Founder Scout

Roles and responsibilities include:

• 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.
  

Experience

• 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.

The ideal candidate

A structured, process-based or entrepreneurial background would be very useful, but it’s your relationship management and commitment to programme delivery, supported by meticulous attention to detail that will matter most. You will share our deep passion for startups and creating a positive change in the world