Program Manager, Venture Growth
The Program Manager, Venture Growth oversees and manages the execution of market readiness programming, including the COVE UK ‘Ocean Scale-Up Accelerator’ and industry innovation challenges, encouraging companies’ growth and global success. The Program Manager will ensure that the program’s objectives and key performance indicators (KPIs) are met. This role is the primary point of contact for all program stakeholders and requires the ability to manage a range of clients. The Program Manager represents COVE globally and supports COVE’s reputation in delivering a high-quality offering to industry and COVE’s stakeholders.
What you will be doing:
- Planning, overseeing, and managing the development and execution of the program including preparing formal project proposals, regular engagement with participants, delivery of workshops, understanding the critical needs of cohort businesses, and setting objectives for how we can support those needs.
- Continually revising and maintaining a flexible curriculum that is aligned with current best practices.
- Designing and administering surveys and other assessment tools to capture and analyze data for program planning, decision-making, and reporting.
- Building relationships and partnering with government agencies, industry experts, and vendors to improve the quality, scope, and delivery of programs while ensuring engagement and participation.
- Working with the COVE leadership team to identify ways to integrate the outcomes of the programs into other business lines.
- Managing relationships and opportunities with multiple corporate partners, identifying opportunities for clients to collaborate, and facilitating those partnership discussions.
- Managing and hosting events in line with our business objectives such as webinars, challenges, and B2B meetings.
- Pursuing additional programming with national and international clients, partners, and funders. Writing proposals.
- Setting and tracking progress and budget against project milestones, holding others accountable for assigned tasks, and recommending steps from start to finish, including identifying barriers to successful program execution, mitigating and/or escalating as appropriate.
- Adhering to COVE’s policies and procedures.
- May require national and international travel.
What you will bring:
- Degree in Business, Science, Engineering, or a closely related field and/or a combination of education and experience.
- 5-7 years managing or executing programs with strong organizational skills to manage multiple priorities concurrently.
- Ability to think creatively to solve problems and to work without being closely managed.
- Ability to speak confidently in settings ranging from large group events to meetings with senior government, industry, and start-up leaders.
- An understanding of innovative technology in the marine sector.
- Ability to facilitate collaboration among multiple parties with disparate views and objectives and align the group toward a cohesive outcome.
- Understand how to effectively derive and measure program results and how to learn and iterate the program from those results.
- Be a community builder to establish relationships with multi-faceted stakeholder groups and key partners.
- Demonstrated ability to recognize risk and proactively mitigate.
- Ability to work well independently and as part of a team having a strong self-starter mindset.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite.
Additional Assets:
- Experience in the marine sector and/or a relevant technology-based industry
- Entrepreneurial experience
- Knowledge and application of project management tools and concepts
- Business development experience
- Experience in international trade
- Ability to speak a second language
Working at COVE
At our core, we are a team driven by our passion for empowering marine tech innovators, serving as unwavering advocates for every visionary who walks through our doors. Integrity, creativity, and diversity are not just values to us—they are the bedrock of our identity. We thrive within an integrated team environment, where collective efforts culminate in tangible results. Embracing diversity in our workforce is paramount for fostering genuine collaboration and fulfilling the impactful responsibilities we hold within our community. We cultivate a workplace culture that celebrates individual differences, ensuring that each person’s unique talents and strengths are fully recognized, appreciated, and utilized. Operating within a hybrid and flexible work environment allows us to optimize the collective potential of our highly collaborative team, enabling us to achieve the best possible outcomes.
Benefits:
- Opportunity to learn and make an impact by working for a dynamic, growing company on meaningful projects that finds solutions to real-life problems.
- Vacation, personal days, and sick time
- Remote work and flexible work hours
- Team wide bonding activities and casual work environment
- Tech focused office location, convenient via transit and bike paths
- Employee wellbeing including full medical & dental benefits and a health spending account
- Group RRSP matching program & Income Insurance Plans
- Learning and growth opportunities
- Employee referral program
- Competitive salary
Talent Pool
As part of our ongoing recruitment efforts, we continually identify candidates who demonstrate the skills, experience, and potential to contribute to our organization. By submitting your application, you will be considered for current and future opportunities that match your qualifications and interests.
Should your profile align with our current or future needs, a member of our recruitment team may reach out to you to discuss potential opportunities and to further assess your fit for specific roles within our organization.
Don’t meet every single requirement? At COVE, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you are excited about this role, but your past experience does not align with every single qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.
We are committed to ensuring accommodations are made available to persons with disabilities during the recruitment, assessment and selection processes and will provide reasonable accommodation upon request.