Your Background & Skills
Bachelor’s Degree
8+ years of progressive job experience
Experience with developing leadership and entrepreneurship-focused curriculum, activities, and learning opportunities
Experience training and coaching for-profit and non-profit entrepreneurs, ideally across a wide range of international contexts
Experience conducting outreach and developing and maintaining partnerships with a diverse range of stakeholders
Experience creating and facilitating entrepreneurship development programs
Experience presenting information orally in front of a range of audiences
Demonstrated commitment to advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion in the workplace
Supervisory experience or experience directly managing staff preferred
Proven experience managing a project or multiple administrative and programmatic components of a project to meet goals and objectives in a demanding, time sensitive work environment.
Proactive and comfortable with contemporary digital platforms for collaboration and communication including familiarity with online tools and platforms for surveys, payments, and virtual programming; as well as with the Microsoft suite of applications
Demonstrated ability to plan strategically and creatively to meet specified objectives with strong ability to anticipate challenges and proactively generate solutions;
Proven organizational skills and ability to manage multiple tasks with a high degree of accuracy and attention to detail, including the ability to prioritize;
Ability to work independently and as a team member with consistent ability to take initiative, meet deadlines, and be flexible;
Availability to support scheduled program activities in the evenings and on weekends occasionally;
Outstanding interpersonal and intercultural skills; and
Speaking, reading and writing proficiency in English
Availability to travel domestically and internationally
You must have unrestricted authorization to work in the country where you reside.
Your Daily Tasks
Manage and lead initiatives to increase entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship technical capacity across IREX.
Develop, and manage planning, logistics, and implementation of exchange programs and leadership development programs that focus on training and supporting entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs. This could include entrepreneurs at the idea-stage or incubator stage, early-stage, and scaling-stage across both for-profit and non-profit entrepreneurship business models. It could also include entrepreneurial-ness as a key skill set for 21st-century career success.
Develop lesson plans and curriculum to train and coach a wide range of entrepreneurial leaders at various stages of their growth across IREX programs around the world.
In close collaboration with practice leadership, Strategic Partnerships Unit, and New Business Development Unit, develop and work towards new proposals and new projects.
Develop and lead outreach strategies to market events or program activities, such as participant recruitment.
Oversee vendor solicitations, and negotiate with and procure selected vendors.
Develop and manage event and project workplans, agendas, run of show documents, and other resource and guidance materials, or oversee the delegation of these tasks.
Support or manage discreet projects under the guidance of program teams.
Collaborate with internal stakeholders at all levels of the organization and across a wide range of project teams in support of disseminating leadership and entrepreneurship technical knowledge, understanding that the role will shift depending on the project being supported.
Conduct research and outreach to ensure that IREX and IREX-implemented programs benefit from the latest trends and developments in entrepreneurship development theory and practice.
Develop and maintain relationships with a range of stakeholders in the entrepreneurship development sector toward enriching IREX leadership programs and initiatives.
In collaboration with Practice leadership and SPU, conduct outreach to organizations and individuals in support of IREX’s leadership portfolio.
Manage the preparation of outreach materials, event logistics documents, and reporting on events, webinars, and other projects as assigned.
Connect IREX staff focused on leadership and entrepreneurship work with internal and external entrepreneurship development resources.
Provide entrepreneurship technical assistance for new business development and in support of maintaining current programming.
Contribute to new business efforts such as supporting proposal research and writing, concept note idea generation, and other tasks as requested.
Support sponsorship and partnership development activities in support of other Practice programs including identifying prospective partners, outreach, negotiating partnerships/sponsorships, and maintaining relationships.
Manage the sourcing of keynote speakers, panelists, and facilitators for a range of in-person and virtual events including webinars, summits, and other events.
Ensure activities and initiatives under your management are compliant with IREX and federal procurement and financial management policies and procedures as applicable.
Ensure that procurements are compliant with internal processes.
Manage payments to vendors and consultants.
Manage program budgets, including monitoring that procurements are in line with available budget and tracking expenditures; and support revenue collection systems and record keeping as necessary.
Provide entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship development technical support to the Practice, project, and event teams as assigned.
Manage staff formally and informally as assigned.
Provide management and other program support to teams during staff transitions and busy periods.
Other support duties as needed.
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