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About The Role:
VentureWell is seeking a Programs Director to partner with our Vice President, Commercialization (VP) and a peer Director to lead the Commercialization Program Vertical, with a special focus on our Commercialization Services, including the RADx, Blueprint, and other similar programs. The Programs Director will directly manage a team of program staff, including Senior Program Officers (SPOs) and Program Officers (POs). The Programs Director will demonstrate operational excellence and a high degree of specialized knowledge related to diagnostic and/or medical device design, development, and/or commercialization. The Director is a skilled and trusted people manager and brings significant relationship management experience and networks to leverage for potential business development opportunities.
This role is remote; however, our funders and partners are mostly East Coast-based. Applicants must be willing and able to be available for meetings on an Eastern Standard Time schedule, with some flexibility. Up to 10% travel may be required, primarily for internal meetings and business development.
Responsibilities:
Strategic Leadership
Business Development
Program Oversight and Delivery
Team Management
What You Bring:
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
$131k-168k (estimate)
05/02/2024
05/20/2024
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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