Economic Development Specialist - North River Commission

Job Title: Economic Development Specialist

Job Type: Full Time

Location: Chicago, IL

Salary: $62,000/yr

Job description: 

North River Commission (NRC) is dedicated to fostering economic growth and sustainability within our community. We are committed to enhancing the wellbeing of our diverse community through collaboration, engagement, and coalition-building. We strive to create a vibrant, thriving economy that benefits all residents and businesses. As we expand our efforts, we are seeking a motivated and experienced Economic Development Specialist to join our team. Our office is located in Albany Park, one of the most diverse neighborhoods in the city. The NRC service area covers a large chunk of Chicago’s northwest side, starting from the Chicago River on the east to Cicero Ave on the west, from Devon on the north and to Addison Ave on the south. NRC is also the sole service provider for Special Service Area #60 (SSA 60) which covers the commercial corridors of Albany Park and Irving Park.

Director of Workforce Development Strategy & Operation - Greater Chicago Food Depository

Who: Greater Chicago Food Depository

What: The Director of Workforce Development leads the Greater Chicago Food Depository’s strategy to leverage employment and training as a pathway out of poverty and food insecurity. Focused on career paths in the food and operations sector, the Director develops the strategies, programs and partnerships that empower adults and opportunity youth to succeed.This includes stewardship of our existing Chicago’s Community Kitchens 14-week culinary training program and developing structured programming to support roles in operations.

Responsibilities include program strategy, development and implementation as well as supervision of staff, administration, and organizational development. This individual will be the Workforce Development subject matter expert in the context of food and operations industry training programs. This position will support empowering adults and opportunity youth who may have experienced discouragement and trauma with the skills and confidence needed to secure meaningful employment.

This position will also cultivate unparalleled partnerships with community organizations, government and corporations with a shared value on connecting individuals to workforce training. Overall, the leader of this program will strive to unleash the potential and discover the talents of program participants through powerful experiences at the Food Depository. Develop the strategies, programs and partnerships necessary to evolve the Food Depository’s portfolio of workforce development programs (culinary training and operations). Transform the existing Community Kitchen’s culinary training program with a keen focus on increasing enrollment through innovative strategies and tactics.

Specifically, the Director will be responsible for all aspects of student recruitment, instruction and employment placement including:

Executive Director, MidTown Cleveland, Inc. - Cleveland, OH

Executive Director

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Company:MidTown Cleveland, Inc.

Location:Cleveland, OH

Date Posted:October 1, 2015

Job Posting & Description

Executive Director MidTown Cleveland Inc.

BACKGROUND

The MidTown Cleveland Inc. (“MidTown”) Board of Directors seeks a visionary, results-driven leader to direct and grow the organization to a multi-dimensional stakeholder service and development organization responsible for growing MidTown as a vibrant neighborhood and business innovation district.

The MidTown Cleveland service area is home to over 600 businesses and covers approximately two square miles between the region’s two largest commercial centers, Downtown Cleveland and University Circle. The success of the Health Tech Corridor that bisects the district has attracted new and diverse businesses and millions of dollars in investment in the neighborhood. For MidTown Cleveland, there is great opportunity to leverage this investment, build on the strength of the strong business climate, and create a thriving 24/7 community rivaling any destination.

Founded in 1983 by Mort Mandel, Tom Roulston, and local business leaders, the MidTown Cleveland identity and service portfolio has changed and evolved over its history. Working with the Board, the next leader must guide the organization through its next successful chapter, steering the mission and realizing the vision.

Vision: To be the best business location and highest quality urban district in Northeast Ohio.

Mission:  MidTown Cleveland Inc. is a diverse community of committed people passionate about connecting their personal skills with hands-on efforts to grow Midtown as a complete neighborhood and Cleveland’s Hub for Innovation and Creative Development.

QUALITIES OF A SUCCESSFUL CANDIDATE

The next executive director of MidTown Cleveland must possess the following:

• The ability to lead and inspire others, from developing and articulating a strategic vision to motivating and managing a team to achieve desired outcomes
• The drive to succeed and rigorous commitment and accountability for project execution and completion
• The disposition to collaborate, forging connections with and between diverse community stakeholders and ensuring these associations lead to short-term and long-term successes
• The dedication to cultivate and maintain funding relationships, whether seeking the opportunity, making the ask, or sustaining relationships with existing and new donors
• The desire to consistently communicate the MidTown story, serving as the chief spokesperson, ambassador, and advocate for the organization and neighborhood
• The capacity to work with government, foundations and local organizations

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

Community Engagement & Collaboration  

• Understands the needs and priorities of members and community stakeholders and provides ongoing support and value to them
• Effectively connects members and community stakeholders to achieve organizational goals
• Pursues opportunities to present a concise, compelling, and consistent MidTown story to targeted audiences throughout the region and beyond

Strategy Development & Implementation

• Collaborates with the board to develop and implement a strategic plan that captures the organization’s overarching goals, strategic priorities, and measurable outcomes
• Develops a framework for the board and staff to track progress toward stated outcomes
• Assists the board of directors with establishing good governance practices for all facets of board functions and activities

Performance Management

• Attracts, recruits, and develops a diverse, talented team and manage them to achieve outcomes related to MidTown Cleveland’s strategic plan and mission
• Works with each staff person to create a job description and individual work plans
• Consistently evaluates performance of staff and organization

Finance  

• Develops and manages the organization’s budget
• Manages finances of the organization to generally accepted accounting practices
• Provides timely and accurate financial reports to the board

Fund Development

• Creates plan to target needed resources and secures diverse, alternative, and sustainable revenue streams
• Connects organizational priorities with revenue opportunities
• Achieves funding targets in collaboration with the board

QUALIFICATIONS

Required

• At least 5 years experience in a related field
• Bachelor’s Degree
• Excellent verbal and communication skills
• Ability to manage and lead in a multicultural environment

Preferred

• Master's Degree
• Experience working in or directly with government
• Real estate development experience

TO APPLY

Applicants must provide:

1. Cover letter that highlights your qualifications and resume
2. List of 3 to 5 professional references

Interested applicants must be willing to submit to a background check as part of the evaluation process.

Responses must be received electronically no later than 5:00 p.m. on October 30, 2015.  Please send materials and direct all inquiries to Virginia Houston, Strategy Design Partners at vhouston@strategydesignpartners.com. 

Public Policy/State Regional Government Relations Mgr., Bank of America - Chicago, IL

Public Policy/State Regional Government Relations Mgr - Chicago, IL

Chicago, IL, United States

Job number: 1500045399

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Job description

Responsible for managing the company's public policy strategy development and implementation on a regional basis, including education and advocacy with government officials. 

 

The position will be based in Chicago, IL and cover the states of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Ohio, and Wisconsin. 

 

Manages contract personnel (external lobbyists) as well as trade association and coalition relationships.

 

 Seeks to identify and address legislative and political risks and opportunities impacting our company (and industry).

 

 Establishes and maintains relationships, as appropriate, with public officials. 

 

Works collaboratively with internal partners as well as Public Policy colleagues. 

 

Advises senior management of pending legislation and public policy issues.

Qualifications

Required Skills:

• Bachelor’s Degree 
• Minimum 5(+) years State Government Affairs work
• Experience working as a State Lobbyist
• Knowledge and understanding of state compliance, ethics and reporting laws
• Career experience interfacing with state and local officials (Governors, State Legislators, Mayors, City Councilors and Senior Staff Representatives)
• Proven strong organizational and time management abilities
• Managerial capabilities are essential
• Ability to manage contract lobbyists, trade association relationships and other resources
• Critical thinking, process complex issues, create strategic plans in an accurate and timely manner
• Communication skills. Effective and proven communicator 
• Ability to comfortably and regularly interface with senior state/local officials and senior corporate management
• Team player — comfortable working in a results oriented team environment

Desired Skills:

• Master’s Degree
• Financial services industry work experience working in highly matrix environment 

Posting Date: 07/23/2015 

Location: US-IL-Chicago 

Travel: Yes, 50 % of the Time 

Full / Part-time: Fulltime 

Hours Per Week: 40.00 

Shift: 1st Shift

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Community Impact Analyst, merican Communities Trust - Baltimore, MD

Community Impact Analyst

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Company:American Communities Trust

Location:Baltimore, MD

Date Posted:May 29, 2015

This position will be a hybrid analyst and project manager role with responsibilities including quantitative analysis, project management, and assisting with strategy development. The position will report to the CEO and will work with a team of project managers to carry out ACT’s national portfolio of client-based work. This position will require regular travel approximately once or twice per month to project sites across the U.S. ACT prides itself on its outside-the-box and on-the-ground (in the community) approach to our work. Tasks such as developing a customized community impact strategy, economic impact assessment, and frameworks for outcomes/impact assessment require individualized, placespecific strategies in order to be truly effective. As such it will be critical for this position to be a creative and strategic thinker with a passion for and understanding of community development. We rely on a combination of creative quantitative analysis coupled with a grassroots, stakeholderbased approach to community impact that differs from the primarily quantitative approaches undertaken by many consultants. A clear understanding of this hybrid framework will be necessary when joining our diverse, community-oriented team.

The role of Community Impact Analyst will include the following tasks:

• Research and analysis related to community impact projects. This position will work with our team to develop and carry out customized approaches for each project, with specific identified goals and metrics for evaluating outcomes and impact. This will involve significant quantitative analysis and the ability to analyze and array multiple data sets. It will also be important for this position to know how to research and come up with new data sets and metrics, and new ways of looking at data to interact with our qualitative work, and to analyze the combination of those qualitative and quantitative sets in creative ways.

• Project management and client interface. This position will manage day-to-day operational aspects of a project, track critical path schedules, ensure deliverables are completed on time, and communicate with clients. Our team is small and nimble, and everybody has direct client interface. This position will be both managing projects and be part of collaborative teams in a supporting role. Our team values highly motivated and entrepreneurial people who can be strong team players and move projects forward with ample support but minimal management.

0. Qualifications:
   
• -  Bachelor’s degree or higher.
  
• -  Strong interest in social-impact work and community development.
  
• -  Strong quantitative analysis skills
  
• -  Experience in economic impact analysis
  
• -  Creative analytic skills and interest in developing fresh methodologies.
  
• -  Clear, concise, narrative writing and communications skills.
  
• -  Extremely detail oriented.
  
• -  Strong time management skills, deadline-oriented, and outcome-focused.
  
• -  Entrepreneurial and self-motivated and also a good team player.
  
• -  Experienced in a range of data analysis interfaces including strong spreadsheet skills.
  ArcGIS a plus but not required.
  Application: To apply, please email a cover letter (specify whether you prefer to be based in Philadelphia or Baltimore), resume (with salary requirements), and a writing or relevant work sample to greg@actimpact.org. The subject line of the email should read “Analyst Position”. No other type of submission will be accepted.
  ACT is an equal-opportunity employer.