Neighborhood Program Coordinator

Newark, New Jersey

Employer: ASK Staffing
Industry: 
Salary: $39.23 per hour
Job type: Full-Time
"All candidates must be directly contracted by ASK Consulting on their payroll and cannot be subcontracted. We are unable to provide sponsorship at this moment".

Job Title: Neighborhood Program Coordinator

Location: Newark, NJ

Duration: 09 months

PR: $39.23/HR

Job Description:

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 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, redemption of AWS credit entitlements.
  • Liaise with third party administrator for Live Local and Shop Local benefits to track monthly spend and onboard new businesses with the administrator into the benefits program.
  • Conduct outreach to businesses on quarterly basis to obtain key metric updates including revenue, employee counts, and funding, and update tracker for internal quarterly business reviews.
  • Maintain database of business summaries in order to regularly share out information to PR team, prospective investors and Newark business opportunities.
  • Collect and share relevant Newark events for Business Attraction startup and retail community.
  • Coordinate events for neighborhood and tech ecosystem-related activations
  • 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 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
  • 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.

About ASK: ASK Consulting is an award-winning technology and professional services recruiting firm servicing Fortune 500 organizations nationally. With 5 nationwide offices, two global delivery centers, and employees in 42 states-ASK Consulting connects people with amazing opportunities

ASK Consulting is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all associates.
Created: 2024-05-04
Reference: 234522
Country: United States
State: New Jersey
City: Newark
ZIP: 07103

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