Reporting to the Associate Director of Growth, Innovation, Community Building Programs & Sponsored Events, and Future State, the Strategic Ecosystem Initiatives Program Manager exercises significant independent judgment in initiative design, stakeholder engagement strategy, opportunity identification, issue escalation, execution planning, and outcome tracking. The role requires a forward-looking individual with executive-level communication skills, strong cross-functional coordination, and the ability to translate broad innovation priorities into actionable initiative plans with measurable impact.
The Program Manager designs, implements, and continuously improves a portfolio of strategic ecosystem initiatives that strengthen veteran entrepreneurship through structured engagement with corporate, nonprofit, public-sector, academic, and entrepreneurial stakeholders. This role emphasizes initiative creation, partner architecture, opportunity pipeline development, and ecosystem-level problem-solving in service of long-term field-building.
This position may be filled on a fully remote basis if the identified candidate is not currently located in Syracuse, NY (within 50 miles). Not all geographical areas within the United States are eligible. Employment offers at Syracuse University are based on a combination of factors including, but not limited to, the job responsibilities; the candidate’s education, training, work experience and key competencies; the university’s strategic priorities; internal peer equity; applicable federal, state, local laws, grant funding and contractual requisites; and external market analyses.