Entrepreneur in Residence Services for Alta Innovations and BKEBIP

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Alta Innovations (the commercialisation company of the University of Birmingham) is looking for one or more enthusiastic 'Entrepreneurs in Residence' (EIRs) to provide advice and guidance to the businesses that we work with. We don't want individuals who can simply assess companies on their achievements to date, but rather those who can also open doors, encourage, inspire, and facilitate growth. The EIRs will supplement the support provided to clients of the Birmingham Knowledge Exchange Business Incubation Partnership (BKEBIP*) at the BizzInn and The BioHub Birmingham®, both located at Birmingham Research Park. One or more EIRs are sought to supplement the support to clients provided by the BizzInn Incubation Manager and other University / Alta Innovations team members (within the Enterprise Acceleration Team). We are looking for inspiring seasoned entrepreneurs, with experience in coaching and mentoring people to develop high growth hi-tech businesses. We want people considered to be expert hi-tech entrepreneurs, who understand what it takes to grow a business from scratch. They need to have a passion for entrepreneurship and the ability to open doors, encourage, inspire, and facilitate growth. The Entrepreneur in Residence will help the team to fulfil the following objectives: • Provide advice, guidance, coaching and mentoring to the innovators and entrepreneurs within the incubator; • Increase the visibility of entrepreneurial activity taking place at the Birmingham Research Park, and indeed, within Birmingham itself; • More sustainable businesses started up, with an increased likelihood of success; • Help establish BizzInn as a centre of excellence for entrepreneurship so that it can continue to act as a hub for a growing entrepreneurial community in Birmingham (and the Greater Birmingham and Solihull LEP region); • Work with the entrepreneurs presented to them by the Incubation Manager; • Act as a sounding board for academic innovators and other Alta Innovations staff members £1.03m of funding from the England European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) as part of the European Structural and Investment Funds Growth Programme 2014-2020. The Department for Communities and Local Government is the Managing Authority for ERDF. Established by the European Union ERDF funds help local areas stimulate their economic development by investing in projects which will support innovation, businesses, create jobs and local community regenerations. For more information visit https://www.gov.uk/european-growth-funding