Enterprise Executive

Job title:

Enterprise Govt

Firm

Heriot-Watt College

Job description

Job Description:

Function: Enterprise Govt

Grade and Wage: Grade 7, £36,023 – £44,263 every year

FTE and dealing sample: 1 FTE, 35hrs per week, Monday – Friday

Vacation Entitlement: 33 days annual depart plus 9 buildings closed days (and Christmas Eve when it falls on a weekday)

Concerning the workforce – the GRID @ Heriot-Watt

Fascinated by the long run and captivated by know-how and innovation? Eager to assist the applied sciences get to market and tackle the worldwide challenges?

Heriot-Watt College (HWU) is one in all Scotland’s main analysis universities. In areas as numerous as well being applied sciences and internet zero options, quantum computing and sustainable oceans, and industrial robotics and decarbonisation, HWU is a supply producing ground-breaking technological advances. However how will we convert these technological advances into sensible options to world challenges?

The College has a powerful monitor file inside enterprise and firm creation and is originator and host of the main pan-Scotland enterprise programme, the Converge Problem. HWU’s award-winning Enterprise Workforce is tasked with constructing high-growth know-how companies primarily based on the pioneering improvements rising from its analysis groups. Within the final yr, the Enterprise Workforce has greater than doubled in measurement and its ambitions at the moment are centered delivering a step change on the quantity and high quality of high-growth know-how companies. A few of the most up-to-date successes are Optoscribe, Kenoteq, and Rockit.

The subsequent few years promise to be actually thrilling and transformational. HWU goals to turn out to be a UK-leader supporting entrepreneurial groups made up of world-leading lecturers and skilled executives who tackle challenges dealing with society and the planet. We’ll deliver collectively networks of early-stage traders, {industry} innovators, public sector funders, and market-side consultants, and influencers. In doing so, we need to generate large and optimistic societal and financial impression, each right here in Scotland and globally. We additionally goal to create a industrial return to HWU, driving additional innovation and entrepreneurial exercise within the establishment for years to come back.

Goal of Function

As a key member of the Enterprise Workforce, the Enterprise Govt has a broad remit which incorporates:

• supporting the event of improvements towards start-up/spinout corporations,
• constructing high-quality management groups able to delivering profitable corporations,
• growing methods and enterprise plans for early-stage firm progress,
• securing early-stage funding and funding for the rising corporations,
• rising our entrepreneurial tradition, and
• contributing to the event and supply of recent enterprise actions for the college.

Key Duties & Obligations

• Determine commercialisation alternatives throughout Heriot-Watt College and develop them into profitable industrial outcomes.
• Help the College in leveraging acceptable funding to assist firm creation & enterprise exercise (e.g. SE Excessive Development, RSE, RAEng, Converge Problem and so on.);
• Present hands-on enterprise recommendation on beginning a enterprise for workers and college students of HWU together with;
• Work as a part of enterprise groups to assist construct management groups and lift funding;
• Promote enterprise alternatives for workers & college students throughout the 5 campuses of the college and work together with key stakeholders together with traders, company companions and authorities/financial growth businesses.
• Help new industry-led innovation and entrepreneurship initiatives and coaching programmes (e.g. accelerators and innovation challenges);
• Take part in networks of enterprise assist actions in Scotland, Dubai and Malaysia;
• Help the Chief Entrepreneurial Govt, Head of Commercialisation, and the Deputy Principal of Enterprise and Enterprise to develop strategic initiatives to additional enterprise and entrepreneurship developments throughout the college.

Important & Fascinating Standards

The Enterprise Govt function at Heriot-Watt College is an thrilling alternative, offering a singular alternative for somebody with sturdy industrial and/or monetary expertise and expertise to have interaction within the innovation course of at a really early stage. Expertise and expertise acquired within the function can be extremely valued in enterprise areas akin to innovation administration, enterprise growth, enterprise capital funding administration, company finance and in senior management.

Important * Confirmed monitor file of working inside a start-up surroundings.

• Industrial expertise, working in an innovation-centred surroundings.
• Monetary administration and enterprise planning.
• Writing funding proposals.
• Capability to work in partnership throughout private and non-private sector organisations.
• Sturdy understanding of mental property.
• Good first diploma in a Know-how, Engineering or Enterprise-related topic.
• Excellent interpersonal expertise and glorious communicator, each written and verbal.
• Sturdy undertaking and job administration expertise and talent to plan workload, prioritise successfully, and set and meet joint targets & deadlines
• Sturdy consideration to element.
• A very good understanding of and the flexibility to make use of a spread of software program purposes and providers (CRM, mental property administration, word-processing, spreadsheets, databases, e mail, PowerPoint).
• Capability to know complicated concepts and assist articulate them right into a coherent worth proposition.
• A very good understanding of early-stage fundraising.
• Capability to barter and promote alternatives.

Fascinating * Sturdy public speaker with expertise of delivering coaching and workshops.

• Co-ordinating actions throughout massive organisations.
• Sturdy community within the native and worldwide entrepreneurial assist ecosystem.
• Understanding of obtainable enterprise start-up assist throughout the UK.
• The flexibility to offer clear reviews and recommendation for the completely different senior stakeholders inside an entrepreneurial and educational ecosystem.

Data, Expertise & Expertise * Capability and willingness to be taught new digital expertise and capabilities acceptable to your function and the way it evolves.

• Perceive and cling to info safety practices notably because it pertains to private or delicate info.
• Preserve consciousness of my very own digital wellbeing by being conscious of the size of time spent at a display screen and the impression on psychological and bodily well being in utilizing digital applied sciences.

The way to Apply

Functions might be submitted as much as midnight (UK time) on Tuesday thirteenth February 2024.

Please submit your CV through the Heriot-Watt on-line recruitment.

We welcome and can contemplate versatile working patterns e.g., part-time working and job share choices.

Heriot-Watt College is dedicated to securing equality of alternative in employment and to the creation of an surroundings wherein people are chosen, educated, promoted, appraised, and in any other case handled on the only foundation of their related deserves and talents. Equality and variety are all about maximising potential and making a tradition of inclusion for all.

Heriot-Watt College values variety throughout our college neighborhood and welcomes purposes from all sectors of society, notably from underrepresented teams. For extra info, please see our web site and in addition our award-winning work in Incapacity Inclusive Science Careers .

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About Heriot-Watt College

Heriot-Watt College has established a status for world-class instructing and modern, related analysis, which has made it one of many prime UK universities for innovation, enterprise, and {industry}.

Heriot-Watt College has 5 campuses: three within the UK (Edinburgh, Scottish Borders, and Orkney), one in Dubai and one in Malaysia. The College affords a extremely distinctive vary of diploma programmes within the specialist areas of science, engineering, design, enterprise, and languages. Heriot-Watt can also be Scotland’s most worldwide college, boasting the most important worldwide scholar cohort.

At Heriot Watt we’re captivated with our values and look to them to attach our individuals globally and to assist us collaborate and rejoice our success by working collectively. Our analysis programmes can ship actual world impression which is achieved by the range of our worldwide neighborhood and the popularity of artistic expertise that connects our world workforce.

Our flourishing neighborhood gives you the liberty to problem and to deliver your enterprising thoughts and to assist our companions with options that may be utilized now and sooner or later. Be a part of us and Heriot Watt will offer you a platform to thrive and work in a approach that additionally helps you reside your life in steadiness with well-being and inclusiveness on the coronary heart of our world neighborhood.

Anticipated wage

£36023 – 44263 per yr

Location

Edinburgh – Midlothian

Job date

Wed, 24 Jan 2024 23:37:46 GMT

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