Programme Communications Coordinator (Create Growth Programme)

The UEA Innovation Funding Team are seeking a capable and pro-active person to join the team to co-ordinate, arrange and deliver effective communications and the smooth running of events working with potential high growth Creative Industries companies on the new Create Growth Programme.

Your job will be to work closely with the rest of the Team, liaising with external partners and stakeholders, communicating with cohort participants, event speakers and attendees, venues and other suppliers. You will devise and coordinate arrangements and communications for cohort participants attending programme events, meeting with a range of mentors and advisors, and feed into the process of capturing and sharing the positive impacts of the programme. You will also play a key role in liaising with the programmes external Marketing Agency and acting as their first point of contact throughout the programme.

This will be an exciting and dynamic role and will involve building good working relationships with a number of partners, stakeholders, participants and suppliers. Where appropriate, you may also assist with other projects and activities as part of the team.

Currently the team works in a hybrid pattern of homeworking plus days in the office.  Our main HQ is at The Enterprise Centre on UEA campus in Norwich. There will also be a schedule of events held across the programme geography principally in Norwich, Ipswich, Cambridge and Peterborough.

The post is available immediately on a full-time, fixed term basis until 31 March 2025.

Closing date: 3 January 2023.

The University is committed to diversifying its workforce. As examples, we already hold an Athena SWAN Silver Institutional Award in recognition of our advancement towards gender equality. We also have a Vice-Chancellor led Taskforce on Tackling Racism and a Race Equality Charter Working Group which support our work on race equality. Our aim is to submit to the Race Equality Charter in 2024.

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