Associate Director - Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Unleash your potential!

An opportunity has emerged for someone who is passionate about New Zealand and building wealth and prosperity for its people by developing and unleashing the creative and entrepreneurial capabilities of the next generation of University of Auckland graduates.

In 2014 The University of Auckland was acknowledged by acclaimed Massachusetts Institute of Technology as one of the “Top 5” most highly regarded entrepreneurial universities operating in challenging conditions.

The Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the University of Auckland Business School has been established to support, profile and be the hub for innovation and entrepreneurial programmes and activities.  For over a decade, the Centre has created courses and extra-curricular activities promoting innovation and entrepreneurship including those of its highly rated Velocity Entrepreneurship programme. 

The Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship is enjoying a period of high growth and has an ambitious strategy to position ourselves as international leaders in the innovation and entrepreneurship space. To achieve these goals, we are looking for an outstanding, passionate and entrepreneurial individual to join our team.

We need an Associate Director who is passionate about developing innovators and entrepreneurs. Reporting to the Director you will develop the strategic operating plan that will actively engage students and staff in innovation and entrepreneurship. You will have an entrepreneurial mind-set, and an engaging, positive attitude.

With experience in leading teams to achieve exceptional results, you will lead the execution of the agreed plan with your team of six. Critical to this role is the ability to build effective relationships with different disciplines across the campus and with members of New Zealand’s growing innovation ecosystem.

You will have a collaborative working style and outstanding communication and interpersonal skills. Although you will have great organisational and planning skills, your true passion will be working with people to help them grow.

Degree qualified, ideally you will have undertaken courses in innovation, entrepreneurship or commercialisation. You will have experience in managing people and excellent relationship building skills. Excellent presentation skills and ability to work collaboratively as part of a large team are also key for success in this role.

Professional Staff: Level IEA

Applications close on Wednesday the 2nd of August 2017

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