Location: | London |
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Salary: | £54,794 per annum, including London Weighting Allowance |
Hours: | Full Time |
Contract Type: | Fixed-Term/Contract |
Placed On: | 24th September 2024 |
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Closes: | 14th October 2024 |
Job Ref: | 095625 |
About us
We undertake ground-breaking research that improves the way people do business. And we engage with organisations around the world to create real value for society.
Since 1989, we have grown into a leading management institution, becoming King's Business School and the university's ninth faculty in 2017. We’re rated in the top five for business and management undergraduate studies in the UK.
We’re a friendly, diverse community committed to the highest quality teaching and research. People from over 80 countries come here to study with us, and we’re proud of the varied perspectives they bring to our School.
Being in the heart of London, our students and academics have unlimited opportunities for collaboration, research, and developing their career prospects. From bold new startups to multinational conglomerates, businesses inform our teaching and benefit from our work.
About the role
The Head of Ventures at the Entrepreneurship Institute is a senior professional services leader at King’s, accountable for the delivery and development of high-quality and professional support services for venturing, acceleration and investor relations that will create a seamless pipeline and increase commercial innovation across our university. This role leads a small team to deliver one-year accelerator programmes, one for start-ups (King’s students and alumni) and one for spinouts (King’s research staff), including application outreach, along with an extensive network of investors, the King’s Investor Network. Accelerators are delivered through a small group of experts-in-residence who are managed by the Head of Ventures.
This is a full-time role for a fixed term contract relating to maternity cover.
The key responsibilities can be found in the job description.
Further Information
We pride ourselves on being inclusive and welcoming. We embrace diversity and want everyone to feel that they belong and are connected to others in our community.
We are committed to working with our staff and unions on these and other issues, to continue to support our people and to develop a diverse and inclusive culture at King's.
We ask all candidates to submit a copy of their CV, and a supporting statement, detailing how they meet the essential criteria listed in the advert. If we receive a strong field of candidates, we may use the desirable criteria to choose our final shortlist, so please include your evidence against these where possible.
To find out how our managers will review your application, please take a look at our ‘ How we Recruit’ pages.
We are not able to offer sponsorship for candidates who do not currently possess the right to work in the UK.
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