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About the Role

The Manager of the Bioscience Incubator provides strategic, operational, and scientific leadership for Austin Community College’s (ACC) wet lab facility. This role oversees day-to-day laboratory operations, guides facility growth, manages company admissions, and integrates tenant activities with ACC’s educational mission, partnering with the Director. The ideal candidate pairs hands-on wet lab expertise with strong administrative judgment to lead people, programs, and partnerships in a dynamic biotech ecosystem.

Responsibilities

Provide comprehensive oversight of Bioscience Incubator laboratory operations, including shared equipment, instrumentation, consumables, and tenant company usage.
Ensure compliance with institutional, local, state, and federal health, safety, and environmental regulations.
Develop and implement lab policies, standard operating procedures (SOPs), training programs, and preventive maintenance schedules.
Serve as the primary liaison to ACC support services for facility operations.
Serve as the primary point of contact for instrumentation vendors for purchasing, repair, and maintenance.
Supervise, mentor, and support laboratory staff and student workers.
Provide leadership for lab maintenance activities while supporting internships, undergraduate research projects, and workforce training initiatives.
Act as a trusted operational resource and advisor for tenant companies and student workers.
Design and implement programming such as workshops, seminars, and networking events.
Create and manage experiential learning opportunities, including internships, research collaborations, and industry partnerships.
Represent the Bioscience Incubator at regional startup, biotech, and community events.
Partner with the Director to shape the strategic direction, growth plans, and long-term sustainability of the Bioscience Incubator.
Evaluate and support the selection of prospective tenant companies.
Contribute to admissions strategy, onboarding, and ongoing operational support.
Serve as an operational and scientific advisor to early-stage companies.
Track and analyze incubator outcomes, including economic impact, company progress, workforce development outcomes, and program effectiveness.
Develop and refine metrics to evaluate incubator success and inform future strategy.
Streamline institutional reporting.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree.
Four (4) years of related work experience or Associate’s degree plus two (2) years of related work experience can be substituted for the required education.
Three (3) years related work experience including one (1) year supervisory experience.
Completion of the ACC Supervisor Certificate Series Program will satisfy the supervisory experience required for this position.
Employees are required to maintain a domicile in the State of Texas while working for the college and throughout the duration of employment.
Ability to read chemical labels, follow lab protocols, and assess lab spaces for safety compliance.
Work schedule may include occasional evenings or weekends to support programming or events.

Skills

Servant-Leadership principles
Statistical and analytical methodologies
Change management theories
Student services processes and procedures
Enrollment trends
ACC culture and academic curricula
Emerging technologies and communication systems
Project management techniques
Student development best practices
Wet lab practices
Laboratory safety protocols
Chemical handling, storage, and disposal
Biotechnology instrumentation
Standard maintenance, calibration procedures, and quality assurance expectations for biotechnology instrumentation
Life science commercialization pathways
Startup incubator business model
Relevant regulatory landscapes
Strengths-based coaching principles
Effective interpersonal and communications skills, including tact and diplomacy
Effective organizational and planning skills
Supervisory and management skills founded in servant leadership principles
Collaborative work
Maintain confidentiality of work-related information and materials
Establish and maintain effective working relationships
Effectively manage change
Prioritize multiple projects
Create, compose, and edit written materials
Develop, write, plan and implement short and long-range goals
Maintain an established work schedule, including some evenings and weekends
Workday as an HRM system
Job requisition processes
Performance evaluations
Maintaining consistent, high-quality personnel data
Balance scientific rigor with operational efficiency in a shared and multi-tenant laboratory environment
Strong leadership, planning, organizational, and decision-making skills
Acute attention to detail and diligent follow through
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, paired with a customer-oriented mindset
Facilitate collaboration effectively across students, faculty, support staff, administrators, entrepreneurs, and community partners
High level of professionalism, discretion, and commitment to confidentiality
Technical aptitude
Use laboratory equipment software and related operational systems
Proficiency with spreadsheet, word processing, database, and presentation software

Location

Austin, TX

Work Type

Remote/In-Person framework

Experience Level

One (1) year supervisory experience
Professional experience in life sciences, biotechnology, or a related discipline
Experience in a startup, incubator, or entrepreneurial environment
Prior leadership or supervisory experience in a laboratory setting
Experience supporting both research and applied/industry lab activities

Education Level

Bachelor’s degree in a science, biotechnology, or related field (preferred)
Associate’s degree (can substitute for Bachelor's with additional experience)

Salary/Compensations

$90,974 - $116,361

Benefits

Medical, dental, life insurance, short- and long-term disability, retirement plans, and AD&D
Teacher Retirement System of Texas (TRS) and the Optional Retirement Program (ORP-Faculty and Administrators Only)
ACC Money Purchase Plan (ACCMPP) for hourly employees

About the Company

Austin Community College is a public two-year institution that serves a multicultural population of approximately 41,000 credit students each Fall and Spring semester.
We embrace our identity as a community college, as reflected in our mission statement.
We promote student success and community development by providing affordable access, through traditional and distance learning modes, to higher education and workforce training, including appropriate applied baccalaureate degrees, in our service area.
ACC offers career employment opportunities as staff, administrators, full-time faculty, and adjunct faculty.
Working at ACC offers you an opportunity to be a part of an organization that truly believes in its mission of promoting student success and improving communities.
We invite you to learn, explore and experience the many ways ACC promotes individual development and improves the overall quality of life in a vibrant, multicultural community.
ACC is looking for people who value open, responsible exchange of ideas, individuals committed to integrity and exemplary standards, and candidates that value personal and professional ownership that generates accountability.

Equal Opportunity

Austin Community College (“ACC” or “College”) is an equal education and equal employment opportunity employer and prohibits discrimination in employment at the college and access to its programs or activities on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, and pregnancy), national origin, age (40 and older), veteran status or military service, disability, genetic information or any other basis prohibited by local, state, or federal law.
This includes the prohibition of discrimination, including harassment, against any employee, applicant for employment, student, or applicant for admission.
ACC will take steps to ensure that the lack of English language skills will not be a barrier to admission and participation in all educational and vocational programs.
As required by the US Department of Education, employees are required to report violations under Title IX and, under the Jeanne Clery Campus Safety Act (Clery Act), select individuals are required to report crimes.
If this position is identified as a Campus Security Authority (Clery Act), you will be notified, trained, and provided resources for reporting.
Austin Community College produces an Annual Security Report as required by the Clery Act. This report includes statistics from the previous three years concerning reported crime that occurred on campus; public property adjacent to and accessible from campus; and in certain non-campus buildings/property owned or controlled by ACC.
The report includes institutional policies concerning campus security and other safety information.