Business Advising Director
Company: Pacific Community Ventures
Location: Oakland
Posted on: May 10, 2022
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Job Description:
Position type: Full-time
Location: Oakland, CA area or CA-based preferred (largely remote
during COVID-19) Reports to: CEO
Salary: $100,000-$115,000, commensurate with experience and
location
Are you passionate about advancing inclusive entrepreneurship,
supporting underestimated entrepreneurs and places, and using
technology as a force for good? If so, please join Pacific
Community Ventures, a mission-driven organization invested in
building good jobs and community wealth through small business
owners as changemakers in our local communities. We are seeking a
Director-level position to lead our unique fast-growing Business
Advising program, tech platform, and team. Over the past decade,
our research projects and client engagements have helped define and
build the field of impact investing; we have become a leading
statewide community development financial institution (CDFI) in
California; and scaled a nationwide mentorship platform for
underestimated small business owners. Our clients include Black,
Latinx, Indigenous, people of color, women, immigrant, refugee, and
rural small business owners across the US; volunteer business
advisors; foundations and impact investors; other CDFIs; and
policymakers.
Who We Are
PCV is a 24-year-old nonprofit CDFI that is invested in the success
of historically excluded communities and small business owners to
build and grow their businesses, create good quality jobs that
address racial and gender wealth gaps, and build community wealth
for shared prosperity. Our approach is unique. PCV's Small Business
Lending and Advising teams connect entrepreneurs to the pre- and
post-investment expertise, and restorative capital they need to
grow their businesses to help local economies thrive. Our Good Jobs
Innovation Lab supports our advancement of best practices for
inclusive underwriting, annual impact analysis, that allows us to
assess our impact with small business clients, and design
increasingly effective products and services for the communities we
serve.
Why You're Needed
PCV's BusinessAdvising.org is an national small business mentoring
platform that connects underestimated entrepreneurs with pro-bono
advisors. We prioritize entrepreneurs from, and working in,
economically distressed communities, and pair them with volunteer
business advisors from major banks, consulting firms, Fortune 500
companies, and more, who provide free, tailored, 1:1 coaching to
help them meet their small business challenges and seize new
opportunities. Over the past decade we've helped thousands of small
businesses thrive, grow, and create tens of thousands of good local
jobs.
BusinessAdvising.org is supported by revenue-generating
partnerships with organizations like Kaiser Permanente, Workday,
GoFundMe, and eBay, enabling us to reach more small business owners
and advisors than we could ever do on our own. We reach
entrepreneurs by partnering with the community organizations
closest to them, such as small business accelerators, incubators,
fellow CDFIs, and other entrepreneur support organizations across
the country. We regularly invest in the two-sided mentorship
platform we have built to ensure timely matchmaking, high feedback
ratings, and improved user experience as we grow from serving over
1,000 small business owners in 2020 to meeting 10X that demand over
the next few years. And we do this with a team of Customer Success
Managers invested in the success of our small business owners, and
their workers.
PCV is looking for a mission- and data-driven technology-for-good
professional to lead the BA team as we scale our program and reach,
as well as serve as a thought partner with the CEO and senior
leadership for collective action. You will be equally invested in
the success of small businesses and entrepreneurial ecosystems,
with strong interpersonal skills to build and mentor a growing team
within an innovative organization and bringing your lived
experience to advance our mission.Specific Responsibilities:
Cultivate and lead partnerships - fundraising and community,
including:
Oversee and continually improve our B2C technology platform &
model, including:
Manage the Business Advising team:
Qualifications, Skills & Experience:
We strive hard to be an inclusive and equitable place to work. We
value new perspectives, original ideas, and different ways of
working. You will bring a background of working with dynamic and
distributed teams and projects, as well as excellent analytical and
communications skills that you are eager to apply to complex social
problems. You should demonstrate a deep commitment to creating
social and environmental benefit, under-estimated people and
places. You should be enthusiastic, flexible, and excited to join a
passionate team. We will invest in you as you invest in your team
and our small business clients.
Location/Travel
This position will be based in CA. Although the position is largely
remote, it will require regular staff and community partner
meetings in/near our headquarters in Oakland, including staff
retreats, and occasionally to other locations in California and
around the United States.
Compensation
As an organization committed to creating good jobs, we walk the
walk. We provide excellent benefits for full-time employees,
including full health, dental, and vision insurance, retirement
savings accounts with a generous match which is fully vested
immediately, ample paid time off and holidays, flexible hours and
place, home system setup support, as well as substantive
professional and leadership development opportunities.
To Apply
Interested candidates must be legally authorized to work in the
United States. They should send a r--sum-- and brief cover letter
via e-mail to hr@pcvmail.org with the words "Director - Business
Advising" in the subject line, by April 15th. Start at earliest
convenience. No phone calls, please.
PCV is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants are considered for
all roles without regard to race, color, religious creed, sex,
national origin, citizenship status, age, physical or mental
disability, sexual orientation, marital, parental, veteran or
military status, unfavorable military discharge, or any other
status protected by applicable federal, state or local law. We live
our values of openness, transparency, coming from a place of yes,
collaboration, and more; and believe that justice, equity,
diversity, and inclusion are fundamental to our success. We are
especially interested in candidates who have direct experience with
the communities we serve.
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