Job Description
JOB SUMMARY Be at your best with an organization that equips you to do so. Whose people unite in making lives better. At **MEMBERS ONLY**SIGN UP NOW***, we help communities stay healthy and our region grow stronger through compassionate care, medical education and research, and neighborhood outreach.
**MEMBERS ONLY**SIGN UP NOW*** is a not-for-profit academic health system providing the full spectrum of care for nearly 1 million patients annually in the Blue Ridge mountains of Virginia and West Virginia. **MEMBERS ONLY**SIGN UP NOW*** is a research and teaching hospital -- founding the Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine and partner of the Virginia Tech Fralin Biomedical Research Institute.
**MEMBERS ONLY**SIGN UP NOW*** Innovation (CCI) is part investor, accelerator, and commercialization engine for Carilion innovators and inventions. Our metrics center on tangibly improving the health of our community through developing and commercializing Carilion's patient-benefiting inventions and co-developing with startups and early-stage products that share our vision of the next horizon of better care.
The Innovation Manager (IM) will have the unique opportunity to vanguard and own the Invention Accelerator programs. Additionally, manage a team and funds to meet accelerator goals. The Invention Accelerator programs are designed for developing and de-risking Carilion inventions to advance the inventions to commercialization. The programs methodologies are anchored in human-centered design, lean startup, and agile. The IM works with Carilion innovators and their promising commercializable inventions to advise and inform invention development strategy, scope projects, project manage, and collaborate and provide stakeholder management. The IM will closely collaborate with the Commercialization arm of CCI on overall invention strategy.
The IM oversees the operations and expansion of CCI's Makerspace, an invention development resource equipped with a range of prototyping capabilities.
Additionally, work collaboratively with our internal and regional partners: Carilion Department of Research and Development (R&D), Carilion Human Factors Department, Virginia Tech, Fralin Biomedical Research Institute, University of Virginia, external product development and design firms, vendors, and many others
Experience in commercializing intellectual property and tech transfer in health care and related environments, experience using Design Thinking, Lean Startup methodologies, and Agile development, minimum of five (5) years leadership or healthcare equivalent experience preferred, minimum of four (4) years experience in Project Management, or recent demonstrated project success of a Carilion multi-department leadership project.
LICENSURE, CERTIFICATION, AND/OR REGISTRATION: Certification in project management preferred.
OTHER MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
Demonstrated project management skills, ability to build rapport and establish relationships through strong interpersonal skills, excellent written and verbal communication skills, strong presentation skills, ability to work independently with minimal direction, proficiency in word processing, spreadsheet computer software and data analysis, Must satisfactorily complete orientation processes.
OUR VALUES Below are our core values that we strive to embody and expect of all our team members:
COLLABORATION: Working together with purpose to achieve shared goals. COMMITMENT: Unwavering in our quest for exceptional quality and service. COMPASSION: Putting heart into everything we do. COURAGE: Doing what's right for our patients without question. CURIOSITY: Fostering creativity and innovation in our pursuit of excellence.
An organization where innovation happens, collaboration is expected and ideas are valued. A not-for-profit, mission-driven health system built on progress and partnerships. A courageous team that is always learning, never discouraged and forever curious.
Headquartered in Roanoke, Va., you will find a robust system of award winning hospitals, Level 1 and 3 trauma centers, Level 3 NICU, Institute of Orthopedics and Neurosciences, multi-specialty physician practices, and The Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine and Research Institute.
Carilion is where you can make your own path, make new discoveries and, most importantly, make a difference. Here, in a place where the air is clean, people are kind and life is good. MAKE YOUR TOMORROW WITH US.
Equal Opportunity Employer
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