Programme Manager – Venture Support

About Us

Allia is a progressive and socially focused not-for-profit organisation that supports entrepreneurs who are looking to affect positive change and address the most pressing global and local challenges.

Our Venture Support Team works with social enterprises, local entrepreneurs and tech for start-ups in order to amplify their impact. With programmes such as Grow Your Business addressing the challenge of local economies, Impact Accelerator serving pre-seed start-up founders in the tech for good landscape and Amplify working with more established ventures who need a community of likeminded leaders to challenge each other to rethink assumptions.

The Benefits

• Salary of £33,000 - £37,000 per annum depending on your experience
• Company pension scheme, free on-site parking and Bike2Work Scheme
• Life insurance
• Flexible working
• Casual dress
• Various wellness programmes and discounted café food and coffee
• Previously awarded the best not for profit employer in the Eastern Region
• Be a part of a community that drives innovation with a focus on addressing environmental and social challenges

If you are a talented venture support professional with experience gained in the tech ecosystem, this is a unique opportunity to join our respected, effective organisation and impart your knowhow to a new generation of entrepreneurs.

Joining our enthusiastic, fun team who pride themselves of being supportive of new ideas, you will enable ventures that look to transform society for good. No two days will be the same as you seize the chance to see various projects through to completion with ample autonomy.

So, if you are seeking a role in which you can utilise your skills and knowledge for the benefit of society, you’ve found it. Apply now!

The Role

As our Programme Manager, you will work directly with ventures looking to have an impact on society, creating activities, workshops and programmes designed to train founders and impact leaders on their growth journey.

Supporting entrepreneurs, you will design and deliver programmes such as our Accelerator Challenge, Grow Your Business and Climate Accelerator programmes. You will also create activities such as our Demo Day, where founders pitch to investors, and full day start-up bootcamps.

You will curate the application, selection and onboarding process of each programme, work with the Marketing & Communications team to promote them and identify and recruit ventures to join them.

Your role will also involve:

• Liaising with external specialists and speakers
• Maintaining and developing relationships with investors, ecosystem builders and founders
• Managing businesses’ progress, collecting data and information and tracking our impact
• Delivering support sessions to the companies, including 1x1 coaching and feedback

About You

To join us as our Programme Manager, you will need:

• At least three years’ experience supporting accelerators, ventures or community building organisations
• Experience in the impact or tech ecosystem and/or with start-ups or small businesses
• Experience of designing activities to stimulate enterprise, ideation and early-stage venture support for start-ups and/or local SMEs
• Experience of fostering relationship development for others and creating engaging connection points, activities and content
• Experience recording, tracking, analysing and reporting on data
• Sound knowledge of, and commitment to, social and environmental innovation, ventures and entrepreneurship

Previous involvement in supporting the long-term unemployed to start businesses would be beneficial to your application, as would previous experience in a start-up or a small business environment. An understanding and experience of environmental issues in a business or campaigning context would also be advantageous, as would experience of delivering ERDF or other EU funded programmes.

The closing date for applications is the 11th March 2022.

Please note, early applications are strongly encouraged, as we will be interviewing candidates as they apply.

Other organisations may call this role Programme Lead, Start-up Programme Manager, Venture Programme Manager, Start-ups Support Programme Manager, Small Business Development Programme Manager, or Ventures Manager.

Webrecruit and Allia Ltd are equal opportunities employers, value diversity and are strongly committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all employees and all applicants for employment. Equal opportunities are the only acceptable way to conduct business and we believe that the more inclusive our environments are, the better our work will be.