Position: Program Manager

Full-time, 1- year contract - primarily onsite

Do you get your energy from supporting people and businesses that are working at the cutting edge of the latest developments in life science?

If you’re nodding as you read this, then this job is for you! An exciting position has opened up at Cicada Innovations, Australia’s leading and globally awarded deep tech incubator. We are looking for a Program Manager for Jumar Bioincubator in Melbourne. The incubator is purposely designed to support early-stage biotech startups as they progress scientific discoveries towards real-world treatments and therapies that can impact global health outcomes.

Jumar is founded by CSL, WEHI and the University of Melbourne with funding from Breakthrough Victoria, and is operated by Cicada Innovations. The incubator is located over two floors of CSL’s corporate headquarters within the Melbourne Biomedical Precinct.

We deliver world class education programs supporting bio and medtech ventures from concept, commercialisation, through to growth and scale. As our Program Manager you will support early biotech and medtech ventures and our resident companies with training and education that enables them in their commercialisation and product development.

You will be an integral part of the dynamic Jumar team. You will end-to-end manage the delivery of all commercialisation and entrepreneurship programs. You will spend your days making sure Cicada Innovations supports our entrepreneurs, building their capacity to successfully commercialise their medtech and biotech innovations to bring them to global markets. You will connect them with relevant experts to help them solve their challenges, and you will help train the next generation of entrepreneurs who may become residents of Jumar in the future. You will:

• Manage end-to-end all programs and strive for continuous improvement, take accountability for the design, content, speakers, guests, and high quality execution of training programs. You’ll have the support of our events & community team and the wider Cicada team but be on point for ensuring flawless execution of education programs
• Thoughtfully forge and cultivate relationships and maintain regular engagement with our residents and other founders, commercialisation personnel, researchers and clinicians, to help them achieve their goals.
• Use feedback from program participants and key stakeholders to continuously improve the quality of content and delivery of the programs: our ultimate goal is to maximise the impact for biotech ventures.
• Maintain impact metrics to produce high quality program reports, documents, and presentations to key stakeholders.
• Review and monitor program cash flow, and facilitate the approval of program related expenditure
• Proactively build and maintain relationships with partners and key stakeholders (alumni, government, industry, venture capital) to strengthen Jumar’s role in the ecosystem
• Support business development opportunities, as required

About you:

• You understand the life science industry. This could be from bio-tech, pharmaceutical, medical device development or an allied health background, with some commercial experience required.
• You have around 5 years + experience in program management with stand-out skills in relationship management, and excellent project management skills
• You understand the complexities of health/bio tech commercialisation (either drug, diagnostic, or medical device) pathways
• You have experience in entrepreneurial ecosystems. You understand the challenges and opportunities that face new health-tech ventures, with an eye to the future
• You are highly organised, detail and data driven and have experience working with CRM systems and comfortable using a range of software applications (eg. Google Suite and Monday.com)
• You are meticulous in documentation and organisation: you will help us build and manage effective and efficient processes and procedures, to achieve and exceed milestones and deliverables of multiple programs at once
• You have a high degree of initiative, are a self-starter and a problem solver: While our team has solid foundations, we’re also extremely hands-on. You should be too!
• You are a people person who is interested in understanding the needs and drivers of programs participants and how our programs can help them succeed
• You are a strong networker, self motivated, approachable, and have a desire to join a purpose-led company

What else?

This is a 12 month fixed term contract. While we work flexible, you'll need to spend 3-4 days per week onsite at our Jumar location.