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Overview

BEC is hiring a Program director who will report to the Center Director, manage a team of Coaches and be responsible for growing and strategically supporting the BEC's diverse community of members.

Responsibilities

• Manage the members' experience from first contact to becoming an active part of the BEC community,
• Design and execute the Coaches' interview process to ensure a high quality match between new Coaches and the community,
• Recruit and hire coaches in collaboration with the center director that are in line with the organization's finances.
• Strategically manage activities and operations in the local and global BEC communities to increase the number of connections, the level of mutual support and the amount of collaboration among members,
• Design and execute the Entrepreneurship Coaching Program ( including curriculum development and syllabus) that fuels the community with inspiration and hands-on knowledge for social change,
• Design and execute the Monitor and Evaluation framework to monitor effectiveness of curriculum and evaluate students’ performance and students' satisfaction.
• Maintain strong working relationships with CIC staff and related organizations such as Venture Café Foundation, - Maintain strong working relationships with professional, academic, and governmental organizations (such as: the City of Boston, MIT Entrepreneurship Center, MIT Venture Mentoring services, MIT e-club, MIT executive education, MIT institution affiliation and collaborators, Harvard Innovation Lab and other entrepreneurship education organizations and BEC business Partners.)
• Ensure BEC operation mesh well with CIC processes,
• Establish relationships with key players in the region to create joint programs that create value for BEC members.
• design and execute financial strategies to promote BEC brand, programs and activities.
  
  

Qualifications:

• Master’s degree (or higher) in a field related to Business, Entrepreneurship, Coaching or leadership training.
• 5 year experience working in entrepreneurship education, business training.
• Capable to do academic research of teaching methods, curriculum design, startups industry, and entrepreneurship skills.
• Have strong sensibilities of students’ needs and profound technical skills.
• Highly initiated, team player with proficient oral and written English skills.
  
  

REQUIREMENTS

• Ability to strategically analyze the BEC community and identify specific actions to enable an increasing level of interaction and collaboration among the members.
• Ability to inspire and motivate people.
• Demonstrate extensive social/people skills.
• Possess exceptional communication skills.
• Ability to facilitate and host events with a large, diverse audience (preferably experience with hosting Open Spaces, World Cafés and events applying similar techniques).
• Knowledge and experience with entrepreneurship and social innovation (preferably through having been exposed to these environments for a prolonged period of time).
• Knowledge and experience with shaping an organizational culture.
• Affinity with technical tools that enable virtual community interaction.
• Demonstrate a high degree of leadership skills and an entrepreneurial mindset.
• Ability to identify new opportunities and capitalize on them.
• Familiar with the concepts of Art of Hosting and Systems Thinking.
  
  

Values

Although skills and professional experience are critical components of success in this job, values alignment and a shared purpose are equally important. The successful candidate will be:

• Passionate about topics such as social innovation, entrepreneurship and Startup;
• Prepared to lead by example, and will have demonstrated a strong service ethic in past experiences;
• Aware of how his/her behavior affects other people, locally and globally;
• Eager to improve their professional and personal skills on an ongoing basis;
• Knowledgeable about major global challenges (climate change, energy alternatives, food systems, etc.), and curious about practical solutions;
• Innovative at solving problems;
• Quick to pick up new skills;
• Equally excited to host both high-profile leaders and young, inexperienced entrepreneurs;
• Personable and attentive to members' needs;
• Able to prioritize and achieve many goals and tasks on a daily basis;
• Comfortable suggesting new processes;
• Fun-loving, with a great sense of humor;
• Positive, calm, and dependable under stress;
• Empathetic with people from diverse global cultures;
• Prepared and available for a minimum of a two-year work period.
  
  

Commitment

full time or part time (minimum 20 hours a week)

Salary

$25000-$35000/year

International Applicants

We accept OPT and OPT STEM extension, we sponsor H1-B

Location:

Cambridge Innovation Center (CIC)

One Broadway, Cambridge

MA 02142

USA

• Please do NOT apply for this job if:
• It will be your first hands-on operational job;
• You expect us to relocate you from another city;
• You have an instinct to embellish your experience or education;
• You would have taken the "blue pill" from Morpheus, in the Matrix.
  
  

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