Senior Economic Development Analyst (Promotional)
About The Position
Under general supervision, this position assists with economic development and provides general support to the department. It involves coordinating promotional activities, visiting businesses, determining incentive programs, assisting with international projects, representing the City administration, coordinating with City departments to support businesses, researching and compiling economic data, and responding to inquiries. The role also includes gathering, researching, and analyzing economic development information from various sources, interpreting data, and providing technical assistance on incentive programs. Maintaining databases on labor force, real estate, utilities, taxes, and industry listings is also a key function. The position requires representing the department at meetings, attending seminars, preparing presentations, participating in projects, and evaluating data for grant applications. Additionally, it involves assisting with economic incentive programs, reviewing and processing applications, preparing agreements, negotiating terms, making recommendations to taxing entities, and ensuring companies meet contractual obligations. This is an unclassified contract position.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree or higher in Business, Public Administration, Economics, Finance, Accounting, Real Estate Development, Urban Planning, Marketing, Communications or related field
- Two (2) years of economic or community development, business development, commercial development, business retention programs, business attraction and/or development research, community development planning, commercial financial analysis, commercial real estate development marketing or business industry compliance.
- Valid U.S. Driver's License or equivalent from another state.
Responsibilities
- Provides professional level assistance to the Economic and International Development Department.
- Coordinate promotional activities such as site tours, presentations for and meetings between local area business, government, real estate and development representatives, and client companies.
- Visit businesses on behalf of the City as a member of the business expansion and retention team.
- Assist in determining incentive programs to be reviewed by City Council.
- Assist in Binational & International projects.
- Represent the City administration to various private enterprise and public agencies.
- Coordinate efforts and information with various City departments to identify, retain and assist business and industry.
- Researches, tracks and complies demographic and regional economic data in response to prospective client inquiries.
- Respond to general inquiries of the Economic and International Development Department.
- Gather research and analyze economic development information.
- Study information from a variety of sources including demographic, economic indicators, incentives, local business climate, local real estate, impact and feasibility studies and local regulations and incentives.
- Interpret and provide information to internal and external customers.
- Provide technical assistance and guidance on complex incentive programs available.
- Maintain and update multiple databases, which include information on the region's labor force, real estate climate, utilities, taxes, and industry listings.
- Represent the department at various meetings and discussions concerning the role of the City in economic development.
- Attend seminars and training programs related to assigned work.
- Prepare and make presentations to civic and business organizations on local economic development efforts.
- Participate in a variety of projects in support of the department.
- Participate in gathering and evaluating data used in grant applications and other projects.
- Assist with economic incentive programs, including tax rebates and abatements, state incentives, and recruitment of industries.
- Review applications and process applications through incentives guidelines.
- Prepare agreements and back up documentation to be placed on city agendas.
- Work with clients to negotiate terms of incentive programs.
- Present recommendations to taxing entities, city, county and college entities to execute agreement.
- Review files to ensure companies are meeting contractual obligations.
- Supervise assigned personnel.
- Schedule, assign, instruct, guide and check work.
- Appraise employee performance.
- Provide for training and development.
- Enforce personnel rules and regulations and work behavior standards firmly and impartially.
- Counsel, motivate and maintain harmony.
- Interview applicants.
- Recommend hiring, termination, transfers, discipline, merit pay or other employee status changes.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
