We employ over 150 people across North America, all united by our vision of a future where we champion open and fair global trading that drives growth, creates better jobs and higher wages, and improves living standards in the UK and around the world. We seek talented team members with the passion and drive to help us in our mission to build a global appetite for British goods and services; drive investment; negotiate trade deals and open up markets; improve international trading standards and fight unfair trading practices (see www.gov.uk/DIT).
North America is the largest source of investible capital in the world and is home to the majority of the world’s leading investment firms. DBT’s mission is to attract high value, high impact capital from major North American investors to help deliver on the UK government’s overarching strategic priorities.
Based at the British Consulate-General in San Francisco, the Senior Capital Investment Officer (SCIO) will proactively identify, target, prospect, develop, and manage new and existing relationships with some of the world’s major institutional investors, with particular focus on university endowments, insurance companies’ investment arms, and public sector pension funds across the US. With dual reporting lines to the Director of Trade, San Francisco, as well as to the Sector Director for Capital Investment – North America, you will work as part of a team located across North America with responsibility for driving strategic capital investment from the United States and Canada into all regions of the UK, as well as being a valued contributor to the San Francisco-based regional team.
Additionally, the successful applicant will be expected to exercise their sector knowledge and expertise in support of the Sector Director to provide additional sector leadership capacity within the network, including engaging with key stakeholders in Whitehall, and directly managing strategic accounts. This will include periodically deputising for the Sector Director and traveling outside of the candidate’s primary Post. There will also be line management of one or more Senior Capital Investment and Capital Investment Officers, as well as supporting the Sector Director more broadly in the effective leadership and efficient operation of the North America Capital Investment Sector team.
You will work as part of a team located across North America with responsibility for driving strategic capital investment from the United States and Canada into all regions of the UK, as well as being a valued contributor to the San Francisco-based regional team.
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