LEEAF Program

Work Schedule This is a part-time non-exempt position giving roughly 10 hours per week. This position is not eligible for benefits. This is a grant-funded position, which expires on or before May 31, 2025, and is subject to renewal upon availability of funding.

Essential Functions:

The Business Support Specialist will work directly with entrepreneurs participating in the LEEAF Program to provide vital support as they grow their businesses. The primary goal of the position is to leverage your skill, talent, and knowledge to directly accelerate the progress of entrepreneurs in the LEEAF Accelerator cohort - known as LEEAF Leaders. Through your work and your development as an economic leader, LEEAF Leaders will gain tools to grow revenue, access capital, and thrive as economic leaders. The position will be supported by all positions in LEEAF but supervised mainly by the Senior-Level Program Manager in charge of the Business Support Specialist team.

Responsibilities: The work may include additional projects assigned by supervisors, but the main work requires each Business Support Specialist to perform duties that may include:

• Business intake. Conduct business leader intake, connecting through whatever channels necessary to form a warm relationship, determine needs and strengths, and connect quickly to a Strike package or other resource
• Develop deliverables. Develop deliverables to help businesses grow, including but not limited to feasibility, financial, regulatory, and operational guidance
• Follow-on Strike support. Coordinate with Facilitators and other program staff to follow up deliverables with appropriate technical assistance to maximize impact and sustain growth
• Serve as a thought leader. Serve as a thought leader for economic justice, advancing LEEAF's mission and your leadership through advocacy at multiple scales
• Build networks. Support cultivating strong LEEAF partnerships including with potential funders, building personal and collective capacity to build resources and grow impact
• Lead personal Professional Development. Invest in yourself by crafting a long-term career and professional development plan; identifying areas for growth, setting goals, tracking progress, and actively pursuing opportunities to further the plan.
• Self-advocate. Ensure your sustainability by communicating your needs and ideas, practicing and encouraging self-care across the organization, actively building community, and leveraging support to ensure a positive work experience

Qualifications - requirements

• Success in engaging a wide variety of stakeholders
• Experience participating in or partnering with the LEEAF program
• Experience working with diverse and minority communities as well as entrepreneurs of color
• Interest and ability in working in a multicultural/multiethnic environment.

The incumbent must demonstrate an interest or ability to work in a multicultural/multiethnic environment. A background check (including a criminal records check) must be completed satisfactorily before any candidate can be offered a position with the UAS. Failure to satisfactorily complete the background check may affect the application status of applicants or continued employment of current UAS employees who apply for the position.

Review of applications/resumes will begin on May 13, 2024, and will continue until the position is filled; however, the position may close when an adequate number of qualified applications/resumes are received. A cover letter and resume are required.

UAS hires only those individuals lawfully authorized to work in the United States. Americans with Disabilities (ADA) requested accommodations should be made in advance to the UAS Human Resources Department.

Cal State LA University Auxiliary Services, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, including sexual orientation and gender identity, national origin, disability, protected Veteran Status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.