AddressThe Innovation Centres will accommodate the schedules of businesses, ensuring timely access to state-of-the-art facilities and expert guidance around technologies such as:
- High end Computer Numerical Control production
- Robotics
- Computer Aided Design
- Rapid Prototyping and Additive Manufacturing
- Materials and product testing
- Networking and cyber security
- Artificial Intelligence
- Web solutions
- Retrofit
- Green technologies
The roles will engage with and support businesses operating in the following sectors: -
Advanced Manufacturing
Engineering
Construction
Retrofit
ICT/Digital Technologies
We are seeking an enthusiastic and driven individual with a passion for driving technological innovation and enhancing productivity within local businesses to join Walsall College as an Innovate Consultant.
What we are looking for someone with:
- Ability to work collaboratively with diverse stakeholders to achieve shared goals.
- Exceptional communication skills with the ability to influence and positively impact audiences.
- Strong decision-making skills and the ability to analyse and interpret complex information.
- Effective planning and organisational abilities with a high level of adaptability and resilience.
- Significant experience in business development or advisory roles, preferably within the education sector.
- Advanced negotiation skills and a strategic thinker with exceptional analytical problem-solving abilities.
Walsall College is uniquely and proudly vocational. Offering a wide range of courses from Further Education and Apprenticeships through to Higher Education. Our greatest passion is unleashing the potential of individuals, communities and businesses and our greatest legacy is the talent of our students: skilled, professional and enterprising.
This is an exciting time for Walsall College and an excellent opportunity for the right individual to play a key role in our future success. We are also open to considering a hybrid working arrangement for the right candidate. Come and join us if you have what we are looking for.
In return we offer a mix of financial and non-financial benefits. Some of these benefits include a competitive salary, generous annual leave and college closure days, Local Government pension, Simply Health care scheme; Employee Assistance programme; Free onsite carparking; Salary sacrifice schemes such as bike to work; Career and professional development opportunities; Improving working lives through employment policies such as flexible working, maternity, paternity; State of the art campuses with the latest industry facilities, including our Graduate Salon of Hair and Beauty and on site Little Professors’ Nursery; Commitment to wellbeing & mental health.
