Job Description
Position Overview
The The Hunter Hub for Entrepreneurial Thinking invites applications for a Manager, Talent Partnerships and Engagement. This Full-time Fixed Term position is for approximately 36 months.
Reporting to the Director, Talent Programs at the Hunter Hub and working collaboratively across the team and with external stakeholders, the Manager, Talent Partnerships and Engagement is responsible for building and managing partnerships and projects that help to realize the Hunter Hub's mission and values.
The Manager has experience with, and an advanced understanding of, experiential learning, demonstrated experience in productively engaging diverse stakeholders, and building lasting partnerships.
Success in this role will be establishing and managing partnerships, with a wide range of stakeholders, including but not limited to student groups, post-secondary institutions, innovation community members, and the government, that improve the quality and quantity of experiential learning opportunities made available by the Hunter Hub. The Manager, Talent Partnerships and Engagement will be expected to build, coordinate, and deliver programs and strategic events including large-scale pan-university initiatives that enable the Hunter Hub to achieve our strategy of reaching a large number of students, faculty, and the community across all disciplines with impactful programming supported by superior project management and backend capabilities. By 2030, the University's goal is for all students to be aware of entrepreneurial thinking and 50% of the student population to have been involved in innovation experiences at some stage during their programs.
The Manager, Partnerships and Engagement creates connections between faculty, students, staff, and community partners to enrich and expand experiential learning opportunities offered by the Hunter Hub.This position will be in a fast-moving, innovative environment with a high volume of visible, complex work. There will be competing demands based on multiple deadlines and the incumbent must communicate regularly with many stakeholders and deliver work with a high degree of professionalism and judgment.
Position Description
Summary of Key Responsibilities (job functions include but are not limited to):
Partnership Management and Engagement:
- Provide quality leadership by developing, maintaining, and modeling positive working relationships with faculty, staff, students, and community stakeholders including government partners, post-secondary institutions, and ventures.
- Demonstrate leadership in developing and securing new sources of funding to support the activities of the Talent team at the Hunter Hub.
- Manage a small team of community engagement and/or talent specialists.
- Direct, motivate, and manage the activities of staff including recruitment and hiring, development of annual work plans, and ongoing performance management
Facilitate cross-functional working relationships to support the Hunter Hub's programming priorities and mandate - Identify opportunities to build strong relationships with internal and external networks; communicate professionally with partners, faculty, staff, administrators across the academic community, and students.
- Drive the community engagement efforts for the Talent portfolio through front line engagement with students, faculty, staff, University leadership, and community stakeholders in a personable and professional manner.
Strategic Planning and Communications:
- Support strategic planning for regular programming (e.g., Hunter Hub Solutions Lab, Experience Ventures National Hackathon) and other community initiatives (e.g., Entrepreneurial Thinking Week, Tech Fest) to advance the Experience Ventures network.
- Responsible for stakeholder/partner communications, identification, and relationship management to advance Experience Ventures and strategic objectives.
- Identify, secure, and leverage new opportunities, partnerships, and subject matter experts to improve or expand the reach, quality, and impact of programming and events under the Talent portfolio.
- Key liaison with government funders and for preparing quarterly reports to submit to funders based on the input from all partner organizations.
Programming and Event Management:
- Develop, enhance and report on programs, campaigns, and events related to early Talent development, entrepreneurial thinking, and innovation to enhance the impact, reach, and reputation of the University of Calgary.
- Oversee Talent program delivery supported by a small team(selecting, hiring, and managing presenters, speakers, facilitators, mentors, suppliers, vendors, and contract staff).
- Manage the Talent team's partnership contracts and vendor procurement process for programming and ensure smooth delivery of all agreed deliverables and activities.
- Improve and enhance Talent programming and event processes and practices to ensure the smooth, efficient, and effective operations of the programming team.
- Align the Hunter Hub Talent strategy to the database strategy and ensuring the Hunter Hub team is collecting metrics and content for reporting to government funders and other stakeholders.
Qualifications / Requirements:
- Master's degree in a related field (preferably business, education or management) is strongly preferred. Undergraduate degree required.
- Minimum of 7 years of direct experience, preferably in a post-secondary educational setting; partnership management, community relations, and/or project planning experience is required.
- At least 3 years of management experience required, preferably in a unionized environment.
- Experience with and knowledge of practices related to experiential learning, research; and pedagogy; experience managing a campus as a learning/living lab initiative a strong asset.
- Strong strategic leadership skills and the ability to manage the development and planning of complicated strategic relationships, programs, campaigns, and events/conferences.
- Exceptional communication skills; demonstrated experience in developing collaborative relationships with both internal and external stakeholders; experience with cross-faculty initiatives and/or partnerships in an academic environment is an advantage.
- Proactive and energetic self-starter and problem-solver dedicated to superior programming, client service, and operations.
- Experience in an entrepreneurial environment is an asset.
- Demonstrated experience managing program/event budgets and ensuring fiscal responsibility.
- Demonstrated experience in management of cross-functional teams and direct reports.
Application Deadline: July 27,2023
We would like to thank all applicants in advance for submitting their resumes. Please note, only those candidates chosen to continue on through the selection process will be contacted.
Additional Information
This position is classified in the Management Career Band, Level 2 of the Management and Professional Staff Career Framework.
To find out more about management and staff opportunities at the University of Calgary and all we have to offer, view our Management and Staff Careers website.
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About the University of Calgary
The University of Calgary is Canada's leading next-generation university - a living, growing and youthful institution that embraces change and opportunity with a can-do attitude. Located in the nation's most enterprising city, the university is making tremendous progress on its Eyes High journey to be recognized as one of Canada's top five research universities, grounded in innovative learning and teaching and fully integrated with the community it both serves and leads. The University of Calgary inspires and supports discovery, creativity and innovation across all disciplines. For more information, visit ucalgary.ca.
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