Job Responsibilities
- Support strategic planning, implementation, and advancing the small business team’s learning agenda.
- Conduct research, draft summaries, and create charts/visuals/decks.
- Coordinate meetings, events, announcements, release of research and other activities related to BG&E programming and Support communications strategies, including development of talking points, collateral, and related materials
- Coordinate grants administration by communicating with nonprofits, tracking grant status and reporting, coordinating budgets and timelines, collecting required documents, tracking correspondence and processing funding .
- Track and review grant portfolio to ensure grantmaking deadlines and impact goals.
- Utilize grants management system to process and request grant applications and related documents.
- Synthesize, detail and organize learnings across the portfolio to help the team assess the impact of its work and promote continuous learning and communications activities.
- Support the team on special projects as assigned.
- Provide logistical event management, summaries, and recap support for key events and initiatives.
- Work with communications team on major events, announcements, release of research and other activities.
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Bachelor’s degree desired, or comparable professional experience
- 5-7 + years of relevant experience
- Act with urgency, initiative, and ownership to drive results
- Excellent judgment, organizational skills, and independent decision-making; ability to plan, manage and follow through on projects independently
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills and comfort delivering presentations
- Results-oriented with a commitment to establishing and executing on goals, attention to detail, and strong analytical skills
- Ability to navigate a highly-matrixed organization
- Mastery of core Microsoft Office applications, particularly PowerPoint
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Experience with Salesforce-based systems a plus.
- experience working in a fast-paced environment , philanthropy, corporate, or non profit experience a plus