Part-time Enterprise Coach (Fixed Term)

Join our Careers & Employability team as an Enterprise Coach, where you'll empower students and graduates to build their entrepreneurial confidence, launch freelance careers, and deliver real-world creative projects. Through managing projects, delivering workshops, and coaching students, you'll play a key role in preparing students and graduates to succeed in their freelance or entrepreneurial careers. 

This is a part-time, fixed-term contract for 15 months starting from 7th July 2025

About the Role

As Enterprise Coach, you’ll support students and graduates to develop entrepreneurial skills and confidence through one-to-one coaching, workshops, and tailored activities. You’ll collaborate with colleagues across the university to coordinate impactful enterprise initiatives and build strong relationships with academic and professional service teams. 

This is a varied and hands-on role that combines planning, delivery, and relationship management to support student success.

About You

• Experience providing one-to-one advice or coaching on self-employment, business startup, or freelance work to a diverse range of individuals
• Experience designing and delivering career education resources, workshops, or learning activities, particularly in an enterprise or employability context
• Strong commercial awareness and understanding of self-employed, startup, and freelance sectors, alongside excellent interpersonal and IT skills (including Microsoft 365)
• Strong relationship management skills with the ability to collaborate with academic and professional service staff, as well as with external partners
• Experience working in or with a Higher Education or Further Education setting, particularly in employability, enterprise, or careers education
• A formal qualification in advice, guidance, or coaching (Level 6 or above), or a willingness to undertake one
• Experience working in or with creative industries or freelance project-based environments
• Familiarity with widening participation and inclusive education strategies, especially related to employability or enterprise
• Experience coordinating or supporting student-led projects or initiatives that involve real-world delivery or external stakeholders

Additional Information

The salary range shows the potential maximum pay progression in addition to any annual inflationary increase to your pay. Please note that our default position is to appoint into the lower end of the range, unless there are exceptional circumstances.

This post may require work into the evenings and at weekends to support on campus events.

The post holder may be required to travel within the region and to Bath Spa’s London campus as part of this role.

Interview date: 17th June 2025

Due to the nature of this post regretfully we cannot accept applications that do not have the Right to Work/Live in the UK therefore your application will be rejected.

Staff Benefits

We offer a wide range of great benefits at BSU, including

• Generous pension scheme (Local Government Pension Scheme/Teacher's Pension Scheme). This is a defined benefit pension scheme which pays members a secure income for life, post-retirement
• Enhanced paid leave - 41 - 46 days depending on the role (Full-Time) - more details here: https://apphub.bathspa.ac.uk/StaffBenefits
• Family friendly policies including hybrid working, flexible work environment, on-site nursery, and a sector-leading enhanced maternity scheme 
• Employee Assistance Programme which offers access to on-demand GP appointments, wellbeing support and advice, and access to counselling
• Transport schemes including Electric Vehicle Scheme & Cycle to Work
• Wide range of discounts & financial benefits, accessed through and easy-to-use app

For further details about all our staff benefits, have a look at our rewards page: https://www.bathspa.ac.uk/work-at-bath-spa/rewards-and-benefits/

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

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