Career Opportunities

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Apr 6

SBDC Center Director and APEX

Pierre, South Dakota
South Dakota SBDC

Position is for a single-person center located in Pierre, SD (Capital of South Dakota). The office is part of the University of South Dakota and receives state employee benefits (retirement, insurance and leave).

Full time position that splits duties between SBDC activities and APEX Accelerator (PTAC).

Duties include assisting with business plan development, financial projections/analysis, basic business managements advice (licensing, marketing, etc). APEX duties include assisting with contracting.

We will begin reviewing applicants after March 15th.

Apr 5

Business Consultant

Pensacola, Florida
Florida SBDC Network State Office

Educate and advise clients on growth strategies, business model concepts and advanced financial forecasting, advanced capital structures and strategies through following network consulting policies and procedures. One-on-one advice and consulting to be provided to include: business and strategic plan development; financial analysis and planning; marketing research and plan development; business management and operations; and basic legal issues. Develop educational materials and present educational programs as appropriate. Outreach to educate clients, partners and stakeholders on SBDC services and impact.

Contribute to knowledge creation and dissemination through communicating with peers and participating in network activities. Significant networking and alliance building with community partners including Economic Development Agencies, Chambers of Commerce, and other community organizations for the purpose of building client service base. Must be able to work both independently and collaboratively. This position requires successful completion of 20 hours of pre-approved professional development credits each calendar year.

This position will regularly work evenings attending meetings and events. During declared campus emergencies, this position may be required to perform specific job related duties at a designated off-campus location or place of residence.

Mar 18

West Hawaii Center Director

Kailua Kona, Hawaii
Hawaii SBDC

Administers the programmatic operations at the West Hawai‘i SBDC. Responsible at the Center level for the implementation, deployment, and management of activities designed to carry out the Hawai‘i SBDC Network strategies. Annually participates in a negotiation process for allocation of network goals to their Center. Network goals include both sponsor-required goals and internally generated goals and metrics. Evaluates Center operations and program effectiveness, and works with state leadership to develop new approaches and processes to meet the needs of the local small business community. Provides business counseling services and business advice to small business clients and entrepreneurs in direct one-on-one sessions. Drives to attend meetings with clients. Directs, supervises, and assigns work to SBDC staff. Monitors professional staff development to accomplish defined certifications. Develops curricula and conducts training sessions and events for small business owners and clients. Periodically assesses Center performance and makes recommendations to leadership on how improvements can be achieved. Engages in advocacy for small business interests and community development by serving on boards, committees, task forces and other public/private sector, community groups. Meets regularly with area economic development organizations and small business groups to promote the Hawai‘i SBDC, to support the local business environment, and to serve as an advocate for the small business sector. Develops and maintains working relationships with elected officials and personnel in county, state and federal agencies, as well as Chambers of Commerce, business organizations, economic development agencies, lending institutions and program funding sources.

Mar 24

Director of SBDC

Bend, Oregon
Central Oregon SBDC

The Director SBDC provides administrative, operational and supervisory oversight for COCC Small Business Development Center (SBDC) services throughout the college district, as an integral part of the Oregon SBDC Network office and under the direction of the Executive Director of COCC’s Center for Business, Industry, and Professional Development. Under the general guidance of the Oregon SBDC State Director and the COCC Executive Director, the SBDC Director is responsible for assigned staff supervision, operations management and coordination of programs, related systems and associated budget authority.

Mar 22

Regional Director, Kansas SBDC

Overland Park, Kansas
Johnson County Community College

Position, Department: Regional Director, Kansas SBDC, Continuing Education & Workforce Development

Type of Position: Full-time Salaried, Exempt

Work Schedule, Hours per week: Monday through Friday , 40 hours per week

Pay Range: $73,851-$92,314 and determined based on relevant years of work experience.

Benefits Category: Full-time Benefits

Position Summary: The Regional Director leads and manages two Federally funded programs, the Small Business Development Center (SBDC) and the APEX Accelerator Program at JCCC. The Director provides strategic direction in development of consulting services, programs and resources for entrepreneurs seeking to launch, expand, stabilize or transition their small business in Johnson, Wyandotte and Miami County, Kansas. The Director is responsible for actively engaging in community outreach and legislative events, innovative professional development, fiscal management of JCCC and multiple federal grant budgets, and the collection of economic impact data.

Required Qualifications:

    • This position requires a Master’s degree in Business Administration or business- related advanced degree.
    • Five years of business management and five years of supervisory experience.
    • Five years’ experience developing, implementing, monitoring and reporting budgets and/or financial information.
    • Valid driver license.
    • Demonstrated strong written communication.
    • Ability to speak publicly with large and small groups.
    • Experience with grants.
    • Strong use of technology related to database, web, marketing and reporting.

Preferred Qualifications:

    • Past ownership of a small business.
    • Experience consulting with small business.
    • Experience marketing small business.

To be considered for this position we will require an application, resume, and/or cover letter.

*Unofficial transcripts are required for all Adjunct faculty and Faculty positions.

Mar 27

Business Advisor

East Hartford, Connecticut
Connecticut SBDC

The Connecticut Small Business Development Center (CTSBDC) is seeking a full-time Business Advisor (Educational Program Administrator). The incumbent will report to the CTSBDC Associate Director and will provide counseling through one-on-one and group advising and participate in learning and training programs to assist and support small business owners and entrepreneurs on a wide range of business topics. This position acts as a consultant, advocate and liaison for all CTSBDC services and resources. The incumbent will be expected to be knowledgeable about and have experience either with advising on or addressing in a professional capacity such topics as: business financing, financing growth, financial management, debt and equity financing, marketing research, marketing strategies including digital marketing, operational team development, business governance, business process analysis, and business launch issues including registration and licensing and permitting compliance. The incumbent is expected to be knowledgeable about and have experience with the Connecticut Small Business Boost Loan Program. In addition, the incumbent should have a general knowledge of veterans’, women, and minority business issues; federal, state and local resources for business; licensing and permitting regulations; government procurement certification; and general patent and trademark issues.

The primary work location is flexible and will be dependent upon the candidate selected.

The incumbent will be assigned to either a location in mid or southern Connecticut, or the CTSBDC Lead Office in East Hartford. In state and out-of-state travel, as well as flexible hours, will be required.

Mar 16

Business Advisor

Yakima, Washington
Washington State University - SBDC

The primary focus of the SBDC program is business development education through individual and small group advising. The SBDC is a network of entrepreneurially minded professional Business Advisors with significant experience in small business who enjoy the intrinsic value of helping business owners/managers developing or improving their business knowledge and skills to effectively manage the operations of their business.


In confidential, one-on-one relationships, and in adherence to the conduct policies of the SBDC program, you will educate, mentor, and advise clients in all areas of growing a business. You will work independently in a community-located SBDC center, yet frequently collaborate with Business Advisors across the state who request assistance on behalf of a client with need for specific expertise. You must develop and maintain a referral network within your local service areas to ensure you maintain a robust client caseload capable of delivering significant economic impacts to the local community and the state.


In addition to the instruction/advising component of the position, you will perform significant outreach activities to engage the community through regular contact with Chambers of Commerce, Economic Development Councils, service clubs, community organizations, and legislators in conjunction with the Lead Office staff. You must also build relationships with various and diverse stakeholders to advocate support of the SBDC program, including elected officials, funding partners, businesses, and community leaders.


New Business Advisors in the SBDC network will need to successfully complete a certification program to become fully certified as a Business Advisor. Certification is designed to allow the new Business Advisor to demonstrate their comprehensive knowledge and abilities to be successful in guiding clients toward their goals while taking advantage of learning from experienced advisors sharing best practices, tools, and processes they use to assist their clients.

Business Advisor

Southwest Washington Coast, Washington
Washington State University - SBDC

The primary focus of the SBDC program is business development education through individual and small group advising. In addition to the instruction/advising component of the position, as the Business Advisor, you will perform significant outreach activities to engage the community through regular contact with Chambers of Commerce, Economic Development Councils, service clubs, and community organizations and legislators in conjunction with the Lead Office staff. The SBDC is a network of entrepreneurial minded professional business advisors with significant experience in small business who enjoy the intrinsic value of helping business owners/managers developing or improving their business knowledge and skills to effectively manage the operations of their business. In confidential, one-on-one relationships, we educate, mentor, and advise clients in all areas of growing a business.

You will also adhere to the conduct policies of the SBDC program. Most Business Advisors work independently in a community-located SBDC center, yet frequently collaborate with Business Advisors across the state who request assistance on behalf of a client with need for specific expertise. You must be well organized to manage more than 100 clients annually. Business clients will be from every sector of the local business community and require a full range of business services. You must have comprehensive knowledge and experience of small business operations. You must understand the client’s situation, analyze the problems, and guide the client in developing a solution they are willing and able to implement. You will typically identify a range of solutions, discuss the pros and cons of each, and explain abstract concepts with real world examples. You will constantly seek professional development opportunities to expand their core competencies in all areas of business, including technology, necessary to start, grow, sustain, and transition a small business.

Peer mentoring is valued within the Washington SBDC Network and you will often share your expertise in response to queries from other Business Advisors. You must develop and maintain a referral network within your local service areas to ensure you maintain a robust client caseload capable of delivering significant economic impacts to the local community and the state. You must also build relationships with various and diverse stakeholders to advocate support of the SBDC program, including elected officials, funding partners, businesses, and community leaders.

New Business Advisors in the SBDC network will need to successfully complete a certification program to become fully certified as a Business Advisor. Certification is designed to allow the new Business Advisor to demonstrate their comprehensive knowledge and abilities to be successful in guiding clients toward their goals while taking advantage of learning from experienced advisors sharing best practices, tools, and processes they use to assist their clients.

Mar 12

Business Growth Services Director

Rolla, Missouri
Missouri SBDC

MU TITLE: Assistant/Associate/Full Extension Professional

LOCATION: Rolla, Missouri and primarily serves Phelps County along with the counties within the I-44 Corridor in the East Central Region, with additional service across the state as needed.

Specialist Emphasis

Field Specialists with the MU Extension Business Development Programs (BDP) transform Missouri business and industry through education, technical service, and collaboration by working with small to medium size companies to improve bottom-line performance. As a Field Specialist you will plan, implement, and evaluate business programs and services utilizing research-based knowledge in business growth, strategic planning, technology development, government contracting, marketing, management, finance, capital formation, operations, human resources, business start-up and business growth/sustainability, as well as other timely business-related topics to assist existing and new entrepreneurs.

This position primarily serves as a business educator and high growth company specialist for traditional and technology-based programing for Stage II companies across the state, with emphasis in finance, management, marketing, commercialization, product development and growth management.

Program specialization: The Business Development Specialist is responsible for providing:

Business coaching primarily to existing and second-stage business to grow and operate businesses ventures that result in economic and societal outcomes.
Collaborate with MU Extension BDP partners, local, regional, and statewide partners to promote and provide services of the Missouri SBDC on topics and tools relevant to Second Stage Businesses.
Serve as the Missouri SBDC ELEVATE Program Director: Actively travel, prospect and recruit medium-sized business throughout Missouri to participate in the ELEVATE program.
Implement the Missouri SBDC Business Growth Services program ELEVATE in conjunction with the Edward Lowe Foundation.
Develop and provide high-quality educational programs that are consistent with the MU Extension mission, are research- and evidence-based, and result in learning and behavior changes that positively impact the economy and society.
Foster diversity and inclusiveness by providing educational programs that are representative of diversity in the assigned counties.

MU Extension Business Development program is an important component of the state’s economic development strategy and the University of Missouri’s economic development mission through providing education and assistance to businesses throughout Missouri. For more information about extension’s business programs visit https://extension.missouri.edu/find-your-interest/business-and-community/business-development

Field Specialist are Extension faculty positions on a 12-month, non-tenure track appointments to the promotable ranks of assistant, associate, or full Extension Professional. Rank will be determined at the time of appointment based on qualifications and experience in accordance with the MU Extension faculty standards.

This position will hold a working title of Field Specialist in Business Development

As a Field Specialist, your workload distribution at appointment will be 90% Extension Teaching and 10% Traditional Service.

This appointment is renewable annually at the discretion of the University and workload distribution may change at the discretion of Extension leadership. Circumstances affecting continued employment include, but are not limited to, work performance, fund availability, and educational priorities.

Regional Director

Monticello, Arkansas
Arkansas SBTDC

POSITION SUMMARY:

The Director of the Arkansas Small Business and Technology Development Center (ASBTDC) at the University of Arkansas at Monticello (UAM) reports to the Dean of the UAM School of Business and works closely with the ASBTDC State Director and lead center management team.

The ASBTDC provides business consulting, technical assistance, and training to entrepreneurs and small business owners in all facets of starting, managing, and growing a small business. The Director will focus on individual assistance with business startup, business planning, marketing, budgeting, financial analysis, and preparing business owners to apply for capital. The Director will also conduct outreach and instruct training on small business topics. Services will be delivered in accordance with program guidelines in order to achieve the performance measures and economic impact goals of the ASBTDC.

The position requires the applicant to work in a professional environment: dependability, diplomacy, flexibility, discretion, judgment, and confidentiality are a must. This is a full-time, grant-funded position. This position is governed by state and federal laws, and agency/institution policy.

QUALIFICATIONS:

Required Education and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree;
• Direct experience with business planning, marketing and financial management;
• Ability to prepare, understand and analyze financial statements;
• Ability to conduct outreach and to provide technical information to assist clients with starting and growing small businesses;
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite;
• Experience working with people of diverse backgrounds and working with communities of under-resourced groups.

Preferred Education and/or Experience:

• Master’s degree;
• Small business ownership experience;
• Business consulting experience;
• Experience preparing loan proposals for financial institutions.

SBDC Business Advisor

Missoula, MT
University of Montana

The Office of Research invites applications for a Business Advisor to join their team. The Missoula SBDC Business Advisor will support the national and state missions of the SBA’s Small Business Development Center program as well as the mission of the University of Montana. Specifically, the mission of Montana’s Small Business Development Center is to provide tools and guidance to help small businesses succeed. For an individual that is looking to start a new business or expand their existing business, the SBDC network is the best place to start. The SBDC network supports ten centers across the state, focusing on free one-on-one counseling and low-cost training in areas such as financial analysis, business planning, strategic planning, loan packaging, financial projections and market research to help small businesses achieve their goals of growth, innovation and success.

The Missoula SBDC program is part of the UM’s Office of Research and Creative Scholarship which supports research-driven student success. Through advocacy and advancement of basic and applied research, creative work, and academic scholarship, ORCS fosters an environment where research, scholarly activities, entrepreneurship, and economic development thrive and advance the educational and research mission of the University.

In addition, Missoula SBDC supports UM’s Business and Entrepreneurship Community of Excellence to prepare students to confront economic challenges and opportunities by promoting leadership and innovation, encouraging partnerships, and meeting workforce demands and needs.

It is expected that this position will support strategic objectives of the SBDC and UM through providing economic development services across the Missoula SBDC service area particularly through in-person and technology-based outreach to Missoula, Mineral, Ravalli, and Sanders counties. Outreach to the four counties in the Missoula SBDC service area may include organizing and executing training events, in-person consultations, attending networking events, and building on relationships with other economic development agencies and lenders.

The University of Montana is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity employer and has a strong institutional commitment to the principle of diversity in all areas. In that spirit, we are particularly interested in receiving applications from a broad spectrum of qualified people who would assist the University in demonstrating its five priorities for action: Place student success at the center of all we do; drive excellence and innovation in teaching, learning, and research; embody the principle of “mission first, people always”; partner with place; and proudly tell the UM story.

Client Success Specialist

San Francisco, CA
San Francisco SBDC (part of the Norcal SBDC Network)

You’ll be wearing many hats: providing one-on-one business assistance, case management, training coordination and efficient administrative support to our diverse range of entrepreneurs. Please see full description for this exciting opportunity on the website link: https://us.smrtr.io/37_h7 or hit the “apply” button to the right on this page.

Business Start-up Consultant

La Plata, Maryland
MD SBDC/College of Southern Maryland

We are seeking a Part-Time Consultant to join the Small Business Development Center (SBDC) at the College of Southern Maryland. The consultant will play a vital role in offering guidance and backing to small businesses that originated in Charles County during the COVID-19 pandemic but encountered hurdles in actualizing their business blueprints. Additionally, the consultant will extend their support to aspiring entrepreneurs who desire to start businesses due to the impact of COVID-19.

This role will be primarily dedicated to aiding businesses in their initial phases and contributing to their revival through the provision of strategic advisory services. These services include start-up strategies, recovery roadmaps, market analysis, and other relevant support..

The work schedule for this position is 29 hours per week. Flexibility is required.

Program Director

College Park, Maryland
MD SBDC

The Maryland Business Opportunity Center (MBOC) Program Director is responsible for the effective development, execution, management, and reporting of the operations of the MBOC program, and the State Small Business Credit Initiative (SSBCI) funded program to support very small and underserved business owners and communities’ technical assistance and empower them access to capital needed to invest in job-creating opportunities.

Additionally, the MBOC Program Director will develop and enhance its resources to provide education, training, and business advice to target small businesses in Maryland.

Business Advisor

Storrs, CT
Connecticut SBDC

The Connecticut Small Business Development Center (CTSBDC) is seeking a full-time Business Advisor (Educational Program Administrator). The incumbent will report to the CTSBD Associate Director and will provide counseling through one-on-one and group advising and participate in learning and training programs to assist and support small business owners and entrepreneurs on a wide range of business topics. This position will act as a consultant, advocate, and liaison for all CTSBDC services and resources. The incumbent will be expected to be knowledgeable about and have experience either with advising on or addressing in a professional capacity such topics as: launching and scaling small business growth, new product development, equity and debt financing, financial management, business technology, and the infrastructure required to assure capacity for growth, market research; marketing strategies including social media and digital marketing techniques; operational team development, business governance, organizational development, and business analysis/business process improvement. In addition, the incumbent should have a general knowledge of veterans’, women’s, and minority business issues; federal, state, and local resources for business; licensing and permitting regulations; government procurement certification; and general patent and trademark issues. In-state and out-of-state travel, as well as flexible hours, will be required.

The primary work location is flexible and will be dependent upon the candidate selected. The incumbent will be assigned to either a location in southern Connecticut or the CTSBDC Lead Office in East Hartford. In-state and out-of-state travel, as well as flexible hours, will be required.

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