Programme Manager, Investor Relations

Royal Academy of Engineering; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 68,000; Full time

Job summary

The Royal Academy of Engineering in London is seeking a proactive Programme Manager, Investor Relations to support the Enterprise Hub’s investor engagement workstream. You will help maintain the investor network, assist with investor-facing events and communications, and coordinate timely engagement between investors and entrepreneurs.

Reporting to the Senior Programme Manager, Investor Relations, you will manage investor data, support founder-investor matching, capture feedback, and help

Qualifications

• Experience in programme delivery, stakeholder engagement, event coordination and communications.
• Confident working with entrepreneurs, investors and internal colleagues.
• Strong attention to detail, professionalism and collaborative working style.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and activate the Enterprise Hub’s investor network.
• Support investor-facing events and communications.
• Coordinate timely investor engagement between investors and entrepreneurs.
• Support delivery of the investor engagement strategy and maintain investor data.
• Support founder–investor matching and capture feedback.
• Help founders prepare materials before investor introductions.
• Assist with first-cheque readiness and government-funded programme delivery.

Skills

Stakeholder engagement

Event coordination

Communication

Project management

Job description

The Enterprise Hub is seeking a proactive, organised and relationship-led Programme Manager, Investor Relations to support the delivery of its investor engagement workstream, as part of the Enterprise Directorate team. We are a friendly, collaborative, and enthusiastic team working towards an exciting mission.

The role will help to maintain and activate the Enterprise Hub’s investor network, support the delivery of investor-facing events and communications, and coordinate structured engagement between investors and entrepreneurs. The role holder will play an important role in ensuring that investor engagement is timely, relevant, well-prepared and tracked effectively. Working closely with the Senior Programme Manager, Investor Relations, the role holder will support the practical delivery of the Hub’s investor engagement strategy. This includes maintaining investor data, supporting targeted founder-investor matching, coordinating investor-facing activity, capturing feedback, and helping founders prepare appropriate materials before investor introductions. The role will also support emerging requirements linked to first-cheque readiness and government-funded programme delivery. This includes helping to maintain clear records of investor profiles, venture readiness, engagement history, feedback, next actions and supporting evidence.

The successful candidate will bring experience in programme delivery, stakeholder engagement, event coordination and communications. They will be confident working with entrepreneurs, investors and internal colleagues, and will combine strong attention to detail with sound judgement, professionalism and a collaborative working style.

Application closing date: 24/11/2026

Interview date: w/c 30/11/2026

Interview location: London

Our location

Our light, spacious head office is based in a fantastic location in central London with views over St James's Park and close to the West End. We operate hybrid, flexible working practices with a baseline for office based working of a mandatory weekly team day plus further days each week as required for the role and the Academy.

Who are we?

Engineering matters. It shapes our everyday lives, from our ability to turn the lights on, have a hot shower and commute into work, to the mobile phones we rely on to keep connected. It also plays a vital role in addressing some of the biggest challenges facing society today, from climate change, to global health pandemics and cyber threats.

The Royal Academy of Engineering is a charity that harnesses the power of engineering to build a sustainable society and an inclusive economy that works for everyone. In collaboration with our Fellows and partners, we're growing talent and developing skills for the future, driving innovation, and building global partnerships, and influencing policy and engaging the public. Together we're working to tackle the greatest challenges of our age.

With a diverse workforce and an inclusive and supportive culture, we look to attract candidates from wide and different backgrounds who have a passion for the role engineering plays in society. Our aim is to make the Academy the best place to work for the staff we have and those we seek to attract.

Why work for us?

We're looking for people who are driven to make the world a better place. If you're passionate about what you do and want to work collaboratively with talented colleagues to make change happen now and for future generations, we want you to get in touch.

This is the perfect time to join us. We have a dynamic, visionary CEO, a strong leadership team and an ambitious and exciting strategy. The value we bring as experts in our field and change agents is highly recognised and makes the Academy a motivating place to be. Our work today builds on a long, proud history with a focused and ambitious future which we'd love you to be part of.

We are looking for talented people who want to make a difference, to join our team - is this you?

The Academy is committed to making reasonable adjustments to remove barriers that hinder applicants from applying or staff from working effectively and comfortably.