Careers Job Description
General Description
The School of Continuing and Professional Studies at Lehman College is seeking a business advisor to support entrepreneurs in the Cannabis Workforce and Business Development Training Program at Lehman College. The program is dedicated to enabling legacy entrepreneurs and others to start up and manage small businesses by applying for cannabis licenses. Reporting to Lehman College, Director of CUNY on the Concourse, the business advisor is responsible for providing support with the preparation, planning, launching, supervision, and scaling in all areas of the program starting with recruitment and culminating in starting and running a successful business.
Other Duties
The business advisor provides a comprehensive range of small business-based assistance including one to one client counseling in the area of cannabis business licenses. Assistance includes business plan development; understanding analysis, preparation and structure of financial statements, such as cash flow projections, income statements and sources and uses statements; automated and manual record keeping systems; human resource issues such as staff supervision and management, employee rights and responsibilities, professional development, and working with clients on market-related issues such as advertising, promotional functions, social media, surveys, and other related topics.
The business advisor implements and/or participates in orientation and training sessions and provides follow up services as necessary to attendees.
The business advisor acts as a clearinghouse for information for clients and other interested individuals and refers, when appropriate, those individuals to outside entities that can provide additional support services, e.g., pro bono lawyers.
With the goal of improving services, the business advisor gathers written feedback from assisted clients for program service refinement and promotional purposes.
Qualifications
Able to provide quality one to one business advisement to a varied and complex range of clientele
Strong organizational skills in order to maintain a high level of activity while adapting to the time- sensitive nature of business decision making.
Dynamic presenter for recruitment/training events; ability to engage with a group of people; respond to individual concerns and interests while staying on topic.
Ability to establish a network of professional contacts for referral purposes in response to an ever-changing business climate in the emerging cannabis sector.
Experience: The position requires no less than three year's experience in private sector business or related public technical assistance environment.
Education: The position requires a Bachelors Degree in the area of business, management, finance, economics or related field.
Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree in a related field with at least three (3) years’ experience as a business advisor
- Knowledge and experience of the CUNY system and/or NYC government agencies.
- Familiarity with Bronx Community Based Organizations, economic development agencies and legal services.
- Familiarity with cannabis industry.
Position is grant funded until 2025.
RFCUNY Benefits
RFCUNY Employee Benefits and AccrualsAbout the Research Foundation
The Research Foundation of The City University of New York (RFCUNY) is a nonprofit educational corporation founded in 1963 to provide post-award fiscal and administrative support for CUNY’s research and sponsored programs. RFCUNY’s services allow CUNY researchers, faculty, and staff to focus on their intellectual curiosity and scientific discoveries, on projects and programs that serve our local and global communities, proposing concrete solutions to society’s most pressing challenges.
RFCUNY serves as a fiscal agent and works closely with all the CUNY campus Grants Offices to perform the core functions of post-award financial management for CUNY research projects and sponsored programs. These functions include legal assessment and signing of agreements where RFCUNY is named as a fiscal agent; setting up award accounts; preparing sub-awards and assisting PIs in monitoring the work of the recipients of sub-awards; supporting project directors with hiring and managing research project and sponsored program staff; supporting the purchasing and paying for goods and services with grant and program funds; managing financial aspects of projects including accounts receivable, financial reporting, invoicing, budget monitoring, and cost compliance with uniform guidance; ensuring that sponsor financial requirements are met; monitoring compliance with applicable project and financial management rules and laws; supporting the management of independent and external audits and financial reviews; and providing data, information, management expertise, and other supports to CUNY’s research and sponsored programs.
Equal Employment Opportunity Statement
Key Features
School of Continuing and Professional St
Full Time
$65,000.00 - $80,000.00
Nov 19, 2022 (Or Until Filled)