Opportunity Type: Job
Opening Doors, Inc.
United States
About the Organization:
Opening Doors is a community-based, non-profit corporation that works in collaboration with program
participants and alumni, community allies, faith-based and neighborhood groups, corporate partners and government agencies in Sacramento.
Background:
Opening Doors' microenterprise program provides management training, technical assistance, and loan financing to low-income people who want to start, strengthen, and expand their own business.
About the Job:
Opening Doors is seeking a Microenterprise Program Manager. S/he will lead the organization's effort to support grass-roots entrepreneurs in Sacramento’s ethnically diverse low-income communities, assisting them in leveraging personal capabilities and other assets to generate income, manage expenses, and achieve self-sustainability.
Tasks and Responsibilities:
- Cultivate a strong, culturally diverse, deeply committed staff team driven to meet client/customer needs and exceed their expectations;
- Create strong working partnerships among financial and community-based organizations;
- Manage a diversified loan portfolio in compliance with agency goals, ethical standards, and legal compliance requirements;
- Coordinate a comprehensive array of training and technical assistance options that help current and prospective borrowers strengthen their enterprises;
- Assure that all services are rendered with deep respect for cultural differences, language capabilities, and the often-traumatizing experiences of newly arriving immigrants and others;
- Collaborate with agency team members in effective marketing and fundraising efforts;
- Manage program policies and procedures consistent with best practices within the field, maintain budget accountability, personnel supervision, and interagency interface.
Qualifications:
- B.S./B.A. or equivalent experience in business, community development or related field. Master’s degree preferred;
- Minimum of 2 years small business lending experience, as well as 2 years of experience providing microenterprise training and/or technical assistance;
- Work-related experience in community development lending, and/or in business training and technical assistance in ethnically diverse and disadvantaged communities;
- At least 2 years of personnel supervision experience;
- Strong management skills, with the ability to develop and interpret financial statements and to communicate accounting and financial principles to staff and clients;
- Demonstrated interpersonal skills, outgoing personality, and strong written and oral communications;
- Team-oriented, comfortable collaborating with a small, tight-knit group;
- Results oriented, with superior analytical skills and the capacity for close attention to detail;
- Flexibility, creativity, patience, imagination, enthusiasm, and ability to multi-task, with a calm personable demeanor and a good sense of humor;
- Proficient in Windows based software, and willingness to learn portfolio management software. Fluency in English. Other languages a plus;
- Possession of a valid driver’s license and vehicle insurance adequate to the demands of the corporations carrier.
- Entrepreneurial or small business management experience preferred;
- Successful fundraising track record, strong grant-writing skills, and ability to raise loan capital through private sources preferred;
- Working knowledge of SBA loan programs, policies and procedures, CDFI TA and loan program requirements, and traditional and alternative loan programs preferred;
- Eligibility to work in the United States.
Posted: 24 May 2013
Closing Date: 09 Jun 2013
How to Apply:
Interested candidates can send their resume and cover letter to info@openingdoorsinc.org
Please mention "ME PROGRAM MANAGER – [your name]” in the subject line.
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