STEPS Business Coach (Owensboro, KY)
Owensboro, KY
Posted 5 weeks ago
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Job Description
40 hours per week, 8-5 (M-F), some evenings/weekends will be required.
Expected # of Hours Per Week
40
- Helping entrepreneurs with overall business plan development and strategy.
- Helping entrepreneurs develop business strategies and mitigate risks around new products, services, and/or processes.
- Perform training workshops on a consistent basis.
- Coaching entrepreneurs through launching new businesses and growing or diversifying mature businesses.
- Consulting on topics such as exporting, product development, raising capital, and federal contracting.
- Connecting clients to key resources for technical and financial support.
- Facilitating sessions to help entrepreneurs develop appropriate business models, business plans, financial projections, cash flow models, marketing plans, loan packaging, core processes, and customer relationships.
- Conducting market research and competitive analysis.
- Identifying and contacting small and medium-sized businesses, assessing their needs, and proposing and delivering solutions to enhance and expand their businesses.
- Keeping up to date with current entrepreneurial trends, market opportunities and skills training. Possess an understanding of the entrepreneurial mind-set and the role entrepreneurial skills play in economic development.
- Delivering various services as required associated with federal programs and awards.
- Collaborating with other units of the host organization, the Kentucky SBDC and other Kentucky SBDC locations, partners, chambers of commerce, local economic development agencies and lenders.
- Building and maintaining close professional relationships with small businesses throughout Kentucky. Must be able to work collaboratively and effectively with partner organizations, including hosts, state and federal resource partners.
- Preference will be given to candidates with experience as entrepreneurs, in small start-up settings, or with experience advising new businesses through the startup process.
- Contact small business to primarily promote the services of the Kentucky Small Business Development Center (SBDC).
- Identify market opportunities and assist in the development of business strategies.
- Develop new services based on demonstrated client need.• Maintain current records of client firms, proposals, project status, and timesheets using a PC-based customer relationship management system.
- Participate in meetings and events of small businesses in the areas served.
- Demonstrated understanding of how entrepreneurship and related activities serve to strengthen and grow Kentucky’s economy
- Must be a highly motivated self-starter who works well in an independent setting.
- Ability to communicate effectively and persuasively.
- Ability to analyze and solve problems.
- Ability to manage projects effectively.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office suite of products with emphasis on Excel.
The University follows both the federal and state Constitutions as well as all applicable federal and state laws on nondiscrimination. The University provides equal opportunities for qualified persons in all aspects of institutional operations and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, ethnic origin, religion, creed, age, physical or mental disability, veteran status, uniformed service, political belief, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy, marital status, genetic information or social or economic status.
Any candidate offered a position may be required to pass pre-employment screenings as mandated by University of Kentucky Human Resources. These screenings may include a national background check and/or drug screen.
University of Kentucky
The University of Kentucky is a public, research-extensive, land grant university dedicated to improving people's lives through excellence in teaching, research, health care, cultural enrichment, and economic development for over 150 years.The University of Kentucky:- Facilitates learning, informed by scholarship and research.- Expands knowledge through research, scholarship and creative activity.- Serves a global community by disseminating, sharing and applying knowledge.The University, as the flagship institution, plays a critical leadership role for the Commonwealth by contributing to the economic development and quality of life within Kentucky's borders and beyond. The University nurtures a diverse community characterized by fairness and equal opportunity.From Paducah to Pikeville, Covington to Cumberland, the University of Kentucky touches lives across the Bluegrass State, providing education, cultural stimulation and economic development in all 120 counties. Considering that residents of all Kentucky counties benefit from the University's medical care, community service, innovative research and creative teaching and instruction, there's no question UK is The University of Kentucky.
