Internal Job Number: P09245UF

Description:

• Developing and leading PacWave's commercial team.
• Identifying, securing, and managing new commercial opportunities to support the long-term growth of PacWave.
• Designing and implementing engagement strategies that strengthen partnerships between OSU, industry, federal agencies, and national laboratories.
• Ensuring stakeholder relationships are cultivated and maintained in alignment with OSU's broader research and economic development goals.
• Liaising with and supporting potential testing clients from their initial engagement with PacWave and through their onboarding, and
• Supporting the PacWave Director to ensure PacWave operates efficiently and sustainably, building on the global brand as a leader in the testing and validation of marine energy technologies.

Minimum Qualifications (Staff) / Guidelines (Faculty):

Typically requires Master's degree in field related to work assigned. Experience developing and engaging in strategic partnerships with internal and external stakeholders.

Requirements :

• Master's degree in business administration, marketing, engineering, science, or a related field; or an equivalent combination of education and training, with a minimum of 10 years of relevant professional experience.
• Minimum of 5 years of relevant experience
  • in areas such as building and managing client pipelines, securing new business opportunities—particularly in the service, energy, or technology sectors—developing and executing external stakeholder engagement programs, cultivating long-term partnerships with industry, government, or community organizations, and leading the design and launch of new programs or services from concept through implementation, including experience with bid preparation and contract negotiations.

• High level of quantitative literacy and excellent written communication, digital proficiency, presentation skills and interpersonal relations.
• Experience working with clients, sponsors, funders, or commercial partners, including stakeholder relationship management.
• Demonstrated ability to effectively interact and engage with other disciplines including with external parties from many diverse sectors.
• Demonstrable project management experience.
• Good understanding of US public and private funding mechanisms.
• Teamwork; self-motivated, organized, methodical, able to develop agreed-upon initiatives, owning the task.
• Positive bias towards renewable forms of energy and high sense of responsibility and integrity.
• Strong commercial understanding and acumen.
• Demonstrated ability to foster an inclusive and accessible environment for all learners, faculty, staff, stakeholders and partners.

Type:

Additional Salary Information: $100,000 - $130,000

About Oregon State University

Oregon State is a leading research university located in one of the safest, smartest, greenest small cities in the nation. Situated 90 miles south of Portland, and an hour from the Cascades or the Pacific Coast, Corvallis is the perfect home base for exploring Oregon's natural wonders. Oregon State University has always been a place with a purpose - making a positive difference in quality of life, natural resources and economic prosperity in Oregon and beyond. Through discovery, innovation and application, we are meeting challenges, solving problems and turning ideas into reality.Founded in 1868, Oregon State is the state's Land Grant university and is one of only two universities in the U.S. to have Sea Grant, Space Grant and Sun Grant designations. Oregon State is also the only university in Oregon to hold both the Carnegie Foundation's top designation for research institutions and its prestigious Community Engagement classification.As Oregon's leading public research university, with $261.7 million in external funding in the 2011 fiscal year, Oregon State's impact reaches across the state and beyond. With 12 colleges, 15 Agricultural Experiment Stations, 35 county Extension off...ices, the Hatfield Marine Sciences Center in Newport and OSU-Cascades in Bend, Oregon, State has a presence in every one of Oregon's 36 counties, with a statewide economic footprint of $2.06 billion. Oregon State welcomes a diverse student body of over 26,000 students from across Oregon, all 50 states and more than 100 countries. They can choose from more than 200 undergraduate and more than 80 graduate degree programs, including over 30 degrees online offered through Oregon State Ecampus. Oregon State increasingly attracts high-achieving students, with nationally recognized programs in areas such as conservation biology, agricultural sciences, nuclear engineering, forestry, fisheries and wildlife management, community health, pharmacy and zoology. Oregon State also ranks high in sustainability, fourth among universities nationwide for using renewable energy and first in the Pac-12 Conference. And our students literally help power the university: 22 exercise machines at Oregon State University has always been a place with a purpose - making a positive difference in quality of life, natural resources and economic prosperity in Oregon and beyond. Through discovery, innovation and application, we are meeting challenges, solving problems and turning ideas into reality. For more information visit http://www.ohsu.edu/xd/about/index.cfm.The 400-acre main campus in Corvallis includes a Historic District, making Oregon State one of only a handful of U.S. university campuses listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The district includes such icons as Weatherford Hall, the Memorial Union and Benton Hall, the oldest building on the oldest building on campus.OSU commits to inclusive excellence by advancing equity and diversity in all that we do. We are an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity employer, and particularly encourage applications from members of historically underrepresented racial/ethnic groups, women, individuals with disabilities, veterans, LGBTQ community members, and others who demonstrate the ability to help us achieve our vision of a diverse and inclusive community.

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