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
• Coordinate 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:

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