Overview
Program Manager – Entrepreneurship Practicum Jobs in India at Kumaraguru Institutions
POSITION & DESIGNATION
The Program Manager – Entrepreneurship is a senior execution role within Kumaraguru Institutions reporting to the CPO, Forge. Academy. The role carries end-to-end responsibility for the design, delivery, and outcome realisation of entrepreneurship practicum programmes across undergraduate, postgraduate, and early-stage startup cohorts.
The Program Manager operates with high autonomy and accountability, owning complex, multi-stakeholder programmes and ensuring consistent delivery of measurable entrepreneurship and talent outcomes. The role is designated as Assistant Professor in the MBA-IEV programme at Kumaraguru Institutions and will require active engagement across academic institutions, industry partners, startups, and the broader ecosystem.
ROLE PURPOSE
The Program Manager – Entrepreneurship is responsible for designing & delivering high-quality, repeatable programmes that reliably move participants from problem discovery to validated venture outcomes.
The role exists to ensure that entrepreneurship education delivered is not theoretical or event-driven, but execution-led, evidence-based, and outcome accountable — whether the cohort is undergraduate students, MBA participants, or early-stage founders.
KEY RESULT AREAS (KRAS)
1. Curriculum Design & Pedagogy Excellence
– Ensure entrepreneurship is taught as a rigorous, execution-led discipline — not as an extracurricular or elective activity.
– Design a modular, stage-gated experiential curriculum that moves students from ideation to MVP and pilot readiness.
– Develop and curate proprietary playbooks, case studies, templates, and digital toolkits tailored to student, campus, and cohort contexts.
– Train and collaborate with academic faculty to embed entrepreneurial thinking and venture logic into core engineering, science, and management courses.
– Continuously iterate the curriculum based on cohort performance data, mentor feedback, and real-world venture outcomes.
2. Venture Pipeline & Incubation Management
– Own the end-to-end student venture pipeline — from awareness programmes and ideation workshops to active incubation cohorts.
– Track conversion metrics across the full funnel: awareness → application → selection → MVP → pilot
• profitable business.
– Enable prototype development through access to maker spaces, labs, mentors, and small-scale seed or prototyping support.
– Establish and maintain a startup health dashboard tracking customer discovery, validation cycles, pivots, and early traction across all active cohorts.
– Support high-potential teams in accessing incubators, accelerators, and broader ecosystem opportunities.
3. Stakeholder & Mentor Network Architecture
– Build and manage a structured mentor-on-call network, ensuring adequate mentor-to-startup ratios for high-potential student and founder teams.
– Establish partnerships with corporates, investors, incubators, and accelerators to enable demo days, pilots, and real-world venture exposure.
– Engage successful alumni entrepreneurs as Founders-in-Residence, mentors, or reviewers to provide relatable, credible role models within the programme.
– Serve as the primary relationship manager for industry and institutional partners across all programme engagements.
4. Ecosystem Culture & Community Building
– Drive a campus-wide entrepreneurial mindset through high-impact interventions: hackathons, bootcamps, venture reviews, and failure-learning forums.
– Mentor and enable student-led entrepreneurship bodies to act as peer-level execution engines within their institutions.
– Contribute to thought leadership by positioning the campus and programme as a regional entrepreneurship hub through events, publications, and inter-institutional initiatives.
– Build a visible, active community of founders, alumni, mentors, and practitioners around the programme.
5. Impact Assessment & Operational Sustainability
– Implement longitudinal tracking of student founders and alumni ventures to measure long-term impact: startups formed, jobs created, revenue generated.
– Provide quarterly, data-driven impact reports to leadership that combine quantitative metrics with qualitative venture narratives.
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Title: Program Manager – Entrepreneurship Practicum
Company: Kumaraguru Institutions
Location: India
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