Programme Coordinator

University of Bath; Bath; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading UK university is seeking a Programme Coordinator to support the SETsquared partnership. The role involves coordinating activities across multiple universities and providing essential support for high-profile events. Candidates must demonstrate excellent communication and teamwork skills. This full-time position offers comprehensive benefits and a commitment to diversity in the workplace.

Benefits

Free counselling services

Cycle to work scheme

Electric vehicle salary sacrifice scheme

Staff discount at Team Bath gym

Generous annual leave allowance

Relocation allowance

Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience in developing innovative solutions.
• Ability to work collaboratively across multiple teams.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate and deliver activities and programmes across partner universities.
• Provide professional support for high-profile events and training programmes.

Skills

excellent communication skills

excellent interpersonal skills

team working skills

ability to identify opportunities for innovation

Job description

Overview

Programme Coordinator

SETsquared is a partnership of the universities of Bath, Bristol, Cardiff, Exeter, Southampton and Surrey. To coordinate and deliver activities and programmes across the six Universities there is a small team headed up by the SETsquared Innovation Director, employed by University of Bath. The Programme Coordinator role will be part of the SETsquared Programme team reporting to the Investment Programme Manager.

About Us

SETsquared runs a large number of high-profile events and training programmes each year including showcases for international business investors and presentations to political stakeholders at the House of Commons. The showcases, presentations and training programmes bring together scale-up businesses, investors, corporates as well as senior academic and political audiences from across the South of England with the purpose of helping start-up, scale-up and spin-out businesses to grow and deliver economic impact. The role of Programme Coordinator will provide professional support for this important activity.

About You

You will have:

• excellent communication skills (written and verbal) including writing briefs
• excellent interpersonal skills
• team working skills – the ability to work effectively with staff and across the partner Universities and business stakeholders
• the ability to identify opportunities for innovation.

You will also be able to take a holistic view and work enthusiastically and with creativity to analyse problems and develop innovative and workable solutions.

Further information

This is a full-time role, working 36.5 hours per week, for a fixed-term period of 12 months.

For an informal discussion about the role please contact Chris Hill, Investment Manager at [e-mail].

We consider ourselves to be a university where difference is celebrated, respected and encouraged. We have an excellent international reputation with staff from over 60 different nations and have made a positive commitment towards gender equality and intersectionality receiving a Silver Athena SWAN award. We truly believe that diversity of experience, perspectives, and backgrounds will lead to a better environment for our employees and students and encourage applications from all genders, backgrounds, and communities, particularly from under-represented groups, and value the positive impact that will have on the university. We are committed to maintaining a safe and secure environment for our students, staff, and community by reinforcing our Safer Recruitment commitment.

We are very proud to be a signatory of the Armed Forces Covenant. an accredited Disability Confident Leader; autism friendly university, committed to building disability confidence and supporting disabled staff.

What we can offer you

Benefits

We’re continually expanding our benefits package to better support you and enhance your experience with us and the below is just an example of some of the many great benefits we offer:

• Free counselling services through Health Assured
• Cycle to work scheme
• Electric vehicle salary sacrifice scheme
• Staff discount at Team Bath gym
• Staff discounts on postgraduate tuition fees
• Staff discount on language courses
• Generous employer contributory pension schemes
• Generous annual leave allowance with an additional 5 discretionary days so that you can enjoy a positive work life balance
• A wide range of personal and professional development opportunities including Apprenticeships, LinkedIn Learning and more
• Free entry to the Holburne Museum in Bath
• Local discounts and more
• A family-friendly workplace
• An excellent reward package that recognises the talents of our diverse workforce
• Relocation allowance

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Further Details

• Job Description & Person Specification
• Terms and Conditions of Employment

Right To Work In The UK

We do not assess immigration or right to work status until offer stage. Being invited to interview does not guarantee you are eligible for visa sponsorship and all offers are conditional on meeting right to work requirements. Further information is available on our application support webpage.

Anonymous shortlisting

We are constantly seeking to reduce the unconscious bias that enters any assessment process, with the goal of creating an inclusive and equal assessment process. To support this, personal details such as your name, may be removed from application forms at the initial shortlisting stage.