Responsibilities

• Collaborate with the NDRC team to develop and deliver programmes for early-stage founders and ecosystem builders.

• Support and execute recruitment strategies to attract the highest quality startups across Ireland. 

• Meet with startups to understand their needs and provide tailored solutions and connections.

• Manage logistics, operations, and scheduling for Early-Stage Supports and Masterclasses, using Airtable and Glide

• Ensure that documentation to support our programmes and impact is up to date and accurate

• Creating content and presentations for workshops, masterclasses, and pitch sessions

• Work closely with the regional partners to ensure the delivery of successful programmes across Ireland.

• Develop and maintain templates, playbooks, and programme documentation to optimise decision-making and workflows.

• Manage diverse systems, no-code solutions, and databases, including Airtable and Glide.

• Monitor programme KPIs and prepare detailed reports.

• Collaborate with Dogpatch Labs teams, including Marketing, Community, and Portfolio, to maximise impact.

• Manage the NDRC inbox, providing prompt and professional responses to inquiries.

• Deliver a world-class experience to founders, mentors, partners, investors and other stakeholders.

What You’ll Work On

• Pre-Accelerator: The pre-accelerator is a 6-week programme that condenses the most valuable startup lessons for early-stage founders. You’ll help deliver this by coordinating events and workshops, recruiting founders and managing speakers.

• Founder Weekends & Startup Sprints: 24 or 48-hour sprints where teams explore ideas and progress to the next stage.  Your work will include scheduling the weekends, managing logistics and providing direct support to the founders wherever needed.

• Office Hours: We run weekly mentoring sessions open to any founders across the Island of Ireland. You will help run the scheduling and sessions smoothly in collaboration with our regional partners and guest mentors. 

• Masterclasses: Courses designed to ‘level up’ and activate more participants from across the ecosystem. You will help with recruiting attendees and speakers, broadcasting and AV, content creation, and facilitating sessions and breakout rooms.

• Other Projects: We regularly test out new programmes and business lines. You might help collaborate with a university, set up a new programme, or work on the logistics of events with some of the world’s largest corporations.

• KPIs Monitoring and Reporting: You will help monitor quality and performance against our KPIs across all the different programmes and initiatives and assist with the preparation of periodical reports.

• Systems Management: We use a set of tools and platforms to deliver our programmes. You will be responsible for managing these systems, ensuring correct functioning and making improvements and adjustments along the way.

Who You Are

• You’re passionate about startups, innovation, and cutting-edge technology.

• You thrive in a fast-paced environment and enjoy bringing order to chaos. 

• You love schedules and organisation, and you know how to deliver a project with many moving parts within a tight timeline. 

• You’re a generalist, happy to chip in wherever you’re needed.

• You’re a lifelong learner who engages in the discourse around technology, startups, entrepreneurship, and venture capital

• You’re able to work with technology and tools (Google Suite, Slack, Airtable, Zoom, Teamwork, Hubspot, Jotform, etc). You don’t need to code!

• You’re great at project management and able to work competently on simultaneous projects, under tight deadlines and competing priorities. 

• You have great communication skills and can work closely with people.

• You’re a strategic thinker with the ability to synthesise research and ideas into meaningful and powerful presentations.

• You’re a team player who enjoys collaborative work and brings a positive attitude to any task.

What You'll Gain

• Hands-on experience in building startups from the ground up.
• The chance to make a real impact on Ireland's next generation of entrepreneurs.
• Exposure to the latest technologies shaping the world and Ireland's largest community of tech entrepreneurs
• The opportunity to meet and learn from top global entrepreneurs as they share their knowledge with our teams.
• Mentorship and guidance from seasoned professionals in the field.

Terms
This is a contractor role that will run through to the end of November 2025. 
The team are required on site full time, based at our offices in the CHQ Building, Custom House Quay, Dublin 1, Ireland. Outside of this, we offer flexibility and we are open to discussing hybrid work arrangements to accommodate your needs while ensuring the successful execution of projects.