Manager Climate Programs AgTech 1-yr contract

About MaRS

MaRS Discovery District @MaRSDD) in Toronto is one of the worlds largest urban innovation hubs.

MaRS supports promising highgrowth 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 startups launch grow and scale the MaRS community is dedicated to crossdisciplinary collaboration commercialization of discoveries and driving ideas to impact.

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About Ventures & Ecosystems

This role resides within the V&E group at MaRS. V&E works with over 1400 innovationdriven 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 Position

As a member of the Climate team the Manager Climate Programs will provide oversight and direction to our Mission from MaRS programming. This will include Mission oversight program management and alignment of activities across all aspects of the Mission. This role will act as a point person for both internal teams and external relationships/partnerships relating to the strategy and of the Mission.

This is a 1year contract.

Key Responsibilities

• Project Management Delivery & 75

• • Oversee the strategic planning and theory of change for the Mission and its anchor components including a coalition of industry leaders designed to tackle systemlevel barriers to innovation adoption.
  • Senior leader of venture cohort activities including workshops demo days showcases etc.
  • Troubleshoot and problem solve when required to find resolutions
  • Manage the objectives and lead all industry coalition meetings (quarterly)
  • Identification and recruitment of seniorlevel coalition members
  • Manage and direct support activities of Associate (including delivery reporting tracking program metrics etc.
    
    
• Program administration 10

• • Manage surveying and KPI tracking for impact reports
  • Manage the contracting and engagement with Legal
  • Oversee budget
    

• Account Management 5

• • Manage the relationship with key stakeholders including direct client
  • Review and approve funder reportbacks
  • Manage scheduled checkins with funders

• Thought Leadership 5

• • Partner with MarComm team on thought leadership strategy
  • Be the subject matter expert for MaRS (including MaRS quotes or references in stories on conference panels etc.
    

• Business Development 5

• • Meet monthly with the MaRS Business Development team to explore paid partnership opportunities
  • Meet biweekly with MaRS Philanthropic Office team to explore philanthropic grant opportunities side projects etc.
    

Qualifications

• Undergraduate/Bachelors degree or relevant experience
• Graduatelevel university degree with areas of focus that include agriculture business finance science technology and/or environment an asset
• 5 years in a business and/or technology related field with some experience supporting organizations in the food and agriculture sector.
• Strong critical and strategic thinker planner and organizer
• Brings a strong understanding of the food and agriculture sector in Canada through an innovation lens.
• Evidence of relationships with strategic community partners including corporates investors innovators foundations and NFPs in the cleantech/agriculture sector

Applications will close at 5pm EDT on April 22 2025.

Applicants must be legally eligible to work in Canada and reside in Ontario.

Salary Range: $75000 $93000 extended healthcare benefits lifestyle spending account and paid timeoff.

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Required Experience:

Manager