Job Description
Campus Startup Navigator (4551U), Haas School of Business - 60187 About Berkeley
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Departmental Overview UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business offers a unique opportunity to champion new ideas, collaborate across boundaries, and continually learn in a workplace committed to increasing diversity and creating a welcoming environment for all. Our distinctive culture is captured within our four Defining Leadership Principles:
Question the Status Quo, Confidence Without Attitude, Students Always, and Beyond Yourself. These principles distinguish Berkeley Haas as a unique environment, conducive to teamwork, collaboration, and career growth.
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Augmenting the existing Berkeley-Haas Entrepreneurship Program's established set of curricular offerings, the newly created Berkeley Haas Entrepreneurship Hub (BHEB) is designed to provide a complementary yet unique role on campus to attract the entrepre-curious and create a novel venture incubator. Despite the plethora of other offerings on campus, there is no physical space where students and researchers can connect with each other and mentors, build their startups, and be discovered by investors easily. The Hub's goal is to provide this infrastructure and associated programming, and thereby make entrepreneurship easier and more accessible for all. In the process, the Hub will also raise the visibility and impact of Haas in the innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem on campus and beyond.
The Haas School of Business embraces flexible working arrangements for its employees. Exact arrangements are determined in partnership with your supervisor to meet role responsibilities and department needs and are subject to change. This role is expected to be primarily on site, given the responsibilities of engaging with students and researchers pursuing their entrepreneurial ventures, and supporting the implementation of the programming in the space.
Overview of the Position A core value proposition of the Hub will be to provide entrepre-curious students and researchers from across campus a person they can easily access, who can guide them on how to pursue their venture ideas and navigate the vast array of innovation and entrepreneurship (I&E) resources on campus. To fulfill this critical role, we are seeking a dynamic, entrepreneurial, and hands-on Campus Startup Navigator (Navigator), who will work closely with the Executive Director and directly report to the Faculty Director of the Hub. The type of candidate who will thrive in this role is someone who is knowledgeable about the extensive portfolio of I&E resources at UC Berkeley, can effectively build relationships with those units to make referrals, can develop connections with related broader university and Bay area contacts as needed, is able to work independently and with ambiguity, and can quickly turn insights into action. Given the startup-like nature of the Hub itself, we are seeking a person who can adapt with the needs, is a utility player who can be serving the students in an advisor capacity one day while helping implement a multi-session event the next day, and simultaneously ensure that the latest order of coffee pods and granola bars have been unpacked in the kitchen! It's a role for someone who enjoys rolling up their sleeves, being scrappy, and doing whatever it takes to optimize the I&E student experience and outcomes. In doing so, the Navigator will be able to have a direct impact on students who came to campus with nothing more than a passion/idea, along with researchers working on cutting-edge technology in the labs.
Application Review Date The First Review Date for this job is: 10/23/2023.
Job Summary The Startup Navigator of the Berkeley Haas Entrepreneurship Hub will work independently and creatively with students and researchers exploring and pursuing startup endeavors, as the central person helping them navigate the myriad entrepreneurship resources at the Hub, on campus, and beyond. The role involves program administration, student advising, and analysis skills. Will serve as an instrumental leader for the support, direction and potential funding opportunities and resources. Reports into the Faculty Director, and works collaboratively supporting the Faculty Director, Executive Director, and various additional stakeholders to ensure the Hub's continued success.
Responsibilities - Guide undergraduate and graduate business school students on all aspects of their entrepreneurship & innovation journey.
- Leverage knowledge and expertise of UC Berkeley entrepreneurship and innovation centers and resources to prescribe program pathways to students based on their career and personal goals.
- Conduct 1-1 and small group intake and onboarding sessions with a large number of new students each semester.
- Actively support the Berkeley Haas mentor program for students and alumni, including holding regular office hours and engaging with LAUNCH, StEP, and other foundational programming.
- Designs, develops, implements, and delivers multi-format programs and training for a broad academic discipline to enhance the learning process for students and optimize career outcomes.
- Partner with Haas Admissions, Student Services, and Berkeley Entrepreneurs Association (BEA) to lead, develop, and administer resource workshops and information sessions for incoming and continuing Haas students.
- Partner with Haas Career Management Group (CMG) and Development and Alumni Relations (DAR) to expand and improve alumni engagement with the Entrepreneurship Program.
- Develop and deliver entrepreneurship and innovation training sessions to cross-campus audiences, supporting a broad range of student needs from the entrepreneurial curious to founder audiences.
- Establishes and maintains partnerships with organization departments and units on outreach, orientation, academic strategy, and enrichment workshops, community building events, and activities.
- Partner with entrepreneurship & innovation counterparts across UC Berkeley to identify cross campus collaboration opportunities.
- Partners include but are not limited to the Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology, Law School, Skydeck, CITRIS Foundry, Bakar BioEnginiuity Lab and others. Represent Berkeley Haas Entrepreneurship Hub at cross-campus council sessions, events, and conferences.
- On-site event planning and management.
- Support and/or lead on-site event management as needed.
- May include event development, registration oversight, catering or entertainment coordination, and/or partnership with IT, facilities and custodial services to ensure smooth event management.
- Exact tasks will vary depending upon event type, host, budget and participants.
- Assistance with management of the daily operations and maintenance of the Berkeley Haas Entrepreneurship Hub.
Professional Learning and Growth
- Embraces the principle of being a student always by engaging in opportunities for training, workshops, seminars, continuing education pertinent to the position, or at the suggestion of the supervisor.
- Actively contributes to a team environment that fosters and promotes a culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and belongin]]>
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Full time, Work at office, Flexible hours,