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Stanford Seed is excited to announce an opening for the Regional Communications & Network Coordinator position at Stanford Seed in India!
About Stanford Seed
Building on Stanford's decades-long history of educating innovators in Silicon Valley, Stanford Seed has been bringing this innovative mindset and practical business training to entrepreneurs in Africa and Asia for the past twelve years, making a significant impact in the region.
Seed is a Stanford Graduate School of Business-led (GSB) initiative that's working to end the cycle of global poverty. We believe that business is one of the most powerful engines of change to move developing economies to greater prosperity. To maximize our impact, we're working across multiple segments, programs and geographies. We partner with entrepreneurs in emerging markets to build thriving enterprises that transform lives. For more information about the Seed program, please visit seed.stanford.edu.
Overview
The Regional Communications & Network Coordinator is a dual-function role designed to bridge the gap between high-level brand strategy and on-the-ground operational excellence. This role serves as the primary regional steward for the Stanford Seed brand, ensuring that all communications, events, and network activities reflect the excellence and integrity of Stanford University, Stanford Graduate School of Business, and Stanford Seed.
By bringing accountability to previously fragmented processes, the Coordinator ensures that the Stanford Seed Transformation Network (STN) operates with consistency, visibility, and strategic alignment across all regional chapters.
I. Brand Stewardship & Communications Liaison
- Onboarding & Oversight: Serve as the lead brand liaison for Network Chapters leadership, staff and consultants - for South Asia and ad hoc in Indonesia. Provide comprehensive onboarding on brand voice, tone, logo usage, and common pitfalls to ensure brand alignment from day one.
- Brand Guardian: Is the regional lead on all matters related to brand voice, tone, logo usage, and common pitfalls to ensure brand alignment from day one. Actively monitor the regional markets for brand misuse by collaborators and participants. Resolve issues proactively and verify that all live assets meet strict brand requirements.
- Asset Management: Manage the regional flows of design requests. Liaise between regional teams and central designers to ensure WhatsApp graphics, event posts, and marketing materials meet brand standards and are delivered on schedule.
II. Content Strategy & Social Visibility
- Local Storytelling: Source and produce a steady pipeline of locally-driven content, including STP and Spark participant, and Network member success stories, participant milestones, and event coverage to feed global newsletters and social channels.
- Photography Coordination: Assist with the in-region photography workflows. Mitigate legal risk by soliciting and managing documented permissions/approvals for photo use in marketing collateral. On-board new photographers. Coordinate on-site photographers to separate "hero" marketing images from shareable "candid" albums for participants to increase organic LinkedIn visibility.
- Digital Engagement: Support regional social media presence on Stanford Seed’s central channels and drive engagement through regional content and event capture. Form relationships with Network leadership in order to receive content ideas. This includes digital outreach in support of STP recruitment, covering online and in-person events, pre-event marketing, and post-event content such as event highlights and photography. Meet at a regular cadence with counterparts in other regions to ensure equal representation.
- Track relevant ecosystem events and proactively suggest speaking and participation opportunities for Seed staff to strengthen Seed’s visibility, brand presence, and thought leadership.
III. Event & Immersion Week Excellence
- Visual Presentation: Provide support in ensuring the visual "environment" of Immersion Weeks, high-visibility events, and award presentations are on point. Ensure signage, presentation decks, and banners meet Stanford Seed’s quality standards, resolving on-site brand issues in real-time.
- Event Logistics: Support the Network Manager(s) in planning and delivering end-of-year events, masterclasses, and expert-led sessions, including venue preparation and participant communication.
IV. Network Administration & Growth
- Impact Tracking and MIS:
- Manage the annual impact data gathering process, including monitoring transformation metrics from select companies to support the Annual Seed Survey.
- Maintain regional participant contact databases and trackers to support outreach and survey completion.
- Prepare network programme summaries and MIS reports for regional and global reporting cycles.
- Relationship Management: Build and maintain relationships with business leaders through periodic check-in calls and site visits.
- Strategic Recruitment: Assist in annual participant recruitment by managing referral initiatives across regional chapters.
- Manage promotional inventory planning and replenishment: Coordinate with Regional Finance on procurement and customs.
To be successful in this role, you will bring:
- Education: Bachelor’s degree in Communications, Marketing, Journalism, Business Administration, or a related field.
- Experience: 2–4 years of experience in program coordination, brand management, social media, journalism, and/or entrepreneurship support (incubators, accelerators, or business networks).
- Technical Proficiency: Mastery of Google Workspace and Slack. Experience and interest in AI-powered content tools (Claude) and social media management are a plus.
Skills:
- High Accountability: Ability to own processes end-to-end without constant supervision.
- Communication: Exceptional written and verbal skills with a "Stanford-appropriate" tone.
- Stakeholder Engagement: Comfortable initiating outreach and building relationships with internal teams, network chapters, and external partners across business and ecosystem contexts; At ease in event settings.
- Multitasking: Comfortable managing a distributed workload across marketing, logistics, data collection, and network management.
Additional Requirements: Must have legal authorization to work in India and a willingness to travel for regional events.
Work Location: This position is based in India, with flexibility regarding the specific work location; candidates are not required to be based in Chennai. The role may be performed remotely or in a hybrid arrangement, depending on the candidate’s location and business needs.
Stanford University is one of Silicon Valley's largest and unique employers. Our mission is to educate future leaders and promote interdisciplinary, world-class research and teaching. This passion makes Stanford an intensely creative, rewarding, and challenging place to work. At the same time, our traditions of respect and collaboration sustain a humane, supportive environment in which to pursue your life and your career. Our full-time employees also enjoy a very competitive benefits package. Please visit: benefits.stanford.edu
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