Invention Coordinator

Grade 2

We are a health innovation company powered by a world-class ecosystem of founders, clinical innovators and leading healthcare organisations and universities. We work across London, and beyond, helping innovations move from promise to real-world impact. Our work spans the full innovation journey. We forecast emerging healthcare challenges and opportunities, develop and prove breakthrough solutions, adopt what works in real clinical settings, and scale innovations so they improve and transform care.

By combining deep clinical insight with the ability to test, adopt and scale through our world-class ecosystem, we make health innovations work in practice, not just in theory. This is how we achieve our vision: a world where innovation creates better health for all.

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The Co-ordinator, Invention will support the operations of the Technology Transfer and Venture Building (TT&VB) team within the Invention Unit, providing comprehensive coordination of funding and investment processes, alongside diary and administrative support for the Senior Directors within the Unit.

The post holder will play a key role in ensuring the effective and efficient delivery of the end-to-end TT&VB portfolio and investment processes. This will include coordinating Investment Committee meetings, managing expert review and assessment processes, maintaining portfolio databases and records, and tracking reporting obligations and key milestones.

Reporting to the Senior Director, TT&VB, the post holder will undertake a significant amount of externally facing activity, regularly engaging with senior stakeholders across industry, academia, healthcare, investor networks and partner organisations. The successful candidate will therefore be confident communicating with individuals at all levels of seniority and providing professional, proactive and responsive support within a fast-paced and dynamic environment.

The role requires experience of coordinating complex funding, innovation or investment processes, ideally within the life sciences, healthcare or wider innovation sector. The post holder will possess an understanding of technology transfer, venture building and investment terminology, together with an appreciation of the innovation ecosystem in which the Invention Unit and its partners operate. Strong organisational skills, attention to detail and the ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously will be essential to success in this role.

• Provide specialist co-ordination support for the end-to-end TT&VB process, including material contribution to the design of new processes as well as delivering established ones.
• Run the back-office, operational aspects of funding and investment committees, triage panels and review meetings, preparing high-quality materials alongside technical specialists and arranging logistics.
• Provide professional diary management support for the two Senior Directors in the Invention Unit.
• Maintain the portfolio database, tracking and co-ordinating reporting and review processes.
• Promote a culture of continuous improvement in the TT&VB team and wider organisation, proactively proposing solutions and implementing them.
• Represent the TT&VB team with professionalism and confidence, to a wide range of stakeholders, both internal and external.
• Act as a source of knowledge wrt funding and investment back-office processes and systems.

• Significant experience of building and co-ordinating back-office funding and/ or investment processes, end-to end.
• Highly organised and adaptable, able to prioritise workload.
• Solutions-focused and confident working in…