This is starting as a 9 month contract with the potential of extension.

Key responsibilities

• Provide community support to tech start-ups and retail businesses
• Act as initial point of contact for businesses in the program to triage and assist with incoming requests for small businesses assistance
• Conduct outreach to businesses on quarterly basis to obtain key metric updates including revenue, employee counts, and funding, and update tracker for internal quarterly business reviews.
• Maintain database of business summaries in order to regularly share out information to PR team, prospective investors and business opportunities.
• Collect and share relevant events for Business Attraction startup and retail community.
• Coordinate events for neighborhood and tech ecosystem-related activations. Examples include farmers markets, in-store activations at local restaurants, and festivals.
• Manage pre-event logistics including coordinating vendors, security, A/V, legal review of contracts, process purchase orders etc. as needed to execute the event.
• Provide on-site event support including set up, breakdown and event run of show as needed.
• Ensure post event follow ups are completed inclusive of setting up de-brief meetings, sending out attendee surveys, reporting metrics and submitting invoices.
• Draft and edit communications to ensure ongoing promotion of business attraction and activations.
• Engage with community stakeholders, such as programming partners, property owners and tech ecosystem participants For example, coordinate regular tech ecosystem stakeholder meetings to ensure ongoing collaboration and awareness of initiatives.
• Perform other tasks as assigned by Sr Dir, Economic Dev Programs and Neighborhood Activations Director.

Qualifications:

• Bachelors Degree preferred
• 5 years experience in executing events and/or community engagement
• Multi-task with the ability to quickly change focus and balance the needs of the moment with longer-term goals.
• Excel at building strong relationships and persuasive in written and verbal communication
• Comfortable with and find opportunity in ambiguity
• Outstanding work ethic and organizational skills
• Extremely detail oriented
• Demonstrated initiative and creativity
• Strong Excel skills
• Ability to work evenings and weekends when necessary.