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Innovation and Growth Specialist - Funding
| Posting date: | 23 January 2025 |
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| Salary: | £42,000 to £47,000 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 31 January 2025 |
| Location: | BS8 3RA |
| Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 5 days per week |
| Company: | Business West |
| Job type: | Permanent |
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Summary
Business West helps companies grow, innovate and export. Everything we do contributes to making the South West the best place to live, learn and work. We have a proven track record of connecting people, public bodies and private companies, to nurture a more productive and inclusive business landscape.
We are recruiting for an Innovation and Growth Funding Specialist to join our team!
THE ROLE
This role is a key part of delivering Innovate UK Business Growth strategic funding and finance support to SMEs, supporting some of the most ambitious, innovative SMEs in the South West to grow and scale by focussing on increasing their ability and readiness to raise non-dilutive funding.
The role will require the applicant to work closely with the Funding and Finance team, alongside independently supporting clients. This role will be wide-ranging and suitable for an experienced, flexible, committed, and ambitious individual.
This role will involve delivering specialist grant funding support to clients through 1-2-1 bespoke engagements. Typically, this might include evaluating the current financial situation of a company, identification and exploration of suitable funding options, researching and signposting the client to funding sources, critiquing draft grant funding applications, and delivery of impactful in-depth wrap-around support.
This role is suitable for an applicant with strong experience of the national and international grant funding landscape relevant to early/growth stage commercial innovative businesses.
Working across the various Innovate UK funded and delivered support services and the Innovate UK Business Growth services portfolio, the Specialist will provide integrated support to targeted businesses.
ABOUT YOU / ESSENTIAL SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE REQUIRED
• A senior professional having grown their own business and/or worked in a senior
position in a corporate or ambitious SME environment
• Experience of implementing grant funding strategies
• Experience / understanding of non-dilutive funders in the UK and International
• Good awareness of the benefit of the use of debt, equity, grants and of
leveraging multiple support schemes, such Patent Box, R&D tax credits, invoice
finance, financial guarantees, etc.
• Self-motivated and results driven with a meticulous focus on quality
WHAT WE OFFER
• BHSF health cash plan scheme
• Pension - employer contributions up to 8%
• Life cover (x4 salary)
• 25 days’ holiday plus Bank Holidays (rising to 28 days after 3 years’ service)
• Length of service awards
• Your birthday day off every year
• 2 paid volunteer days to use each year
• Subscription to Headspace
• Cycle to work scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme to support your wellbeing
• Enhanced parental leave
Please visit our website to apply.
We are recruiting for an Innovation and Growth Funding Specialist to join our team!
THE ROLE
This role is a key part of delivering Innovate UK Business Growth strategic funding and finance support to SMEs, supporting some of the most ambitious, innovative SMEs in the South West to grow and scale by focussing on increasing their ability and readiness to raise non-dilutive funding.
The role will require the applicant to work closely with the Funding and Finance team, alongside independently supporting clients. This role will be wide-ranging and suitable for an experienced, flexible, committed, and ambitious individual.
This role will involve delivering specialist grant funding support to clients through 1-2-1 bespoke engagements. Typically, this might include evaluating the current financial situation of a company, identification and exploration of suitable funding options, researching and signposting the client to funding sources, critiquing draft grant funding applications, and delivery of impactful in-depth wrap-around support.
This role is suitable for an applicant with strong experience of the national and international grant funding landscape relevant to early/growth stage commercial innovative businesses.
Working across the various Innovate UK funded and delivered support services and the Innovate UK Business Growth services portfolio, the Specialist will provide integrated support to targeted businesses.
ABOUT YOU / ESSENTIAL SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE REQUIRED
• A senior professional having grown their own business and/or worked in a senior
position in a corporate or ambitious SME environment
• Experience of implementing grant funding strategies
• Experience / understanding of non-dilutive funders in the UK and International
• Good awareness of the benefit of the use of debt, equity, grants and of
leveraging multiple support schemes, such Patent Box, R&D tax credits, invoice
finance, financial guarantees, etc.
• Self-motivated and results driven with a meticulous focus on quality
WHAT WE OFFER
• BHSF health cash plan scheme
• Pension - employer contributions up to 8%
• Life cover (x4 salary)
• 25 days’ holiday plus Bank Holidays (rising to 28 days after 3 years’ service)
• Length of service awards
• Your birthday day off every year
• 2 paid volunteer days to use each year
• Subscription to Headspace
• Cycle to work scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme to support your wellbeing
• Enhanced parental leave
Please visit our website to apply.
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