Project Assistant Coventry, England
Job description
Do you have the capability to support fast paced, high profile projects?
Can you help us meet our goal to be the easiest University to do business with?
This full-time permanent post will involve supporting a portfolio of high-value/profile commercial projects. This includes the Future Leaders Scheme which requires dedicated project support to ensure we deliver against a commercial contract for the Cabinet Office.
You will be required to provide administrative support, and will work closely with the Operations team to ensure the compliance and smooth running of project. In the role you will undertake a variety of support activities including financial and administrative tasks. The role will also require frequent travel during peak times of delivery to London and Manchester.
The Organisation
People are taking notice of Coventry University. We have rapidly moved up the league tables and grown to become one of the UK’s biggest, most dynamic, and enterprising higher education institutions. Coventry University is an organisation that’s going places. The newly formed Enterprise & Innovation Organisation (EIO) brings together knowledge exchange, innovation, and commercial activity into one organisation at the heart of the University Group’s strategic ambitions. Driven by innovation and motivated by change, this sector-leading group is growing and challenging accepted practices, and are looking to recruit people with expertise, ambition, and a passion for the difference education and research can make to society.
Enterprise & Innovation is one of the key pillars of the overarching Coventry University Strategy, with the University continuing to be recognised locally, nationally and internationally by strategic business partners and governments as an enterprising and innovative University.
The Enterprise & Innovation Organisation is designed to provide a platform through which business and society can leverage the teaching, research and wider expertise of Coventry University Group to create better futures for individuals and organisations.
The Enterprise & Innovation Organisation work across global markets, in particular the UK, SE Asia, Middle East & North Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Eastern Europe providing support and expertise to support lifetime learning, stimulate industrial research, develop high-value strategic partnerships, and commercialise new ideas and the current products/knowledge that will also drive our performance against the Knowledge Exchange Framework (KEF).
Cultural diversity in our teams bring insights to, and broad experience of, multiple business cultures. It is part of our DNA and we seek it out. This in turn encourages an open-minded approach to the exciting and varied opportunities we develop with our clients and partners to create great projects. We therefore want to discover what you can bring to the EIO through your personal experience, background, and identity as much as through your professional expertise.
Next Steps
If you would like to take this opportunity to join a fast-growing and dynamic company at the forefront of innovation, technology, and enterprise support, please review our job specification to see the full person specification, and apply on our website.
