Business Advisor - Shared Prosperity Fund

Business in Focus - Business Advisor

Contract: Shared Prosperity Fund

Term: Temporary until 31st March 2025

Salary: up to £35,000 per annum

Location: Cardiff area

Hours: 30 - 37.5 hours per week

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Business in Focus will deliver a service funded by the UK Government through the Shared Prosperity Fund (SPF). The Shared Prosperity Fund focuses on providing a wide range of advice to young people and start-up businesses through a variety of means including digital, telephone and face-to-face support.

Responsibilities

Business Advisers support clients considering or ready to start a business with:

• Early stage and pre-start business issues.
• Empowering individuals to make informed decisions that positively affect entrepreneurial success.

Support existing businesses with:

• Growth aspirations.

The Business Adviser is part of the Shared Prosperity Fund Team, delivering accessible and innovative programmes of engagement and outreach activities for a diverse client group. The role promotes the development of entrepreneurial thinking and drives participants to engage with the service, enabling people to realize their entrepreneurial ambitions through a diverse range of regionally coordinated digital and face-to-face engagement, such as delivering pre-start upskilling and awareness-building modules, 1-2-1 business support, focusing on Net Zero and Digital Adoption, business development, and growth. The role delivers wraparound support for clients, enabling a diverse portfolio of clients to overcome barriers and have an equitable experience to realize entrepreneurial ambitions. The role works closely with internal colleagues to progress clients through the service, as appropriate.

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At Business in Focus, we value all of our employees. As an Investors in People employer, we provide the following benefits:

• Competitive salary
• Generous holiday entitlement (25 days annual leave plus 8 days bank holiday based on FTE)
• 6% Employer contribution pension
• Flexible modern working practices such as TOIL
• 6 late starts/early finishes per annum (equates to two hours each)
• Learning and Development opportunities

After the probation period:

• Income protection benefit
• Employee assistance programme

If shortlisted, you will be invited to undertake a technical exercise.

Please be aware we may withdraw the advert early if we receive a high volume of applicants.

Job Types: Full-time, Fixed term contract
Contract length: 4 months

Pay: Up to £35,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Additional leave

Schedule:

• Day shift
• Flexitime
• Monday to Friday

Education:

• Diploma of Higher Education (preferred)

Experience:

• Business Advice: 2 years (preferred)
• Business management: 2 years (preferred)

Language:

• English (preferred)

Licence/Certification:

• Driving Licence (preferred)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Cardiff

Reference ID: Business advisor SPF