Innovation Fellow 2026/27

Reference
1114405

Branch
University of Warwick

Start date
14/09/2026

Duration
9 Months

Hours and days
Flexible, up to 10 hours per week, mainly in term time. Evenings and weekends might be required.

Dress code
Smart Casual

Rate of pay
£13.75

Holiday rate
£1.66

Role

An incredible opportunity for curious learners, proactive change makers, impactful influencers, creative communicators, passionate problem solvers, and future-focused thinkers.

We invite you to join Warwick Enterprise for an amazing adventure – year-long part-time exciting and meaningful work experience. 

During this time, you will explore the world of enterprise and entrepreneurship and become an advocate of creativity and innovation. With us, you will develop your entrepreneurial mindset and get ready to bring your ideas to life. At the same time, you will be engaging other students across the University of Warwick in realising their ambitions and co-creating a community of innovation champions. 

• Help us build a student-led university-wide movement and develop a culture of innovation for all on campus.
• Discover, design and promote opportunities for innovation and entrepreneurship at the university and beyond.
• Enhance your professional skills and become more confident and creative in your chosen area of work.

Join the growing community of Innovation Fellows at Warwick, apply your skills and knowledge while learning through experience alongside others.

ABOUT US

Warwick Enterprise is a small but dynamic team dedicated to student innovation and entrepreneurship. We do this through programmes and activities that support enterprise skills development, guide students in developing their startups via our Startium platform, education and coaching, broaden exposure to innovation and entrepreneurship during their studies, and provide opportunities to access local, national, and international networks, collaborative initiatives, competitions, and funding schemes. For more information and to explore our mission to give every student an opportunity to innovate, please visit our website: Unleash your potential | Warwick Enterprise

Duties and responsibilities

Depending on your strengths and aspirations, as part of this role we will expect you to:

• Act as an ambassador for innovation and raise awareness about innovation and student enterprise services across campus. For instance, by engaging student societies, connecting students who are interested in entrepreneurship to our programmes, involving representatives of different departments, or creating a community of like-minded individuals.
• Contribute to the Warwick Enterprise social media presence to maximise our reach, increase student engagement, and for impact storytelling. For instance, by capturing high quality photographs, recording and editing video content; designing digital graphics for social media, printed materials and on-campus digital screens; copywriting, content editing, scheduling and engaging with posts on social media.
• Co-design, promote, and deliver education, information, and engagement activities to your peers to expose fellow students to creativity, innovation, design thinking, and hone their entrepreneurial mindset. For instance, by developing digital and other assets; producing learning resources, guides and templates that support delivery and evaluation of existing programmes; inspiring and supporting student entrepreneurs and those aspiring to be entrepreneurs in developing their ideas and skillset. 
• Contribute to development and management of an interactive dashboard to capture data from a variety of sources and, using Power BI, illustrate our impact across multiple key metrics.
• Interact, communicate, and collaborate with Warwick Enterprise team while contributing to development of relevant strategies and plans. For instance, by offering unique insights as a student and representing students’ perspective to inform, shape and co-design current and future programmes and initiatives.
• Pioneer your own interests in innovation by working on initiatives that align with Warwick Enterprise priority focus areas while collaborating with the rest of the team in an area that you are particularly skilled and passionate about.

A unique aspect of the role is the opportunity to work on a project that is individual to you that helps support our mission of enabling engagement with innovation. Are you a budding filmmaker and want to launch an inspiring video campaign that helps promote enterprise skills? Would you like to share your experience and learning associated with setting up a business of your own with others? Or are you a campaigner who is passionate about creating a greener society and a more sustainable world? Check examples of what our past Innovation Fellows have been up to as you consider the options.

You will be expected to demonstrate your effectiveness in the role by: 

• increasing engagement of students across campus with Warwick Enterprise activities, and
• strengthening the narrative around innovation, enterprise, and entrepreneurship across campus.

Skills and experience

ARE YOU THE ONE?

We are looking for 5 to 8 Innovation Fellows for the 2026-27 academic year to build on the amazing work of our past and current Innovation Fellows. 

We are eager to hear from University of Warwick students from all disciplines and levels who are curious and passionate about innovation, learning, and sharing of knowledge and experience, and will continue their studies at Warwick for the duration of the role (September 2026 - June 2027). 

We are particularly looking for: 

• persuasive and approachable communicators comfortable with engaging peers in dialogue, conducting brief interviews, and presenting in front and behind camera with confidence and clarity;
• creative content creators, adept at using a range of social media platforms, graphic design and video editing tools, effective at digital marketing and storytelling, planning and producing promotional campaigns and impact focused communications;
• critical thinkers and motivated problem solvers who are able to discover and act on needs and opportunities while working collaboratively with others;
• resourceful individuals who can work independently and as part of a team while meeting agreed deadlines, plan accordingly and organise resources to turn ideas into reality;
• well organised individuals able to devote 10 hours per week in term time to the role and make the most of that time and available resources in order to create a positive change across Warwick.

We believe that everyone has something unique and novel to offer, so if you think you could contribute to innovation in your own way, we are keen to hear from you.

WHAT ELSE WE OFFER

• Training and skills development opportunities to promote personal and professional growth of Innovation Fellows that help them meet their future career objectives
• Mentoring by a member of Warwick Enterprise team
• Personalised support, development and engagement planning
• Enabling portfolio development for future employment
• Opportunities to co-design and co-deliver university educational programmes
• Collaboration with peers and networking opportunities

Location
University of Warwick Campus

Additional information
Closing Date: 15/07/26

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