Chief Executive Officer, Future Cities Catapult

Chief Executive Officer, Future Cities Catapult

Application Pack

CONTENTS

1.Catapult Centres

2.About the Future Cities Catapult

3. Structure and Governance

4.Funding

5.Role Specification

6.Terms of Appointment

7.Advert

8.Timetable

9.How to Apply

1.Catapult Centres

Catapults are centres of excellence that bridge the gap between business, academia, research and government. They are a powerful new element in the UK economy, helping businesses develop relevant and exciting ideas in receptive and invigorating environments.

By promoting collaboration and knowledge exchange, many progressive businesses and organisations will be able to build new partnerships with reduced risks. Companies in a wide range of markets will see the Catapults as an invaluable resource to develop their businesses.

Many small companies struggle to get ideas off the ground and raise finance for product investment. Catapults are good news for SMEs because they can work with much bigger companies and universities, and access significant R&D resources. Catapults also promote knowledge exchange where independent experts come together to discuss ideas, develop relationships and establish new customer bases.

The Future Cities Catapult is one of seven in a network of world-leading Catapults centres to transform the UK’s capability for innovation in specific areas and help drive future economic growth.

The seven areas are:

•high value manufacturing

•cell therapy

•offshore renewable energy

•satellite applications

•connected digital economy

•future cities

•transport systems

The Future Cities Catapult will join business, city governments and academia in a unique collaboration to enable business to develop products and services for the cities of the future.It will test innovative business solutions in a series of large-scale demonstrator projects, help to put the citizen at the heart of the city by integrating city systems, and take on challenges such as increasing city density without increasing congestion and moving to a low-carbon economy.

The new investment will further help bridge the gap between universities and businesses, helping to commercialise the outputs of Britain's world-class research base. The Catapult will also complement and link with the other programmes that the Technology Strategy Board already manages to promote collaboration between universities and business, and to drive innovation and find commercial opportunities for new technology and ideas.

More information about Catapult programme and the Catapults is available on the Catapult.org.uk website

Timeline

In January 2011 the Technology Strategy Board published a prospectus to begin the process of establishing these world-leading centres. It described proposals for the objectives, role, governance and funding for the centres, and invited input on these and on the centres’ potential areas of focus. Over 500 overwhelmingly positive responses were received.

Based on this input and the Technology Strategy Board’s own assessment, a strategy and implementation plan was published for the programme in May 2011. This explained the vision for the Catapults, outlining the three technology areas already identified for setting up a Catapult, and the other candidate areas for further centres.

Following extensive consultation with business and other stakeholders, the Technology Strategy Board published a Catapult update brochure that covers the outcome of the consultation and assessment process in March 2012.

2. About the Future Cities Catapult

A future city is one that can provide a thriving economy and good quality of life with a reduced environmental footprint. It is able to maximise the many economic benefits of a city, often related to densityand proximity, whilst managing thedownsides, such as congestion or waste.

The Technology Strategy Board is establishinga Future Cities Catapult– a world-leadingtechnology and innovation centre.The Catapult will help UK businesses tocreate products and services that meet the needs of the world’s cities as they adapt to future demands. As cities compete to deliver a thriving economy and good quality of life with a smaller environmental footprint, there is a rapidly growing market for innovative solutions that integrate and optimise the major systems of a city. This includes a city’s health, energy, water, waste, communications, buildings and transport. The centre will focus on integration across these systems. We estimate that by 2030 there will be a £200bn global market annually for integrated city systems.

The Catapult will address the following challenges:

— connecting city systems to enable integration and interoperability

— increasing city density and population without congestion

— transitioning to resource-efficient, low-carbon cities

— resilient energy systems.

Developing innovative responses to these challenges will provide UK firms with majoropportunities globally, as they reflect thepriorities of so many cities.

Cities representing over 80% of the UK’s GDP are telling us that they need new solutions if they are going to invest effectively. Although this is a global challenge, no other country has yet developed a national centre to provide integrated solutions to the future needs of cities. The market is large and growing. Over £6.5tn will be invested globally in city infrastructure over the next 10-15 years, and the accessiblemarket for integrated city systems isexpected to be £200bn a year by 2030.

The Future Cities Catapult will create a technical capability to achievenew levels of systems integration. It will joinbusiness, city governments and academia in a unique collaboration to enable businesses to develop products and services for this emerging market. It will act as an accelerator for UK firms as they innovate to meet the needs of the world’s cities. It will provide both a neutral space, and the intensityof collaboration, that cities and firms say iscurrently missing.

The Catapult will not work on individualcity systems in isolation. Instead, it will workon the integration of systems, specifically focusing on the way they combine and interact to create opportunities for better performance and greater value. It will work on projects that are rooted in specific, practical challenges of cities, wheresolutions to real market needs can bedeveloped into investable propositions.

ROLE OF THE CATAPULT

The Future Cities Catapult will help UK businesses to develop high-value, integrated urban solutions and then sell those solutions to the World.

The complexity of the challenge facing cities is beyond any single business, sector or discipline, and there is strong demand for solutions in the UK and globally.

The Catapult will join business, city governments and academia in a unique collaboration to enable businesses to develop products and services for this emerging market.

By bringing together through collaborative projects disciplines that do not normally work together it will identify new areas for innovation.

It will create a technical capability to achieve new levels of systems integration.

It will support testing and validation of new solutions in real-life demonstrations and will provide reliable and trusted evidence of performance in use.

It will provide a space where innovative SMEs can develop and test their solutions in collaboration with larger companies to establish a route to market.

It will act as an accelerator for UK firms as they innovate to meet the needs of the world’s cities.

It will act as a shop window for the best of UK innovation, products and services in the integration of city systems.

OPERATIONAL OUTLINE

The Catapult will be a centre for integration, complementing existing academic and business-led centres, and will focus on cross-discipline and cross-sector collaboration.

The centre will be an autonomous research and development organisation, with its own management, R&D and support staff, resources and capabilities. It will be located in a single physical location, led by an entrepreneurial director of international standing and overseen by a business-led supervisory board.

The Future Cities Catapult will be:

• a single centre to create intensity of collaboration across many disciplines;
• linked to demonstration projects in cities in the UK and in other countries;
• host to a city laboratoryto enable real-time data-capture, analysis and visualisation linked to multiple in situ projects;
• linked to related Catapults including Transport Systems and Connected Digital Economy - drawing on their skills and developing joint programmes;
• Linked strategically with relevant centres of expertise in the UK and beyond

Collaborations between businesses, city governments and academics to develop, deploy and learn from new integrated city-wide solutions will build projects of global significance.

The Catapult will enter into non-exclusive partnerships with businesses and work with other innovative organisations within the UK and internationally. These will include partners wishing to exploit its capabilities, and partners who can bring capabilities and facilities to the Catapult.

3. Structure and Governance

Each Catapult will be established as a company limited by guarantee, a separate legal entity from the Technology Strategy Board. It will be controlled by an independent Board (“the Main Board”) comprising the Chair, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO), and otherdirectors appointed by the Chair, in conjunction with the Technology Strategy Board. The Technology Strategy Board will nominate one representative for appointment as a Non-Executive Director to the Main Board. The Chair and CEO will be the members of the company (liability of members is limited to £1). An Executive Management Committee consisting of the CEO and other senior personnel, e.g. the Chief Financial Officer, the Chief Technical Officer or the Head of HR etc, will be responsible for the day-to-day management of the Catapult.

The Technology Strategy Board has appointed an Interim Advisory Group (IAG) responsible for overseeing the establishment of the Catapult by a delivery team. The Interim Advisory Group together with the Technology Strategy Board will identify, select and appoint the Chair of the Supervisory Board and potential members of that body. The IAG will support the Chair in identifying, selecting and appointing the CEO.

4.Funding

The Catapult’s funding model is intended to comprise one third from the Technology Strategy Board (its core funding), one third from client funded programmes, and one third from competitively won collaborative R&D projects.

It is expected that the Future Cities Catapult will grow its turnover from c. £6m pa in 2013/14 to over £30m pa by 2017/18. Hence, the contributions should be about £10 m pa from each source when the Future Cities Catapult has grown to full operation.

Potential funding though Horizon 2020 and other sources could mean a significantly higher aspirational target can be set in the business plan.

5.Role Specification

The Future Cities Catapult requires an entrepreneurial leader with proven ability in the building and shaping of an organisation which is designed to create change on an international stage. The CEO must be knowledgeable and well respected, with experience of working across sectors which include: city infrastructure and city operations; government policy; and the start-up of new businesses.

The individual must be a proven and visionary leader and a negotiator and relationship builder with a track record of delivering success through collaboration across industry.

THE ROLE OF THE CEO

The success of the Catapult will depend critically on the strong and visible leadership of a CEO who is highly respected across industry, government and academia. The CEO will be a pivotal appointment, around which a team will be appointed to establish and then build-up the Catapult. The CEO must therefore be a confident and accomplished leader with the vision, energy, personality and skills required to set the direction, maintain the course, and motivate the leadership team.

Whilst having extensive executive authorities, the CEO will be expected to report to, and work closely with, the high-profile and expert Chair of the Board. This relationship will be of fundamental importance to the success of the Catapult and the ability to work closely and constructively with a senior partner will be a key characteristic of the appointee.

The CEO will need to identify the need for, and create, relationships with external bodies involved in delivering future cities; including city governments, infrastructure providers, organisations within the business finance and investment community, practitioners within the academic and research community, and officials within government and its departments.

The Future Cities Catapult CEO will need to be:

• strong and visionary in leadership, with the ability to both support and enthuse the Executive Team;
• entrepreneurial and a deal-maker, with the commercial ability to drive opportunities from complex, emerging markets;
• confident of operating in a changing environment and capable of defining a path forward which may need to evolve as circumstances require;
• able to identify, communicate, and drive the development of new ideas within a pre-existing and very well established body of external stakeholders;
• able to work constructively with the Chair and non-executive directors of the Board.

PERFORMANCE OBJECTIVES

The CEO will be responsible for providing the strategic leadership and operational business management of the Catapult. Key objectives will be:

• To establish, with the Chair, a capable, effective and highly-multi-disciplinary Executive Team, and to put in place the operational structures, processes, and tools which will be required for success
• To meet those targets set by the Technology Strategy Board and the Catapult Chair which reflect the Purpose and Operational Principles set out above
• To demonstrate success in the generation of economic growth for the UK
• To engage and interface with other Catapult centres and related organisations both national and international.

6. Terms of Appointment

The CEO will be appointed initially as an employee of the Future Cities Catapult Ltd. It is expected that the CEO will be appointed as a director of Future Cities Catapult Ltd after an appropriate probationary period.

• Duration: Fixed term contract of employment with the Future Cities Catapult Ltd
• Time Commitment: Full time
• Start Date: As soon as possible
• Location: TBD
• Remuneration: Competitive Package

7.Advert

Driving Innovation for Future Prosperity

Future Cities Catapult

Chief Executive Officer

(Attractive six figure package)

The Future Cities Catapult is one of a network of elite technology and innovation centres to be set up by the Technology Strategy Board. As cities compete to deliver a thriving economy and good quality of life with a smaller environmental footprint, there is a rapidly growing market for innovative solutions that integrate and optimise the major systems of a city – such as energy, water, waste, health, ICT and transport. The Catapult will create a technical capability to achievenew levels of systems integration. It will join business, city governments and academia in a unique collaboration to enable businesses to develop products and services for this emerging market. It will act as an accelerator for UK firms as they innovate to meet the needs of the world’s cities, and will provide both a neutral space, and the intensity of collaboration, that cities and firms say is missing.

To ensure the success of the Future Cities Catapult, we require a dynamic and entrepreneurial leader with a track record in delivering results. You will be a deal-maker, able to build strong and productive working relationships. You will have a global perspective and a proven ability to cope with ambiguity and complexity. You will need to identify specific barriers to commercialisation that are hindering growth, and to develop strategies which help businesses overcome them. You will need to develop a high-performing, collaborative, multi-disciplinary team, and a culture and set of capabilities that enables innovators from firms (of all sizes), cities and academia to drive high-growth opportunities. You will have been pivotal to the delivery of bold visions, using your highly developed commercial, strategic and communication skills to unlock opportunities and align objectives whilst commanding respect and commitment at all levels.

For an informal, confidential discussion on this opportunity, please call our advising consultant:

Baljit Dhadda 020 3137 3452 or 07939 074 973

Closing date for applications: 19th November 2012

8.Timetable

Indicative timetable (which may be subject to alteration) is as follows:

Closing date19th November

Longlist interviewsw/c 3rd December

Final panel interviews17th Dec

9.How to Apply

To submit an application, go to

For an information pack and an informal and confidential conversation, call our advising consultant:

•Baljit Dhadda on 020 3137 3452 /07939 074 973

You will be required to submit a CV and brief supporting statement that provides evidence of the competencies outlined in the Person Specification. You will also be asked to complete an Equal Opportunities Monitoring Form.

Reasonable expenses for unavoidable travel expenses in connection with attending interviews will be reimbursed.

Diversity Policy

The Future Cities Catapult is committed to providing equal opportunities for all, irrespective of race, age, disability, gender, marital status, religion, sexual orientation, transgender and working patterns.

This appointment will be conducted in line with principles of merit, fairness and openness.

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