Entrepreneurship Advisor

About us

The department of UCL Innovation & Enterprise sits within the Office of the UCL Vice-Provost (Research, Innovation & Global Engagement). UCL Innovation & Enterprise is made up of specialists from academia and industry, who work with UCL’s academics, students, alumni and external organisations, to turn knowledge and ideas into tangible applications that improve society.

UCL Innovation & Enterprise's work is at the heart of UCL’s ambition to change the world for the better and plays a vital part in our shared mission to tackle the great global challenges of our time.

BaseKX is the Incubation space in Camden at the heart of our extra-curricular offer to deliver entrepreneurial training programmes and support a growing number of graduate start-ups.

About the role

This is a fixed -term role until 31st of October 2023.

Innovation & Enterprise Entrepreneurship are searching foran Entrepreneurship Advisor to join our team and support our growing number of UCL startups.

The postholder will be working closely with the Head of Entrepreneurship and the Entrepreneurship team to deliver our mission of a high quality ‘purpose driven’ extracurricular entrepreneurship programme to enhance the student experience, develop entrepreneurial mindsets and create high quality UCL graduate start-ups

Entrepreneurship Advisors are a multi-skilled specialist team who provide an end to end entrepreneurship programme of support from ideation stage, through the development of entrepreneurial mindsets and where required, start-up creation, incubation and early stage business growth.

About you

We are searching for a candidate who understands the early stage entrepreneurial incubation process to supervise the recruitment, selection and monitoring of our graduate startups at BaseKX Hatchery.

You will join an award winning team to deliver our mission of a high quality extracurricular ‘purpose driven’ entrepreneurship programme to enhance the student experience, develop entrepreneurial mindsets and create high quality UCL graduate startups.

To apply for this vacancy, please attach your CV and cover illustrating the skills you bring to the role.

If you have any queries regarding the vacancy or application process, please contact Ruth Weir on

What we offer

As well as the exciting opportunities this role presents, we also offer some great benefits some of which are below:

• 41 Days holiday (27 days annual leave 8 bank holiday and 6 closure days)
• Additional 5 days’ annual leave purchase scheme
• Defined benefit career average revalued earnings pension scheme (CARE)
• Cycle to work scheme and season ticket loan
• Immigration loan
• Relocation scheme for certain posts
• On-Site nursery
• On-site gym
• Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption pay
• Employee assistance programme: Staff Support Service
• Discounted medical insurance

Visit https://www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/reward-and-benefits to find out more.

Our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

Out commitment to EDI as London’s Global University, we know diversity fosters creativity and innovation, and we want our community to represent the diversity of the world’s talent. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where we all belong.

We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are likely to be underrepresented in UCL’s workforce.

These include people from Black, Asian and ethnic minority backgrounds; disabled people; and LGBTQI+ people.

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