Business Development Director

Description:

Have a mission to support the success of others? Your opportunity awaits you to enhance business, build community and advance a strong and sustainable economy.

Ready to onboard a team member to develop and implement a comprehensive engagement strategy resulting in effective relationships and growth metrics. Align strategic goal setting of business resources to engage, build and communicate the mission of both the Morton Chamber of Commerce and the Morton Economic Development Council organizations to enhance our networks to achieve economic impact and organizational growth.

Focus on business outreach to build and maintain a strong relationship with members and stakeholders. Capture and communicate an analysis of the local economy to align resources to enhance business and build community. Track and report membership growth, retention, and engagement metrics.

Chamber of Commerce Duties (85%): [Enhance Network] Connect members to network benefits, resources, and education opportunities. Engage member network and prospect for events and programs, leverage network for festival partnerships and volunteers, and build connectivity with partners.

Economic Development Council (EDC) Duties (15%): [Drive Growth] Build relationships with resource partners, cultivate business resources, respond to business inquiries, maintain information on available buildings and land, coordinate grant program(s), data and economic analysis and communicate business opportunities and inform industry clusters.

This position is under the direction of the CEO/Executive Director to perform the following essential job functions:

• Member and business retention visits, database management (CRM) and follow-up communication and reporting.

• Align Chamber members, businesses, and prospects with our network benefits of the organizations, resources, educational opportunities, and EDC investor engagement.

• Create and execute membership benefits stewardship matrix.

• Strategic and goal-oriented outreach for membership recruitment.

• Administrative and technical duties necessary to achieve project objectives in the areas of membership benefits, subject matter expert partners, economic development resources, small business assistance and workforce development.

• Communication Content Management. Capture and share member and business content for social media, newsletters, and press releases.

• Support entrepreneurial based business development by coordinating access to local, regional, and state resources. Interacting with SmartStart Morton business growth platform and outreach strategy. https://www.welcome.smartstartdashboard.com/

• EDC Morton MicroGrant facilitation for new applications, coordinate grant review committee meetings, outreach to applicants, track progress reporting.

• Pumpkin Festival partnership engagement, volunteer recruitment and communications and support vendor coordination to assist in planning and hosting annual festival.

- SparkLearn Platform resource available

• Organizational Events: Business Engagement Strategy and Outreach

• Morton Mentor Administration: Cordination with Morton HS and Outreach to business mentors

• Morton Connect App: Member and Business Engagement and collaborate with GoodJava Morton company for major updates

• Engage with Chamber Ambassador program for activating business outreach.

• Small Business Roundtable: Coffee & Connect host and share updates.

• Attend business and community functions along with local and regional meetings.

• Participate in weekly team meetings with action items to share and discuss. Team leverages “Working Genius” for engagement and productivity. https://www.workinggenius.com/

• Quarterly organization(s) goal review, tracking, implementation, and success celebrations.