Knowledge Exchange & Enterprise Coordinator (EHA0903-1020)

Work from our newly built state of the art Technology Hub to enhance collaboration

About You

Highly proactive and entrepreneurial in approach: you will generate and realise opportunities, drive student engagement and secure industry partners for a variety of collaborations. You will have excellent communication skills, be flexible and be able to identify opportunities, and maintain high levels of professional integrity with stakeholders.

Keenly interested in technology, you will understand the challenges and responses in student employability, and student and employer engagement. You will ideally have an understanding of the key stakeholders and funding landscape for knowledge exchange activities in the higher education sector.

With a real desire to deliver quality to all customers you will advance knowledge and capability.

About the Role

Engaging with staff, you will be responsible for identifying, establishing and coordinating a diverse range of funding opportunities and you will advance and maximise knowledge exchange collaborations working with our Research Centre and sub-clusters.

Rewards/Benefits

We want you to feel happy when you come to work and proud when you go home.

We have excellent facilities within our bespoke Wellbeing Centre and our comprehensive staff health & wellbeing programme gives you the opportunity to: have a lunchtime stroll across our beautiful campus, a trim from our onsite hairdresser, car valeting, attend a family focussed event, make an appointment for a massage and get together with colleagues over free food and drink to watch the latest film on one of our Film Nights.

This is just a taste of what we are able to offer you at Edge Hill University.

About Us

“A great success story… an institution that improves and impresses year after year” - THE University of the Year 2014/15.

We are recognised for our outstanding achievements in student satisfaction, staff engagement, graduate employment and innovation as well as our strengthening research profile, investment and growth. The Times Higher award also celebrated our distinct role in “transforming lives” – reflecting a distinctive philosophy of creating opportunity from excellence.

Based on an award-winning campus in West Lancashire, and voted Best University Workplace 2015, Edge Hill University offers a stimulating and empowering environment for ambitious and high performing professionals.

For informal enquiries about this vacancy you may wish to contact:
 Professor Nik Bessis (Head of the Department of Computer Science) at Nik.Bessis@edgehill.ac.uk

Closing Date: 30 Oct 2020
Category: Support