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 career 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. • Strong analytical skills and ability to use data and performance metrics for student/venture progress.

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