Florida International University is Miami’s public research university, focused on student success. According to U.S. News and World Report, FIU has 42 top-50 rankings in the nation among public universities. FIU is a top U.S. research university (R1), with more than $200 million in annual expenditures. FIU ranks 15th in the nation among public universities for patent production, which drives innovation, and is one of the institutions that helps make Florida the top state for higher education. The Next Horizon fundraising campaign is furthering FIU’s commitment to providing students Worlds Ahead opportunities. Today, FIU has two campuses and multiple centers, and supports artistic and cultural engagement through its three museums: Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum, the Wolfsonian-FIU, and the Jewish Museum of Florida-FIU. FIU is a member of Conference USA, with more than 400 student-athletes participating in 18 sports. The university has awarded more than 330,000 degrees to many leaders in South Florida and beyond. For more information about FIU, visit www.fiu.edu.

Job Summary:

Provides leadership in the operational activities of the program. Supports the university through outreach by facilitating workshops and micro-credentials to build researcher awareness and to engage faculty, PhDs candidates and postdocs in a program to strategize and execute their research commercialization programs.

Oversees the execution of outreach training programs. Maintains a dynamic university and community outreach program including participating in, hosting, organizing events and creating other PR activities such as hackathons or incubators.
Designs, develops and strategizes on workshops and other forms of learning to expand the faculty and student knowledge, understanding and interest in research commercialization
Prepares faculty through coaching, mentoring and direct instruction to identify and secure the necessary resources inside and outside the university (mentors, collaborators, students, grants, funding) to advance their research commercialization
Trains faculty and students for pitches, funder meetings and grant interviews.
Perform analysis, evaluation and drafting of documents and coaching and mentoring of faculty to support the design and development of new research commercialization projects suitable for federal agency grant funding.
Proposes plans, develops, and executes new initiatives for the program.
Evaluates and analyzes program effectiveness. Implements procedures to improve the program’s operations.

Minimum Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree in business, education, or related field and six (6) years of related work experience or Master’s degree in business, education, or related field and four (4) years of related work experience.

Departmental Requirements:

Must have worked at a startup as a founder or senior executive or at an incubator.
Experience as a mentor and/or instructor to startup founders.
Entrepreneurship experience.

Desired Qualifications:

Customer-centric oriented.
Documented experience raising early stage capital.
Demonstrated understanding of innovation, entrepreneurship and the steps to commercialize new science or technology.
Experience teaching workshops, bootcamps or courses in natural science, engineering, innovation and entrepreneurship.
Experience in preparing pitch decks for accelerators and early stage VCs and training the presenters.
Experience in developing a network of high tech angel, pre-seed, seed and VC funding sources.
Experience mentoring or coaching faculty or students to advance their ideas toward commercialization.

Job Category:

Administrative

Advertised Salary:

$80,000 – $90,000

Work Schedule:

Begin time: 8:30 AM

End time: 5:00 PM

Pre-Employment Requirements:

Extended Criminal Background Check

Other Information:

Ability to travel locally and nationally.

For further information or to apply online visit our website at careers.fiu.edu and reference job opening ID # 527468

Florida Statute 1010.35 – Screening Foreign Researchers

Pursuant to Florida law, any citizen of a foreign county who is not a permanent resident of the U.S., or who is a citizen or permanent resident but is affiliated with or has had at least 1 year of employment or training in China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, Cuba, Venezuela, or Syria is subject to additional screening. Applicants meeting those criteria will be required to provide the following information in the application: every institution of higher education attended; all previous employment since the applicant’s 18th birthday; list of all published material, current and pending research funding from any source, including details about the research, your role, funding source, and amount; list and description of any non-university professional activities; any affiliation with an institution or program in a foreign country; a complete copy of your passport; the most recently submitted DS-160 (Online Nonimmigrant Visa Application).

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To obtain a paper copy of the report, please visit the FIU Police Department located at 885 SW 109th Avenue, Miami, FL, 33199 (PG5 Market Station).

Pay Transparency

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