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DIRECTOR, PRIZE DEVELOPMENT - X PRIZE FOUNDATION
Job Field: Office Jobs
Location: Playa Vista, CA
Salary: $Not stated
Location: Playa Vista, CA
Salary: $Not stated
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<tr><td valign="top" width="450"><b>Director, Prize Development - X Prize FoundationDirector, Prize Development - X Prize FoundationTake your professional career to the next level by joining the X PRIZE (XPF), a non-profit foundation whose mission is to generate transformational breakthroughs across a variety of disciplines for the benefit of humanity. In this key role as Director, Prize Development, you will envision, design and introduce imaginative and compelling new high profile, global X PRIZE competitions; which will inspire competitive teams to achieve amazing breakthroughs. Prize Development is the “tip of the spear” for the foundation bringing imaginative and powerful new X PRIZE competitions into the marketplace to drive breakthroughs and innovations within our five Prize Groups (Energy/Environment, Education, Global Development, Life Sciences and Exploration).Polished, poised and at ease working with many types of people, you'll interface with funding partners that will include philanthropists, corporations, institutions and other foundations. This is a career-defining position within a rarefied work environment that will give you access to today's thought leaders, industry's top movers and shakers and both the literati and glitterati of the world.The X PRIZE Foundation is an educational (501c3) nonprofit organization whose mission is to bring about radical breakthroughs for the benefit of humanity, thereby inspiring the formation of new industries and the revitalization of markets that are currently stuck due to existing failures or a commonly held belief that a solution is not possible. The Foundation addresses the world’s Grand Challenges by creating and managing large-scale, high-profile, incentivized prize competitions that stimulate investment in research and development worth far more than the prize itself. It motivates and inspires brilliant innovators from all disciplines to leverage their intellectual and financial capital.The X PRIZE Foundation conducts competitions in five Prize Groups: Education, Global Development; Energy and Environment; Life Sciences; and Exploration (Ocean and Deep Space). It is a US-based organization led by Chairman & CEO, Dr. Peter H. Diamandis and Co-Chairman and President, Robert K. Weiss, as well as governed by a group of visionary leaders including the Board of Trustees, Vision Circle members, Spirit of Innovation members, corporate partners and sponsors. Today, the X PRIZE Foundation is widely recognized as the leader in fostering innovation through incentivized competition.As our Playa Vista, California-based Director, Prize Development, you will play a significant leadership role, in the various activities required to identify, shape, design and develop X PRIZE competitions. As such, you will need to be comfortable interfacing directly with thought leaders and subject matter experts across a variety of fields, as you design the next set of X PRIZE competitions.Fully 70% of your time will be spent on the operational and fulfillment aspects of prize development managing project teams, timelines and deliverables, as well as managing internal and external clients. The remaining 30% of your time will be spent on business development in support of funding for prizes. It's invigorating work in the sense that you can define a new competition, develop something original and do it with the crème de la crème of science, industry and entertainment.Here is a little taste of what to expect…Project and Budget Management* Collaborate with internal and external constituencies to develop and refine shared objectives for breakthrough innovations and shape them into effective X PRIZE competitions.* Develop Prize Development project plans which a) accurately reflect the breakthrough innovation objectives of internal and external constituents, and b) chart a reliable project course for the design and development of effective X PRIZE competitions.* Ensures project meets or exc
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<tr><td valign="top" width="450"><b>Director, Prize Development - X Prize FoundationDirector, Prize Development - X Prize FoundationTake your professional career to the next level by joining the X PRIZE (XPF), a non-profit foundation whose mission is to generate transformational breakthroughs across a variety of disciplines for the benefit of humanity. In this key role as Director, Prize Development, you will envision, design and introduce imaginative and compelling new high profile, global X PRIZE competitions; which will inspire competitive teams to achieve amazing breakthroughs. Prize Development is the “tip of the spear” for the foundation bringing imaginative and powerful new X PRIZE competitions into the marketplace to drive breakthroughs and innovations within our five Prize Groups (Energy/Environment, Education, Global Development, Life Sciences and Exploration).Polished, poised and at ease working with many types of people, you'll interface with funding partners that will include philanthropists, corporations, institutions and other foundations. This is a career-defining position within a rarefied work environment that will give you access to today's thought leaders, industry's top movers and shakers and both the literati and glitterati of the world.The X PRIZE Foundation is an educational (501c3) nonprofit organization whose mission is to bring about radical breakthroughs for the benefit of humanity, thereby inspiring the formation of new industries and the revitalization of markets that are currently stuck due to existing failures or a commonly held belief that a solution is not possible. The Foundation addresses the world’s Grand Challenges by creating and managing large-scale, high-profile, incentivized prize competitions that stimulate investment in research and development worth far more than the prize itself. It motivates and inspires brilliant innovators from all disciplines to leverage their intellectual and financial capital.The X PRIZE Foundation conducts competitions in five Prize Groups: Education, Global Development; Energy and Environment; Life Sciences; and Exploration (Ocean and Deep Space). It is a US-based organization led by Chairman & CEO, Dr. Peter H. Diamandis and Co-Chairman and President, Robert K. Weiss, as well as governed by a group of visionary leaders including the Board of Trustees, Vision Circle members, Spirit of Innovation members, corporate partners and sponsors. Today, the X PRIZE Foundation is widely recognized as the leader in fostering innovation through incentivized competition.As our Playa Vista, California-based Director, Prize Development, you will play a significant leadership role, in the various activities required to identify, shape, design and develop X PRIZE competitions. As such, you will need to be comfortable interfacing directly with thought leaders and subject matter experts across a variety of fields, as you design the next set of X PRIZE competitions.Fully 70% of your time will be spent on the operational and fulfillment aspects of prize development managing project teams, timelines and deliverables, as well as managing internal and external clients. The remaining 30% of your time will be spent on business development in support of funding for prizes. It's invigorating work in the sense that you can define a new competition, develop something original and do it with the crème de la crème of science, industry and entertainment.Here is a little taste of what to expect…Project and Budget Management* Collaborate with internal and external constituencies to develop and refine shared objectives for breakthrough innovations and shape them into effective X PRIZE competitions.* Develop Prize Development project plans which a) accurately reflect the breakthrough innovation objectives of internal and external constituents, and b) chart a reliable project course for the design and development of effective X PRIZE competitions.* Ensures project meets or exc
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