Startup Visa Outreach Coordinator - Peterborough, Canada - Innovation Cluster - Peterborough and the Kawarthas

Description

Company description

Our mission:

At the Innovation Cluster, we drive technology-based, innovation-focused, and entrepreneur-led economic growth and job creation by fostering and supporting new company formation and growth.

We deliver on that commitment by creating unprecedented value and opportunity for our clients, investors and ecosystem partners.

We use our portfolio of innovative services to differentiate our content and programming and are dedicated to every client's success.

Our vision:

Propelling growth, innovation and entrepreneurship across Peterborough and the Kawartha region.


Our Values:

The Innovation Cluster's values are interconnected, spanning across 4 main pillars: Relationship and Collaboration; Support and Facilitation; Creativity and Flexibility; and Talent and Convergence.

Relationship and Collaboration

• Collaborating with our broader community to create a stronger innovation ecosystem._

What we do can't be done alone.

We function as part of a broader community that includes the business, academic, and investment communities; entrepreneurs and researchers; students and mentors; service networks and municipalities.

We take on each initiative in a collaborative approach - working as a team, engaging our partners, and facilitating connections to launch client projects - we accomplish more together.

We understand the power of contributing strengths and perspectives in facilitating meaningful and long lasting working relationships. We recognize that establishing a strong innovation ecosystem is based on the assets of community collaboration.


Support and Facilitation

• Supporting and facilitating the business success of innovators._

We are here for our clients. The exciting part of what we do comes from our community's "out of the box" thinkers. Understanding the needs and challenges our regional innovators face helps us facilitate what they need to succeed.

We help them take their ideas and connect them with the mentors, partners, investors, and business building blocks needed to bring it to market.

Creativity and Flexibility

• Approaching each initiative creatively and flexibly supports our everevolving world and technologies._

We are ready for the new.

The world in which we work is always changing - whether it is a new technology or technical problem to be solved or evolving trends in the world of innovation - with each new project comes a new set of challenges.

We approach each initiative with creativity and resourcefulness and understand that we need to be flexible and adapt to a new idea or environment to be successful.

Talent Convergence

• Leveraging diverse talents within the Innovation Cluster and our greater community to fuel client success._

We thrive on the talented people that surround us.

From within our team, to the knowledge and experience of the business community, to the fresh perspectives of students - understanding how to best connect the talent drives new ideas.

Connecting scientific minds with entrepreneurial spirits and bridging expertise with youthful energy creates a dynamic environment that inspires novel ideas.

Job description

Reporting to:
STARTup Visa Program Manager


Scope of Responsibilities:

In this position, you will assist the STARTup Visa Program Manager with tasks such as, but not limited to:

• Data Entry.
• Asset Management.
• Developing and maintaining a filing system.
• Maintaining a Customer Relations Database (HubSpot).
• Assisting in the coordination of events and workshops.
• Supporting public relations, such as strategic relationships, tradeshows and informational presentations at universities, associations, and organizations coordination.
• Supporting brochures and other marketing materials coordination.
• Developing and maintaining the program's content, videos, syllabus and client files.
• Supporting organizing outreach events, including sales, marketing, and planning, to promote the organization's services and partnerships.
• Supporting collecting and analyzing data on local demographics and developing results.
• Verifying the potential partners, events and stakeholders' availability, receiving their feedback, recognizing their efforts, and answering their questions.

Skills and Qualifications

• A bachelor's degree in marketing, journalism, public relations, social services, or a related field.
• 23 years of experience in the field
• Must be proactive, selfdisciplined and able to demonstrate a high level of productivity;
• Must have a high degree of interpersonal skills, which would enable him/her to deal successfully with clients, community and agency contacts;
• Strong technology and entrepreneurship knowledge.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, and leadership skills.
• Strong organizational and management skills.
• Research skills; Good reporting, technical, and statistical skills.
• Experience with budget management.
• Strong organizational skills and the ab