C ANDIDATE SPECIFICATION - TEAM CO-ORDINATOR (INNOVATION SKILLS)
Salary:
Location:
Term:
Hours:
£26-32K plus benefits
Chancery Lane, London
6 months Fixed Term Contract (maternity Cover)
Full-time
Nesta is looking for a Team Co-ordinator to cover a period of maternity leave in the team and join the
Innovation Skills team to provide administrative, production and logistical support. The Innovation
Skills team is a small team of seven, led by the Director, Innovation Skills.
You will be responsible for supporting the administration and organisation of the team which will
include general administrative and logistical support as well as assisting with our publication
production schedule. This will require good planning and timekeeping skills, and you need to be
someone comfortable dealing with multiple streams of activity.
You’ll support the team with diary management, arranging internal and external meetings. In addition
to excellent administrative and communication skills, we are looking for a candidate who has
experience of arranging external events, this is because our programmes will often run workshops and
learning events.
You’ll be the first point of contact for external enquiries, so you’ll need to feel comfortable
representing Nesta, whether answering the phone or arranging meetings with external partners.
This is a crucial role in the team, one that ensures that we are as effective as we can be. If you are an
experienced administrator, who has an eye for detail and wants to work in a fast paced, collegiate and
fun workplace, then we’d love to hear from you.
THE ROLE
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Act as the first point of contact for external enquiries from individuals and organisations.
Co-ordinate meetings with internal and external partners.
Support the organisation of external events including workshops and learning sessions.
Support the organisation of projects to include travel arrangements, time management &
contract management,
Provide administrative support to the team, including arranging meetings and managing
diaries.
Support the team with the contact management database, being a point of contact with
the team and across the organisation.
Provide support on the production and distribution of our publications.
Supporting the Director, Innovation Skills to manage the team budget and generating
management reports.
Any other relevant administrational or support duties as may be required by the team, as
needs arise.
THE PERSON
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Successful track record of working in a co-ordinating, team support or administration
capacity in a fast moving environment.
Solid organisational, prioritisation and time management skills with the proven ability to
coordinate and track multiple projects simultaneously.
Demonstrable experience of diary management, arranging meetings and preferably some
minute taking.
Good interpersonal skills: the ability to work effectively with a diverse, high-performing,
busy team including the ability to upwards manage.
Good PC Skills including Microsoft Office, Word, Powerpoint and Excel and Internet. A
working knowledge of Wordpress is desirable but not essential.
Excellent written and oral communication skills, including a professional telephone
manner, and the ability to be flexible in communication styles for different audiences (e.g.
web copy).
Demonstrable experience of organising events.
Good attention to detail, high standards of accuracy and a good completer/ finisher.
ABOUT NESTA:
Nesta is the UK’s leading independent expert on innovation. We exist to grow the UK’s capacity to
innovate, helping to generate great ideas and bring them to life. We are independently funded with
an endowment originally provided from the National Lottery.
We achieve our mission through a combination of four core capabilities:
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Generating new knowledge and insights about how innovation happens in the economy,
society and public services, and making this knowledge available and accessible.
Supporting skills, methods, tools and capacity to innovate, both in leading edge fields (from
digital technology to creative industries) and in fields where innovation is less supported (such
as local government).
Linking diverse networks of people and organisations, and using our convening power to open
up new possibilities and to help with implementation and diffusion of innovations.
Helping fund innovative ventures, projects and programmes, particularly ones focused on
solving compelling problems. We do this as an investor, a grant-giver, and through
programmes that combine a mix of types of support.
We try to act in line with a set of values that help define who we are, and how we behave to each
other and the people we work with – these values are known as, ‘The Nesta Way’!
HOW TO APPLY:
To apply for this role, please click on this link.
Application deadline: 9am, Friday 29 April