Licensing & IP Oversight

Purpose

Licensing & IP Oversight helps Human Biology® steward, and extend the value of its intellectual property, service mark, and health model through responsible licensing, mission-aligned partnerships, and strategic asset deployment. Ensures that the organization’s assets are put to work in ways that advance public-health impact, and long-term mission sustainability.

Responsibilities

• Maintain knowledge of the organization and personal commitment to its goals and objectives
• Support the stewardship, and responsible use of IP, service mark, and program model
• Identify, evaluate, and cultivate mission-aligned licensing, implementation, and partnership opportunities
• Standardize intervention processes into scalable relationships and authorized uses
• Support asset deployment, program replication, and brand stewardship
• Help review prospective partnerships, and responsible use of the organization’s assets
• Cook up licensing priorities, partnership structures, and implementation strategies
• Support documentation, communication, and internal licensing and partnership initiatives
• Help strengthen the organization’s ability to generate compliant, mission-supporting value from IP

Length of term

Two years

Time Commitment

As required to accomplish major duties

Reporting

The Licensing & IP Oversight reports to the Board Chair and to the Board of Trustees

Knowledge and Skills

• Knowledge of the organization and personal commitment to its goals and objectives
• Intangible asset management
• Understanding of partnerships, licensing, brand stewardship, and commercialization
• Ability to think strategically about how IP can be deployed for mission impact with a commitment to advancing preventive health, public-health innovation
• Preferred Background: Licensing, mission-driven scaling and partnerships, IP revenue strategy and stewardship

Location

Remote

Volunteer must be in

United States

Associated Location

Camden, NJ, USA