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• Establishing strategic partnerships with other ecosystem organisations (e.g. incubators, co-working spaces, Universities) to facilitate the identification of prospective candidate startups for the programmes

• Leading the development and delivery of the accelerator’s community offering, which aims to provide cohort companies with a rich selection of support across key partners, during and after the end of the programme.

• Developing and implementing data strategies that will allow us to continuously improve our community offering

• Managing the relationship with Unrest’s community partners

• Line management of up to one team member working across both South Yorkshire and London

• Leveraging your existing relationships within the startup/tech industry to bring the entrepreneurs, business leaders and key stakeholders together for the benefit of the sector.

• Responsibility for developing and monitoring output reporting with respect to Community (Strategic and Operational KPIs)

• Iterating and innovating to ensure continuous improvement across all activities within Community, including building for scale (the expansion of Unrest) and including automated tooling and output reporting.

• 5 years experience in the startup industry and/or accelerators

• Experience in community and partnership roles preferred

• Experience in setting up repeatable and scalable processes

• Understanding of accelerator programmes for startups and scaleups.

• Track-record in strategic thinking and achieving role objectives.

• Being a self-starter, taking initiative, self-managing and requiring little day-to-day direction.

• Excellent project management skills, and experience in setting up repeatable and scalable processes

• Strong planning, information management and communications skills.

• Strong leadership and interpersonal relationship skills.

• Passionate about developing their team.

• Ideally familiarity with the South Yorkshire region and an extensive network in the business support landscape.

To apply for the vacancy please send a CV and a cover letter to pan@unrest.world. Please make your email subject “Community Lead Application”

The closing date for applications is 31st March 2023

• Working with Senior Programme Manager to develop the accelerator’s sourcing process, through which you will identify startups to join the accelerator programmes in both South Yorkshire and London

• Establishing strategic partnerships with other ecosystem organisations (e.g. incubators, co-working spaces, Universities) to facilitate the identification of prospective candidate startups for the programmes

• Working with Senior Programme Manager to develop and deliver the accelerator’s selection process, through which you will select startups from the pipeline of candidates to join the accelerator programmes in both South Yorkshire and London

• Monitoring the accelerator’s success against growth criteria (growth in number and quality of applications). Developing and implementing hypotheses and experiments to improve performance against these

• Iterating and innovating to ensure continuous improvement across all activities within Sourcing & Selection, including building for scale (the expansion of Unrest) and including automated tooling and output reporting.

• Working with wider TeamSY and Unrest teams to create recruitment and engagement campaigns for South Yorkshire SMEs to join the accelerator programme.

• 2 years experience in the startup industry and/or accelerators

• Experience in talent / recruitment roles preferred

• Experience in following and improving upon repeatable and scalable processes

• Understanding of accelerator programmes for startups and scaleups.

• Being a self-starter, taking initiative, self-managing and requiring little day-to-day direction.

• Strong planning, information management and communications skills.

• Strong leadership and interpersonal relationship skills.

• Passionate about working within a team

• Ideally familiarity with the South Yorkshire region and an extensive network in the business support landscape.

To apply for the vacancy please send a CV and a cover letter to pan@unrest.world. Please make your email subject “Souring & Selection - Growth Manager Application”

The closing date for applications is 31st March 2023