Project Support Officer (Enterprise) at UWE, Bristol

January 10, 2024

Job Description

About this role

Research Business and Innovation (RBI) is a dynamic, friendly department with a strong team ethos. RBI supports, develops, and enhances the University’s research and community & business engagement aims and ambitions.

We are agile, bold, and collaborative in our approach to delivering all our activities. Our people are what make us successful. The skills and experience to work on our funded programmes can be acquired, but team members must be able to communicate, think creatively and put our customers at the heart of everything we do.

RBI supports the delivery, governance, and compliance of a number of internally and externally facing Research, Skills, Enterprise, and Innovation projects. We are looking to appoint a Project Support Officer (Enterprise) to work with the Senior Business Innovation & Growth Manager to support activities across the Regional Innovation Fund and other enterprise and innovation initiatives, including start-up and scale-up funding and business support programmes. This role will specialise in enterprise and innovation activity but support other projects when necessary.

About you:

You are an enthusiastic, motivated individual who wants to make an impact, with a strong track record in delivering excellent support to customers through the provision of project support. You will have strengths in customer service, communicating, interpreting complex information, process management, prioritisation and claims and reporting for funders.

The Project Support Officer (Enterprise) is a dynamic role allowing you to demonstrate your skills in organisation, communications, and financial acuity.

Where is this role based?

This post is based at our lively Frenchay campus where we have invested in the latest facilities and resources to give both our staff and students access to everything they need to succeed.

We offer a wide range of employee benefits including progressive pay rates, generous annual leave and career average pension schemes as well as retail savings, onsite nursery and opportunities for training and personal development.

As a Disability Confident employer, we welcome applications from those who identify as having a disability.

Further information

If you would like to speak to us to find out more about this role please contact Aimee Skinner on 0117 32 82434 or email: aimee.skinner@uwe.ac.uk

Interviews are scheduled to take place at our Frenchay Campus w/c 24th January 2024.

This is a full-time, 12 months fixed-term post, working 37 hours per week.

This post is available on a job share basis for applicants wishing to work part time.

Should you be shortlisted you will be asked to provide your right-to-work documents at your interview. Please refer to the Home Office Right to Work Checklist which provides details of which documents are acceptable.

Advice to applicants

We’d love to hear from you – if you are excited about joining us at UWE please complete our application form as soon as possible.

Tell us about how your skills and experience relate to the requirements of this role by describing how you meet each of the essential and desirable criteria listed in the Person Specification section of the Job Description, and include specific examples wherever possible.

Once we have completed shortlisting we will let you know the outcome of your application by email, so please check your inbox for updates.


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