Program Manager Education

The Program Manager for Entrepreneurship & Education is a trusted stakeholder to Mount Sinai’s inventors and founders and executes educational programming on entrepreneurship, National Science Foundation (NSF) Innovation Corps (I-Corps) methodology, and startup activities for the Mount Sinai Health System (MSHS), focusing on the clinical and research setting.

This position is grant funded and is available for up to 2 years, or more depending on grant funding renewal.

The Program Manager reports directly to the Assistant Director, Entrepreneurship at Mount Sinai Innovation Partners (MSIP) and works collaboratively with the course directors, administration, faculty, and students of entrepreneurship courses at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. The individual in this role understands the strength of translational research and development, customer discovery, business model validation, and commercialization best practices. The individual in this role is seen as a bridge between entrepreneurship and life science technology innovation at the school of medicine and hospital at Mount Sinai, MSIP and the larger NYC life science ecosystem.

Responsibilities:

• Manages outreach, intake, and progress of teams into Mount Sinai’s Regional I-Corps and other entrepreneurship programming. Gathers and pools data of participating teams to improve programming efficacy and reporting.
• Guides MSHS inventors/investigators/entrepreneurs via interactive and ongoing office hours, e-mails, information sessions, and programs on NSF I-Corps regional and national programs, SBIR/STTR opportunities, and related opportunities to ensure team advancement and success.
• Assists the Senior Associate Dean and Course Directors with I-Corps classroom instruction, management, and administrative tasks (maintaining student records).
• Executes and enhances commercialization and entrepreneurial programming/courses for Mount Sinai’s clinical and research setting; liaise with faculty, students, trainees and staff in the research, clinical, and administrative settings.
• Assist in the coordination of the multiple entrepreneurial training activities across the School and health system.
• Helps develop teaching materials and resources, like handouts and visual aids, while also supporting faculty in managing and organizing the essential elements of learning management system (LMS) (content flow, submissions, feedback/grades).
• Uses position at the interface of MSIP/Mount Sinai/NYC healthcare community to create connections and identify the need for new programs or initiatives to better serve Mount Sinai.
• Fosters a positive and inclusive environment that encourages faculty, students and staff in the research, clinical and administrative settings engagement, and participation.
• Provides interactive and ongoing advisement and mentoring to MSHS inventors/investigators/entrepreneurs on an individual or group basis as needed.
• Manages business development activities relating to programming and its outcomes, startup formation, and related partnership opportunities. These include:
• Establishes, maintains, grows, and mines an active network of academic, founder, and startup contacts involved in entrepreneurship, education, and company formation.
• Fosters relationships and acts as a mentor and thought leader for the Mount Sinai innovation community, with a focus on faculty, students and staff in the research, clinical and administrative settings, as well as the larger NYC life science ecosystem.
• Provides access to innovation and entrepreneurial resources in the form of advisement, training, connection and access to funding, technology development, educational activities, incubators/accelerators, startup formation resources, and talent sourcing.
• Uses position at the interface of MSIP/Mount Sinai/NYC entrepreneurial community to identify, source, and screen for new groups and programs, initiatives, collaborations, funding, and co-developers to grow/accelerate Mount Sinai assets or opportunities.
• Effectively uses emotional information to manage up and down; recognizes when to ask for support from other MSIP domain experts; navigates and resolves conflicts while preserving positive relationships. Performs other related duties, as assigned.

Requirements:

• Bachelors degree in a Life Sciences, STEM or healthcare related field, or a combination of applicable experience and education. Advanced degree preferred.
• 3+ years experience (5 preferred), managing and administrating program activities for assigned area
• 1-3 years of experience in working within the NYC entrepreneurial, innovation, or startup community.
• Project manager experience on initiatives that involve multiple groups
• Excellent interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills
• Highly organized and proven ability to manage multiple projects and priorities with close attention to detail
• Strong critical thinking skills
• Ability to influence in difficult situations using relationship building skills and business knowledge
• Ability to establish and sustain effective partnerships with both internal colleagues and external parties
• Experience creating and presenting educational materials for a targeted audience.

Strength Through Diversity

The Mount Sinai Health System believes that diversity, equity, and inclusion are key drivers for excellence. We share a common devotion to delivering exceptional patient care. When you join us, you become a part of Mount Sinai’s unrivaled record of achievement, education, and advancement as we revolutionize medicine together. We invite you to participate actively as a part of the Mount Sinai Health System team by:

• Using a lens of equity in all aspects of patient care delivery, education, and research to promote policies and practices to allow opportunities for all to thrive and reach their potential.
• Serving as a role model confronting racist, sexist, or other inappropriate actions by speaking up, challenging exclusionary organizational practices, and standing side-by-side in support of colleagues who experience discrimination.
• Inspiring and fostering an environment of anti-racist behaviors among and between departments and co-workers.

At Mount Sinai, our leaders strive to learn, empower others, and embrace change to further advance equity and improve the well-being of staff, patients, and the organization. We expect our leaders to embrace anti-racism, create a collaborative and respectful environment, and constructively disrupt the status quo to improve the system and enhance care for our patients. We work hard to create an inclusive, welcoming and nurturing work environment where all feel they are valued, belong and are able to advance professionally.

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About the Mount Sinai Health System:

Mount Sinai Health System is one of the largest academic medical systems in the New York metro area, with more than 43,000 employees working across eight hospitals, more than 400 outpatient practices, more than 300 labs, a school of nursing, and a leading school of medicine and graduate education. Mount Sinai advances health for all people, everywhere, by taking on the most complex health care challenges of our time — discovering and applying new scientific learning and knowledge; developing safer, more effective treatments; educating the next generation of medical leaders and innovators; and supporting local communities by delivering high-quality care to all who need it. Through the integration of its hospitals, labs, and schools, Mount Sinai offers comprehensive health care solutions from birth through geriatrics, leveraging innovative approaches such as artificial intelligence and informatics while keeping patients’ medical and emotional needs at the center of all treatment. The Health System includes approximately 7,400 primary and specialty care physicians; 13 joint-venture outpatient surgery centers throughout the five boroughs of New York City, Westchester, Long Island, and Florida; and more than 30 affiliated community health centers. We are consistently ranked by U.S. News & World Report's Best Hospitals, receiving high "Honor Roll" status, and are highly ranked: No. 1 in Geriatrics and top 20 in Cardiology/Heart Surgery, Diabetes/Endocrinology, Gastroenterology/GI Surgery, Neurology/Neurosurgery, Orthopedics, Pulmonology/Lung Surgery, Rehabilitation, and Urology. New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai is ranked No. 12 in Ophthalmology. U.S. News & World Report’s “Best Children’s Hospitals” ranks Mount Sinai Kravis Children's Hospital among the country’s best in several pediatric specialties. The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai is ranked No. 14 nationwide in National Institutes of Health funding and in the 99th percentile in research dollars per investigator according to the Association of American Medical Colleges. Newsweek’s “The World’s Best Smart Hospitals” ranks The Mount Sinai Hospital as No. 1 in New York and in the top five globally, and Mount Sinai Morningside in the top 20 globally.

The Mount Sinai Health System is an equal opportunity employer. We comply with applicable Federal civil rights laws and does not discriminate, exclude, or treat people differently on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression. We are passionately committed to addressing racism and its effects on our faculty, staff, students, trainees, patients, visitors, and the communities we serve. Our goal is for Mount Sinai to become an anti-racist health care and learning institution that intentionally addresses structural racism.”

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