Company

AIMER Business School

Location

MKC, Kozhikode.

Designation

Entrepreneur in Residence (EIR) & Faculty

Position reports to

Academic Director

Job Purpose

To combine academic delivery with hands-on entrepreneurship mentoring, enabling students to develop strong business fundamentals, validate ideas, build ventures, and gain practical exposure to the startup and industry ecosystem.

Duties and responsibilities

- Mentor student founders and venture teams through idea validation, customer discovery, business model development and go-to-market planning.
- Support students in developing business plans, pitch decks, financial models, growth roadmaps and fundraising readiness.
- Design and deliver entrepreneurship workshops, bootcamps, hackathons, startup challenges and experiential learning initiatives.
- Build relationships with startups, founders, investors, incubators, accelerators and industry experts and facilitate relevant interactions for students.
- Identify emerging business, technology and market trends and translate relevant insights into classroom and venture-learning activities.
- Track student and startup progress against defined milestones, learning outcomes and performance metrics and take corrective action where required.
- Collaborate with academic and operations teams to strengthen curriculum delivery, entrepreneurship integration, incubation and innovation initiatives.
- Contribute to academic planning, student engagement activities, institutional events, committees and other responsibilities assigned by the management.
- Deliver assigned undergraduate/postgraduate courses in line with the approved curriculum, learning outcomes and academic calendar.
- Prepare lesson plans, learning materials, assessments,



rubrics and other academic resources and maintain required academic documentation.
- Facilitate interactive, experiential and application-oriented learning through cases, projects, simulations, discussions, presentations and industry exposure.
- Evaluate student work objectively and provide timely, constructive feedback aligned to expected learning outcomes.
- Mentor and guide students on academic progress, projects, career readiness and professional development.

Qualification

- Bachelor's degree in Business, Entrepreneurship, Management, Engineering, Education or a related field; a master's degree is preferred.
- Relevant academic qualification in the subject areas to be taught, as required by the institution/program.

Experience

- Minimum 3 years of relevant hands-on startup, entrepreneurship, innovation, business or venture-building experience.
- Relevant teaching, training, mentoring or academic facilitation experience is preferred.
- Proven experience in launching, scaling or supporting startups/ventures and working with founders or student entrepreneurs.
- Experience with Lean Startup, Design Thinking, Agile practices and experiential/project-based learning.

Skills

- Entrepreneurial mindset, business acumen and strategic thinking.
- Strong teaching, facilitation, coaching and mentoring capability.
- Excellent communication, presentation and stakeholder-management skills.
- Ability to translate concepts into practical, industry-relevant learning experiences.
- Networking and relationship-building skills across the startup, investor and industry ecosystem.
- Program management, execution, documentation and follow-through.
- Innovation, creativity, problem-solving and adaptability.
- Solid analytical skills and ability to use data and performance metrics for student/venture progress.

📌 Entrepreneur in Residence (EIR) and Faculty (Thamarassery)
🏢 AIMER Business School
📍 Thamarassery