Job id: 150605. Salary: £65,091 per annum inclusive of London Weighting Allowance.

Posted: 24 June 2026. Closing date: 30 July 2026.

Business unit: King’s Business School. Department: King’s Entrepreneurship Institute.

Contact details: Julie Devonshire. Julie.devonshire@kcl.ac.uk

Location: Strand Campus. Category: Professional & Support Services.

About the role:

The Head of Ventures at the Entrepreneurship Institute is a senior professional services leader at King’s, accountable for the delivery and development of high-quality and professional support services for venturing, acceleration and investor relations that will create a seamless pipeline and increase commercial innovation across our university. This role leads a small team to deliver one-year accelerator programmes, one for start-ups (King’s students and alumni) and one for spinouts (King’s research staff), along with an extensive network of investors, the King’s Investor Network. Accelerators are delivered through a group of experts-in-residence who are managed by the Head of Ventures. Each venture participating in our accelerators is expected to progress through strategy, pitching, launching, funding and scaling with the expert support and leadership provided by the Head of Ventures.

This is a full-time role for a fixed term contract relating to maternity cover.

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