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About The Role:
The Director, Grant Operations (DGO) will play an important role in the operational efficacy of the Partnerships & Development team. This individual will lead the design, maintainenance, and continual improvement of many key elements of the team’s infrastructure (including data and project management systems, tools and resources, and team-wide processes) to ensure consistency and quality in our work as well as efficient communication and collaboration. The DGO will manage a group of professionals who contribute to proposals, reports, data management, and other projects across the team. The DGO will collaborate closely with colleagues to understand and meet team needs, to manage the large volume of proposals and reports that our team produces, and to generate internal reporting. The DGO contributes to overall project management, capacity planning, and quality assurance.
We seek an individual who is eager to improve processes and systems in order to support our team’s growth. The ideal candidate will be an experienced people manager, able to supervise and develop skilled team members and hire additional roles as needed.
This position is fully remote. The DGO will manage a team of 3 (or more) and report to the Associate Vice President, Partnerships & Development.
Responsibilities:
Process & System Improvement (30%)
People Management (30%)
Quality Assurance (20%)
Internal Reporting & Collaboration (20%)
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Across the Board, VentureWell Staff:
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About VentureWell:
VentureWell supports the cultivation of an emerging generation of science and technology inventors and the innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystems that are critical to their success. Since its founding in 1995, VentureWell has funded or trained over 16,000 science and technology inventors and innovators, resulting in the emergence of over 3,000 ventures with groundbreaking technological advancements in fields like biomedicine and healthcare, sustainable energy and materials, and solutions for low-resource settings. The startups they have supported have raised subsequent funds totaling close to $5.3 billion and are reaching millions of people in nearly 50 countries.
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Full Time
Civic & Environmental Advocacy
$154k-206k (estimate)
05/08/2024
06/06/2024
venturewell.org
HADLEY, MA
25 - 50
1995
PHIL WEILERSTEIN
$10M - $50M
Civic & Environmental Advocacy
VentureWell is a non-profit organization on a mission to cultivate a pipeline of inventors, innovators, and entrepreneurs driven to solve the world's biggest challenges and to create lasting impact. We foster collaboration among the best minds from research labs, classrooms, and beyond to advance innovation and entrepreneurship education and to provide unique opportunities for STEM students and researchers to fully realize their potential to improve the world. Since our founding in 1995, weve funded or trained over 4,500 science and technology inventors and innovators and nurtured nearly a tho...usand of their startups reaching millions of people in over 50 countries with ground-breaking technological advancements in fields such as biomedicine and healthcare, sustainable energy and materials, and solutions for low-resource settings. We are proud that leading institutions, from foundations to government agencies to major businesses, support our mission to transform higher education and technology entrepreneurship. The Lemelson Foundation, National Science Foundation (NSF), Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, USAID and the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation are among those who recognize ours as as a powerful model for supporting emerging STEM innovators and the entrepreneurship ecosystems that are critical to their success.
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