Regional Innovation Officer, ReGen Valley Tech Hub

Background

Advanced Regenerative Manufacturing Institute (ARMI)

ARMI is a non-profit public-private partnership founded to advance the U.S. bioeconomy and transform the future of human health. ARMI provides state-of-the-art technical and commercialization services to companies seeking to advance next-generation biomedical technologies de-risking the path to market and speeding impact.

ReGen Valley Tech Hub

Created as part of the CHIPS and Science Act of 2022 the U.S. Economic Development Administrations (EDA) Tech Hubs program is designed to secure U.S. leadership in industries of the future.

ARMI is the convening organization of the ReGen Valley Tech Hub which is building New Hampshire and the surrounding region into a global epicenter for next-generation biomedical manufacturing and related technologies. The ReGen Valley Tech Hub Consortium is comprised of 80 industry academic civic and community collaborators dedicated to transformational impact and the economic growth of the region.

Your Role

As the leader of the ReGen Valley Tech Hub Consortium the Regional Innovation Officer (RIO) drives the economic development and technology innovation strategy established by the Hubs representative Governance Committee. The RIO is responsible for accelerating the Hubs impact; ensuring successful fulfillment of the Hubs commitments to EDA and its collaborators; building and sustaining positive relationships with a broad range of local regional and national stakeholders; and ensuring a positive contributory experience of the Hub for Consortium members. The RIO is employed by ARMI and operates on behalf of the Consortium.

A. Executive Leadership

1. Serve as the primary ambassador for the ReGen Valley Tech Hub including with EDA and regional stakeholders.
2. Communicate the Hubs impact and facilitate proactive action to address any barriers to the Hubs goals.
3. In coordination with the Consortium EDA and key stakeholders develop and drive a proactive communications strategy to build durable broad support for the Hubs goals.
4. Keep EDA proactively apprised of the Hubs progress highlighting the broad-based impact of EDAs investment.
5. Represent the ReGen Valley Tech Hub locally regionally and nationally providing public and executive-level presentations and briefings on the bold vision and broad impacts of ReGen Valley to industry academic community and civic audiences.
6. Sustain and evolve as needed the Consortiums governance structure to ensure strong engagement effective execution and advancement of the Hubs impact.
7. Identify and establish new committees and/or projects deemed by the Consortium to be required to meet the goals of the Hub.
8. Identify and establish coordination with relevant stakeholders regarding emerging local regional and national efforts proactively building alignment to advance the goals of the Hub.
9. Ensure seamless coordination and proactive complementarity between the Hubs regional efforts and ARMIs national efforts including with respect to strategy project oversight communication and execution.
10. Foster sustained cross-sector collaboration to include matching technology innovation with funding sources and infrastructure cultivating the workforce development that is central to fulfillment of the Regen Valleys economic development vision building market visibility and deepening the Hubs relationships with multiple types of funders and aligned organizations.

B. Program Oversight

1. Drive the fulfillment of the Hubs strategy and goals by ensuring adherence to federal commitments alignment across component projects and milestone completion.
2. Oversee relevant project budgets ensuring expenses align with plan and commitments.
3. Oversee the identification monitoring and mitigation of risks across the Consortium
4. Coordinate with internal and external stakeholders to deliver timely high-quality responses and reporting to meet federal requirements.
5. Oversee the generation coordination and review of all externally facing materials to ensure accuracy excellence and alignment with the Hubs goals and brand.

C. Your Skills and Experience

1. Ability to drive the achievement of a bold regional vision for technology-based community-guided economic development.
2. Exceptional executive presence with demonstrated ability to build coalitions motivate teams and lead transformational change in a fast-paced multi-stakeholder environment.
3. Deep experience leading major programs and driving outcomes at a regional and/or national level.
4. Strong commitment to the economic development of ReGen Valley demonstrated by active in-person sustained presence in the region.
5. Exceptional interpersonal verbal and written communication skills with demonstrated ability to build and sustain positive relationships with a broad range of internal and external stakeholders.
6. Deep experience in regional economic development with demonstrated ability to independently drive and creatively build impact (e.g. strengthening a regional capital stack interfacing with public and private stakeholders partnering).
   1. Demonstrated experience with technology-based economic development preferred.
   2. Direct experience with emerging technology environments preferred.
   3. Direct experience with technology acceleration and new product commercialization preferred.
7. Demonstrated experience independently engaging multiple types of funders to drive economic development (e.g. venture philanthropic federal State local).
8. Ability to engage in frequent travel throughout the region along with intermittent national travel.
9. Deep commitment to professional ethics and excellence with demonstrated experience overseeing fiscal compliance and reporting requirements for major programs.

Required Experience:

Unclear Seniority