Dreambuilder Facilitator - SBDC

Position: FT Dreambuilder Facilitator - SBDC
Salary : $52,790.40 - $60,174.40 Annually
Location : Downtown Center - District Wide, AZ
Job Type: Full-time
Job Number:
Division: FT--Academics
Departments: FT--Academics - Workforce
Opening Date: 12/16/2025
FLSA: Non-Exempt
Remote Work Eligible: No
Pay Grade: NE08 Grant Funded through December 2027
Duration/Parameters: 40 Hours/Week; 12 Months/Year

Position Summary
Position Summary: The Dreambuilder Facilitator - SBDC is responsible for assisting entrepreneurs to start and grow their businesses by providing a step-by-step framework and online courses through Dreambuilder.org., providing business analysis, counseling, and training to small business owners and managers, and for serving as a resource for service area businesses and assisting in identifying development opportunities for seminars and workshops in support of the department mission.
Essential Functions:
As defined under the Americans with Disabilities Act, may include any of the following tasks, knowledge, skills, and other characteristics. This list is ILLUSTRATIVE ONLY, and is not a comprehensive listing of all functions and tasks performed by incumbents of this class.

Note:
This job posting is open until filled. Applications are reviewed upon receipt. Cochise College requires a post-offer, pre-employment background screening of all employees.
Marketing Statement

Cochise College serves the residents of Cochise County from two campuses and four centers throughout Southern Arizona with panoramic views of five different mountain ranges. The college has been recognized nationally for its cost, return on investment, and high success rate; providing over 90 general and technical education programs leading to a variety of workforce certificates and associate degrees. The college is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission and is a designated Hispanic-Serving Institution (HSI).
Duties and Responsibilities
Duties and Responsibilities: Within the scope of college policies and procedures, this position:

Completes the required AZSBDC State Office Dreambuilder onboarding training that includes Dreambuilder dashboard usage, Center IC (CIC) usage for documenting one-to-one advising activity, marketing guidelines, reporting responsibilities, and AZSBDC New Employee Foundation onboarding training

Prepares the Dreambuilder instructional content that includes the cohort program format, gathers and prepares the instructional materials for the center's cohort sessions, modifies materials to suit the cohort's needs, coordinates with the AZSBDC state office program manager in cohort preparation and selection

Facilitates and advises the Dreambuilder cohort by planning, scheduling, and promoting cohort sessions, identifies and invites guest speakers for in-person sessions with topics aligned to the online Dreambuilder program modules; guides participants through program completion, providing one-to-one business advising program graduates; plans and conducts cohort graduation celebrations

Attends regularly scheduled best-practice sharing meetings with other AZSBDC Dreambuilder Facilitators each quarter; participates in regular SBDC Center staff meetings as determined appropriate by the SBDC Director

Completes reporting requirements, including attendance at monthly AZSBDC state meetings; providing regular and timely one-to-one advising notes, forecasting entries, capital infusion, sales growth and jobs data; works with the SBDC host grant department to ensure timely reporting to the AZSBDC State Office and program manager; reports participant success stories to the AZSBDC State Office program manager quarterly

Analyzes current and potential SBDC client business needs; develops a specific course of action; makes recommendations or referrals to internal programs or outside agencies, provides technical advice, problem solving assistance, and responds to questions and requests for information; provides business assistance services in accordance with Small Business Administration guidelines and procedures

Participates in SBDC-wide development and presentation of business development workshops and courses for current and prospective clients in response to identified needs, demand, and local area economic development; develops promotional materials for public distribution to promote the department program; establishes goals and objectives for the program and recommends revisions to program procedures; works towards program goal achievement

Represents the SBDC in community groups and with private sector partners/co-sponsors, primarily in the outlying areas of Cochise County; promotes the SBDC and related services through outreach, canvassing, and strategic contacting; recruits and refers SBDC clients and program participants

Develops promotional materials for public distribution; establishes goals and objectives for the program and recommends revisions to program procedures; participates in the preparation of proposals for new or continued funding from outside sponsors; prepares various reports…