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Do you want to work with the most ambitious, high-growth innovative SMEs businesses? Do you want to work with these businesses to develop their long-term growth, innovation and commercialisation plans? Do you have credible experience at a senior level within an innovative growing business and/or setting up your own high growth innovative business? If you've answered yes to these questions the role of Innovation & Growth Specialist could be for you! About the role In this role you will deliver the Innovate UK Business Growth service to provide innovation and business advice to a portfolio of SME clients. Your responsibilities will include: Acting as a strategic coach and mentor to SME clients to support them in developing their own long-term growth and innovation commercialisation plans; Providing an account management function for the delivery of business support services to enable SME clients to enhance their innovation management capacity; Using holistic analysis tools to review client needs and provide tailored coaching and mentoring support, including advice on suitability of funding and support services from Innovate UK and other business support providers; Focusing on supporting the most ambitious, high-growth potential innovative SMEs to benefit from national and global opportunities; Providing information and guidance on intellectual property matters, signposting or referring to professional support as required. About you We are looking for someone with business experience at a senior level and/or experience of setting up and running their own high growth business, who has strategic and management or consultancy experience in the commercialising of ideas, including IP, access to finance and establishing sales channels. You will need to demonstrate experience or knowledge of: Assessing risk through analysis of business plans, financial accounts and other supporting information; Interpreting outputs of business diagnostic and benchmarking tools to develop action plans; Understanding of IPR and IP commercialisation strategies together with an understanding of business finance and access to finance; Critical appraisal of bids for innovation funding; Understanding of the business support landscape together with funding and support available through Innovate UK. What we offer We endeavour to make roles flexible. While this role is advertised as full time, we will consider requests to undertake the work on a flexible part-time basis, so please feel free to talk about what flexibility means to you at your initial phone interview. You need to live within commutable distance of the East of England and West Midlands and have a driving licence and access to a car as the role requires regular travel to those regions, as well as occasional national and international travel sometimes involving overnight stays. We are more interested in finding the right person, but we are loosely looking in the region of £45,000 - £50,000 pa FTE Car allowance of £3,840 per annum FTE Broadband allowance Generous, up to 10.5% non-contributory pension scheme Ill-health income protection Life assurance (Death in Service) 26 days holiday FTE, rising to 28 after 2 years' service Flexible and supportive working culture including access to mental health first aiders Wellbeing services for employees including access to discounts, employee assistance programme, Doctorline and more Modern, open space and technology enabled working environment in Hatfield office Flexible benefits including holiday-buy scheme, eye care vouchers, annual flu vaccination and Cyclescheme. We are committed to equality of opportunity for all and value diversity in our workforce. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know. About us We are one of the UK's foremost business support organisations and for over 25 years, we have provided business advisory services to more than 500,000 small to medium sized businesses on behalf of Government and Private sector organisations. As part of our expert team, you can expect to be empowered to be the best you can and share our company values of Openness (I am keen and willing to engage), Inspiration (I want to be the best that I can be), Conviction (We win, or lose, together) and Accountability (I will take responsibility and ownership). As a business we recognise that giving a superior service to our clients depends on making the most of our people and we aim to give our teams challenging opportunities, recognition for achievement, job enrichment and the maximum flexibility we can. The fine print Please note we are not a Home Office visa sponsorship licence holder and therefore you must be currently eligible to live and work in the UK to apply for this role. Please read our recruitment privacy notice on the Exemplas website for information about how we process your personal data.
Do you want to be part of the successful delivery of the Exemplas Grants programme? Do you enjoy working as part of a team and are customer focused? Are you experienced in working on several projects simultaneously? If you've answered "yes" to these questions the role of Grants Programmes Coordinator could be for you! About the role You will be working as part of the Exemplas Grants team, supporting the successful delivery of the Innovate UK Business Growth Grants Programme, through support and administration of the grant's programmes process. Your role within the Grants team will contribute towards our ambition as a recognised Partner of Choice within the national consortium of partners delivering Innovate UK Business Growth Support. Your responsibilities will include: Reviewing grant applications for eligibility and compliance at each stage of the grants process, from application through to claims Providing guidance to SMEs to ensure the submission of eligible and compliant applications and funding claims Providing project related support to delivery teams, including support in fulfilment of client enquiries, assisting, and checking completion of project documentation, minimise errors and gaps in grant information Acting as first point of contact for SMEs, delivery teams and partners for project related enquiries Ensuring that the grants programme audit trail is robustly maintained and recorded, that all activities are eligible and achieve the projects' intended objectives. About you We are looking for someone with an administration, finance or projects background who demonstrates attention to detail and has experience of time critical multi project working. In addition, you will have: Experience of working in a customer-facing role, preferably with SMEs Experience of project working, ideally in a similar role with public sector funding Experience of working within a busy environment, responding to multiple demands at a time Experience of financial and general monitoring and project management systems Experience of working with databases and maintaining accurate customer information on a CRM system. What we offer We are more interested in finding the right person but we are loosely looking in the region of £21,840 - £28,000 pa FTE Broadband allowance Generous, up to 10.5% non-contributory pension scheme Ill-health income protection Life assurance (Death in Service) 26 days holiday (rising to 28 after 2 years' service, pro rata for part time) Flexible and supportive working culture including access to mental health first aiders Wellbeing services for employees including access to discounts, employee assistance programme, Mental Health First Aiders, Doctorline and more Modern, open space and technology enabled working environment Flexible benefits including holiday-buy scheme, eye care vouchers, annual flu vaccination, Cyclescheme. We fully embrace flexible working, so please feel free to talk about what flexibility means to you at your initial phone interview. We are committed to equality of opportunity for all and value diversity in our workforce. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know. About us We are one of the UK's foremost business support organisations and for over 25 years, we have provided business advisory services to more than 500,000 small to medium sized businesses on behalf of Government and Private sector organisations. As part of our expert team, you can expect to be empowered to be the best you can and share our company values of Openness (I am keen and willing to engage), Inspiration (I want to be the best that I can be), Conviction (We win, or lose, together) and Accountability (I will take responsibility and ownership). As a business we recognise that giving a superior service to our clients depends on making the most of our people and we aim to give our teams challenging opportunities, recognition for achievement, job enrichment and the maximum flexibility we can. The fine print Please note we are not a Home Office visa sponsorship licence holder and therefore you must be currently eligible to live and work in the UK to apply for this role. Please read our recruitment privacy notice available on Exemplas website for information about how we process your personal data.