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

- Robust 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

📌 Assistant Manager – Pre-Incubation and Training (Bengaluru)
🏢 Reva University
📍 Bengaluru