From: Leah Hazard <[email protected]> Stanford’s Social X-Change is a new accelerator with the mission to tackle social problems using human creativity, rigorous evidence, and innovative technology. The accelerator’s goal is to spur cutting-edge social science research designed in partnership with governments, non-profits, philanthropies, or the private sector that yields new solutions to challenging social and public policy problems. As we kick off our 2-year pilot, we are recruiting for an Innovations Lead.
*Apply directly to the position here: https://careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/innovations-lead-7642 <https://careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/innovations-lead-7642>* The Innovations Lead will serve as an internal consultant within the Social X-Change, focused on an emerging pipeline of projects with high potential to connect social science research and public impact. The Innovations Lead will provide direct support to impact labs at a variety of stages of development: exploratory projects that are incubated through the Impact Lab Design Fellowship, start-up labs that have two-year funding to demonstrate a proof of concept, and term-funded labs that receive five years of financial and staff support. *As we launch the pilot phase of the Social X-Change, within the first year, the Innovations Lead will work closely with the Social X-Change Operations Lead and Partnership Lead to:* - Co-lead a cohort of eight Stanford faculty in an Impact Lab Design Fellowship, designing and facilitating key curricular modules throughout the year with the Social X-Change Partnership Lead. - Create individually tailored plans for all impact lab leaders in the fellowship program to help them think through how they can bring research and innovation to their external partners. - Manage a portfolio of faculty/practitioner partnerships, helping faculty and partners design mutually beneficial partnerships and sustained processes and systems that will lead to impactful outcomes. - Partner with Stanford faculty and external collaborators in designing, launching and scaling impact labs. - Envision and lead design sprints (day-long, week-long, quarterly) with researchers and their external partners. - Provide support to a cohort of start-up impact labs, helping to create the processes and best practices for implementing solutions-oriented partnerships at scale. - Serve as a member of the core leadership team, designing and implementing strategy for the Social X-Change that provides values to both university and external stakeholders. We are seeking a motivated individual who is creative, flexible, resilient and persistent. The ideal candidate is excited to build something new in a complicated environment, undeterred by attempting things that haven’t been done before, and ready to roll up their sleeves to build a start-up in an academic setting. Additionally, we are looking for great listeners, facilitators and visual thinkers. **Candidates should be prepared to share two concrete case studies of driving innovation in the social sector.** Interested candidates should apply directly to the website. If you have any questions, please feel free to email me (with your cv) to [email protected]. Please share with anyone you feel may be a good fit! Best, Leah
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