Senior Enterprise Officer

About the role

The postholder works within the award-winning Entrepreneurship Team, part of the Careers, Employability and Entrepreneurship Team (CEE), to create and deliver an outstanding programme of entrepreneurship support for Sussex students and graduates. The postholder works closely with students across all faculties, enabling the development of their entrepreneurial skills and mindset through an inspirational programme of activity and up-to-date information, advice and guidance. As well as support work with students, the postholder will liaise with staff across the CEE Team and University on queries relating to student entrepreneurship provision.

About you

We are seeking candidates with a working knowledge of how to help students to develop entrepreneurial skills, mindset and ventures. You will have information, advice and guidance skills (or the potential to develop these swiftly with training) and the skills to design and deliver engaging group work to university students. As well as the written communication skills to produce promotional content and respond to queries, you will have well-developed interpersonal skills and the ability to quickly build rapport with students. You will have effective planning and organisational skills.   

About our Division

Our Student Experience is all about our Students. We work diligently to ensure that all our students are supported and have positive meaningful experiences in our University. We are led by our Student Experience Director and her Leadership team. Our services focus on Academic Quality, Student Data & Records, Careers & Entrepreneurship, Advice & Guidance, Complaints & Conduct, and Student Wellbeing. 
 
We work collaboratively with our Schools and Divisions to ensure our students have environment that will further enhances their potential and equip them to pursue their goals and aspirations.

Please find further information regarding the division at Student Experience: University of Sussex

Why work here

Our university is situated off the A27, next to the beautiful South Downs where you will enjoy everything that our 150-acre campus has to offer. We are accessible by public transport; Falmer train station is a five-minute walk to campus and several bus stops are located within campus. We also have dedicated cycling paths and encourage our staff to use these with our offering of a cycle to work scheme.  

Sussex is a renowned, multi-accredited, research-led International University and this is only possible because of the people that work here. Whether you are a member of Faculty, part of a Professional Services team or a Student, it’s our people that make us great and we want you to be part of that. 

Find out more about our reward and benefits package. 

Find out about our equality, diversity and inclusion 

Further Key Information

Please contact Luke Mitchell (luke.mitchell@sussex.ac.uk) for informal enquiries.

The University of Sussex values the diversity of its staff and students, and we welcome applicants from all backgrounds.

The University requires that work undertaken for the University is performed in the UK. 

Visa Sponsorship Queries: This role may be eligible for sponsorship. Please consult our Skilled Worker Visa information page  for further information about Visa Sponsorship.

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