Enterprise Coach

**Description**:
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 creating digital content, delivering workshops, and coaching students, you'll play a key role in preparing students and graduates to succeed in their freelance or entrepreneurial careers.

**About the Role**:
As Enterprise Coach, you’ll support students and graduates to develop entrepreneurial skills and confidence through one-to-one coaching, extracurricular workshops, in-curriculum sessions, and digital content. You’ll collaborate with colleagues on the Careers team and directly with academics to create learning opportunities that support and enhance the curriculum across departments. This is a varied and hands-on role that combines planning, delivery, and relationship management to support student success.

**About You**:
Essential:

- 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.

Desirable:

- 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**:
**Salary Grade 6 - Starting from £33,482 rising to £37,174 per annum**

**_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._**

**Interview Date: 3rd September 2025**

**Hybrid Working (2-3 days on campus per week) - Newton Park/Locksbrook campus.**

**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
- 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 and Cycle to Work
- Wide range of discounts and financial benefits, accessed through and easy-to-use app

**About Bath Spa University**:
Bath Spa University is where creative minds meet. Offering a wide range of courses across the arts, sciences, education, social science and business to over 7,500 students, the University employs outstanding creative professionals which support its aim to be a leading educational institution in creativity, culture and enterprise.

Based in stunning countryside just a few minutes from a World Heritage City, Bath Spa University was voted Sunday Times University of the Year for Social Inclusion 2024, and an impressive 84% of our staff said they would recommend the University to a friend as a good place to work.

We are a community of colleagues, striving for excellence to ensure students thrive. Our values are:

- Respect
- Inclusivity
- Collaboration
- Sustainability