We have an outstanding career opportunity for a Project Director-Small Businessto join a leading Company located in theChicago, IL surrounding area.

Coordinates the administration, development, and implementation of various community and/or economic development and planning projects as assigned; facilitates any activities necessary to make these projects successful and works with municipalities, local governments, key stakeholders, educational institutions, and partners to develop projects in partnership with the Bureau of Economic Development. Provides technical and analytical expertise as it relates to the Bureau and strategies for economic and community development. Represents on various commissions and tasks forces on behalf of the President and is responsible for tracking legislation that will have an impact on planning activities. Guides the development and implementation of economic policy for the Bureau.

Job Responsibilities:

• Evaluates, and directs research into public access program objective and achievements.

• Ensures that reports and recommendations on long and short range projects, policies or programs related to housing, homelessness, economic development, and community development are compiled and assessed on time for review by key stakeholders.

• Creates and manages detailed project plans, schedules, budgets, and deliverables from concept though completion of the project.

• Oversees program execution and ensures established program goals and objectives are met while managing daily operational aspects of the project.

• Develops and implements operating policies and procedures to ensure the effectiveness of programs.

• Implements and monitors procedures utilized in program evaluation.

• Coordinates and develops with municipal organizations, Federal and State governmental entities on projects that will suburban municipalities to insure completeness and timely delivery of reports, etc.

• Coordinates with the various departments, agencies and bureaus to ensure responses to all requests for assistance both financial and technical.

• Monitors, research, and identifies funding opportunities to support programs.

• Evaluates programmatic metrics and oversees the preparation of impact narratives and program status reports.

• Interacts with departments, groups, and external organizations in the research process; conducts surveys where needed to update existing data or to create new databases.

• Attends community, civic and business organization meetings to promote the Bureau's programs and initiatives.

  Basic Hiring Criteria:

• Graduation from an accredited college or university with a bachelor's degree PLUS a minimum of three (3) years professional work experience in local government, community development, not-for-profit work, economic development or planning OR, an equivalent combination of professional work experience, training, and education.

• Knowledge of a broad range of urban issues; State, Federal, local government legislative processes and impacts; communications industry, U.S. census map reading.

• Knowledge of the principles and practices of program planning, transportation, environmental and economic development.

• Knowledge of project strategies, monitoring, and evaluation methodology and techniques.

• Strong knowledge of marketing strategies, program monitoring, evaluation methodology and techniques.

• Knowledge of project management tools such as Gantt charts and project scheduling software; agile tools such as Scrum.

• Proficient knowledge of Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, and SharePoint.

• This position may require traveling to work assignments for which the employee must provide his or her own adequate means of transportation.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills including the ability to document detailed project plans and project statuses to conduct meetings including formal presentations to diverse stakeholders.

• Proven ability to deliver projects within scope and budget and mitigate issues that may interfere with project success.

• Skill in research techniques, surveys; interpretation, analysis of census data; clear, concise writing.

  Desired Qualifications:

• Master's degree.

• Five (5) years' experience in community or economic development, public policy or urban planning.

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