Assistant Innovation Manager

Bristol, England, United Kingdom

7/21/2025

Be at the heart of innovation.

Future Space is a multi-award-winning university-partnered innovation centre supporting over 70 high-tech businesses — all located on UWE Bristol’s Frenchay campus. As Assistant Innovation Manager, you’ll be right in the thick of it: designing growth programmes, coordinating collaboration with one of the UK’s leading enterprise universities, and helping some of the region’s most trailblazing businesses to scale.

You’ll make the programmes run, the partnerships work, and the impact visible.

What you’ll be doing:

• Design and deliver high-impact business support programmes, from founder forums to innovation sprints and mini accelerators
• Coordinate collaboration between businesses and UWE Bristol, including student consultancy, internships, and skills training
• Engage the community by shaping events, gathering feedback, and building strong relationships with founders and partners
• Support funding bids and help deliver externally funded innovation programmes
• Track impact through data, feedback, and reporting to demonstrate real business benefit
  
  

What you’ll bring:

To succeed, you’ll need to understand the challenges and opportunities faced by startups and scaleups — and know your way around the innovation ecosystem. You’ll be proactive, energetic and outcome-driven, with a passion for building communities and making support systems that work.

This is a delivery-focused, highly practical role — perfect for someone who loves bringing people together to turn ideas into action.

What we’re looking for:

• Experience in innovation, business support, or startup ecosystems
• A track record of delivering workshops, events, or training
• Familiarity with university-business collaboration
• Strong organisational and project management skills
• A collaborative, adaptable, and relationship-focused mindset
  
  

Why join us?

We offer more than just a job — we offer a place where you can grow, contribute, and make a difference. Our benefits include:

• Salary of £30,000 to £32,000 per annum, depending on experience
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
• Volunteering days to support your community
• Wellbeing days to support your work/life balance
• Flexible benefits package comprising:
• Matched pension contributions up to 5%
• Ability to increase or decrease amount of annual leave
• Ability to increase or decrease amount of life assurance cover
• Private medical and dental insurance
• Electric vehicle leasing
• Health screening
• Bicycle purchase
• Charitable Giving
• A flexible, inclusive culture that values your voice
  

We’ve also got access to a whole load of discounts so you can save money on high street favourites and holiday providers.

Ready to make a difference?

If you’re excited by the idea of working in a dynamic, purpose-driven environment, then this is the role you have been looking for - click ‘apply’ today to become our new Assistant Innovation Manager. Please feel free to reach out if you have any questions, or to find out more information about the role - we would love to hear from you!

We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued and respected. We welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds, experiences, and identities—including but not limited to race, ethnicity, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation, and neurodiversity. If you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn’t align perfectly with every requirement, we encourage you to apply—you might be just the right candidate.

We reserve the right to close the vacancy once we have received sufficient applications, so we would advise you to submit your application as early as possible to prevent disappointment.