Deshpande Startups
Senior Executive - YUVA Entrepreneurship Program
Job Position: Senior Executive - YUVA Entrepreneurship Program
Reporting To: Manager
Level/Grade: L2
Reporting To: Manager
Level/Grade: L2
Education: UG/PG/MBA
Experience: 0 - 2 years
Job Location: Bellary
Tentative Date of Joining: Immediate
Experience: 0 - 2 years
Job Location: Bellary
Tentative Date of Joining: Immediate
Position description:
YUVA Entrepreneurship program provides a platform to nurture promising ideas brought up by young minds to build their respective ideas into prototypes/products. A unique program where student communities are trained to build their entrepreneurial mindset along with a dedicated team of mentors and resources available in the ecosystem. Senior Executive plays a very critical role by working with colleges of the YUVA Entrepreneurship Program and scouting potential startup founders who can be supported through YUVA Program.
Education and experience:
- Minimum Graduate with 0-2 years of relevant experience
- UG/PG/MBA Fresher from relevant stream
- Have worked with incubators, accelerators, startups or have been entrepreneur by yourself (preferred)
Key responsibilities and accountabilities:
- Manage the day-to-day interaction with the institute partners, stakeholders, YUVA Community, startups, and team members.
- Identify Potential Aspiring Young Student Startups to Create & Nurture, and make them entrepreneurial.
- Identity Domain Mentors and other resources for students ideas.
- YUVA Community Engagement in Colleges/Deshpande Startups
- Coordinate reporting and documentation of executed meetings /programs/projects. Submitting periodic reports.
- Manage projects to assure on-time delivery with quantity and quality to meet program success criteria.
- Represent YUVA Program at events and speaking forums
- Perform such other duties as required and appropriate to the objectives of this position, program, and the needs of the organization.
Key competency and skills:
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- A basic technical understanding and affinity towards to technology and IT.
- Capacity to formulate relevant questions to engage startups in meaningful way.
- Entrepreneurial, creative thinking and problem solving mindset.
- Ability to work with different departments of the organization at different levels.
- Demonstrable and relevant marketing experience is preferable
- Experience in running outreach campaigns and different promotional activities
- Openness to learn and adapt to the ecosystem.
- Respectful, Proactive, and accommodating.