King's College London

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The London Institute for Healthcare Engineering (LIHE), led by the school of Biomedical Engineering & Imaging Science (BMEIS) at King’s College London (KCL), is part of the vision for St Thomas’ MedTech Hub. The Institute is housed in a new building embedded within St Thomas’ campus, and brings together King’s research excellence, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust’s leading clinical practice and the MedTech sector’s commercial innovation power and talent. By collocating and engaging multinationals, SMEs and start-ups simultaneously, LIHE’s vision is to accelerate the clinical impact of innovation by building robust MedTech ventures. It aims to become the hub for MedTech activity in London and the UK by building a strong ecosystem of all key stakeholders in the industry.

About the role

The Head of Ventures, MedTech leads the creation and delivery of programmes for entrepreneurs and ventures in Healthcare Technologies (MedTech) from the King’s family of students, staff, alumni and partners. This role requires a dynamic and innovative individual, with a combination of strategic and tactical skills. The purpose of the Head of Ventures, MedTech, is to drive activities that will enhance King’s reputation as a centre for developing and nurturing entrepreneurial leaders, and of LIHE as a pre-eminent MedTech Venture Builder. In doing so, nurture the unique entrepreneurial mindset required for the area of MedTech in our staff and students.

Key responsibilities of the role holder include:

• Work across our audiences to find and bring forward the best entrepreneurial talent with the most viable start-up ideas.
• Forge a network across King’s so that activities support LIHE’s and King’s ethos and aims.
• Design unique/evolve existing programmes and interventions of support to help ventures start better and scale.
• Generate evidence to demonstrate the success of programmes and interventions, and of their continuous improvement year on year.
• Drive outreach to form a substantial pipeline of entrepreneurs who are diverse. Gender parity in any cohorts should be an active aim to achieve.
• Manage accelerator facilities and workspace and the ecosystem developed around it.
• Manage a substantial community of investors and our team of Experts in Residence.
• Bring in resources, both financial and skill-based, to enhance the impact and pace of our work; build an ecosystem of support around our acceleration services forging useful partnerships.
• Integrate LIHE’s support and ventures with the ecosystem for entrepreneurship in London, nationally and internationally, including inviting corporate partners, supporters and investors into the university.
• Showcase success in entrepreneurship at King’s, further helping early-stage ventures to scale.
• Speak and write as an expert concerning acceleration for LIHE.

Carry out such activities consistent with the post as directed by the Director, Commercial Operations & Partnerships, LIHE, and co-ordinate the priorities of key stakeholders.

The Head of Ventures, MedTech, works to deliver on these critical objectives:

• To find the best early-stage, diverse, entrepreneurial talent amongst our audience at King’s and nationally through outreach and pipeline creation in the field of healthcare engineering (MedTech) 
• To create relevant and impactful programmes of support that help ventures to start better and scale; to deliver these programmes, to evaluate them using clear objectives, and to evolve them 
• To build an internal and external ecosystem of partners that will support this work 
• To maintain and grow a strong and active community of investors  
• To be an international expert and ambassador for the acceleration of early-stage ventures, and act as the expert in how the startup ecosystem is developing in the UK

The above list of responsibilities may not be exhaustive, and the post holder will be required to undertake such tasks and responsibilities as may reasonably be expected within the scope and grading of the post. 

This is a full-time post, and you will be offered a fixed term contract for 3 years in the first instance. This is a hybrid role with at least 3 days on campus.

About You

To be successful in this role, we are looking for candidates to have the following skills and experience:

Essential criteria

1. Educated to degree level in a relevant field.
2. Deep understanding of the formation and scaling of Healthcare Technology startups
3. Deep knowledge of the sources of funding available and when best to leverage them
4. Excellent Knowledge of entrepreneurship and acceleration support
5. Strong strategic thinking bias with the underlying capability to ensure viability of tactical implementation
6. Excellent networking skills and contacts
7. Excellent communication skills – verbal and written

Desirable criteria

1. Adaptable to working in different cultural environments 
2. A flexible, confident and energetic self-starter who is comfortable dealing with all levels of individuals 
3. Well organised, with excellent operational skills 
4. Strong line management skills 
5. Experience in creating, promoting, and running industry-relevant events

Downloading a copy of our Job Description

Full details of the role and the skills, knowledge and experience required can be found in the Job Description document, provided at the bottom of the next page after you click “Apply Now”. This document will provide information of what criteria will be assessed at each stage of the recruitment process.

Further information

We pride ourselves on being inclusive and welcoming. We embrace diversity and want everyone to feel that they belong and are connected to others in our community. 

We are committed to working with our staff and unions on these and other issues, to continue to support our people and to develop a diverse and inclusive culture at King's.

We ask all candidates to submit a copy of their CV, and a supporting statement, detailing how they meet the essential criteria listed in the advert. If we receive a strong field of candidates, we may use the desirable criteria to choose our final shortlist, so please include your evidence against these where possible.

To find out how our managers will review your application, please take a look at our ‘How we Recruit’ pages.

Interviews are due to be held week commencing 19th Sept 2025.

We are not able to offer sponsorship for candidates who do not currently possess the right to work in the UK.