National Growth Programme Coordinator, British Library

Location: St Pancras
Hours: Fixed term - Full time until 31 March 2025
Grade: B
Salary: £33,600

The Business & IP Centre at the British Library is committed to helping small business across the country gain the skills that they need to thrive. The Get Ready for Business Growth Programme is the BIPCs flagship scale-up programme. Funded by Arts Council England and the British Library it helps creative and cultural businesses nation-wide scale. The programme consists of quarterly cohorts where 25 businesses receive tailored, virtual business support. In addition to the scale-up strand the programme also runs a mentoring strand for earlier stage creative businesses and a series of quarterly start-up events.

Get Ready for Business Growth is seeking a highly organised, skilled coordinator to help all three of these programme strands run smoothly. You will have excellent attention to detail, familiarity with Excel, and a passion for collating and presenting data so we can demonstrate the wonderful impact the programme makes. You will join an enthusiastic team dedicated to helping creative businesses, and the UK cultural sector to thrive.

In return, we offer a competitive salary and a number of excellent benefits. Our pension scheme is one of the most valuable benefits we offer, as our staff can become members of the Alpha Pension Scheme where the Library contributes a minimum of 26.6% (this may be higher dependant on grade. Another significant benefit the Library provides is the provision of a flexible working hours scheme which could allow you to work your hours flexibly over the week and to take up to 5 days flexi leave in a 3 month period. This is on top of 25 days holiday from entry and public and privilege holidays.

Closing date: 20 May 2024
Interview date: 30 & 31 May 2024