Venture Manager at Catch22

Company Description

Catch22 exists to help build a society where everyone has a good place to live, good people around them, and a fulfilling purpose. We call these our '3Ps'.

We achieve this in two ways. Firstly, we improve lives on the frontline through delivery of public services. Secondly, we use our knowledge to change 'the system', to fix the complex web that can trap and disempower those it was set up to help. With the heart of a charity and the mindset of a business, we are uniquely placed to deliver on this challenging agenda.

GoodTech Ventures

GoodTech Ventures is a Catch22-led partnership with Social Tech Trust and Unity Ventures, with support and funding from Ufi VocTech Trust, Microsoft, and the UK Government.

We’re building a movement of likeminded people and organisations, to help impact-led tech ventures to design, build and deploy game-changing digital technologies, into social and public service delivery.

We're helping founders and leaders of early-stage GoodTech ventures to scale-up their impact, and we believe that digital technologies can accelerate the shift towards a stronger society where everyone has a purpose, a good place to live, and good people around them.

Job Description

The role of Venture Manager is an excellent opportunity to deliver outstanding support to entrepreneurs and their ventures, in maximising their social and commercial impact.

Working directly with a cohort of entrepreneurs to target their growth and scale, this role will coordinate an exceptional package of support from our partners, to provide entrepreneurs with the best chance of securing public sector supply chain contracts.

Direct support to ventures

• Delivering quality support to social entrepreneurs based on their needs to develop and grow their venture.
• Identifying ventures’ needs and coordinating access to appropriate partner-based support and beyond.
• Designing and delivering group and one-to-one support sessions for ventures.

Partnership delivery

• Maintaining close communication with our delivery partners to plan and deliver support to ventures.
• Providing regular feedback between partners and ventures, to ensure that ventures’ development objectives are being met.

Impact management

• Collecting, analysing and sharing quantitative and qualitative data, to measure and demonstrate the impact of our work.

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Qualifications

You have an advanced technical qualification and/or skills. You will be the right expert for this role, with a background in entrepreneurship/business consulting.

You will have brilliant stakeholder engagement capabilities. As a critical part of a new function, our success will depend on your ability to engage entrepreneurs, winning their confidence and trust in our support.

You are super-organised and process driven. You will balance competing pressures adeptly and help others do the same. You can keep on top of a shifting set of projects and opportunities and bounce back quickly at times of high stress and from inevitable setbacks.

Your analytical ability is excellent and you can shift focus seamlessly between strategic and operational. You can accurately analyse ventures’ needs and spot challenges as well as opportunities for growth and development.

You will be professional and easy to be around. There will be periods that require significant amounts of effort to get things done and the learning curve will be steep: you will relish the opportunity to get ‘stuck in’ and you will be professional and motivated.

Additional Information

Salary: £22,000 pro-rata (based on £44,000 full time equivalent)
Hours of work: Part time, 18.5 hours per week
Contract: Fixed term, for 12 months
Location: This role is offered on a remote/hybrid basis*

*The successful candidate can work remotely, but will also have full access to our London office, available five days per week. There will be regular in-person events to attend in London and across the UK, so you will be required to have pre-existing right to work in the UK.

This project is part-funded by the UK government through the UK Shared Prosperity Fund.

See the benefits of working for Catch22 here.

Unless otherwise stated, interviews will be arranged as suitable candidates are identified, so early application is strongly advised.

At Catch22 we value equality, diversity and inclusion. We are wholeheartedly committed to the principle of equality of opportunity, both as an employer and as a provider of services. Diversity and Inclusion is part of what we do every day, working to deliver our vision to build a strong society where everyone has good people around them, a purpose, and a good place to live.

Catch22 is committed to rigorous safeguarding and safer recruitment practices; ensuring that every individual within the organisation has been safely and appropriately checked.

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