Associate Director, Founder Resources, Venture Lab, Wharton School

University of Pennsylvania

122d • $66,000 - $75,000

About The Position

The Associate Director provides leadership and management for Venture Lab’s resources for student founders at the University of Pennsylvania, including the mentoring initiative, the Entrepreneurs-in-Residence (EIR) program, Venture Initiation Program (VIP) instructors, and VIP’s communities of practice. This work will connect Penn student founders to our alumni leaders and experts to receive practical instruction, advice, mentoring, and networking support.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree and minimum 3-5 years of professional experience related to entrepreneurship and innovation.
• 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.

Nice To Haves

• Master's Degree.
• Experience with cloud-based tools such as Beautiful.ai, Monday.com, and Typeform.
• Experience with email marketing tools such as ActiveCampaign.
• Experience with additional tools such as Qualtrics, SurveyMonkey.
• Experience with Adobe InDesign, Photoshop, Acrobat.

Responsibilities

• Lead the mentoring initiative, providing select VIP student founders with additional support from alumni mentors based on industry and/or functional expertise.
• Develop the initiative strategy, develop the scale-up plan, and manage all aspects of implementation including selecting student mentees, cultivating a pool of alumni mentors, making mentor-mentee matches, ensuring that mentor-mentees develop and complete an effective mentoring plan.
• Lead Venture Lab’s EIR program, which engages experienced alumni entrepreneurs to mentor and assist VIP students.
• Build out the program strategy, gather lessons learned from pilot year, incorporate student and alumni feedback, and scale up.
• Manage all aspects of implementation including alumni engagement letters, travel and honorarium budget, EIR workshop schedule and office hours, and collaboration with the Venture Lab marketing team to promote these opportunities.
• Lead the VIP communities of practice, including but not limited to those for undergraduates, social entrepreneurship, med-health, and analytics.
• Partner with the Venture Lab student board and other Penn groups to plan and run thematic, networking, and community building activities.
• Manage founder group coaching and other instructor-led workshops, including planning with the Senior Director, scheduling, student enrollment and tracking, and coordination with other VL teams.
• Plan and manage budget.
• Prepare management reports and presentations for Venture Lab leadership to deliver.
• Develop performance measurement plan.
• Collect and analyze key performance indicators (KPIs).
• Support Salesforce data entry and management.
• Collaborate with Wharton External Affairs to create donor stewardship reports.
• Create impact reports and use feedback from Venture Lab and Wharton senior leadership to identify and execute approved improvements.
• Support other time-sensitive reporting as needed.

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, prescription, behavioral health, dental, vision, and life insurance benefits.
• Tuition assistance for employees, their spouses, and dependent children.
• Generous retirement plans including Basic, Matching, and Supplemental retirement plans.
• Substantial amount of time away from work for personal needs.
• Long-term care insurance.
• Wellness and work-life resources.
• Professional and personal development resources.
• Access to University resources and cultural activities.
• Discounts and special services for faculty and staff.
• Flexible work hours.
• Home ownership services including a forgivable loan for eligible employees.
• Adoption assistance for qualified expenses.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees