Startup Entrepreneurship Specialist

Job Title: Startup Entrepreneurship Specialist

Reports to: Operations Manager (Fase1)

Location /

Hours:

San Juan, Puerto Rico / Full-Time

Type of

Contract:

Fixed Term Contract (through June 2026)

The Puerto Rico Science, Technology and Research Trust ("PRSTRT" or "Trust") is a private non‑profit organization created in 2004 to encourage and promote innovation, transfer, and commercialization of technology and creation of jobs in the technology sector. We contribute to Puerto Rico’s public policy for science, technology, research, and development. The Trust’s mission is to invest, facilitate and build capacity to continually advance Puerto Rico's economy and its citizens’ well‑being through innovation‑driven enterprises, science, technology, research, and public health.

Our vision is that Puerto Rico is a globally recognized innovation hub.

Fase1 is an incubation program operated with CDBG‑DR funding. It has the objective of making innovative entrepreneurship accessible to potential entrepreneurs in Puerto Rico by catalyzing idea‑stage ventures into successful startups. Fase1, as one of the Trust’s entrepreneurship pillar programs, will be executed in collaboration with Parallel
18, a top‑level, performance‑driven international startup program with a social mission and with Colmena
66, a referral network that links Puerto Rico’s entrepreneurs to local and regional business‑building organizations, or resource partners, that can help them start and grow their businesses.

This role plays a critical part in the development and growth of the participants that join Fase1 programs. This individual will work closely with entrepreneurs, mentors, and other stakeholders to help participants take their ideas into an innovative product. Also, this person will assist with marketing tasks and strategies and provide advice on how best to reach the target audience. A big part of the job is to build and nurture meaningful relationships within the Fase1 community to further develop our programs’ reach and impact.

We expect from this role to awesomely facilitate the development and progress of the participants during their time in the programs. The most important characteristic for this job will be the passion to give back to the entrepreneurship and innovation community in Puerto Rico. The program is made to collaborate and facilitate the path of entrepreneurs, and we need people to be there for them.

• Track Fase1 registrants, onboard them to the educational platform by working closely to encourage and motivate them to complete the basic modules.
• Manage program participants, meeting with them on a regular basis to validate their progress and challenges while providing feedback and constant support throughout their journey on Fase1’s incubator stages.
• Execute the incubation effectively and creatively which includes helping with the recruitment and retention of new applicants, engaging mentors, and resources to support the program, actively participating in the incubator sessions planning and execution, supporting the program marketing and outreach efforts, among other related tasks. Complete participants’ profiles and communication interactions, including data entries of the required information and documentation, into the program established platforms, including PRDOH system of record and any other CRM platform.
• Actively participate in the planning, development, and execution of Fase1 Lab training modules.
• Help with the planning and execution of the events/workshops/conferences that the program organizes. Also, bring new perspectives and insights for building new engagements.
• Manage the different networks of stakeholders involved in the Fase1 program (participants, startups, mentors, and resource partners).
• Connect participants with mentors/companies/universities.
• Participate and represent Fase1 in local entrepreneurship events, entrepreneurial give back engagements, and in university outreach efforts.
• Work alongside the Colmena
  66 and parallel
  18 teams to manage all referrals and support all joint outreach efforts.
• Manage outreach efforts to engage service providers…