Program Manager, Venture Growth

COVE

Halifax, NS

Who is COVE?
Since its inception in 2018, COVE has dedicated itself to fostering collaboration among individuals, concepts, resources, and assets to drive solutions and sustainable advancement within Canada's marine sector. At the forefront of building a thriving network, COVE has played a pivotal role in cultivating a robust cluster of companies and cultivating a premier startup environment. Through strategic initiatives, COVE facilitates invaluable networking opportunities, fosters connections, and leads discussions within the global ocean technology community. Moreover, COVE spearheads programs aimed at nurturing talent, expediting the release of ocean technology products, and bolstering the success of emerging ventures by startups, scaleups, and SMEs. These initiatives, coupled with COVE's ability to harness diverse skills and expertise nationally within the marine ecosystem, serve as an enabler for overcoming industry challenges, driving economic growth, and delivering value to investors.

As COVE experiences rapid expansion, we are actively seeking to expand our team to further bolster our transformative influence on the marine sector. With a thriving community of over 60 companies onsite and a global network encompassing over 400 organizations engaged in marine technology, we stand poised to emerge as a premier global hub for industry-driven innovation. We recognize that our journey toward this goal hinges on the strength of our teama group of individuals who collaborate, innovate, and continually strive for excellence. Join us as we embark on this exciting journey of discovery and advancement.

The Opportunity

The Program Manager, Venture Growth oversees and manages the execution of market readiness programming, including the COVE UK Ocean Scale-Up Accelerator and industry innovation challenges, encouraging companies' growth and global success. The Program Manager will ensure that the program's objectives and key performance indicators (KPIs) are met. This role is the primary point of contact for all program stakeholders and requires the ability to manage a range of clients. The Program Manager represents COVE globally and supports COVEs reputation in delivering a high-quality offering to industry and COVEs stakeholders.

What you will be doing:

• Planning, overseeing, and managing the development and execution of the program including preparing formal project proposals, regular engagement with participants, delivery of workshops, understanding the critical needs of cohort businesses, and setting objectives for how we can support those needs.
• Continually revising and maintaining a flexible curriculum that is aligned with current best practices.
• Designing and administering surveys and other assessment tools to capture and analyze data for program planning, decision-making, and reporting.
• Building relationships and partnering with government agencies, industry experts, and vendors to improve the quality, scope, and delivery of programs while ensuring engagement and participation.
• Working with the COVE leadership team to identify ways to integrate the outcomes of the programs into other business lines.
• Managing relationships and opportunities with multiple corporate partners, identifying opportunities for clients to collaborate, and facilitating those partnership discussions.
• Managing and hosting events in line with our business objectives such as webinars, challenges, and B2B meetings.
• Pursuing additional programming with national and international clients, partners, and funders. Writing proposals.
• Setting and tracking progress and budget against project milestones, holding others accountable for assigned tasks, and recommending steps from start to finish, including identifying barriers to successful program execution, mitigating and/or escalating as appropriate.
• Adhering to COVEs policies and procedures.
• May require national and international travel.

What you will bring:

• Degree in Business, Science, Engineering, or a closely related field and/or a combination of education and experience.

• 5-7 years managing or executing programs with strong organizational skills to manage multiple priorities concurrently.
• Ability to think creatively to solve problems and to work without being closely managed.
• Ability to speak confidently in settings ranging from large group events to meetings with senior government, industry, and start-up leaders.
• An understanding of innovative technology in the marine sector.
• Ability to facilitate collaboration among multiple parties with disparate views and objectives and align the group toward a cohesive outcome.

• Understand how to effectively derive and measure program results and how to learn and iterate the program from those results.
• Be a community builder to establish relationships with multi-faceted stakeholder groups and key partners.
• Demonstrated ability to recognize risk and proactively mitigate.
• Ability to work well independently and as part of a team having a strong self-starter mindset.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite.

Additional Assets:

• Experience in the marine sector and/or a relevant technology-based industry
• Entrepreneurial experience
• Knowledge and application of project management tools and concepts
• Business development experience
• Experience in international trade
• Ability to speak a second language
  

Working at COVE

At our core, we are a team driven by our passion for empowering marine tech innovators, serving as unwavering advocates for every visionary who walks through our doors. Integrity, creativity, and diversity are not just values to usthey are the bedrock of our identity. We thrive within an integrated team environment, where collective efforts culminate in tangible results. Embracing diversity in our workforce is paramount for fostering genuine collaboration and fulfilling the impactful responsibilities we hold within our community. We cultivate a workplace culture that celebrates individual differences, ensuring that each person's unique talents and strengths are fully recognized, appreciated, and utilized. Operating within a hybrid and flexible work environment allows us to optimize the collective potential of our highly collaborative team, enabling us to achieve the best possible outcomes.

Benefits:

• Opportunity to learn and make an impact by working for a dynamic, growing company on meaningful projects that finds solutions to real-life problems.
• Vacation, personal days, and sick time
• Remote work and flexible work hours
• Team wide bonding activities and casual work environment
• Tech focused office location, convenient via transit and bike paths
• Employee wellbeing including full medical & dental benefits and a health spending account
• Group RRSP matching program & Income Insurance Plans
• Learning and growth opportunities
• Employee referral program
• Competitive salary

Talent Pool

As part of our ongoing recruitment efforts, we continually identify candidates who demonstrate the skills, experience, and potential to contribute to our organization. By submitting your application, you will be considered for current and future opportunities that match your qualifications and interests.

Should your profile align with our current or future needs, a member of our recruitment team may reach out to you to discuss potential opportunities and to further assess your fit for specific roles within our organization.

Dont meet every single requirement? At COVE, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you are excited about this role, but your past experience does not align with every single qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

We are committed to ensuring accommodations are made available to persons with disabilities during the recruitment, assessment and selection processes and will provide reasonable accommodation upon request.

We offer an excellent working environment where life balance is valued. Our people and their commitment to quality work is what drives our success.You can find out more information about COVE atwww.coveocean.com.Salary for this position will be commensurate with experience, note that relocation costs are not supported.

To be considered for this position, please apply online by clicking Apply.The deadline for submission is 3:00 pm, February 5 2025. We thank all candidates for their interest; however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.