Careers Job Description
General Description
Duties and Responsibilities:
At a Regional Center, provides a comprehensive range of small business-based assistance including one to one client counseling in the area of business plan development; analyzes, prepares and structures financial statements, such as cash flow projections, income statements and sources and uses statements; provides assistance in automated and manual record keeping systems; and assists clients with market related issues such as advertising, promotional functions, market surveys, and other related topics.
- Experience and understanding of loan packaging for small businesses.
- Implements and/or participates in training sessions sponsored by the SBDC and provides follow up services as necessary to attendees. Sessions are in many forms including long term classroom situations, single and multi-day conferences where relevant topics are discussed in open forums, and in other public situations.
- Gathers written feedback from assisted clients for program service refinement and promotional purposes.
- Acts as a clearinghouse for information for clients and other interested individuals and refers, when appropriate, those individuals to outside entities that can provide additional support services.
- Provides direct assistance to junior staff in meeting client and program objectives.
- Coordinates student intern program including screening, selection, and performance evaluations. Interfaces, when necessary, with campus faculty sponsors.
Other Duties
Complexity of Duties (in order of priority):
Providing quality one to one advisement to a varied and complex range of clientele requires a wide breadth of knowledge in many areas. Many clients can be serviced on a short-term basis while other clients require long-term counseling depending upon the client's level of expertise or the sophistication of the venture.
- Strong organizational skills are critical in maintaining an elevated level of activity while adapting to the time-sensitive nature of business decision-making.
- Conducting an SBDC sponsored training event involves careful planning including:
- Identifying a topic that effectively addresses an identified need in the business community;
- Securing the services of appropriate experts in the field;
- Selecting time, date, and location for the event;
- Providing follow-on one-to-one counseling to attendees when requested; and
- Gathering feedback from attendees to evaluate the quality of the event and to help identify topics for future events.
- Establishing a comprehensive and credible network of professional contacts for referral purposes are a critical component of an advisor's responsibilities. New contacts are established on an ongoing basis so that resources can be utilized in response to an ever-changing business climate.
Qualifications
Experience: The position requires no less than three years' experience in private sector business or related public technical assistance environment.
Education: The position requires a bachelor's degree in business, management, finance, economics, or related field.
RFCUNY Benefits
RFCUNY Employee Benefits and AccrualsAbout the Research Foundation
The Research Foundation of The City University of New York (RFCUNY) is a nonprofit educational corporation founded in 1963 to provide post-award fiscal and administrative support for CUNY’s research and sponsored programs. RFCUNY’s services allow CUNY researchers, faculty, and staff to focus on their intellectual curiosity and scientific discoveries, on projects and programs that serve our local and global communities, proposing concrete solutions to society’s most pressing challenges.
RFCUNY serves as a fiscal agent and works closely with all the CUNY campus Grants Offices to perform the core functions of post-award financial management for CUNY research projects and sponsored programs. These functions include legal assessment and signing of agreements where RFCUNY is named as a fiscal agent; setting up award accounts; preparing sub-awards and assisting PIs in monitoring the work of the recipients of sub-awards; supporting project directors with hiring and managing research project and sponsored program staff; supporting the purchasing and paying for goods and services with grant and program funds; managing financial aspects of projects including accounts receivable, financial reporting, invoicing, budget monitoring, and cost compliance with uniform guidance; ensuring that sponsor financial requirements are met; monitoring compliance with applicable project and financial management rules and laws; supporting the management of independent and external audits and financial reviews; and providing data, information, management expertise, and other supports to CUNY’s research and sponsored programs.
Equal Employment Opportunity Statement
Key Features
School of Continuing and Professional St
Full Time
$55,000.00 - $72,000.00
Mar 10, 2022 (Or Until Filled)