About the Role
LCCA is launching a new student venture and incubator programme to help ambitious students develop businesses, freelance careers, and portfolio pathways. This role involves designing and leading the programme, working directly with student founders, shaping strategy, and influencing senior leadership. It's a build-from-scratch opportunity to establish the model and demonstrate its impact.
Responsibilities
- Design and launch the LCCA incubator and enterprise pathway
- Mentor student founders and freelancers
- Work with academic leadership to identify entrepreneurial students through the curriculum
- Create a progression pathway from course projects into venture support
- Build relationships with startups, creative organisations and local businesses
- Manage venture funding and pitch events
- Recruit and coordinate Entrepreneurs in Residence
- Demonstrate measurable impact on student outcomes
- Shape relationships with external partners and collaborators
- Build trusted partnerships eventually leading to commercial partnerships
Requirements
- Must be comfortable operating at both strategic and hands-on levels
- Must be able to prove the right to work in the UK
- Confident and practical leader who enjoys turning ideas into reality
- Motivated by helping talent develop and potential translate into opportunity
- Commercial awareness
Skills
- Mentoring
- Strategic planning
- Stakeholder management
- Relationship building
- Communication
- Organisation
- Decision making
- Delivery focus
Location
- Tower Hill, London
Work Type
- Full Time
- Permanent
Experience Level
- Senior leadership
Salary/Compensations
- Competitive
About the Company
- LCCA delivers industry-focused degrees across fashion, graphic design, business, hospitality, and creative technology.
Equal Opportunity
- We are committed to recruiting a diverse workforce and welcome applications from all sections of the community.
- LCCA is committed to equality, diversity and inclusion and welcomes applications from all backgrounds.
- We are committed to ensuring our workforce is reflective of our diverse student population, striving to increase the representation of age, disability, gender identity and expression, religion, race, sex, sexual orientation, and socio-economic background of our employees.
- We’re also committed to providing adjustments to those who may require support with the recruitment process.
