Senior Innovation Associate, Innovation Programs & Services; Temp

Career Opportunities with Care Quest Innovation Partners

A great place to work.

Are you ready for new challenges and new opportunities?

Join our team!

Current job opportunities are posted here as they become available.

Care Quest Innovation Partners works together with our ecosystem of leading industry partners, startups, and investors, to fund, scale, and convene transformative solutions to improve overall health through oral health - for all. Join us on that mission - to improve overall health, through oral health, for all!

• Fund:
  We mobilize critical capital, including our own, to accelerate innovation & investments in oral and integrated health, catalyzing adoption and reducing innovation risk.
• Scale:
  We activate industry leaders to advance our shared mission through sustainable, in-market implementation of solutions that reach and help people, especially the underserved
• Convene:
  We source, curate, and connect innovators, catalyzing collaboration; create environments for innovation to thrive; and elevate oral health in overall health.

As a Senior Innovation Associate, you will play a key role in advancing strategic initiatives that shape the future of oral health. Over six months, you will contribute to projects designed to expand access to care, drive innovation & improve health outcomes, and increase awareness of Care Quest Innovation Partners' impact among healthcare, industry, and community stakeholders.

Care Quest Innovation Partners is a for-profit, mission-focused subsidiary of Care Quest Institute for Oral Health, the largest foundation focused on improving oral health. You will work in a multidisciplinary Innovation Programs & Services team and in close collaboration with key functions across the enterprise, including Analytics & Business Intelligence, Marketing and PR, and Ventures/Investing to advance our mission and drive meaningful impact.

• Advance Care Quest Innovation Partners' strategic initiatives by supporting the planning and execution of key programs and events, including our flagship convening and ACCELERATE innovation portfolio, to drive impact across the oral health ecosystem.
• Drive progress across strategic programs and special projects by coordinating cross-functional stakeholders, managing key deliverables, and helping bring high-impact convenings, partnerships, and thought leadership efforts to fruition.

• Partner with internal and external stakeholders to execute SMILE Health Accelerator and ACCELERATE program activities including project scoping, KPI development and analyses, reporting, and engaging key stakeholders to ensure timely delivery.
• Monitor program performance and synthesize insights and recommendations for leadership and partners.
• Support development of reports, presentations, and executive-level updates that communicate program outcomes, lessons learned, and strategic implications.

• Support end-to-end planning and execution of flagship ecosystem events, including Demo Day and virtual ecosystem convening events.
• Collaborate with vendor to ensure timely delivery of executive communications, project plans, program and presentation materials, and run-of-show documents.
• Manage project plans, budgets, timelines, logistics, communications, and stakeholder deliverables associated with major ecosystem events.
• Coordinate across startups, investors, industry partners, speakers, and internal teams to ensure high-quality event execution and participant experience.
• Conduct secondary research on market trends, payers, providers, investors, startups, and innovative care…