The strategic priorities of the Student Program Administrator, Pava Center, are to sustain growth for the Pava Center, continue to expand engagement and collaboration across all ten Johns Hopkins schools, and empower more successful ventures. This position will help create capacity for expanding programming, deepening co-development of initiatives to create a cohesive, cooperative ecosystem across campus through a high degree of enthusiasm, energy, and creativity for entrepreneurship. This leadership role will build on prior experience mentoring young organizations and/or working with students and universities and a demonstrated ability to work with partners from multiple sectors.

The Pava Center is the Johns Hopkins University center for student entrepreneurship and innovation. Uniquely housed in the University’s Tech Ventures division, the Pava Center collaborates with stakeholders across campus to support undergrads to post-docs. Programming facilitates dynamic experiential-learning, designed to expand opportunities for all, with long-term career relevance. The Pava Center is grounded in Baltimore, with an eye toward the world, seeking to build the teams of tomorrow by empowering creators and change-makers, entrepreneurs and innovators, doers and go-getters.

As part of the startup ecosystem at JHTV, the Pava Center operates out of an open-office and co-working space in Remington, on the edge of the JHU Homewood campus. While a mix of in-person and online programming is offered by the office, due to the highly collaborative nature of the job and the support offered to students and affiliates, this role is primarily in-person.

The Student Program Administrator role will work with connecting with undergraduate students on the Homewood campus via workshops, hackathons, and other ideation programming, including a lead role in the Center’s new Kindling pre-accelerator program. Additionally, this position will help pilot new ideation and accelerator programming at the Peabody School of Music campus, to empower student entrepreneurs in that department.

The Program Administrator reports to the Director of the Pava Center. For further information on the Pava Center, visit https://pavacenter.jhu.edu/

Specific Duties & Responsibilities

Advising and assisting students

• Helps identify, support, and provide programming for students interested in innovation and entrepreneurship, who have yet to identify their “people and/or problem focus”.
• Provides direct mentoring and advising to student entrepreneurs regarding their ideas and ventures.
• Assists student inventors/companies/ventures with development of business plans, corporate strategy, and risk profiles, early adopters, technical development/validation plans based on the product model, etc.
• Supports student ventures with referrals to funding sources, mentors, subject matter experts (SMEs), and industry partners for external support.

Program management

• Helps with the selection and administers allocation of funding and programming for Pava Center grants.
• Helps manage and coordinates oversight of spaces dedicated to student entrepreneurs.
• Develops, plans, and implements general entrepreneurship programming for students (which includes programming that occasionally takes place on nights and weekends).
• Serves as a liaison to student groups focused on entrepreneurship.

Strategy and communications

• Serves as a liaison to other campus partners to promote entrepreneurial ecosystem for students (e.g. the Life Design Lab, faculty at Peabody, etc).
• Drafts proposals for strategic initiatives related to student entrepreneurship.
• Identifies and recruits potential Pava Center accelerator applicants.
• Contributes to the Pava Center’s student ventures brand and online presence.
• Provides assistance on Pava Center programming, including accelerators, special events, and more.

Data collection and management

• Maintains a portfolio of student venture opportunities and startups.
• Generates monthly report on portfolio operations, driven by collecting, analyzing, and generating reports regarding student engagement.
• Helps track alumni ventures status and developments.

Special Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

• Experience working in or with startups.
• Demonstrated understanding of a wide breadth of technologies, from software to life sciences.
• Ability to work as a team member.
• Detail oriented and highly organized.
• Ability to work through obstacles/hard problems.
• Strong written and oral communication/reporting skills.
• People skills across a wide spectrum of backgrounds: the role is outwardly facing, including working with JHU faculty/staff (academic and non-academic), entrepreneurs, mentors, ecosystem subject matter experts, industry leaders, and investors.
• Ability to multitask and meet deadlines.

• Bachelor's Degree.
• Two year’s related experience. Additional education may substitute for required experience to the extent permitted by the JHU equivalency formula.

• U.S. Citizen or legal permanent resident required due to Federal Export Controls.
• Degree in STEM related field a plus.

Classified Title: Program Administrator 
Job Posting Title (Working Title): Student Program Administrator   
Role/Level/Range: ATP/03/PB  
Starting Salary Range: $46,200-$63,500-$80,800 Annually (Commensurate with experience). 
Employee group: Full Time 
Schedule: 37.5/Monday - Friday, 8:30am-5pm 
Exempt Status: Exempt 
Location: Hybrid/School of Medicine Campus 
Department name: ​​​​​​​Johns Hopkins Technology Ventures 
Personnel area: Academic and Business Centers