Coordinator, Industrial Research Assistance Program - Toronto, Canada - MaRS Discovery District

MaRS Discovery District

Verified Company

Toronto, Canada

2 weeks ago

Posted by:

Sophia Lee

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Description

Health and dental coverage:

Highly competitive package for individuals and their family members, as well as access to the confidential Employee and Family Assistance Program.

Time off to recharge:

Starting vacation entitlement of three weeks in addition to a week-long holiday office closure and personal days.

Transit accessibility:

Indoor bike parking and showers along with direct access to Queens Park subway station.

Cutting-edge building:

Architecturally-inspiring, amenity-rich building housing some of the world's most progressive minds.

World-class events:

Access to hundreds of annual conferences, lectures and networking showcases.

MaRS Social Committee:

Year-round team-building outings as part of our social, health and wellness program.

About MaRS:

MaRS supports promising high-growth companies to scale their businesses globally, while tackling key societal challenges in areas such as Health, Cleantech, Finance, Transportation, AI, and others.

In addition to helping start-ups launch, grow and scale, the MaRS community is dedicated to cross-disciplinary collaboration, commercialization of discoveries, and driving ideas to impact.

We want you to be as successful throughout our recruitment process as possible.

Please get in touch with us if there's anything we can do to make your experience more accessible and inclusive, including accommodations for differing (dis)abilities.

About Ventures & Ecosystems**:

This role resides within the V&E group at MaRS. V&E works with over 1400 innovation-driven science and technology startups.

V&E helps entrepreneurs commercialize innovations with high business growth potential in Canada and globally by facilitating access to the customer, talent, funding, marketing and stakeholder connections required to successfully scale their business.

About the role:

Reporting to the Manager, Program Operations, the Coordinator will provide support for the Industrial Research Assistance Program (IRAP) IP Assist contract and other government contracts as needed.

The Coordinator's key responsibilities will include day-to-day oversight of program referrals, reporting, and feedback collection.

This is a contract ending March 31, 2024.

Key Responsibilities**:

Provide logístical, operational and administrative support for the Venture Success team for the IRAP IP Assist Program.
Monitoring follow ups and connecting referrals for government contracts
Support for both internal reporting (Internal Financials, Management Reports and Power point decks) as well government funder reporting (collecting metrics and activities into templated reports).
Help with the creation of reports and dashboards based on program data
Meeting coordination as needed

Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
Experience working with multiple stakeholders
Experience providing administrative and operational support in a fastpaced, and highvolume environment
Strong capabilities in GSuite as well as MS Office

- particularly Excel/Google Sheets

Excellent organizational and project coordination skills
Strong attention to detail
Proven written and verbal communication skills
Strong timemanagement and detail orientation to handle fastpaced environment
Good relationship management skills, ability to work independently and collaboratively

Salary Range:
$40,600 - $50,000, benefits, paid time-off.

Applications will close at 5pm EST on June 23, 2023.