Project Officer jobs in United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

This role offers you the opportunity to expand and nurture our community of key VIP groups such as institutional investors (LPs) and other key stakeholders in the Private Equity Industry. Do you want to take part in defining the future of Private Equity? Do you thrive in a fast-paced environment, where you gain a tremendous amount of responsibility? Do you want to be part of an exceptional entrepreneurial team with young, motivated and driven people? And are you curious or passionate about people and building relationships? If so, you might be our next member of the investor relations team.

Why Private Equity Insights

Private Equity Insights is the world’s largest Private Equity community with 500k followers on LinkedIn organising a series of 12 global private equity events every year with 2,000+ GPs, 1,000+ LPs among the attendees.

Private Equity Insights is part of United Media (https://www.united-media.com/) which focuses on building large-scale industry media and conferences products in sectors such as insurance, finance, retail, etc. As of today, we have organically launched 8 media companies and acquired one.

What we offer you

You get the unique opportunity to take ownership of one of our key business areas. You’ll be working in-person in your HQ in London where you will constantly be pushed out of your comfort zone. To ensure a never-ending growth curve, we provide you with:

• The opportunity of having a real impact - You’ll be getting operational experience in a start-up where both your work and the results are highly tangible and matter to the business.
• Inspiration and guidance - A chance to work closely with our high performing team as well as with the CEO and founder of our company.
• Unlimited growth potential in our company - we strongly believe in and have a track record of promoting internally.
• Travel opportunity: You would be joining our conferences overseas.
• Invaluable transferable skills - boost your interpersonal, research, organisation, outreach and project management skills through experience and training.

Your Responsibilities

Responsibilities in this job will vary however, they will be mostly centred around:

• Identify, maintain and develop long-standing and fruitful relationships with institutional investors who can benefit from the targeted offering of our product and network
• Accommodate the investment strategy of the LP by facilitating 1:1 meetings with relevant fund managers
• Support the team to fulfil delivery of our exclusive products such as roundtables, panel sessions, and VIP receptions. This may sometimes require securing an audience that extends beyond our usual definition of institutional investors, such as GPs

What the future hold for you with our company

Whether you are with or for 2 or 10+ years we believe this position to lay the foundation for a very successful career. We are strong believers of internal promotions and aim to land all management positions internally, and with 45% of our people exiting to PE/Venture or M&A it emphasizes the opportunity arising from this company.

What we expect from you

Please note that this job does not require any specific previous work experience as training is provided and we are looking to incorporate candidates across different levels of experience. However, we do require you to have a UK work permit.

• Have a relentless drive and desire to be the very best at what they do;
• Possess and unparalleled work ethic with a high sense of urgency;
• Take ownership of everything they do, are proactive and follow through on commitments;
• Are curious about people and love to speak, build and nurture relations;
• Are an excellent communicator (especially) verbally and in writing;
• Are well-organised and display the ability to structure and prioritise their work.

The role is onsite, Monday to Friday, based in our offices at Sloane Square. It is essential we work at a fast pace and collaborate in person to create market-leading, unmatched events throughout the calendar year. It will be great to have you as part of our team.