Assistant Manager – Pre-Incubation and Training

REVA University · Bangalore district, India

Position: Assistant Manager – Pre-Incubation

Department: University Industry Interaction Centre (UIIC) / Innovation & Incubation Centre

Reporting To: Manager/Director – Incubation & Innovation

Key Responsibilities

• Support pre-incubation and startup incubation activities for student, faculty, and external entrepreneurs.
• Coordinate Entrepreneurship Development Programs (EDPs), innovation initiatives, and startup mentoring activities.
• Organize innovation conclaves, startup summits, hackathons, ideathons, workshops, and related events.
• Facilitate industry-academia collaborations and stakeholder engagement within the innovation ecosystem.
• Assist startups in YUKTI applications, grant proposals, funding applications, startup competitions, and related submissions.
• Support IIC activities, ranking management, compliance documentation, and reporting requirements.
• Create awareness on government startup schemes, innovation programs, and funding opportunities.
• Maintain startup databases, incubation records, progress trackers, and impact reports.
• Prepare presentations, proposals, event reports, ecosystem reports, and management dashboards.
• Coordinate with mentors, industry experts, investors, government agencies, and startup ecosystem partners.
• Monitor startup progress and support incubation program execution.

Educational Qualification

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Management, Commerce, or a related discipline.
• PGDM/MBA in Entrepreneurship, Innovation Management, Business Administration, Marketing, or related fields preferred.

Preferred Skills & Competencies

• Strong understanding of the startup, innovation, and entrepreneurship ecosystem.
• Expertise in incubation processes, program management, and event coordination.
• Proficiency in proposal writing, grant documentation, reporting, and data management.
• Effective training, facilitation, stakeholder engagement, and networking skills.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, and relationship management abilities.
• Demonstrated initiative, creativity, problem-solving, and organizational skills with the ability to work effectively with diverse stakeholders and startup founders.

Preferred Experience

• 2–5 years of experience in:
• Startup incubation or acceleration programs
• Entrepreneurship development initiatives
• Innovation ecosystem management
• Industry-academia engagement
• Startup support, grants, or government-funded innovation programs