Department for Education

Manager

• Be responsible for the creation and delivery of technical and translational projects across ARIA’s portfolio to enable our programmes and opportunity spaces to have outsized societal impact.
• Work cross-functionally to deliver these initiatives, fostering strong working relationships and norms with ARIA’s internal teams and external partners.
• Coordinate ARIA’s science entrepreneurship initiatives, including the flagship Activation Partners programme, and scale them across our opportunity spaces and the wider UK ecosystem.
• Create ecosystem-wide mechanisms to increase ARIA’s reach such as engaging with deeply technical communities that can be force multipliers for ARIA’s impact.
• Drive a user-first approach to how ARIA works with the teams it funds, experimenting with how we deliver programmes and partnerships to ensure our work enables researchers and engineers to push the frontier, further.
• Build systems and processes to enable a lean, fast moving team to deliver high-quality projects.
• Ensure clear communication across internal and external stakeholders to share the progress of projects including defining and tracking performance metrics and milestones to ensure visibility of learnings and outcomes.

Projects Manager – Tech, Science

Security Engineer

• Act as the technical lead, with the Programme Director and their Programme Specialist, to shape and deliver a bold programme of research aimed at enabling AI agents, both embodied and digital, to coordinate with one another in untrusted settings.
• Review project proposals, grant applications, assess technical milestones, and stay close to the ground on what’s being built and tested by Creator teams.
• Plan, lead, and contribute to technical discussions in project meetings, workshops, and formal reviews, bringing depth, challenge, and direction to every interaction.
• Provide evidence-based technical insight to the Programme Director and the ARIA team to support high-quality decisions and sharpen the programme’s strategic direction.
• Confidently communicate complex scientific ideas surrounding the programme to stakeholders, from government and funders to key players across the ecosystem.
• Identify emerging trends and surface the most promising technologies, people, and ideas across the programme and its surrounding opportunity space.
• Co-author white papers, open calls, and technical reviews that articulate the ambition of the programme and set a clear, compelling vision for external communities.
• Work closely with the Programme Specialist and Creator teams to drive project delivery, tracking against ambitious technical milestones, benchmarking progress against the state of the art, and spotting opportunities for research cross-pollination to sustain momentum.
• Be the technical bridge between the Programme Director and functional teams, ensuring execution aligns with the needs of the ecosystem's understanding of the programme.

Projects Manager – Tech, Science

Technical Specialist – Multi-Agent Security