[liberationtech] JOB: Stanford University Hiring Innovations Lead

[Yosem Companys]

From: Leah Hazard <lhazard at stanford.edu>

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
lhazard at stanford.edu. Please share with anyone you feel may be a good fit!



Best,

Leah
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