Senior Coordinator (IE Cambridge)

Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

12/21/2024

West Cambridge | £28,000 - £31,000 |

Full-time | Hybrid working

Join our team at Cambridge Enterprise and be at the heart of innovation. As Senior Coordinator, you'll be the glue that holds our thriving entrepreneurial ecosystem together.

Cambridge Enterprise is looking for an enthusiastic, organised and proactive Senior Coordinator to work with our team supporting IE Cambridge (Innovation & Entrepreneurship).

If you have experience managing projects, keeping teams on track to meet goals, and want to use your skills to support entrepreneurship at the University of Cambridge, this might be the role for you!

Our newly created Ecosystem Initiatives & Partnerships (EIP) team plays a key role in supporting potential entrepreneurs and founders as part of a global innovative university ecosystem.

The team has the role of supporting the University Enterprise Network (UEN), which brings together over 90 different entities who work to deliver a range of enterprise-related education and support programmes within, or linked to, the University of Cambridge and a recently-launched initiative, IE Cambridge. IE Cambridge is a central hub, promoting entrepreneurship, signposting support and providing resources to the University’s students and researchers.

Why you will love this role:

As the IE Cambridge Senior Coordinator, you will have significant impact in the day-to-day management of our network and activities. You will take responsibility for ensuring the effective operations of the UEN; managing communications, supporting meetings and workshops, and maintaining a Teams site and resources.

You will work closely with the I/E Cambridge Manager to deliver core publications such as our Entrepreneurship Support Guide, maintain our website and community app and support our understanding of the ecosystem through data collection and analysis and reporting on activity. You will also work as part of the team to support I/E Cambridge events.

How you’ll contribute:

• Manage the UEN contact list in our CRM system and update the stakeholder engagement strategy
• Support the delivery of the annual conference, networking meetings and workshops for the UEN
• Co-ordinate communications with our UEN members through our MS Teams channel, email and e-newsletters
• Managing collateral resources such as merchandise, presentations, literature, and brochures.
• Mapping and oversight of our data, ensuring the highest levels of attention to detail and accuracy, and working within Cambridge Enterprise to help feed into University-level data requests.
• Supporting the team with other events and activities as might be necessary including ensuring opportunities for engagement are maximised in 3rd party events
  
  

What we're looking for:

• You have excellent admin skills, are comfortable juggling multiple priorities, highly organised and efficient with your time.
• You are passionate about operational excellence and see this as a critical part in creating a reliable and trusted brand both internally and within our networks.
• You have a high EQ, with great interpersonal skills who would enjoy working part of a fast-paced and close-knit team and engaging with others from across the University
• You understand entrepreneurship, not necessarily as an entrepreneur yourself but what it is and how it can be supported
• You have a solution-focused mindset and see every challenge as an opportunity to find a creative way forward.
• You are proactive, and agile. You thrive in fast-paced environments and love rolling up your sleeves to get things done well.
• Experience of Microsoft 365 including Outlook, Teams, One Note, SharePoint
  
  

Nice to have:

• Experience of the University of Cambridge entrepreneurial ecosystem, or working for another academic institution within innovation and entrepreneurship.
• Experience of supporting a community or stakeholder group in a similar role.
• Experience of delivering events as part of a team.
  
  

Diversity and equality matter:

These are our ideal requirements, but we know some people are less likely to apply for the role unless they are 100% qualified. At Cambridge Enterprise, we promote a diverse, inclusive and empowering culture, so please apply if you meet the majority of the job requirements.

If you have any questions about the interview process, or if you need any reasonable adjustments, please don’t hesitate to contact Ian, Gemma or Michelle at people@enterprise.cam.ac.uk

Why Cambridge Enterprise?

We are at the heart of Europe's most successful research and technology cluster and we're on a mission to bring innovation to life, making a difference to society, the UK economy, and the University of Cambridge. We connect the innovative minds of the University’s academics with the funding, start-up expertise and commercial relationships they need to help their ideas thrive.

Our success stories include an electric vehicle charging technology that's as convenient as filling up with petrol, a programme to prevent ideological extremism, and the world's first treatment for a rare cause of blindness. Now, we need a Senior Coordinator to join our team at our vibrant West Cambridge site.

Perks at a glance:

• 30 days holiday (plus bank holidays)
• Class-leading Bupa private medical insurance
• Hybrid role with genuine flexible working – including work from abroad for up to 30 days a year in most roles
• Generous University pension scheme.
• A commitment to personal development including LinkedIn learning.
• Family-friendly policies (including enhanced parental leave & childcare benefits, fertility leave, and pregnancy loss leave)
• Mental health and well-being support including access to free counselling.
• Retail and travel discounts.
  
  

Key dates:

Closing date: 12th January 2025 (but the advert may be removed if we have sufficient applications before then)