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• Salary: £46,049 - £58,225 per annum (depending on experience)

• Contractual hours: 35

• Basis: Full Time

• Package: Excellent Benefits Package

oin us at Built Environment – Smarter Transportation (BE-ST)  as an Impact Manager to play a crucial part in our mission to accelerate the built environment’s transition to zero carbon emissions.

As BE‑ST moves into its infrastructure investment and growth phase, we’re looking for someone with strong skills development, collaboration and project delivery experience to help shape and deliver high‑impact programmes across the built environment ecosystem.

The Role

At BE‑ST, collaboration is everything. You’ll play a key role in creating new communities and partnerships that unite the right people, skills and ideas to achieve meaningful change across the sector.

You’ll:

• Proactively identify, shape and develop new opportunities across existing and emerging sectors within the built environment

• Support the delivery of complex, multi‑partner innovation projects, ensuring strong collaboration, compliance and high‑quality outcomes

• Contribute to BE‑ST’s business and bid development strategy, including preparing funding and commercial bids

• Act as a trusted point of contact for businesses, helping them collaborate, innovate and access funding to improve competitiveness and drive impact

• Build and grow networks that bring together industry, academia, government and skills providers

• Keep a close eye on future trends, technologies and funding opportunities to position BE‑ST ahead of the curve

• Develop, lead and drive BE‑ST’s skills programme for the built environment across priority thematic areas.

• Design, deliver and scale the skills programme, expanding its reach, impact and relevance to industry needs.

You’ll be a crucial part of our next phase at BE-ST, proactively identifying, shaping and developing new opportunities. You’ll identify new sectors for opportunities for growth, exploring how we tap into these to stand out from the crowd.

At BE-ST, we collaborate across the entire built environment ecosystem, bringing together world-class academia, government bodies and industry at all levels to accelerate the transition to zero carbon. You’ll play a key role in seizing new opportunities, creating new networks and groups to unite the best knowledge, skills, tools, and people who want to achieve a more sustainable sector.

You’ll join a culture of transformation, growing our connected ecosystem to work on collaboration innovation projects which make an impact.

To help us continue to help the sector unlock its potential to find a way forward, you’ll always be keeping an eye on what’s coming through future scanning.

Who we’re looking for

We’re looking for a confident, proactive professional with:

• A business development or innovation support background, and a strong track record of building collaborations

• Experience working closely with businesses in or around the built environment

• Strong project management skills, ideally delivering complex, multi‑stakeholder programmes

• Excellent communication and influencing skills, with the ability to engage senior stakeholders

• A good understanding of the construction and built environment sector, both strategically and operationally

• Experience of bid writing or funding applications (desirable)

We’re looking for someone with a business development background and a successful track record of building collaborations.

You’ll be confident in prospecting and engaging with a variety of people to secure successful new collaborations, clearly articulating our mission, opportunities and inspiring them to join our zero carbon journey.

You’ll have a good understanding of the industry and excellent understanding of future developments and opportunities. Bid writing experience would be beneficial.

We’re a highly creative team in the innovation space, so we’re looking for you to bring your expertise and skills to challenge the norm and bring forward innovative ideas.  

At BE-ST innovation is more than just a buzzword, it’s how we drive positive change. We’ll be looking for you to deliver a wide range of innovation projects so we’re looking for experience in project management.

What’s in it for you?

Salary:  £46,049 - £58,225 per annum (depending on experience) plus annual pay increases each year!

We are committed to providing a wide range of benefits including:

• minimum of 41 days annual leave and the option to purchase additional annual leave

• employer pension contributions of 17.6%

• a wide range of learning and development opportunities

• opportunity to join our staff inclusion and support networks

• access to our benefits platform Vivup which includes huge range of discounts across the UK’s major retailers, health care discounts and Cycle to Work (click here for more info)

• access to our Employee Assistance Programme

We’re currently operating a hybrid working model. Due to the nature of the role, some travel may be required within Scotland and occasionally within the UK and internationally, but the role is primarily based at our BE-ST campus in Hamilton (find us here).

Interview date: to be confirmed

On this occasion, the University will not consider applicants requiring sponsorship or visa support for this role. International applicants will therefore only be able to take up this role if they can demonstrate an alternative right to work in the UK.

Equity, inclusion, and diversity are at the heart of what we do. We are committed to creating an environment where everyone feels proud, confident, challenged, and supported and are holders of Disability Confident, Carer Positive and Stonewall Diversity Champion status.

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