Campus Startup Navigator , Haas School of Business

Position: Campus Startup Navigator (4551U), Haas School of Business - 60187
Campus Startup Navigator (4551U), Haas School of Business - 60187
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Departmental Overview

UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business offers a unique opportunity to champion new ideas, collaborate across boundaries, and continually learn in a workplace committed to increasing diversity and creating a welcoming environment for all. Our distinctive culture is captured within our four Defining Leadership Principles: Question the Status Quo, Confidence Without Attitude, Students Always, and Beyond Yourself. These principles distinguish Berkeley Haas as a unique environment, conducive to teamwork, collaboration, and career growth.

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Augmenting the existing Berkeley-Haas Entrepreneurship Program's established set of curricular offerings, the newly created Berkeley Haas Entrepreneurship Hub (BHEB) is designed to provide a complementary yet unique role on campus to attract the entrepre-curious and create a novel venture incubator. Despite the plethora of other offerings on campus, there is no physical space where students and researchers can connect with each other and mentors, build their startups, and be discovered by investors easily.

The Hub's goal is to provide this infrastructure and associated programming, and thereby make entrepreneurship easier and more accessible for all. In the process, the Hub will also raise the visibility and impact of Haas in the innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem on campus and beyond.

The Haas School of Business embraces flexible working arrangements for its employees. Exact arrangements are determined in partnership with your supervisor to meet role responsibilities and department needs and are subject to change. This role is expected to be primarily on site, given the responsibilities of engaging with students and researchers pursuing their entrepreneurial ventures, and supporting the implementation of the programming in the space.

Overview of the Position
A core value proposition of the Hub will be to provide "entrepre-curious" students and researchers from across campus a person they can easily access, who can guide them on how to pursue their venture ideas and navigate the vast array of innovation and entrepreneurship (I&E) resources on campus. To fulfill this critical role, we are seeking a dynamic, entrepreneurial, and hands-on Campus Startup Navigator (Navigator), who will work closely with the Executive Director and directly report to the Faculty Director of the Hub.

The type of candidate who will thrive in this role is someone who is knowledgeable about the extensive portfolio of I&E resources at UC Berkeley, can effectively build relationships with those units to…