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The Director of the Whitman Entrepreneurship Center will lead the vision, management, and execution of innovative, non-academic entrepreneurship programs at the Whitman School of Management. This role will drive the development of nationally and globally recognized best-in-class programs that support student, alumni, staff, faculty, and the community entrepreneurs. The Director is expected to expand existing programming with a goal of re-establishing the Whitman Entrepreneurship Center as a national and global leader in entrepreneurship and as a role model for other university entrepreneurship centers, with a emphasis on supporting local and on-campus community entrepreneurship.

The successful candidate will have a broad network and professional visibility. They will possess multiple years of leadership experience. The candidate will have an outstanding grasp of what a thriving university entrepreneurship center’s programming should be. They must have the ability to collaborate well with others and to leverage the talents of the academic and professional partners within Whitman and across Syracuse University to achieve excellence. The candidate should have the experience to identify and secure grants and other funding, to ability to use data to evaluate program effectiveness, and the drive to build and innovate within a high-impact entrepreneurship ecosystem that will raise the profile of Whitman and Syracuse University locally, nationally, and globally.This role is critical to the success of Whitman School's entrepreneurship operations and central to Syracuse University's entrepreneurship ecosystem.