Job Description
Your responsibilities
Are you passionate about fostering entrepreneurship and connecting CERN's scientific research with entrepreneurial opportunities?
Join the Knowledge Transfer (KT) Group to promote innovation, technology transfer, and spin-off company development aligned with CERN's expertise.
This position is dedicated to supporting the CERN Venture Connect program (CVC), CERN's flagship entrepreneurship initiative.
You will help scout and assess potential startups in the CERN Member States and prepare technology dossiers and technology prototypes for startups as well as create content and planning related to the CERN Venture Connect website, social media and entrepreneurship promotion events. You will lead selected events with external students or with the CERN community interested in entrepreneurship.
Specifically, you will:
Support CVC processes, business incubators, venture capitalists, and other partners;Prepare dossiers for transferable technologies within CERN for start-up creation;Support the establishment of new CERN start-up; Conduct market evaluations and analyze business plans of potential CERN start-ups;Promote entrepreneurship activities and help organize related events and social media activities;Coordinate entrepreneurship events with universities and other institutes active in creating startups; Contribute to other KT group activities, including organizing trainings and manage selected knowledge transfer cases.Your profile
Skills and/or knowledge
Hands on experience in entrepreneurship, in a startup, in an incubator or in venturing;Experience with organisation of events and facilitation of workshops in an international context. Some technical education or affinity with CERN's technology domains is desirable;Fluent English: Ability to understand, speak, and draft texts for professional contexts and presentations.Eligibility criteria:
You are a national of a CERN Member or Associate Member State.You have a professional background in Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Startups, Product or Market Development (or a related field) and have either: a Master's degree with 2 to 6 years of post-graduation professional experience;or a PhD with no more than 3 years of post-graduation professional experience.You have never had a CERN fellow or graduate contract before.Additional Information
Job closing date: 11.01.2024 at 23:59h (midnight) CET.
Job reference: IPT-KT-BD-2023-149-GRAP
Contract duration: 24 months, with a possible extension up to 36 months maximum.
Target start date: 01-February-2024
What we offer
A monthly stipend ranging between 6194 and 6808 Swiss Francs per month (net of tax).Coverage by CERN's comprehensive health scheme (for yourself, your spouse and children), and membership of the CERN Pension Fund.Depending on your individual circumstances: installation grant; family, child and infant allowances; payment of travel expenses at the beginning and end of contract.30 days of paid leave per year.On-the-job and formal training at CERN as well as in-house language courses for English and/or French.About us
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