The salary of the finalist selected for this role will be set based on a variety of factors, including but not limited to departmental budgets, qualifications, experience, education, licenses, specialty, and training. The above hiring range represents the University's good faith and reasonable estimate of the range of possible compensation at the time of posting.
Position Summary
Columbia Technology Ventures (CTV) is the technology transfer office for Columbia University and a central location for many of the technology development initiatives, entrepreneurial activities, external industry collaborations, and commercially-oriented multidisciplinary technology innovations across the university. CTV's core mission is to facilitate the transfer of inventions from academic research labs to the market for the benefit of society on a local, national, and global basis. Each year, CTV manages more than 350 invention disclosures, 100 license deals, and 20 new IP-backed start-ups, involving over 750 inventors across Columbia's campuses. CTV currently has over 1,200 patent assets available for licensing, across research fields such as bio, IT, clean tech, devices, big data, nanotechnology, materials science, and more.
Over the years, CTV has been involved with launching well over 200 companies based on Columbia's technologies, and has also founded several technology initiatives to accelerate the path to market for promising technologies, including the PowerBridgeNY (PBNY) clean energy proof-of-concept center, the NYC Media Lab, the Columbia-Coulter Translational Research Partnership, Life Science Venture Exchange, and the NYS Cleantech Venture Exchange (CVX).
CTV's efforts are backed by 50+ full time staff and an additional 30+ graduate student interns (CTV Fellows), providing broad support to the Columbia community and other stakeholders. CTV also runs an Executive-in-Residence program, which brings seasoned industry executives, serial entrepreneurs, and investors to campus to support faculty and student entrepreneurial activities.
The Climate Initiatives Group currently administers three programs at CTV: the ClimateTech Expertise Network (CEN) Program, NYSERDA Climate Justice Fellows Support Program, and support programs for Verizon Climate Justice, Adaptation and Resilience. The CEN Program is currently funded by NYSERDA, but CTV has been encouraged to seek additional funding for this program to expand the scale and scope of this program. CEN provides paid mentoring, executive team building, peer group facilitation, investor and corporate connection events, and other related services and education programs to eligible climate tech startups in New York. For more information about this program please visit . CTV also administers the NYSERDA Climate Justice Fellows Support Program (NCJFS Program), which provides support services to Climate Justice Fellow participants in NYSERDA???s program, including peer group facilitation, mentoring, Skills Labs and a Certificate of Participation from Columbia???s Climate School. Climate Justice Fellows are members of a priority population and work with a host organization for a period of one year. Host organizations include community-based organizations, universities, municipalities, climate tech innovators/start-ups, venture development organizations and clean energy businesses, but must be working to advance climate justice and clean energy priorities for disadvantaged communities. For more information about NYSERDA???s program please visit the NYSERDA website: . The Verizon support programs provide mentoring, talent matching, Skills Lab and digital community services to startups selected by Verizon in the climate justice, adaptation and resilience which are located throughout the U.S.
In order to improve service coverage and implement expansion of these programs, CTV plans to hire a Program Manager, Entrepreneurship Programs to share administration of the CEN Program, NCJFS Program and other related programs. The Program Manager, Entrepreneurship Programs will report to the Director and work with the rest of the CTV team.
The Program Manager, Entrepreneurship Programs will work from the CTV offices in NYC and remotely in accordance with the CTV workplace policies.
Diversity Mission Statement
Columbia is dedicated to increasing diversity in its workforce, its student body, and its educational programs. Achieving continued academic excellence and creating a vibrant university community require nothing less.
Both to prepare our students for citizenship in a pluralistic world and to keep Columbia at the forefront of knowledge, the University seeks to recognize and draw upon the talents of a diverse range of outstanding faculty, research officers, staff, and students and to foster the free exploration and expression of differing ideas, beliefs, and perspectives through scholarly inquiry and civil discourse. In developing its academic programs, Columbia furthers the thoughtful examination of cultural distinctions by developing curricula that prepare students to be responsible members of diverse societies.
In fulfilling its mission to advance diversity at the University, Columbia seeks to hire, retain, and promote exceptionally talented women and men from different racial, cultural, economic and ethnic backgrounds regardless of their sexual orientation or disability status. Through effective and fully compliant affirmative action and equal opportunity policies, Columbia strives to recruit members of groups traditionally underrepresented in American higher education and to increase the number of minority and women candidates in its graduate and professional programs.
Building a diverse university community is not the work of a moment. It requires sustained commitment, concerted effort, and the attention of us all. We reaffirm Columbia University's commitment to this mission and to the realization of our core values of inclusion and excellence.
Responsibilities
A. Peer Groups Design and Implementation
B. Education and Participation
C. Recruitment & Assessment
The Program Manager, Entrepreneurship Programs will recruit EIR applicants and Key Hire candidates for non-CEN programs and support the CEN program in these activities, as necessary.
D. Relationship Management & Tracking
The Program Manager, Entrepreneurship Programs will establish relationships with various stakeholders (e.g. marketing partners, technology transfer representatives, entrepreneurs, experienced business professionals, startups, venture investors, NYSERDA, etc.).
E. Communications & Reporting
F. Resource Management & Expansion of Services
Minimum Qualifications
Preferred Qualifications
Equal Opportunity Employer / Disability / Veteran
Columbia University is committed to the hiring of qualified local residents.
About Columbia University
Columbia University is one of the world's most important centers of research and at the same time a distinctive and distinguished learning environment for undergraduates and graduate students in many scholarly and professional fields. The University recognizes the importance of its location in New York City and seeks to link its research and teaching to the vast resources of a great metropolis. It seeks to attract a diverse and international faculty and student body, to support research and teaching on global issues, and to create academic relationships with many countries and regions. It expects all areas of the university to advance knowledge and learning at the highest level and to convey the products of its efforts to the world.
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