Innovation Funding Advisor (full-time, fixed term to 31 March 2025)

Starting salary from £35,333 per annum, dependant on skills and experience, with an annual increment up to £42,155 per annum 

The UEA Innovation Funding Team are seeking an individual with a track record from creative sector businesses to join our team of Advisors working with potential high growth companies on the new Create Growth Programme. 

Your job will be to work closely with a number of businesses, assessing applicants and working one-to-one with companies from their value proposition and market positioning through to pitching, to identify their strengths and weaknesses and optimise their investment potential. You will also identify and refer them to work with a range of expert mentors from our Mentor Pool. 

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.

UEA offers a variety of flexible working options and although this role is advertised on a full-time basis, we encourage applications from individuals who would prefer a flexible working pattern including annualised hours, compressed working hours, part-time, job share, term-time only and/or hybrid working. Details of preferred hours should be stated in the personal statement and will be discussed further at interview.

Information on the full benefits of working at UEA can be found at Staff benefits - Careers at UEA - About

Closing date: 20 February 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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