Assistant Director Student Ventures
We are seeking an Assistant Director of Student Ventures. The strategic priorities of the Assistant Director, Student Ventures are to sustain growth for FastForward U, continue to expand engagement and collaboration across campus, and empower more successful ventures. This position will help create capacity for expanding programming, deepening co-development of initiatives to create a cohesive, cooperative ecosystem across campus through a high degree of enthusiasm, energy, and creativity for entrepreneurship. This leadership role will build on prior experience mentoring young organizations and/or working with students and universities and a demonstrated ability to work with partners from multiple sectors.

FastForward U is the Johns Hopkins University center for student entrepreneurship and innovation. Uniquely housed in the University's Tech Ventures division, FastForward U collaborates with stakeholders across campus to support undergrads to post-docs. Programming facilitates dynamic experiential-learning, designed to expand opportunities for all, with long-term career relevance. FastForward U is grounded in Baltimore, with an eye toward the world, seeking to build the teams of tomorrow by empowering creators and change-makers, entrepreneurs and innovators, doers and go-getters.

As part of the FastForward startup ecosystem at JHTV, FastForward U operates out of an open-office and co-working space in Remington, on the edge of the JHU Homewood campus. That space also hosts the JHU Makerspace and the Social Innovation Lab. While a mix of in-person and online programming is offered by the office, due to the highly collaborative nature of the job and the in-person support offered to students, this role is primarily in-person at the Remington office. For further information on FastForward U, visit ventures.jhu.edu/programs-services/fastforward-u/.

Specific Duties & Responsibilities

Strategic Development

• Leads new programming development and partnerships on campus, in consultation with the Director of Student Ventures.
• Co-leads collaborations with Baltimore university partners; working with and supporting initiatives to foster entrepreneurship and innovation at JHU.
• Assists with intern strategy/professional development.
• Supports inclusive annual strategic planning process and ensures planning decisions are used in setting annual program/project goals.
• Creates and implements creative strategies to increase internal and external awareness of FastForward U's work and program value.
• Co-leads development of alumni initiatives.
• Assists the Director of Student Ventures with developing and implementing strategies, in conjunction with JHTV and the Development & Alumni Relations office, to secure philanthropic support of FastForward U's strategic priorities.
• Establishes and maintains dialogue and shared learning for FastForward U at Johns Hopkins with regional and national bodies that promote entrepreneurship.
• This position will have a leadership role with accelerator programming and directly supervises student staff, as assigned.

Operations

• Co-leads an upper-level business accelerator and helps with an entry-level accelerator, as needed, including recruiting applicants and helping select annual accelerator cohorts.
• Co-leads the FastForward U Summer Incubator.
• Recruits, selects, and supervises a team of mentors, fellows, and JHU student interns that support the business accelerators.
• Plans, implements, and evaluates programming for a robust calendar of in-person events, including (but not limited to) collaborative programming with the Social Innovation Lab, the JHU Makerspace, and others.
• Serves as an expert to provide feedback, guidance, and advocacy for policies and practices that best support entrepreneurship on campus and in the greater Baltimore community.
• Guides and connects entrepreneurs with resources useful for success.
• Tracks, monitors, and evaluates outputs, outcomes, and the impact of FastForward U.
• Helps to operate the facility, including systems operations, maintenance etc.
• This role includes staffing of some evening and weekend activities.

Special Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

• A high degree of enthusiasm, energy, and creativity for entrepreneurship.
  
• Demonstrated ability to work with partners from multiple sectors, including public, private, not-for-profit, media, and education.
  
• Diplomatic and tactful nature to build relationships quickly across cultures within the University and Baltimore, to work effectively with a wide range of people.
  
• Proven track record of leveraging resources and establishing strategic relationships to strengthen program and service delivery.
  
• Demonstrated capacity to work effectively with persons from diverse backgrounds and to foster sensitivity to diversity and an inclusive campus and community culture.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree required.
• Minimum of five years of progressively responsible relevant work experience required.
• Additional education (Graduate Degree) may substitute for required experience, to the extent permitted by the JHU equivalency formula.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's Degree preferred.
• U.S. Citizen or legal permanent resident are required due to Federal Export Controls.
• Experience mentoring young organizations and/or working with students and universities.

Please refer to the job description above to see which forms of equivalency may be permitted for this position. If permitted, equivalencies will follow these guidelines:

30 undergraduate degree credits (semester hours) or 18 graduate degree credits may substitute for one year of experience. Additional related experience may substitute for required education on the same basis. For jobs where equivalency is permitted, up to two years of non-related college course work may be applied towards the total minimum education/experience required for the respective job.

The successful candidate(s) for this position will be subject to a pre-employment background check.

The Johns Hopkins University values diversity, equity and inclusion and advances these through our key strategic framework, the JHU Roadmap on Diversity and Inclusion.

Equal Opportunity Employer

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

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Accommodation Information

If you are interested in applying for employment with The Johns Hopkins University and require special assistance or accommodation during any part of the pre-employment process, please contact the Talent Acquisition Office at jhurecruitment@jhu.edu. For TTY users, call via Maryland Relay or dial 711. For more information about workplace accommodations or accessibility at Johns Hopkins University, please visit accessibility.jhu.edu.

Johns Hopkins has mandated COVID-19 and influenza vaccines, as applicable. Exceptions to the COVID and flu vaccine requirements may be provided to individuals for religious beliefs or medical reasons. Requests for an exception must be submitted to the JHU vaccination registry. For additional information, applicants for SOM positions should visit https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/coronavirus/covid-19-vaccine/ and all other JHU applicants should visit https://covidinfo.jhu.edu/health-safety/covid-vaccination-information/.

The following additional provisions may apply, depending on campus. Your recruiter will advise accordingly.

The pre-employment physical for positions in clinical areas, laboratories, working with research subjects, or involving community contact requires documentation of immune status against Rubella (German measles), Rubeola (Measles), Mumps, Varicella (chickenpox), Hepatitis B and documentation of having received the Tdap (Tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis) vaccination. This may include documentation of having two (2) MMR vaccines; two (2) Varicella vaccines; or antibody status to these diseases from laboratory testing. Blood tests for immunities to these diseases are ordinarily included in the pre-employment physical exam except for those employees who provide results of blood tests or immunization documentation from their own health care providers. Any vaccinations required for these diseases will be given at no cost in our Occupational Health office.

Note: Job Postings are updated daily and remain online until filled.

To apply, visit https://jobs.jhu.edu/job/Baltimore-Assistant-Director-Student-Ventures-MD-21205/939851600/








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