As Director of Investment I am the SRO for a number of high-profile projects and teams. These include:
• The Government to Government (G2G) with Peru to deliver the PanAmerican Games.
• The Global Investment Summit, which brings together top executives from some of the world's largest companies in order to showcase what the UK has to offer and to promote investment.
• The Investment Services Team, a contract with EY/OCO to support foreign direct investment into the UK.
Top 3 activities:
1. Ensuring each of these contracts are properly managed and fully support policy objectives
This includes reviewing the organisation of contract management resources, ensuring management information provides necessary insight for myself and senior stakeholders and supporting the contract management team when strategic and relationship issues arise within the contractors and/or clients.
2. Client engagement
This includes meeting with top executives and companies to discuss their operations in relation to the UK. We discuss what improvements can be made and how can we help. I regularly consider whether we have the appropriate contract and organisational arrangements in place to meet the needs of UK companies.
3. Ensuring connectivity across the network
I'm responsible for ensuring teamwork across DIT and IST, DIT and the Peruvian Government, DIT and Whitehall (particularly No.10 and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office). I also ensure cohesion across the UK network (LEPS, DAs, etc.), and across the global network (overseas posts).