Career Opportunity

Business Development Manager- Office of Economic and Workforce Development (9774)

Recruitment: RTF0133230-01129499

Published: December 28, 2023

Accepting applications until: January 26, 2024

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The City and County of San Francisco encourages women, minorities, and persons with disabilities to apply. Applicants will be considered regardless of their sex, race, age, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition (associated with cancer, a history of cancer, or genetic characteristics), HIV/AIDS status, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, military, and veteran status, or other protected category under the law.

About the Office of Economic and Workforce Development (OEWD)

The Office of Economic and Workforce Development (OEWD) advances equitable and shared prosperity for San Franciscans by growing sustainable jobs, supporting businesses of all sizes, creating great places to live and work, and helping everyone achieve economic self-sufficiency.

The San Francisco Office of Economic and Workforce Development (OEWD) supports the City's ongoing economic vitality through key programs focused on neighborhood commercial corridors, workforce development, joint development projects, industry focused business recruitment and retention, small business assistance, and international business development. OEWD’s goal is to work continually to make San Francisco an even better place to live, work and do business.  OEWD is a dynamic Department in the City and County of San Francisco. 

About the Business Development Division

The Business Development Division supports the ongoing economic vitality of San Francisco by retaining, attracting and supporting the expansion of businesses in key industry clusters. Business Development achieves these goals by developing, implementing and managing sector based economic development initiatives, business incentives, and special projects to strengthen the City’s economy.

Role description

Appointment Type: Permanent-Exempt (PEX) Appointment. This position is excluded by the Charter from the competitive civil service examination process and shall serve at the discretion of the appointing officer.

Position Description

The Business Development Manager will play a key role in driving job creation, strengthening the city economy and ensuring San Francisco remains a competitive, innovative and successful place to start and grow a business. This position will be responsible for business outreach, business attraction and retention across the arts, culture, and entertainment sectors; as needed, this role will also support independent business owners in other sectors. The Business Development Manager will also support the team on grant management and communications.  The Business Development Manager will be an integral part of the City’s Business Development team, which thrives on passionate, solution-oriented, and collaborative team members.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop, strengthen and manage relationships with arts, culture, and entertainment business representatives as a primary point of contact; assist with all aspects of moving, starting, and growing an arts and entertainment business in San Francisco including navigating city and state government, real estate, workforce development, and incentive programs.
• Implement programs to support the economic recovery of the arts, culture and entertainment sectors, including the SF Live performance series and resources for neighborhood and community outdoor events.
• Develop and launch new programs to attract investment in arts, culture and entertainment to San Francisco’s downtown core and strengthen existing downtown arts, culture, and entertainment offerings.
• Work with communications team and industry stakeholders on initiatives to amplify San Francisco’s reputation as an arts, culture and entertainment industry leader.
• Oversee grant procurement and management for grant programs related to these sectors.
• Drive job creation by developing and implementing business attraction, retention and start-up support strategies for the arts, culture and entertainment sectors.
• Identify threshold constraints to sector companies and independent contractors locating, growing or expanding in San Francisco and develop solutions through issue leadership, policy, strategic partnerships, and collaboration with division colleagues, other City departments, and industry stakeholders
• Assess industry trends, challenges, and opportunities.
• Track, measure and report on business attraction, retention, and job creation efforts
• Manage special projects as assigned.
• Support additional sectors as assigned.

How to qualify

Desirable Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in economic development, business or program management, grant administration, event production, marketing, or related field.
• A proven track record in business development that includes successfully interfacing with industry leaders.
• Experience working with arts, culture, or entertainment sectors.
• Strong communication, relationship management, analytical, project management, and organizational skills.
• Proactive, entrepreneurial, collaborative, strategic, and solution-oriented.
• Familiarity with Customer Relationship Management Databases (CRM) a plus.

Applications will be screened for relevant qualifying experience. Additional screening mechanisms may be implemented in order to determine candidates’ qualifications. Only those applicants who most closely meet the needs of the Agency will be invited to participate in the selection process. Applicants meeting the minimum qualifications are not guaranteed advancement to the interview.

The stated desirable qualifications may be used to identify job finalists at the end of the selection process when candidates are referred for hiring.

Minimum Qualifications

1. Possession of a baccalaureate degree from an accredited college or university AND three (3) years of administrative/professional experience in community development, housing development, workforce development, finance, education, social work, children/youth work, or criminal justice; OR

2. Possession of a baccalaureate degree from an accredited college or university with a major in one of the following fields: public or business administration, urban planning, government, social work, education, finance or criminal justice AND two (2) year of administrative/professional experience in community development, housing and/or housing development, workforce development, finance, education, social work, children/youth work, criminal justice; OR

3. Possession of a Master's degree from an accredited college or university in public policy, planning, social work, public administration, finance, education, criminal justice, or business administration; AND one (1) year of administrative/professional experience in community development, housing and /or housing development, workforce development, finance, education, social work, children/youth work, or criminal justice; OR

4. Possession of a Juris Doctor degree from an accredited college or university AND one (1) year of administrative/professional experience in community development, housing and/or housing development, workforce development, finance, education, social work, children/youth work, or criminal justice.

SUBSTITUTION:
Verifiable administrative/professional experience involving community development, housing and/or housing development, workforce development, finance, education, social work, children/youth work, or criminal justice may substitute for the educational requirement in Minimum Qualification #1 on a year-for-year basis.

Applicants must meet the Minimum Qualification requirements by the final filing date unless otherwise noted.

VERIFICATION OF EXPERIENCE AND/OR EDUCATION: Applicants may be required to submit verification of qualifying education and experience at any point during the recruitment and selection process. If education verification is required, information on how to verify education requirements, including verifying foreign education credits or degree equivalency, can be found at http://sfdhr.org/index.aspx?page=456

Note: Falsifying one’s education, training, or work experience or attempted deception on the application may result in disqualification for this and future job opportunities with the City and County of San Francisco. 

What else should I know?

Application Deadline: Friday, January 26, 2024 - 11:59 pm

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Applicants will receive a confirmation email that their online application has been received in response to every announcement for which they file. Applicants should retain this confirmation email for their records. Failure to receive this email means that the online application was not submitted or received.

All City and County of San Francisco employees are designated Disaster Service Workers through state and local law (California Government Code Section 3100-3109). Employment with the City requires the affirmation of a loyalty oath to this effect. Employees are required to complete all Disaster Service Worker-related training as assigned, and to return to work as ordered in the event of an emergency.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

If you have any questions regarding this recruitment or application process, please contact: Anabel Simonelli-Kupelian, Chief People Officer, anabel.simonelli@sfgov.org.

The City and County of San Francisco encourages women, minorities and persons with disabilities to apply. Applicants will be considered regardless of their sex, race, age, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition (associated with cancer, a history of cancer, or genetic characteristics), HIV/AIDS status, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, military and veteran status, or other protected category under the law.