Program Coordinator - GTT, LLC
Newark, NJ
About the Job
Neighborhood Program Coordinator
Key Responsibilities
Qualifications:
Benefits:
About the Company:
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- Pay rate up to $68.65/hr
- Contract Duration 9+ months
- Our client launched the Global Center for Urban Development (GCUD) to advance its 14-year mission to accelerate Newark's comeback through initiatives aimed at advancing equity, racial justice, and economic empowerment.
- Designed to expand existing programs and invent new scalable and replicable models, the Center serves as a think-tank for innovative ideas to address social and economic inequities and actively catalyze societal change – all of which creates measurable equity and resilient futures in the communities we work.
- GCUD's neighborhood revitalization efforts consist of two key programs: Business Attraction and Neighborhood Activations.
- The goal of business attraction efforts is to help accelerate Newark's revitalization by thoughtfully and equitably growing the tech and innovation ecosystems, creating new jobs, and supporting the local economy, with a focus on founders of color and female founders who have been traditionally marginalized in the capital markets.
- Neighborhood Activations advances creative placemaking in downtown Newark, supporting events/program activations with an emphasis on increasing foot traffic and driving local spending as well as amplifying relevant content.
- Through the attraction of businesses and the creation of foot traffic, we will create a sustainable and equitable economic growth engine for Newark.
- This role will support our work with Business Attraction and Neighborhood Activations within Newark.
- This is a boots-on-the-ground role and will require a hands-on approach to event planning and management, community engagement, and program management.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide community support to tech start-ups and retail businesses in the business Attraction program, including:
- Act as initial point of contact for businesses in the program to triage and assist with incoming requests for small businesses assistance such as consultation with employees on relevant functional areas, and redemption of AWS credit entitlements.
- Liaise with third-party administrators for Live Local and Shop Local benefits to track monthly spending and onboard new businesses with the administrator into the benefits program.
- Conduct outreach to businesses on a quarterly basis to obtain key metric updates including revenue, employee counts, and funding, and update tracker for internal quarterly business reviews.
- Maintain a database of business summaries in order to regularly share information with the PR team, prospective investors, and Newark business opportunities.
- Collect and share relevant Newark events for the Business Attraction startups and the retail community.
- Coordinate events for neighborhood and tech ecosystem-related activations including programming within Harriet Tubman Square, the Library, and other neighborhood stakeholders such as the Newark Museum of Art. 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 the 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 (e.g. Newark City Parks Foundation, Newark Venture Partners, NJII, HAX Capital) 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.
Benefits:
- • Medical, Vision, and Dental Insurance Plans
- • 401k Retirement Fund
About the Company:
- Our client is a company whose entrepreneurial spirit with a team of pioneers and inventors who are not afraid to disrupt the status quo and apply an innovative approach to everything they do—from revolutionizing an art form to enacting positive change in the cities and countries in which we operate. As the largest producer of audiobooks in the world, they are passionate about well-composed words that are artfully performed. The company's consistent focus on technological innovation and superior programming has earned them many millions of habituated subscribers.
- The company's People Principles celebrate who they are and where they have been, and guide the way they work shoulder to shoulder to enhance the lives of their millions of customers. They reflect and apply to everyone who works with our clients. The entrepreneurs and operators, the dreamers and the doers, those who have worked there for 20 years, and those who have arrived in the past few weeks and months.
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