Fellowship Description:
The XPRIZE Foundation designs and operates global prize competitions to incentivize the development of radical technology for the benefit of humanity. Since its founding in 1994, the organization has launched twenty competitions in the domains of Space, Oceans, Learning, Health, Energy, Environment, Transportation, Public Safety and Robotics.
Our first XPRIZE competition, the $10 million Ansari XPRIZE for private spaceflight, spurred an industry and created exponential breakthroughs. Since then we have launched over $240 million in prize purses, including the $15 million Global Learning XPRIZE, the $10 million Qualcomm Tricorder XPRIZE, and the $1.4 million Wendy Schmidt Oil Cleanup XPRIZE. Each of these prizes has created an industry-changing technology that brings us closer to a better, safer, more sustainable world.
XPRIZE is excited to offer a GradFUTURES fellow the opportunity to learn and grow by contributing to the design of our next wave of moonshot incentive prize ideas in the domains of Health, Climate, Energy and Space. The fellow will collaborate closely with XPRIZEs’ Global Visioneering Program Manager to perform primary and secondary research and analysis to support the design of new incentive prize concepts by examining the current challenges, opportunities, and market landscape surrounding the potential prize area. Additionally, the fellow will be responsible for drafting collateral to effectively communicate these prize concepts to key stakeholders and potential prize sponsors.
Project Overview:
- Perform primary and secondary research and analysis to provide critical background in the areas of Health, Climate, Energy and Space that will identify problems to be addressed through specific incentive-based competitions.
- Map current challenges, opportunities, and market landscape surrounding potential prize areas.
- Engage experts, practitioners, and thought leaders to gain key insights related to prize topics.
- Produce data visualizations and other communication assets.
- Draft and review the content for multiple prize concepts which synthesizes research and data analysis. Develop collateral that effectively communicates prize concepts to key stakeholders and potential prize sponsors.
Skills & Experience Overview:
- Research and data analysis
- A passion for the use of technology to solve grand challenges
- Experience with incentive competitions is a plus
- The ideal candidate will have a background in research, analysis and science communication
- Ability to manage projects independently while participating in the program remotely
- Strong verbal and written communications skills
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office and the Google suite of products
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