key strategic partnerships, building strong relationships across Geovation, Ordnance Survey and our external network.

You'll need to be confident working with senior stakeholders, balancing different priorities and bringing people together around shared goals. Leadership experience would be an advantage, particularly as you'll help shape direction and support others to succeed.

In this role, you will:

• Scout for startups to invite to apply to the programme in response to target areas set by the Team Leads, manage the recruitment and selection process and facilitate the administrative sides of the process, including appropriate due diligence and finance.
• Be the main point of contact for startups within the programme. Work with the Incubator Lead to design support on a startup-by-startup basis to ensure support aligns with the wider strategy of the team.
• Lead on the design and delivery of non-technical support jointly with the Ecosystem team, utilising programme alumni, Geovation, OS employees and third parties.
• Be an advocate for the power of location data, the impact that startups have on creating new markets and industries for OS data and advocate for the specific startups we support.
• Look for connections between different founder needs, OS capabilities, market opportunities and activity happening across the wider Geovation ecosystem.
• Be a key part of making the Geovation Hub is a vibrant creative place to work and a safe, inclusive, welcoming, and well-maintained space for members and visitors. This includes involvement in events and activation as well as some formal Fire, health & safety responsibilities for the Geovation Hub and ad-hoc tasks required as part of a small team running a busy coworking space.

About you and how we work

We're looking for someone who is passionate about startups and knows what they need, ideally you will have worked in or with start-ups in the past and can bring that experience to bear.

We want someone who's comfortable tailoring the message for the diverse audiences we work with, helping communicate the value of our community that we've created over the last 15 years.

You'll need to demonstrate:

• Experience of creating bespoke development programmes based on an understanding of needs, sometimes developing and delivering workshops themselves.
• Outstanding interpersonal, relationship building, coaching and mentoring skills and the ability to deploy them in with first time founders and serial entrepreneurs even when things aren't going well
• The ability to make sense of complex or ambiguous situations, connect different pieces of information and turn those insights into clear priorities, actions and opportunities.
• Experience of scouting for leading edge startups based on specific briefs - and building relationships with those startups to understand and 'sell' their fit with Geovation.
• An experimental and continuous improvement mindset, willing to try things out with the aim of learning and proving / disproving a hypothesis.
• The desire and ability to be part of a flexible, small team that collaborates to achieve joint goals, regardless of the exact work to be done.

Location

The role is based at Geovation with a minimum of 3 full days in the Geovation Hub to provide direct support to start-ups working from the hub

There may also be specific needs to be present in the Geovation Hub as part of Fire, Health and Safety responsibilities - which may affect hours required in the Hub.

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