Accelerator Manager (15 months)

• Take on a new role, where you’ll be coaching entrepreneurs one on one, in groups as well as delivering engaging events and workshops, to help accelerate their businesses
• We’ll look to you to bring a positive and motivating attitude, in order to engage with and encourage entrepreneurs and stakeholders
• This is an opportunity to be part of an innovative, creative and highly enthusiastic team who have a real passion for growing the businesses of our entrepreneurs
• We\’re offering this role for a period of 15 months

What you\’ll do

Our bank is proud to be making a difference, allowing budding entrepreneurs access to vital tools and techniques. As an Acceleration Manager, you’ll be directly supporting these ambitious entrepreneurs; driving them to develop, grow and accelerate their businesses.

You’ll be conducting one to one business coaching with our entrepreneurs, helping them to set and monitor goals and prepare for some of the challenges they’ll face, acting as a sounding board to help them plan, focus and measure successes and failures.

Day to day, you’ll be:

• Managing the end to end customer journeys within the accelerator programme, from registration through to onboarding
• Leading and facilitating engaging workshops, sharing the tools and techniques required to grow a successful business
• Supporting the end to end management, logistics and administration of programmes
• Managing reports regarding the accelerator programme, including impact reporting and return on investment reporting

The skills you\’ll need

We’re looking for a team player, with the ability to foster effective working relationships to a senior level. You\’ll have excellent communication skills, and an abilityto adapt your style and approach to influence and engage a range of audiences. Most importantly, you’ll have a positive attitude and a passion to support entrepreneurship.

You’ll also need:

• Experience of managing projects and programmes
• Internal and external communications experience
• Exceptional organisation and time management skills
• The ability to influence stakeholders across the bank
• A proven ability to work effectively under pressure, and work flexibly balance a variety of responsibilities and changing priorities