Incubation Manager

About Metamorphosis

Metamorphosis is a 4-year-old edu-tech organization that works towards enabling and nurturing entrepreneurial skills in students at schools and colleges. We are a community of people fueled with the Entrepreneurial Spirit that seeks to aware young minds of their immense potential and empowers them with the right skill set to think, create and lead path-breaking innovations that leave an impact.

Job Description

Metamorphosis Edu is looking for an enthusiastic individual for the new position of Incubation Program Manager. The primary responsibility of this position is to design, lead, manage, and market the Metamorphosis Incubation Programme and act as the sole owner of the assigned Program running at Metamorphosis Innovation Hub.

Job Responsibilities & Duties

• Develop and execute strategy for outreach, hunting, attracting and onboarding deserving and qualified innovative entrepreneurs, and start-ups.  

• Designing & managing Incubation and Acceleration programs  

• Provide high-quality coaching and advisory support to students entrepreneurs.  

• Good understanding of the social entrepreneurship ecosystem.  

• Qualify and evaluate applicants for creativity, innovation, acceleration and investment stage.  

• Manage the day-to-day interaction with the Incubatees.

• Provide support to entrepreneurs across ideation, acceleration, investment and scale-up stage.  

• Ensure tight management of milestones and progress of student entrepreneurs and start-up companies.

• Guide & support start-ups for fundraising activity.  

• Develop, execute and own an operational and engagement strategy for the entire community including donors, startups, investors, corporates, mentors, advisors, and domain experts.  

• Provide continued strategic guidance to entrepreneurs in areas such as business modeling, sales, and marketing, financing, fundraising, overall strategy, operations etc.  

• Be the switchboard for entrepreneurs to access relevant resources and connections.

Requirements and Academic qualifications:

• Engineering degree with relevant work experience of research skills (or) Postgraduate with preferably MBA degree. 

• At least 2 - 5 years experience working with entrepreneurs, start-ups, learning/ tinkering labs, incubator or incubation consultancy. 

• Demonstrated ability to cultivate, build and maintain strong working relationships with start-ups, entrepreneurs, mentors, universities, research institutions, industry experts, associations, chamber of commerce & industries, state & central government, and angel investors.