Entrepreneur in Residence

Entrepreneur in Residence (Makespace)

Job title Entrepreneur in Residence (Makespace)

Department Research and Innovation Services (RIS)

Salary Starting from £45,585, rising to £54,395 pro rata

Grade Grade 8

Contract Type Part Time, Fixed Term

Placed on Friday 22 March 2024

Closing date Sunday 14 April 2024

Interview date To be confirmed

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Do you want to be involved with a next-generation skills, training, research, and innovation programme?

Are you passionate about equipping companies with the right frontier technology tools and skills to advance their business into the future?

**About us**:
The FWD Project is an exciting collaboration between B&NES Council, Bath College, Bath Spa University, and the University of Bath. Based at the University of Bath’s Innovation Centre, the Makespace Lab, is an important part of the project.

At its heart, you will seek to bridge the gap between ideation creation and innovation. Gaps in knowledge and limited access to technology resources, create a barrier to an entrepreneur’s ability to explore, test, prototype and implement new technological processes or resources with no risk. You will serve as that vital bridge by providing those resources, complemented by a programme of activity.

The West of England Combined Authority funds the project which focuses on developing innovation, knowledge and skills in the healthy living, digital & creative, and the Net Zero & sustainability sectors, reflecting the biggest regional challenges to recovery and growth.

**About you**:
You will achieve this by seeking to understand the Business Leaders' business support requirements, mapping this into the resources available via the Innovation Centre, and Research base of the university ensuring the appropriate linkages are made available including connecting them to the resources of the SETsquared Partnership of which the University of Bath is a founding member. Drawing on your own experience of running a business/es or a proven track record of supporting businesses, is vital to this role.

**Further Information**:
**What we can offer you**:

- a very generous employer contributory pension scheme
- generous annual leave allowance with an additional 5 discretionary days so that you can enjoy a positive work life balance
- we are a family-friendly University and with an increasingly agile workforce, are open to flexible working arrangements
- an excellent reward package that recognises the talents of our diverse workforce
- a wide range of personal and professional development opportunities.

We are very proud to be an autism friendly university and are an accredited Disability Confident Leader; committed to building disability confidence and supporting disabled staff.