Enterprise Consultant

Job Title: Enterprise Consultant
Location: Birmingham
Salary: £31,236- £34,610 per annum - SS4
Job type: Permanent, Full time
UCB is an equal opportunities employer. We are TEF rated Silver, with a Good Ofsted rating.
The Role:
University College Birmingham's Business School offers a practical, employer-connected student experience, and the Enterprise Hub is a growing part of that offer. We are seeking an Enterprise Consultant to support entrepreneurial ambition across our student and graduate community.
As Enterprise Consultant, you will lead the development and delivery of enterprise activity within the Business School, and beyond, working closely with students, graduates, academic colleagues and external partners.
You will play a central role in shaping and delivering enterprise and incubation activity that is relevant, inclusive and responsive to a diverse student population.
What you will be involved in:
* Promotion and management of our dedicated StartupSpace
* Designing and delivering engaging startup programmes covering private enterprise, social enterprise and freelance
* Providing one-to-one and group advice, support and mentoring
* Building external relationships with the enterprise community
* Promotion and management of PitchFest, our annual pitching competition
* Promotion and management of the Certificate of Entrepreneurship
* Contributing to wider knowledge exchange and business engagement across the Business School
* Setting targets and measuring our progress
Who we are looking for:
Experience of the higher education sector is helpful, but not essential. What matters most is your ability to connect enterprise activity to real people, real ambitions and real outcomes.
Benefits:
* Generous allocation of annual leave
* 29 days' paid leave per year
* 12 Bank Holidays & Concessionary Days
* Excellent Local Government Pension Scheme
* Employer Contributions - 20.9%
* Subsidised private healthcare provided by Aviva including a Digital GP Service.
* Employee Assistance Programme inclusive of counselling services, financial wellbeing support and bereavement support
* Annual health MOTs with our Registered Nurse
* Excellent staff development opportunities including professional qualification sponsorship
* A variety of salary sacrifice schemes including technology and cycle.
* Heavily-subsidised on-site car parking in central Birmingham
* Hybrid working opportunities
* Free on-site gym membership
Extra Information:
All applicants for employment at the University will be expected to demonstrate an understanding of the principles of Safeguarding and the PREVENT agenda in the context of further and higher education.
Closing Date - Sunday 14th June 2026.
Interview Date - Tuesday 7th July 2026.
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