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Director of Programs Venture for America
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COMPANY DESCRIPTIOVenture for America is a non-profit organization that sends top college graduates to work at startups and growth-stage companies in the cities that need them. Our goals are to foster job creation and to train our best and brightest to become company founders and leaders. We think of ourselves as creating a structured path to startups for talented young people.
We recruit and select high-potential, high-impact young people from top national universities, train them in what it takes to operate in a startup, place them at growth companies that are looking for talent in emerging startup ecosystems around the country, and support them during their two year Fellowship.
To date, Venture for America launched in Detroit, New Orleans, Providence, Cincinnati, and Las Vegas in 2012. The first class of 40 Venture for America Fellows includes graduates from Harvard, Yale, MIT, Brown, Duke, Penn, Cornell, Northwestern, and other top schools. This year, we're expanding aggressively, to a 2013 class of 60-70 Fellows across 7-8 cities including Baltimore and Cleveland.
Instead of defaulting to the usual choices of finance, consulting, law, and the giants of the Fortune 500, we want to see more young talent choosing growth organizations at which they can make a big impact and contribute to job creation.
THE ROLE
We're looking for a core team member who can create and refine our training programs to provide the best professional and personal development we can for VFA Fellows, positioning them to be company founders and builders after the program.
Ideal candidates will have extensive domain experience with startups and growth companies as well as mentoring, teaching, and training. Backgrounds including time spent at incubators, accelerators, coworking spaces, and/or other involvement with startup communities are a plus.
QUALIFICATIONS
BA/BS from a top college/university
Around 4-8 years of work experience
Work experience with startups and high-growth companies; domain familiarity with startups
Experience and enjoyment of training, teaching, mentoring college students/young professionals
Organized, diligent, and can see everything from the forest to a broken branch on a tree
Comfort with ambiguity, takes initiative, and can produce something polished from scratch
High degree of situational awareness and interpersonal attunement
Resilient and operates well under pressure
Passion for entrepreneurial education
Strong values alignment with VFA mission and team
RESPONSIBILITIES/OPPORTUNITIES
Take ownership of VFA Summer Training Camp programming and curriculum, helping refine what we teach, what trainers we enlist, and the overall structure of camp
Build out a robust, creative entrepreneurial curriculum for the Fellows to engage with during their Fellowships, from ongoing skills development to large capstone projects
Support fellows' success and growth during and beyond the two-year fellowship through goal setting and counseling on professional matters
Opportunity to contribute to other areas of Venture for America's growth and development
Travel as needed to visit Fellows in their cities, and be excited to spend the 5-week summer training camp with the VFA team at Brown University
Be a part of our lively company culture
COMPENSATION, BENEFITS, etc.
Compensation commensurate with experience, $60-80k base, discretionary performance bonus
Unlimited vacation time, including at least two weeks we will actually make you take off
Opportunity to have a big impact at a promising growth organization
Benefits include health, dental, vision
Our mission:
To revitalize American cities and communities through entrepreneurship.
To enable our best and brightest to create opportunities for themselves and others.
To restore the culture of achievement to include value-creation, risk and reward, and the common good.
We're a team of ten (including the intern), and operate like a startup (lean, honest, fast-paced, and both high energy and heads down at times). We launched in July 2011, and are currently placing our second class of Fellows. Board members include experienced executives, entrepreneurs, and investors. For more information, go to www.ventureforamerica.org.
If interested, please send a resume and cover letter detailing your interest to jobs@ventureforamerica.org. The title of the email should be "Application for Director of Programs - your name." If you meet our qualifications, we will contact you for a phone interview.
| Location: | 450 Park Ave South 8th Floor New York, NY 10016 United States |
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| Full Time | |
| Professional Services | |
| mentoring training programming accelerators incubators |
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Venture for America
Venture for America is a 2-year fellowship program that sends young, talented graduates to work for startups in emerging cities (ie. Cincinnati, Detroit, New Orleans, Providence, Las Vegas), with the goal of mobilizing them as entrepreneurs moving forward.Self Funded
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| Web Site: | www.ventureforamerica.org |
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| Headquarters: | 138 W 25th St 11th Floor New York, NY 10001 United States |
| Employees: | 1-10 |
| 2011 | |
| Industry: | Other |
| VFA recruits the best and brightest recent college graduates, provides them with training and mentorship, and places them at partner startups to help grow those organizations. This is an opportunity for students who want to learn how to build companies. Venture for America's mission is threefold: To revitalize American cities and communities through entrepreneurship. To enable our best and brightest to create new opportunities for themselves and others. To restore the culture of achievement to include value-creation, risk and reward, and the common good. The 2013 Venture for America Fellowship consists of the following components: --Training - a 5-week crash course in startup readiness, held at Brown University in Summer 2013 --Company Placement - 2 years of work at a start-up or early stage company --Programming and Capstone - Regular assignments, readings, and meetings, including a 100k prize at the conclusion of the program To learn more, visit www.ventureforamerica.org |
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