Business Development Officer with the Office of Economic Development, UNLV Economic Development [R0154092]

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Job Description
The University of Nevada, Las Vegas invites applications for Business Development Officer with the Office of Economic Development, UNLV Economic Development [R0154092]
ROLE of the POSITION
UNLV’s Office of Economic Development (“OED”) seeks an organized, proactive individual with at least one to three years of experience in one or more of the areas of business development, technology commercialization, industry engagement, and/or venture capital to join OED’s Technology Commercialization team. The ideal candidate will have experience in life science, engineering, or sport science. Major functions of this role are to identify and develop opportunities for collaboration between life sciences, engineering, medical, and sports industries, specifically, technology transfer, sponsored research and service engagements, facility use, and other mutually beneficial collaborations. The selected candidate will promote innovation and applied research programs to address real-world and marketplace problems. This position will report directly to the Director of Commercialization.
This position will be the point of engagement between UNLV and the business community and will collaborate both internally and externally to find opportunities for collaboration with industry. The selected candidate will be housed both at the UNLV Harry Reid Research and Technology Park and on campus. Primarily, this position will assess inventions for commercial potential, identify licensing strategies to start-ups or existing companies, develop marketing plans, propose mutually beneficial collaborations between UNLV and industry, negotiate agreements, update internal databases on efforts, and maintain crucial communications and documents related to those collaborations. This position will work with the engineering, life sciences, medical, and sports industries to identify needs and collaborate with them on preparing scopes of work or other proposed engagements. This position will be responsible for the drafting, negotiation, and seeing the agreement through to execution. In concert with the OED Business and Finance team, generate inspirational direct and indirect marketing campaigns to industry inclusive of tech transfer, applied research, philanthropy, applied learning, and presenting thought out specific opportunities for engagement with industry.
This position will be responsible for a portfolio of primarily engineering, life sciences, medical, and/or sports inventions and their protection, marketing and commercialization, and working with outside counsel for intellectual property protection.
The selected candidate will work as assigned internally, as well as broadly, with UNLV departments to be an ambassador of OED and the benefits it provides to UNLV, those specific departments/colleges, and the researchers and students therein. The candidate will work to cultivate positive relationships across UNLV, the community, industry, and state and federal agencies. This person will be present at local and national events and symposium representing OED and proactively seeking engagements with industry at those events. The selected candidate will support the development and execution of OED, UNLV Research Foundation, and UNLV Innovation Foundation events that are intended to increase engagements with industry, faculty, and students.
KNOWLEDGE
Required
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Skills
Business Development, Negotiation, Intellectual Property