Digital Skills Coach

Could a Digital Skills Coach help move your business forward?

You could have a digital skill coach helping you with a set number of hours of training in a designated digital skill.

This free support is offered through a partnership with East Midlands Chamber and Nottingham Trent University (NTU) and funded by the UK Government through the UK Shared Prosperity Fund (UKSPF).

The NTU team will liaise with you to find out what you need, then advertise and recruit the most suitable student for the project. They will facilitate the meeting with you and the student. They will also let you know what you can expect in the way of support as well as providing help to each student to meet your needs.

The process will take a minimum of three weeks from receiving a brief to assigning a digital coach. Businesses will receive a bespoke package of support aimed at giving them the digital expertise they need. The support can be offered both online and face-to-face.

Types of projects:

A digital coach could help you with projects around social media, data management, email marketing, SEO, AI tools, digital marketing, MS Teams or more. e.g.

• Data Management & Analysis - increase Excel proficiency across your business, learn to use Excel to analyse data, or get support with data management organisation or storage
• Develop Email Skills - benefits of sending mass emails, utilising mass email distributors for marketing, mailbox organisation, using folders to organise messages and email signature creation
• Improve Social Media capabilities - understand different platforms, learn how to set up accounts, connect profiles, schedule posts, upload images and use hashtags
• Digital Marketing support - how to create content for websites, newsletters and social media posts
• Learn now to use AI Tools - to support your business in research, data analysis or content writing
• Make better use of Project Management Tools - MS Teams, MS Planner, MS One Note and Trello

Download PDF Project Examples

Businesses in the following areas are eligible to apply:

Amber Valley, Ashfield, Bassetlaw, Broxtowe, Chesterfield, Derby City, Derbyshire Dales, Gedling, High Peak, Leicester City, Mansfield, Newark and Sherwood, North East Derbyshire, Rushcliffe, South Derbyshire.

Contact jobshop@ntu.ac.uk to find out more and get involved

The Accelerator project is funded by the UK Shared Prosperity Fund (UKSPF) and delivered by East Midlands Chamber (Derbyshire, Leicestershire. Nottinghamshire).

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