Senior Policy Advisors - AI for Science and Engineering
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£56,850 - £68,570 a year
Gross, as stated in the ad.
About £3,630 - £4,190 a month after tax.
Full-time
Per the ad.
Hybrid
Only from certain places, per the ad: “If based in Manchester / Birmingham, you will be required to attend the London office 1x a week.”
Be near London for hybrid days
No relocation package mentioned.
25 days holiday
Per the ad, which doesn’t say whether bank holidays are on top.
28.97% employer pension
Paid in by the employer, per the ad. The legal minimum is 3%.
£56,850 - £68,570
London salary: £61,620 - £68,570. National salary: £56,850 - £63,980. New entrants to the civil service are expected to join at the band minimum.
A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%
Alongside your salary of £56,850, Department for Science, Innovation & Technology contributes £16,469 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides (opens in a new window).
The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology offers a competitive mix of benefits including:
This job is broadly open to the following groups:
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Artificial intelligence is central to the UK's economic and national security. As countries around the world compete to develop and deploy this transformative technology, the UK must ensure it can build, attract and retain the companies that will shape the future of AI. The Sovereign AI Fund sits at the heart of this mission, with a clear mandate to identify, back and scale the companies that will define the UK's position in one of the most consequential technologies of our time.
Backed by up to £500 million, the Fund exists to turn ambition into action, supporting high-potential AI startups and scaleups to become national champions and strengthening the UK's sovereign capability in frontier AI.
The Portfolio Lead role is responsible for the ongoing support, monitoring and value creation of SovAI's investment portfolio post-investment.
In venture terms, this is closest to a "platform" role: the day-to-day point of contact who makes sure portfolio companies get useful support, while giving the Fund a clear, structured view of how the portfolio is doing.
Process & Team Building
Fixed term
Loan
24 months
Flexible working, Full-time
London, Manchester, Birmingham (If based in Manchester or Birmingham, you will be required to attend the London office 1x a week. Travel expenses will be reimbursed).
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Grade 7
Other
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• A portfolio CRM and reporting single source of truth adopted across investment, delivery and compute teams.
• Strong, trusted relationships with portfolio company founders and with key government counterparts.
• Playbooks and benchmarking data measurably reduce the time it takes to resolve common portfolio requests.
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
Apply before 11:55 pm on Monday 12th October 2026
This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours and Experience.
Application: Please apply here. You will be asked to submit your CV and answer the following application questions:
Interview 1: Experience and motivations interview.
Interview 2: Civil service behaviours interview with task. The details of the task will be send beforehand.
Interview 3: Final stage with senior leadership team.
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
DSIT - Artificial Intelligence
Artificial intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our candidate guidance (opens in a new window) for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.
Successful candidates must undergo a basic (or equivalent) criminal record check.
People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.
The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.
We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).
The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.
The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.
The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan (opens in a new window) and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window).
This vacancy is part of the Great Place to Work for Veterans (opens in a new window) initiative.
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