Health Innovation Wessex (HIW) is delighted to offer a fantastic opportunity to join our team as a Programme Coordinator in Industry and Innovation.
Are you fascinated by change and innovation? Can you help the NHS adopt innovation faster to help deliver better care to patients? Play a key role in delivering impactful events, campaigns, and communications that support innovation across health and care in Wessex.
As a Programme Co-ordinator in Industry and Innovation, you’ll lead and support the planning and delivery of events, courses, and marketing activity—helping to engage partners, promote innovation, and maximise reach and impact. This is an excellent opportunity for someone with strong events and marketing experience who enjoys both planning and hands-on delivery, and is motivated by making a real difference through innovation.
You will be working with progressive start-ups, clinicians and innovators from across the UK and potentially globally with innovative ideas, products and solutions for the NHS and patients. You will play a role in curating opportunities for them to navigate the health innovation ecosystem through various NHS, National Institute for Health and Care Research and national bodies with a focus on events, marketing and campaigns.
Health Innovation Wessex improves health outcomes, supports excellence in care, and drives innovation and growth across the region’s life sciences and healthcare sector. As one of 15 Health Innovation Networks in England, it connects academics, the NHS, industry and partners to bring fresh thinking to longstanding challenges and accelerate the adoption of innovative practice at scale.
HIW is a company limited by guarantee, owned by NHS and university members, with staff hosted by University Hospital Southampton. Based at Southampton Science Park, its modern offices are easily accessible via the M3, M27 and Southampton Parkway, offering free parking, collaborative spaces and access to a 27-acre protected conservation area.
The organisation promotes a healthy work/life balance through flexible, hybrid working, with a minimum of two days on-site or with partners, alongside structured opportunities for professional development and training. HIW takes a proactive approach to wellbeing, aligned with its core values of being Innovative, Inclusive and Collaborative, with staff engagement groups shaping culture and driving initiatives that enable people to flourish despite periods of challenge, change and high demand. The organisation is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued, respected and able to thrive while contributing to meaningful and sustainable change.
We are an ambitious organisation, looking for passionate and motivated people to join us with a proven track record of delivery. You will need a tenacity to succeed, great communication and project management, event management and marketing skills, an ability to build new relationships quickly, and the capability to drive innovation in practice.
You may not feel you meet all aspects of the role, but we welcome applications from people with a wide range of past experiences – whether that be of events management, marketing, brand management. An appreciation of the challenges involved with innovation deployment and transformation in health and social care is an advantage to succeed in this role.
You will work a part of a close-knit team supporting start-ups, founders and academics to develop and deploy their health innovations, through events, accelerators and training courses and direct support. You will bring your creative experience to:
Oversee the end-to-end implementation of all event marketing campaigns—email, social, digital, and website—across multiple simultaneous events.
Support surveys, feedback forms and online resources
Provide coordination and administrative support at larger in person events and help ensure smooth organisation on the day.
Ensure campaign timelines, workflows, and approvals are executed to deadline, with consistent communication to all stakeholders.
Oversee the creation and execution of digital marketing strategies, including search engine optimisation (SEO), email, social media, and content marketing to drive traffic, engagement, and registrations.
Monitor and evaluate digital campaign performance, generating data-driven reports with actionable insights to optimise results.
Build and maintain strong relationships with stakeholders, as well as external media, associations, and agencies to secure promotions and drive collaborative efforts.
Ensure consistent messaging and brand presentation across marketing materials and communications.
