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We’re part of everyday life, with our data being used up to 40 times by the average person. We operate an invisible layer that enables the digital world to understand the physical world.\nGeovation exists to expand this impact further, we want to push the boundaries of what is possible with location data. We’re passionate about bringing entrepreneurs, innovators and geospatial experts together to solve real world problems in new ways.\nOur Farringdon hub is a vibrant space where first-time founders collaborate with experienced entrepreneurs and geospatial specialists. It’s a place where ideas become reality. We host events, encourage creativity, and help build the next generation of data-driven applications.\nOur incubation team builds and experiments directly with start-ups, helping them turn their ideas into products and building viable businesses around them.\nAbout the Role:\nAs the Incubator Manager at Geovation you’re responsible for making sure the startups we take into our programme can use it as a launch pad for their ambitions. You’ll play a leading role in finding and selecting which startups we support, and it will be up to you to develop bespoke support programmes that enable them to build sustainable businesses around the products that the technical part of the team helps to build.\nYou will work closely with the Incubator Lead and our technical and ecosystem teams along with third parties and OS experts to deliver this support. You’ll also have a role in the wider community - as one of the key people in the team who really ‘gets founders’ and know what they need. You will build strong relationships with founders and understand the challenges facing their business, but you will also be responsible for making sure the detail behind the programme works.\nWe’re looking for someone who thrives on building relationships, influencing others and making things happen. You’ll take the lead on some of our key strategic partnerships, building strong relationships across Geovation, Ordnance Survey and our external network.\nYou’ll need to be confident working with senior stakeholders, balancing different priorities and bringing people together around shared goals. Leadership experience would be an advantage, particularly as you’ll help shape direction and support others to succeed.\nIn this role, you will:\nScout for startups to invite to apply to the programme in response to target areas set by the Team Leads, manage the recruitment and selection process and facilitate the administrative sides of the process, including appropriate due diligence and finance. \nBe the main point of contact for startups within the programme. Work with the Incubator Lead to design support on a startup-by-startup basis to ensure support aligns with the wider strategy of the team. \nLead on the design and delivery of non-technical support jointly with the Ecosystem team, utilising programme alumni, Geovation, OS employees and third parties. \nBe an advocate for the power of location data, the impact that startups have on creating new markets and industries for OS data and advocate for the specific startups we support. \nLook for connections between different founder needs, OS capabilities, market opportunities and activity happening across the wider Geovation ecosystem. \nBe a key part of making the Geovation Hub is a vibrant creative place to work and a safe, inclusive, welcoming, and well-maintained space for members and visitors. This includes involvement in events and activation as well as some formal Fire, health & safety responsibilities for the Geovation Hub and ad-hoc tasks required as part of a small team running a busy coworking space. \nThe tools we use on a day-to-day basis: MS Office, Beauhurst, Nexudus, Slack, Canva, Copilot\nAbout you and how we work\nWe’re looking for someone who is passionate about startups and knows what they need, ideally you will have worked in or with start-ups in the past and can bring that experience to bear.\nWe want someone who’s comfortable tailoring the message for the diverse audiences we work with, helping communicate the value of our community that we’ve created over the last 15 years.\nYou’ll need to demonstrate:\nExperience of creating bespoke development programmes based on an understanding of needs, sometimes developing and delivering workshops themselves. \nOutstanding interpersonal, relationship building, coaching and mentoring skills and the ability to deploy them in with first time founders and serial entrepreneurs even when things aren’t going well \nThe ability to make sense of complex or ambiguous situations, connect different pieces of information and turn those insights into clear priorities, actions and opportunities. \nExperience of scouting for leading edge startups based on specific briefs - and building relationships with those startups to understand and ‘sell’ their fit with Geovation. \nAn experimental and continuous improvement mindset, willing to try things out with the aim of learning and proving / disproving a hypothesis. \nThe desire and ability to be part of a flexible, small team that collaborates to achieve joint goals, regardless of the exact work to be done. \nParticularly useful experience\nAny of the following would be beneficial but are not essential:\nExperience working with startups, whether through an accelerator, incubator, venture builder, startup programme or within a startup itself.\nExperience supporting early-stage founders through coaching, mentoring, advisory work, scouting or selection.\nExperience coordinating partnerships, programmes or activity across multiple organisations or stakeholders.\nExperience improving operational processes, systems or ways of working.\nThe Rewards\nWe want you to love what you do and feel supported to do your best work.\nOur benefits include:\nCompetitive salary and pension (OS contribute up to 12.07%) \nPerformance-related bonus(where applicable) \n28 days annual leave plus bank holidays (increasing with service) \nEnhanced family leave, including paid partner leave \nHybrid and flexible working options \nLearning and development support, coaching and mentoring \nFree subscription to OS Maps and access to wellbeing support \nVolunteering leave and matched fundraising \nLocation\nThe role is based at Geovation with a minimum of 3 full days in the Geovation Hub to provide direct support to start-ups working from the hub\nThere may also be specific needs to be present in the Geovation Hub as part of Fire, Health and Safety responsibilities - which may affect hours required in the Hub.\nClosing date: Wednesday 4th November 2026 at 23:59pm\nHow to Apply\nPlease submit your CV and Covering letter to support the above criteria\nSecurity & eligibility\nOS conducts pre-employment checks for anyone made an offer of employment, including identity, right to work, employment history and criminal record checks (via Disclosure & Barring Services (DBS).\nSome of our roles may require additional security vetting. We will advise candidates during the recruitment process if additional vetting may be required for that specific role.\nInclusion at OS\nWe are happy to consider any reasonable adjustments that people may need during the recruitment process, and you will be asked whether you require any during the application process.\nResearch indicates that women, individuals with disabilities, LGBTQ+ community members, neurodiverse individuals, and people from ethnic minority backgrounds often hesitate to apply for jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At Ordnance Survey, we are dedicated to fostering a diverse, inclusive, and genuine workplace where everyone can thrive.\nIf you’re enthusiastic about this role but your experience doesn’t perfectly match every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. 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