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Anchorage Community Land Trust
Address:
3701 Mountain View Drive Suite 100, Anchorage AK 99508Anchorage Community Land Trust strives to develop healthy and prosperous communities in Anchorage by acquiring, developing, and planning for the land and projects necessary to bring about sustainable neighborhood revitalization and economic development.Job Summary
Date Posted:
4 weeks agoClosing Date:
April 19, 2024Location:
Anchorage, AKWorksite:
HybridStatus:
Full time, exempt.Benefits:ACLT offers comprehensive benefits including: Healthcare coverage through Premera's Blue Cross Plus Gold 500 plan with vision and dental included. Premium covered largely by employer. Paid Time Off accrued from first day of work at the following rates: 0 – 2 years of service - 7.08 hours/pay period, 184 hours/23 days annually. 3 - 5 years of service - 8.62 hours/pay period, 224 hours/28 days annually. 6+ years of service - 10.15 hours/pay period, 264 hours/33 days annually. In addition to PTO, ACLT offers generous bereavement, jury duty, and family leave policies. ACLT observes the following paid holidays: New Year’s Eve or January 2nd, New Year’s Day, Martin Luther King Day, President’s Day, Memorial Day, Juneteenth, Independence Day, Labor Day, Indigenous People’s Day, Veteran’s Day, Thanksgiving Day (Thursday and the following Friday), Christmas Day and the following day. We voluntarily offer paid leave staff-wide to allow for office closure between Christmas and New Year's, and the third Friday of each month. An employee may exchange a holiday listed above for another holiday which is important to their culture or religion.How to Apply:
Please submit resume and cover letter to
ctaylor@anchoragelandtrust.orgJob Description
Organization DescriptionAnchorage Community Land Trust (ACLT) is a neighborhood-based non-profit in Anchorage that works with residents and business owners in targeted geographies to improve quality of life in their communities. For 20 years, ACLT has been disrupting concentrated poverty in Anchorage by making concentrated investments. ACLT’s investments are in targeted neighborhoods and are high impact, community-vetted and anchored in partnership. ACLT’s services fall into four core categories:Real Estate:
ACLT owns transformative properties, connects entrepreneurs to real estate, and invests in our neighborhood commercial corridors.Organizing:
ACLT works with neighbors to create grassroots networks and act as an advocate for issues that matter to our communities.Neighborhood Improvements:
ACLT works with neighbors to rejuvenate and invest in the spaces important to our communities.Targeted Programs:
ACLT runs high-impact programming grounded in our neighborhoods that aims to stand behind residents and address poverty and inequity.ACLT has long empowered residents in its target neighborhoods to be the leaders of their community’s next steps. ACLT knows its neighborhoods deeply, and our earned trust allows our place-based initiatives to succeed. By supporting business creation, resident leadership, and better infrastructure, we build neighborhoods from within, and reverse the cycle of generational poverty. For more information, visit
anchoragelandtrust.org .Position DescriptionACLT’s Set Up Shop program helps entrepreneurs and business owners in underserved communities to launch and grow their businesses with holistic support. Program services include training and workshops, business services, lending, and real estate assistance. ACLT is seeking a Program Associate with strong project management and communication skills to join our team of Business Services staff, who are responsible for helping neighborhood entrepreneurs take next steps to achieve their goals. The Associate focuses on supporting priority clients who are entrepreneurs accessing capital or launching their shop in a neighborhood brick and mortar location. This staff member would track, monitor and deliver assistance to these entrepreneurs, as well as support the needs of the programs department overall. They will coach businesses directly, source consulting support from their colleagues, and also pair clients with external professionals contracted for specific business expertise when needed. Additionally, this position will lead programming to generally support clients, from holding educational workshops to teaching occasionally in our training classes, and projects like business research or writing. The Associate will be responsible to speak about programs to community partners or the public, including presentations or outreach tabling at events. Periodically each year, team members may travel to other Alaska regions or cities within the U.S. for programming or professional development. Occasional evening and weekend work may be required. The Program Associate operates within the Programs Department, collaborates closely with every Programs Department team member, and reports to the Program Manager.Key Duties and ResponsibilitiesHelp clients navigate the small business lending process.Handle requests for information about the lending services.Lead communication about our clients working with our lending partners.Convene with lending partner staff to move forward the goals of our partnership.Arrange education or technical assistance to meet the needs of clients pursuing lending, as well as helping them with their applications directly.Develop and deliver programming like classes and workshops that begin to intervene in the financial barriers further upstream before entrepreneurs prepare to access capital for their business, and help them access holistic personal finance support.Assist neighborhood brick and mortar shops.Work with staff to develop measures of impact for our real estate programming and adopt a system to collect data regularly.Organize the planning, discussion, and implementation of the ACLT Strategic Plan 2024-2027 item to define our practice of real estate as an organization.Provide business services (AKA “technical assistance” or TA) programming and coordination.Organize and/or join intake meetings to capture clients’ needs, as well as meeting with training graduates to evaluate their readiness and identify needs for continued Set Up Shop services.Handle requests for information about accessing the TA, lending, and real estate programs.Directly provide assistance to entrepreneurs in areas of expertise, and work to grow professionally the knowledge and skill sets that would help clients the most.Work with staff to support the oversight of project tracking, monitoring, improving, and moving forward the operations of the Business Services program.Responsible for the development of relationships with external technical assistance contractors, and encouraging the full utilization of them when client projects arise.Qualifications:Education and Experience:One year related professional experience, demonstrating experience in project management, community outreach, and direct work with clients or community members. Experience or skills in one or more of the following areas: adult education, consulting/coaching, entrepreneurship, business planning, business operations, business or personal finances, commercial real estate, communications, industry-specific knowledge, or creative products (like graphic design, web or social media development).Preferred Knowledge or Skills:Strong oral and written communication skills.Strong interpersonal soft skills.Strong organizational and project management skills.Share our organizational values.Candidates with bilingual fluency and/or familiarity with ACLT’s neighborhoods (Mountain View, Fairview, Spenard, Muldoon, and Downtown) are strongly encouraged to apply.
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Anchorage Community Land Trust
Address:
3701 Mountain View Drive Suite 100, Anchorage AK 99508Anchorage Community Land Trust strives to develop healthy and prosperous communities in Anchorage by acquiring, developing, and planning for the land and projects necessary to bring about sustainable neighborhood revitalization and economic development.Job Summary
Date Posted:
4 weeks agoClosing Date:
April 19, 2024Location:
Anchorage, AKWorksite:
HybridStatus:
Full time, exempt.Benefits:ACLT offers comprehensive benefits including: Healthcare coverage through Premera's Blue Cross Plus Gold 500 plan with vision and dental included. Premium covered largely by employer. Paid Time Off accrued from first day of work at the following rates: 0 – 2 years of service - 7.08 hours/pay period, 184 hours/23 days annually. 3 - 5 years of service - 8.62 hours/pay period, 224 hours/28 days annually. 6+ years of service - 10.15 hours/pay period, 264 hours/33 days annually. In addition to PTO, ACLT offers generous bereavement, jury duty, and family leave policies. ACLT observes the following paid holidays: New Year’s Eve or January 2nd, New Year’s Day, Martin Luther King Day, President’s Day, Memorial Day, Juneteenth, Independence Day, Labor Day, Indigenous People’s Day, Veteran’s Day, Thanksgiving Day (Thursday and the following Friday), Christmas Day and the following day. We voluntarily offer paid leave staff-wide to allow for office closure between Christmas and New Year's, and the third Friday of each month. An employee may exchange a holiday listed above for another holiday which is important to their culture or religion.How to Apply:
Please submit resume and cover letter to
ctaylor@anchoragelandtrust.orgJob Description
Organization DescriptionAnchorage Community Land Trust (ACLT) is a neighborhood-based non-profit in Anchorage that works with residents and business owners in targeted geographies to improve quality of life in their communities. For 20 years, ACLT has been disrupting concentrated poverty in Anchorage by making concentrated investments. ACLT’s investments are in targeted neighborhoods and are high impact, community-vetted and anchored in partnership. ACLT’s services fall into four core categories:Real Estate:
ACLT owns transformative properties, connects entrepreneurs to real estate, and invests in our neighborhood commercial corridors.Organizing:
ACLT works with neighbors to create grassroots networks and act as an advocate for issues that matter to our communities.Neighborhood Improvements:
ACLT works with neighbors to rejuvenate and invest in the spaces important to our communities.Targeted Programs:
ACLT runs high-impact programming grounded in our neighborhoods that aims to stand behind residents and address poverty and inequity.ACLT has long empowered residents in its target neighborhoods to be the leaders of their community’s next steps. ACLT knows its neighborhoods deeply, and our earned trust allows our place-based initiatives to succeed. By supporting business creation, resident leadership, and better infrastructure, we build neighborhoods from within, and reverse the cycle of generational poverty. For more information, visit
anchoragelandtrust.org .Position DescriptionACLT’s Set Up Shop program helps entrepreneurs and business owners in underserved communities to launch and grow their businesses with holistic support. Program services include training and workshops, business services, lending, and real estate assistance. ACLT is seeking a Program Associate with strong project management and communication skills to join our team of Business Services staff, who are responsible for helping neighborhood entrepreneurs take next steps to achieve their goals. The Associate focuses on supporting priority clients who are entrepreneurs accessing capital or launching their shop in a neighborhood brick and mortar location. This staff member would track, monitor and deliver assistance to these entrepreneurs, as well as support the needs of the programs department overall. They will coach businesses directly, source consulting support from their colleagues, and also pair clients with external professionals contracted for specific business expertise when needed. Additionally, this position will lead programming to generally support clients, from holding educational workshops to teaching occasionally in our training classes, and projects like business research or writing. The Associate will be responsible to speak about programs to community partners or the public, including presentations or outreach tabling at events. Periodically each year, team members may travel to other Alaska regions or cities within the U.S. for programming or professional development. Occasional evening and weekend work may be required. The Program Associate operates within the Programs Department, collaborates closely with every Programs Department team member, and reports to the Program Manager.Key Duties and ResponsibilitiesHelp clients navigate the small business lending process.Handle requests for information about the lending services.Lead communication about our clients working with our lending partners.Convene with lending partner staff to move forward the goals of our partnership.Arrange education or technical assistance to meet the needs of clients pursuing lending, as well as helping them with their applications directly.Develop and deliver programming like classes and workshops that begin to intervene in the financial barriers further upstream before entrepreneurs prepare to access capital for their business, and help them access holistic personal finance support.Assist neighborhood brick and mortar shops.Work with staff to develop measures of impact for our real estate programming and adopt a system to collect data regularly.Organize the planning, discussion, and implementation of the ACLT Strategic Plan 2024-2027 item to define our practice of real estate as an organization.Provide business services (AKA “technical assistance” or TA) programming and coordination.Organize and/or join intake meetings to capture clients’ needs, as well as meeting with training graduates to evaluate their readiness and identify needs for continued Set Up Shop services.Handle requests for information about accessing the TA, lending, and real estate programs.Directly provide assistance to entrepreneurs in areas of expertise, and work to grow professionally the knowledge and skill sets that would help clients the most.Work with staff to support the oversight of project tracking, monitoring, improving, and moving forward the operations of the Business Services program.Responsible for the development of relationships with external technical assistance contractors, and encouraging the full utilization of them when client projects arise.Qualifications:Education and Experience:One year related professional experience, demonstrating experience in project management, community outreach, and direct work with clients or community members. Experience or skills in one or more of the following areas: adult education, consulting/coaching, entrepreneurship, business planning, business operations, business or personal finances, commercial real estate, communications, industry-specific knowledge, or creative products (like graphic design, web or social media development).Preferred Knowledge or Skills:Strong oral and written communication skills.Strong interpersonal soft skills.Strong organizational and project management skills.Share our organizational values.Candidates with bilingual fluency and/or familiarity with ACLT’s neighborhoods (Mountain View, Fairview, Spenard, Muldoon, and Downtown) are strongly encouraged to apply.
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