Postdoctoral Fellow - Office of Economic Innovation
Postdoctoral Fellow - Office of Economic Innovation
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Job Description
All full-time university staff are eligible for VCUs robust benefits package that includes: comprehensive health benefits paid annual and holiday leave granted up front generous tuition benefit retirement planning and savings options tax-deferred annuity and cash match programs employee discounts well-being resources abundant opportunities for career development and advancement and more. Learn more about VCUs benefits here.
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Unit Description:
The Office of Economic Innovation supports strategic partnerships and provides front end innovation support to VCUs academic enterprise through a combination of innovation design and business modeling. The office works closely with academic deans and other university leaders and offices to explore partnerships lead experiments develop prototypes and assess and evaluate impact. Outcomes are measured at the unit level through increases in strategic partnerships revenue generation and the adoption of new technology and innovations that positively impact the student experience and academic enterprise.
Done well our work raises the visibility of VCU and its students with potential partners and employers empowers academic units to accelerate and improve their offerings and develops award winning leadership and economic development models and programs adopted by other institutions.
Position Primary Purpose:
The Office of Economic Innovation at Virginia Commonwealth University seeks a postdoctoral fellow to support university-wide front end innovation and design thinking initiatives in the Office of the Provost. The postdoctoral fellow will work closely with faculty staff and students as well as senior administrators across the enterprise to advance high impact innovation projects and catalyze institutional knowledge of innovation and design thinking.
This role will utilize design thinking and service design to identify and prioritize opportunities for academic and administrative impact as well as lead projects. Responsibilities may include undergraduate and graduate teaching development and delivery of workshops and supervision of cross-disciplinary innovation teams.
There will be considerable opportunities for the postdoctoral fellow to participate in the development and implementation of projects project management data collection and analysis scholarship and grant writing. The postdoctoral fellowship is for a 12-month period with the option to renew for additional years contingent on performance and funding. The fellow will report to Dr. Garret Westlake Vice Provost for Innovation and Strategic Design and Professor of Management and Entrepreneurship in the VCU School of Business.
Required Qualifications:
- A Ph.D. or terminal degree in design business engineering psychology or a related field
- Experience facilitating design thinking innovation or change management with diverse audiences
- Strong attention to detail and project management experience
- Ability to quickly establish working relationships and trust between individuals groups and organizations
- An entrepreneurial spirit and comfortability with ambiguity and changing priorities
- Creative problem-solving skills learning agility and ability to adapt to change;
- Comfort working with emerging technologies and their economic/social implications;
- Ability to perform in a fast-paced environment
- Excellent oral communication and community engagement skills
- Ability to travel internationally
- Demonstrated experience working in and fostering an environment of respect professionalism and civility with a population of faculty staff and students from various backgrounds and experiences or a commitment to do so as a faculty member at VCU.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Certified in Lego Serious Play
- Certified facilitator of design thinking
- Experience leading cross-department change projects in higher education
- Experience in healthcare innovation
- Teaching at the undergraduate and graduate level
- Excellent writing skills as evidenced by publications or grant writing experience
- International innovation experience
Rebekah Jewers
Employment Type
Grant
