Job title: Specialist
Team: Large Grants Appraisal
Location: Glasgow, Edinburgh, Dundee & Aberdeen, with home working options
Salary: £44,276
Hours: Full-time
Status: Fixed Term 18 Months
Closing date: 10 March 2023
Job ref no: R00400

Be part of the team making the kind of grant-based investment decisions that drive Scottish Enterprise forward. Our specialists are constantly working towards achieving Scottish Enterprise’s strategic ambitions, and this is an exciting opportunity for you to join them.

Reporting to the Team Leader of the Large Grants Appraisals team, you’ll work across complex innovation projects and manage applications from company inception through to approval and beyond. You’ll focus on strong financial and economic returns to boost Scotland’s international competitiveness and help deliver on net-zero ambitions.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Meeting with companies to help develop proposed R&D/innovation projects.
• Appraising grant applications against specific economic, financial, and technical criteria – to make sure projects can deliver significant economic and carbon-saving impacts.
• Presenting cases for funding (including at Scottish Enterprise Board level).

You’ll have significant experience in science, engineering, or technology and innovation, and be confident analysing and assessing information. You’ll have a strong technical and/or research background, and ideally some experience in managing grant applications. This includes undertaking due diligence to preparation of approval papers, negotiation of bespoke contract conditions, and communicating whether to fund a project or not.

Your skills, abilities and experience should include:

• Ideally, a post-graduate degree in science, engineering, or technology.
• Strong communication skills (written and verbal).
• Building and managing customer relationships and expectations.
• Extensive analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to find creative solutions.

If successful, you'll gain access to the following benefits: 

• Membership of the Scottish Enterprise Pension and Life Assurance Scheme – a pension based on your final pensionable salary, flexible retirement options and generous life assurance cover
• Up to 43 annual leave days a year (including public holidays) with the opportunity to buy additional holidays
• Flexible working arrangements
• A health cash plan
• Our Employee Retail Benefits Scheme
• Our Employee Assistance Scheme

If you're interested in this role, please complete your application form by 10 March 2023.

Interview dates

Week commencing 27 March 2023

Being part of Scottish Enterprise means being open to new ideas and trying different ways of working. We support each other to reach our full potential. We celebrate shared success and learn together when things don’t go so well. And we always treat each other fairly, with respect and understanding. Together, we are the difference.

Apply now to keep building your future with us

At Scottish Enterprise, we’re proud to celebrate difference. Diversity of experience and thought is vital to the success of our vision for the future of every community across Scotland. As an equal opportunity employer, we actively encourage applicants from a wide range of individuals, irrespective of age, disability, gender reassignment, gender identity and expression, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation.

We commit to providing any reasonable adjustments required, not only during the application and assessment process but throughout employment with us.

We have the following networks which are open to all colleagues to help drive inclusion, Disability Positive, Gender Balanced, Multi-cultural, Multi-Generational and Pride (LGBTQ+).