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

1. Solid understanding of the startup, innovation, and entrepreneurship ecosystem.
2. Expertise in incubation processes, program management, and event coordination.
3. Proficiency in proposal writing, grant documentation, reporting, and data management.
4. Effective training, facilitation, stakeholder engagement, and networking skills.
5. Excellent communication, interpersonal, and relationship management abilities.
6. 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 (India)
🏢 Reva University
📍 India