Promotion and Growth Lead

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow the EIT Supernovas Community by engaging women entrepreneurs, investors, ambassadors, and ecosystem stakeholders across Europe.
• Manage community activities and communication channels, fostering networking, collaboration, peer learning, and member participation online and offline.
• Coordinate onboarding and engagement journeys for community members, ensuring active participation in programmes, events, and opportunities.
• Develop and promote community content, success stories, and engagement campaigns to increase visibility, retention, and ecosystem impact.
• Monitor community performance and stakeholder engagement metrics, using insights to improve community experience, growth, and partnerships.
• Develop and maintain relationships with partners, sponsors, and investors.
• Support Supernovas’ network growth and ensure activities are attractive for partnerships.
• Align communications, campaigns, and events to maximize visibility, leads, and business opportunities.
• Implement and adapt HQ marketing plans for Supernovas initiatives.
• Ensure consistent brand identity and tone of voice across all channels.
• Plan and execute communication campaigns, including digital marketing, SEO, and media relations.
• Create and manage content: visuals, presentations, newsletters, social media, and storytelling.
• Monitor performance, optimize campaigns, and manage budgets and suppliers.
• Plan, organize, and deliver events (networking, promotional, business, and flagship).
• Align events with branding, communications, and visibility goals.
• Manage logistics, suppliers, contracts, and budgets.

Requirements

• At least 5 years of professional experience in stakeholder engagement, partnership management, community building, or ecosystem development, ideally within innovation, entrepreneurship, or EU-funded environments.
• Proven ability to engage, influence, and maintain relationships with a diverse range of stakeholders — start-ups, corporates, investors, academia, and public institutions — at European level.
• Solid experience designing and implementing engagement strategies and multi-partner collaboration frameworks that drive measurable results.
• Excellent project management and organisational skills, with a track record of delivering events, campaigns, or community programmes end-to-end.
• Exceptional communication and storytelling abilities — both written and verbal — able to adapt messages to different audiences and channels.
• Strategic mindset with an entrepreneurial attitude: able to translate programme goals into concrete engagement activities and partnerships.
• Collaborative, proactive and solution-oriented approach with high emotional intelligence and ability to thrive in multicultural and cross-functional teams.
• Fluency in English (both written and spoken); proficiency in additional EU languages will be an asset.
• A university degree in business, international relations, innovation management, communications, or a related field.