Position: Incubation Manager

Organization: IRMA

Location: Anand, Gujarat

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Job Description/ Responsibilities:

Institute of Rural Management Anand (IRMA)’s Incubator for Social Enterprises and Entrepreneurs Development (ISEED), a section 8 company is looking for an entrepreneurially-minded, energetic, empathetic and dynamic team person as to its Incubation Manager. The responsibilities of the Incubation Manager include:

• Developing and managing key partnerships for funding of Incubation Programs.
• Scouting rural and social enterprises to help ISEED expand the pipeline of potential incubatees / social enterprises
• Strategic planning and constant interface with ISEED’s social enterprise partners/incubatees and working out joint activities.
• Develop and implement a rolling calendar of initiatives & events to promote ISEED and its unique ecosystem, both internally and externally. Including contributing to promotional material and other documentation
• Curating, planning and executing action research, entrepreneurship roadshows, entrepreneur network meetings of ISEED
• Organize and developing customized Entrepreneurship Development Programmes
• Networking with ecosystem partners to create value for its partners and ISEED. This includes developing and maintaining stakeholder relations with like-minded ecosystem partners including Governments of Gujarat, other incubators, accelerators etc.
• Project management of the ongoing ISEED project of DST “Creating an Entrepreneurial Social Ecosystem through an incubator.”

Education Qualification/Required Skills & Experience

• Masters’ degree with minimum three years’ of experience, preferably part of it in working with social or community enterprises and/or startups (including as a founder), accelerators, incubation centres, investor firms or in academic institutions as a Teaching or a Research Assistant or as a Research Scholar in the area of rural management, agricultural economics, strategic marketing, marketing or entrepreneurship. Candidates who have been through various Fellowships programmes in rural India with significant and relevant work experience and a Bachelors Degree are also encouraged to apply.
• Desirable qualifications include Masters in Rural Management or equivalent (MBA, PGDM etc.) or full-time Masters courses in Development Studies (or equivalent), entrepreneurship etc.

Salary

The salary will be commensurate based on experience and is negotiable.

Age:  Maximum age limit 40 years (as on November 18, 2021).