Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Rice University’s Liu Idea Lab for Innovation & Entrepreneurship supports students, faculty, and alumni in transforming ideas into real-world impact through entrepreneurship, innovation, venture capital, and research commercialization programs. The Head of Venture Acceleration, Program Manager will lead venture acceleration initiatives, identify promising research and startups, support student founders, and manage mentorship, partnerships, funding, and accelerator programming.
Responsibilities
- Leads the development and implementation of major program(s)
- Collaborates with faculty and / or staff leadership to design programs and establish long range strategic and operational plans
- Identifies promising research and technology from across the Rice University ecosystem
- Oversees the operations, administration and evaluation of programs
- Identifies and implements program changes to ensure alignment with mission and program effectiveness
- Develops and implements strategies related to outreach, events, communications, development, partnerships and fundraising / funding
- Devises and manages financial and budgetary plans for the program(s), approves and monitors expenditures
- May teach a course, seminar or workshop
- Performs all other duties that assigned
- Responsible for tracking and reporting on all program metrics and impact
- You may support other Lilie programming and courses as the need arises
Skills
- * Bachelor's degree
- * Four or more (4+) years of entrepreneurship, program management and/or start-up experience
- * Skills:
- + Ability to develop complex and/or multiple program partnerships and funding sources
- + Ability to develop and initiate new strategies
- + Ability to work well under pressure and manage projects simultaneously
- + Ability to work independently and as part of a team to meet expected deadlines, schedules, and goals
- + Adept at problem solving, creating contingency plans and handling issues when necessary
- + Excellent organizational and time management skills
- + Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- + Excellent client service orientation
- + Ability to prioritize, take initiative, and ownership of projects
- + Ability to routinely and independently exercise sound judgment in making decisions
- * Five or more (5+) years of entrepreneurship, program management experience
- * Experience with startups and startup accelerator programs
- * Experience engaging within and across a startup ecosystem
- * Shares work early and often, valuing a process of iterative feedback to produce exceptional results
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