Business Advisor

Office Location
The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
1201 W. University Drive
Human Resources
MASS Building 2 nd Floor
Edinburg, TX 78539

Edinburg:
Brownsville:
Office hours:
Monday-Friday
8:00a.m.

- 5:00p.m.

Faculty Recruitment:
College of Engineering & Computer Science: cecs

Robert

C. Vackar College of Business & Entrepreneurship: cobe

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Posting Number SRGV
9176

Working Title BUSINESS ADVISOR

Number of Vacancies 1

Department Business Development

FTE 1.0

FLSA Exempt

To work with businesses and collaborate with resource partners, providing business advising and related support, and assist in the implementation of outreach and training events to promote center services and offer business development opportunities. To provide technical business development skills to the department and work with resource partners to assist small businesses.

• Advises start-up and early-growth stage business clients, offering professional advising and planning assistance to develop their business ideas and increase awareness of financing options, compliance issues, and business topics.
• Provides business clients with related research assistance, information, and referrals to enhance their planning activities.
• Develops and presents content focused on business development such as marketing, operations, financing, management and other business related topics to complement advising discussions and planning.
• Maintains resource partner relationships to provide clients with appropriate referrals for additional assistance.
• Sets up training sessions with resource partners and staff and participates in event and project planning that includes speaker and topic selection to provide clients with additional, needed resources, and business growth opportunities.
• Presents center services at outreach events to attract small business clients.
• Works with other staff in teams to enhance efficiencies and effectiveness of the center(s) and individuals.
• Tracks training results and client progress, concluding in business impact and economic growth.
• Provides appropriate client and center reports and uses these to manage client development activities.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Specific supervision from assigned supervisor.

Direct supervision of assigned support staff.

Bachelor’s degree from an accredited University in Business, Public Administration or a closely related field.

Master’s in Business or Public Administration

N/A

Two (2) years of experience in business, management, marketing, consulting, training or a related field.

N/A

Use of standard office equipment. Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite.

Needs to be able to successfully perform all required duties. Primarily…