Closing Date: 26/09/2025

To apply, please send a copy of your CV and covering letter to brchr@babraham.co.uk

About us:

The Babraham Research Campus is considered to be the UK’s leading campus to support early-stage bioscience enterprises. World class research and business come together to promote innovation and strengthen links between academia and the commercial world.

Babraham Research Campus (BRC) is the company that manages and develops the Campus, supporting and promoting the regional and UK bioscience ecosystem. It has responsibility for the administration and commercial development of the site for the benefit of all the tenant companies including the Babraham Institute.

The Campus provides emerging and growing biotech companies laboratory and office space together with access to outstanding scientific facilities in an ideal geographical location at the core of the Cambridge cluster. Our aim is to be the most successful bioincubator campus in Europe and to support the Cambridge region and the UK bio-science communities.

We are situated on an attractive 430-acre parkland estate, seven miles southwest of Cambridge City Centre. The campus blends modern laboratory facilities with historic buildings in a spacious, beautifully landscaped setting. The campus offers the companies excellent amenities: fully equipped meeting rooms and conferencing facilities, bar, coffee shop, a sports and social club, gym, tennis court and football pitch. A large component of the estate grounds including the wood, grass, grazing meadows and park land are opened for both the campus and the wider community to walk through and use.

Role

Babraham Research Campus are co-delivering the Cambridge NeuroWorks ARIA Activation Partners Fellowship Programme, together with other Cambridge organisations including the Milner Therapeutics Institute, the Maxwell Centre, Cambridge University Health Partners and are seeking to appoint an Accelerator Cohort Administrator.

The Cambridge NeuroWorks programme aims to:

1. Support an end-to-end scientific entrepreneurship journey: From ideation of highly speculative ideas to investment-ready propositions, providing tailored support and mentorship to maximise the chances of success.

2. Create a safe place to do risky things: By harnessing the vibrant innovation ecosystem of Cambridge, the programme aims to accelerate the delivery of globally affordable neurotechnology.

3. Broaden participation: Targeting diverse backgrounds, including engineers, scientists, clinicians, other medical professionals and those from industry with the purpose to minimise barriers to participation.

4. Activate a UK-wide neurotech network: Through structured stages that spark innovative ideas, de-risk speculative science, and accelerate innovations to impact.

5. Foster collaboration: Bringing together well-acquainted partners as a single consortium to build on the connections, expertise, and infrastructure of Cambridge University Health Partners and other institutions.

The Cambridge NeuroWorks Fellowship Programme offers two streams: Blue Sky Fellowships for early-stage ideas needing further development, and Frontier Fellowships for more mature concepts ready for validation. Both streams aim to support talent, enabling quick adaptation when hypotheses are disproved and accelerating innovation when validated, focusing on interfacing with the human brain at scale.

We are looking for a highly organised and entrepreneurial Accelerator Cohort Administrator to support the growth and success of the neurotechnology strand of our Accelerate@Babraham (A@B) programme. This high-potential area is central to addressing pressing patient needs in the UK and globally, while also contributing to the sustainability and scalability of the wider Cambridge NeuroWorks fellowship programme.

In this role, you’ll help shape, support, and scale the neurotechnology strand—working closely with founders, researchers, mentors, partners, and internal teams. You’ll be responsible for coordinating programme activities, managing logistics, and helping ensure a seamless experience for participating CNW Fellows and stakeholders. The Accelerator Cohort Administrator will be required to work effectively with other Activation Partners ensuring the Fellow is supported with key components of the A@B course relevant to advancing their technology.

We see the potential of this programme as limitless and are looking for someone who is impatient for impact, thrives in a fast-paced environment, and is excited by the opportunity to support bold, translational innovation.

The aim of the Babraham Accelerator is to support early-stage ventures in their entrepreneurial journey and includes running a successful annual Accelerate@Babraham cohort. Up to twelve CNW Fellows will be required to participate in the annual Accelerate@Babraham programme which is a leading life science accelerator and bio-incubator capability based at the Babraham Research Campus, supported by a number of organisations and key individuals and receives funding from strategic partners including pharmaceutical companies and charities.

The Campus has an ambitious strategy to maintain its leading position in Europe as the preferred location for early stage and start-up companies. The role-holder will play a critical part in delivery of neurotech strand of Accelerate@Babraham as an integral part of this CNW fellowship programme providing a catalyst for expanding our campus-wide support programmes which encourage the exploitation of science commercialisation, entrepreneurship and scale-up and nurture the ecosystem, enhancing connections, collaboration and engagement within the campus community.

The role will report to the Fellowship Operations Manager, in the first instance, and will involve working closely with the Senior Lead for Science & Entrepreneurship, LiveLabs Manager and the Commercialisation & Impact Builder based at Babraham Research Campus in addition to the wider Cambridge NeuroWorks ARIA Activation Partners.

Responsibilities

• Provide day-to-day coordination of the neurotechnology accelerator cohort, ensuring all programme activities are delivered smoothly and on schedule.

• Act as a key point of contact for CNW Fellows, participants, mentors, and partners—facilitating effective communication and collaboration.

• Support the development and delivery of workshops, events, and follow-up mentoring sessions for the neurotech accelerator strand.

• Assist in tracking progress and outcomes of participating ventures, maintaining accurate records and reports.

• Help build and maintain strong relationships with a wide range of stakeholders across academia, industry, and investment.

• Contribute to the design and evolution of the programme, bringing ideas to improve efficiency, engagement, and impact.

• Co-ordination of up to twelve CNW Fellows participating in the 8 week bootcamp sessions of the annual Accelerate@Babraham programme, as a pivotal component of their individual 12 month fellowships, even if the Fellow is conducting their research activities at a Host organisation laboratory that is not on the Babraham Research Campus.

• Providing appropriate and timely project reporting, invoicing and financial controls as required by the Fellowship Operations team. Scheduling A@B taught sessions, booking meeting rooms, organising papers, contracts and invoices as required.

This list is not exhaustive, and the successful candidate would be expected to undertake reasonable additional duties in support of the site operations as and when required.

Person Specification

Education and Qualifications

• Relevant undergraduate degree in the life sciences or other qualification with an equivalent combination of relevant experience, education and training

• PRINCE2 (or equivalent project management qualification) (Desirable)

Experience

• Proven experience in project administration or coordination within the healthtech or life sciences sector.

• Experience working within multi-stakeholder environments, such as academic–industry partnerships, innovation programmes, or collaborative research projects.

• Project Management experience

• Event planning and coordination experience

• Experience of coordinating contracts and invoices

• Coordinating collaborative research programmes that span academia and industry (Desirable)

• Experience of undertaking scientific research (Desirable)

Skills and Abilities

• Strong organisational skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities and stakeholders, internally and externally.

• A proactive, adaptable mindset with a passion for delivering real-world patient benefit and economic impact.

• Excellent interpersonal, written and oral communication skills.

• Can work under pressure and to tight timelines

• Approachable, friendly, helpful and supportive team player

• Ability to work proactively and on own initiative

• Ability to work across a matrix management structure

• Use of Microsoft word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint and other packages

• Familiarity with neurotechnology, neuroscience, or related disciplines.

• Able to demonstrate our company values (passion, teamwork, customer focus, commercial awareness and continuous improvement)

• Knowledge of translational research within the life science and biotechnology sector (Desirable)

• Knowledge of business development and creation of value from academic research (Desirable)

Company Benefits

• Pension Allowance - Babraham Research Campus Ltd. offers a Group Personal Pension Scheme and currently contributes 10.5% of salary subject to a staff contribution of 3%.

• Holiday Entitlement - 25 days p.a. plus bank Holidays and 3 privilege days for Christmas Shutdown

• Discretional Annual Bonus - Employees may be eligible for a discretional performance related bonus

• Private Healthcare

• Employee Wellbeing Service - The scheme offers confidential support, information, expert advice and specialist counselling service to all BRC employees

• Restaurant Facilities.

• Skills training is encouraged

• Onsite Accommodation - There are a number of hostels, flats and houses that can be rented.

• Social - Sports & Social Club and onsite Gym

• Nursery and Holiday Playscheme on site. (Availability of places is dependent on demand).

• There is free car parking on the Campus (please note that the Campus actively pursues a green transport policy).

Any offer of employment will be subject to security screening and may be subject to health screening.