Economic Development Program Manager

The Economic Development Project Manager plans, organizes, monitors, manages, and evaluates economic development project activities. Responsibilities include coordinating, and implementing programs and projects that support retail, hospitality, tourism, commercial, office, and industrial development; workforce development. The position manages the attraction of and assistance to domestic and international businesses; development of public facilities and infrastructure; small business development initiatives; and other economic development, redevelopment, or capital improvement programs or projects.

This position also manages departmental interns, and contracts with a variety of outside consultants and vendors.

Every Town Employee is expected to follow the Town Core Values by setting the P.A.C.E.
(Professionalism, Accountability, Community and Excellence).

DISTINGUISHING CHARACTERISTICS:
Work requires considerable independent judgment and initiative in combining a broad scope of professional planning and economic development knowledge and sophisticated, analytical judgments in order to solve a variety of complex, technical problems. Responsible for overall management of economic development project activities. Employees in this class may be required to work evenings and/or weekends for special events or programming coverage (by assignment).

This class may functionally supervise Economic Development Specialist(s) and/or office support staff.

The following duties ARE NOT intended to serve as a comprehensive list of all the duties performed by all employees in this classification, only a representative summary of the primary duties and responsibilities. Incumbent(s) may not be required to perform all duties and may be required to perform additional position-specific duties.

• Performs economic development ombudsman duties with Town departments on behalf of private developers located or located within the Town.
• Analyze target industries, market trends and competitor activity to identify, advocate and implement innovation and business development opportunities.
• Manage the Attraction, Business Retention and Expansion and Tourism efforts with existing businesses by connecting them to local programs and acting as a liaison with government departments.
• Develops plans including current and critical path schedules for public improvement and private revitalization projects; meeting and working with citizen committees, special interest groups, non-profit organizations, and neighborhood groups concerning economic development issues and problems.
• Works with the development services team to facilitate event management; and developing business assistance, business retention, attraction and financing plans.
• Engages partners to bring training; coordinates access to professional assistance, education, and events to support businesses; programming development and implementation; and RFP development and evaluation.
• Conduct BRE visits throughout the Town, and leverage network of business and trade groups, chambers of commerce, and other local partners.
• Work with internal and external partners, including the Arizona Commerce Authority, Arizona Public Service, and local and regional chambers of commerce, among other stakeholders and partners, on business attraction, retention and expansion projects.
• Assists in representing the Town on economic development boards and committees.
• Develop and manage a site selection tracking system.
  
  Solicits development proposals from private development companies; works with the Development Services Director negotiating and managing agreements, contracts and leases with partners, vendors, providers, and customers.
• Support Economic Development initiatives by promoting the Town of Camp Verde as a business destination and location to existing businesses, commercial real estate brokers, and site selection consultants.
• Respond to requests for information, and conduct research, economic and fiscal impact, financial modeling, and tax incentive analyses.
• Track interactions and maintain projects of current and prospective businesses in the organizations CRM system.
• Aid companies…