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Associate Director, Venture Lab
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Posted Job Title
Associate Director, Venture Lab
Job Profile Title
Associate Director C
Job Description Summary
Based in San Francisco, this position reports directly to the Senior Director of Venture Lab.
The Associate Director will lead Bay Area programming strategy, with an eye toward marketing and community building. The Associate Director provides leadership for key strategic priorities of Venture Lab through the design and delivery, launch, management, growth, and end-to-end operations for a portfolio of programs including, but not limited to the Venture Initiation Program accelerator (VIP-X) in San Francisco, Scale School, B-School Disrupt. Further, the Associate Director will provide onsite support for other Venture Lab programs that run in Wharton San Francisco, such as Bet on Entrepreneurship (BoE) summer immersion.
This position will manage cross-functional and cross-organizational teams to launch and execute program requirements and is responsible for budget management, creation of annual work plan for the identified programs, preparation of management reports and stewardship materials, creation of program presentations, development of performance measurement plan, tracking and analysis of key performance indicators (KPIs) to improve, iterate and scale programming, and time-sensitive reporting on an as-needed basis, and staff management of cross-organizational teams. The position requires frequent interaction with seasoned, accomplished alumni entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, and other professionals engaged in entrepreneurship and innovation careers, including significant donors. The position requires a high level of judgment and professionalism in cultivating relationships with alumni, including donor stewardship. The position requires excellent interpersonal, written, and oral communication skills; strong collaboration and team building skills; a forward-thinking mindset; and demonstrated creativity, problem solving, critical analysis, initiative, judgment, and decision-making skills. The position is also responsible for cultivating an open rapport and a professional, supportive educational approach with undergraduate and graduate student entrepreneurs and innovators from all disciplines across the University of Pennsylvania. While the schedule is generally business hours, ability to work early mornings, evenings, and weekend hours, and to occasionally travel, is required. After successful completion of the introductory period, this position is hybrid eligible with some weeks requiring more in-person work as needed.
Position is contingent on funding.
Interested candidates must submit cover letter and resume.
Job Description
Required:
- Bachelor's Degree and minimum 4-5 years of professional experience related to entrepreneurship and innovation. Masters Degree a plus; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Demonstrated experience with program management, developing dashboards and frameworks for business and programs.
- Demonstrated ability to establish priorities, manage shifting priorities, and handle numerous time-sensitive projects with multiple deadlines.
- Demonstrated forward-thinking mindset and creativity, problem solving, critical analysis, initiative, judgment, and decision-making skills.
- Excellent interpersonal, written, and oral communication skills.
- Demonstrated experience managing budgets, creating detailed project work plans, and managing complex projects with cross-functional and cross-organizational teams.
- Demonstrated ability to function both independently and as part of a team. Excellent collaboration and team building skills.
- Ability to interact effectively and comfortably with diverse group of students, senior executives/professionals, and staff with demonstrated ability to cultivate and manage relationships professionally and with good judgment with a variety of stakeholders. Must have a high degree of professionalism.
- The successful candidate will be adept with technology: Must possess skill in Google software applications (Docs, Sheets, Slides) as well as the Microsoft Office suite (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and Outlook); Experience with cloud-based tools such as Beautiful.ai, Monday.com, and Typeform; email marketing tools such as ActiveCampaign; and additional tools such as Qualtrics, SurveyMonkeyApply; Experience with Adobe InDesign, Photoshop, Acrobat a plus.
- Interested candidates must submit cover letter and resume.
Job Location - City, State
San Francisco, California
Department / School
Wharton School
Pay Range
$51,824.00 - $87,000.00 Annual Rate
Salary offers are made based on the candidate's qualifications, experience, skills, and education as they directly relate to the requirements of the position, as well as internal and market factors and grade profile.
Affirmative Action Statement
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Special Requirements
Background check required after a conditional job offer is made. Consideration of the background check will be tailored to the requirements of the job.
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