University Accelerator Community Manager (ACM) - Internal Only

College Office - Creativity, Technology and Society

Location: Brighton - Moulsecoomb Salary: £41,064 to £48,822 pro rata Contract Length: 24 months Closing Date: Tuesday 22 September 2026 Reference: CT5071-26-193

Are you someone who would enjoy the challenge of initiating, developing and delivering innovation, entrepreneurship and business support programmes to help businesses and students fulfil their enterprise ambitions?

Brighton Business School is looking to recruit a University Accelerator Community Manager (ACM) to help with delivery of the NatWest Accelerator Programme within its dedicated business hub located in Elm House. Through a partnership between the University and NatWest, the ACM will foster innovation and entrepreneurship opportunities to enable students and businesses to access tailored business support, develop commercially viable strategies, and contribute to regional and national economic development.

You’ll be seconded into the NatWest Group for 2 years and be given access to NatWest systems and collaboration tools for the duration of the secondment. Reporting to the Regional NatWest Accelerator Director who is based in London you will work closely alongside the Brighton NatWest Hub Manager.

We Are Looking For Someone To

• Contribute to the ambitions of the University in developing links with local business and contributing to the University employability agenda for our students
• Identify and develop opportunities for local business and students to engage with and sign up to the Accelerator including facilitating in curriculum delivery
• Facilitate and support engagement with relevant university expertise to compliment delivery of the Accelerator programme
  
  

To be successful in this role, you will need to:

• Demonstrate vision and strategic insight

Develop and deliver business engagement related workshops

Have experience of managing a diverse range of internal and external relationships

Be able to deliver difficult and complex material in a diplomatic manner

Have experience of developing or working with budgets

This new and exciting role includes opportunities for developing project and event management skills, possible travel to Accelerators throughout the UK, engagement with the local business ecosystem and being part of an international financial organisation.

This is a fixed term secondment role for 24 months, 0.8 fte (29.6 hours per week) and the successful candidate will remain an employee of the University of Brighton. To meet the requirements of the role it is expected that you will work onsite for a minimum of 3 days per week.

If you have any questions about the role, please contact Adam Jones at aj48@brighton.ac.uk for an informal conversation and to discuss the expectations.

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The University is committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive environment for all staff regardless of age, disability, family or caring responsibilities, gender identity, marital status, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion or belief (including non-belief), sex and sexual orientation. We embrace equality and diversity in our working, learning, research and teaching environment and are committed to maintaining a supportive and inclusive community. We particularly encourage applicants from Minority Ethnic backgrounds because the University is under-represented by Minority Ethnic staff.

For the vast majority of our roles we operate an agile working system, with time split between working on campus and at the employee's home. It is the University's expectation that home working will take place within the UK.

Further information about working for us, as well as the wide range of benefits we offer, can be found in the working with us section of our vacancies page.

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