Incubation Manager

ordnancesurvey; Greater London; Híbrido; GBP 48.000 - 56.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Ordnance Survey’s Geovation Incubator is seeking a manager to lead startup selection and tailor launchpad programmes that help founders build sustainable businesses around geospatial products. You’ll collaborate with the Incubator Lead, Ecosystem team and external partners to deliver targeted support and scale Geovation’s impact.

You’ll shape partnerships, engage senior stakeholders, and drive community growth within London’s Geovation Hub, balancing strategic priorities with hands‑on execution

Formación

• Experience creating bespoke development programmes based on needs.
• Outstanding interpersonal, relationship building, coaching and mentoring skills.
• Ability to turn complex information into clear priorities, actions and opportunities.
• Experience scouting for leading edge startups.

Responsabilidades

• Scout for startups to invite to apply to the programme and manage recruitment and selection, including due diligence and finance.
• Be the main point of contact for startups within the programme and design bespoke support per startup to align with the team’s wider strategy.
• Lead on the design and delivery of non-technical support with the Ecosystem team, leveraging alumni, OS staff and third parties.
• Advocate for the power of location data and the impact startups have on new markets and OS data.
• Identify connections between founder needs, OS capabilities and activity across the Geovation ecosystem.
• Help ensure the Geovation Hub is a vibrant, inclusive space with events, activation and health and safety tasks.

Descripción del empleo

Geovation Incubator Manager

Full Time | £47,655.00 - £55,598.00 + London Weighting (£3,500)

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.

The tools we use on a day-to-day basis:

MS Office, Beauhurst, Nexudus, Slack, Canva, Copilot

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.