- Title: Mission Corridor Specialist and Business Coach
- Reports to: Associate Director, Business Development
- Pay Range: $75,000-$80,000
- Apply here: https://medasf.bamboohr.com/careers/232
JOIN OUR MEDA TEAM
Mission Economic Development Agency (MEDA) is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting economic development and job creation in San Francisco’s Mission District. Founded in 1973, MEDA has a long history of serving the community by providing access to capital, technical assistance, and training programs for entrepreneurs and small businesses. We also partner with individuals and families to build lasting prosperity through housing stabilization, small business support, workforce development, financial coaching, and education support. Rooted in San Francisco’s Mission District, we’ve seen how economic opportunity transforms lives—and we’re expanding that impact to communities nationwide.
YOUR CAREER OPPORTUNITY
As the Mission Corridor Specialist and Business Coach, you will join our Business Development team, providing a full continuum of business services to micro- and growing businesses. You will use your skills as a visionary and entrepreneur to motivate others. Your strong grasp of the technical aspects of owning a business will be well utilized in this role. A key component of the Coach’s responsibilities is outreach, including block walking, cold calling, and leveraging existing relationships with local businesses.
MEDA’s goal is to provide technical assistance, access to capital and real estate, and advocacy to maintain vibrant and healthy Latino, immigrant, and family-serving local businesses. Given the rapid displacement of businesses in the Mission District, this is a crucial position in supporting MEDA’s strategic efforts to preserve the neighborhood as a supportive community for Latino businesses, residents, and
institutions. The Coach will work very closely with the Community Real Estate and Policy teams as part of MEDA’s comprehensive strategies to address business stability, retention, and growth in the neighborhood.
DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES
Specifically, you will:
- Manage the Mission Street corridor project:
- Conduct corridor outreach and door to door visits to businesses and community institutions within the Mission Street Commercial Corridor and Mission Bernal Commercial Corridor, amongst other neighborhoods in San Francisco.
- Build relationships with businesses located in the Mission corridor
- Provides one-on-one coaching services and facilitate workshops.
- Manage the El Mercadito at Plaza Adelante project:
- Maintain and foster collaboration and partnership with businesses at El Mercadito
- Provides one-on-one coaching services to El Mercadito businesses
- Assist in providing business at El Mercadito with the resources needed
- Support the business development program:
- Assist clients with specific services and areas of business development, such as writing a business plan, obtaining financing (loan packaging), Marketing, developing Human Resources, conducting a market analysis, etc.
- Collaborate with other MEDA staff to participate in program-specific partnerships with various stakeholders, including representatives of local government, financial institutions, and community groups.
- Work with the Associate Director for Business Development on other specific special projects related to supporting San Francisco-based businesses.
- Provide referrals to Fondo Adelante’s lending team for businesses interested in accessing financing and provide business coaching and technical assistance to Fondo Adelante borrowers.
- Utilize platforms to accurately track services provided to clients and generate reports for different stakeholders and investors (Salesforce, Google Docs Editors, etc.)
- Other duties as assigned
YOUR KEYS TO SUCCESS
To perform successfully in this role, you will need to leverage these key qualifications:
- Two years’ experience in business planning and coaching, including entrepreneurial training
- Demonstrated expertise and/or experience in the following areas: loan packaging or loan underwriting, marketing, writing business plans, procurement, and program/product development
- Excellent quantitative and financial business analysis skills
- Bachelor’s degree in business, finance, economics or other related field preferred or equivalent experience
- Spanish fluency required
YOUR MEDA EXPERIENCE
Do meaningful work in an innovative workplace while being challenged for your professional growth.
Joining MEDA means having meaningful experiences that develop achievers – from across the Mission neighborhood and from within our organization. We find meaning and fulfillment in our work as we see our community thrive and are driven to achieve better outcomes by challenging ourselves to innovate in our ways of working.
We offer a market-leading benefits program that reflects MEDA’s values and mission. We invest in people’s lives and support our own people’s health and financial well-being.
Our core benefits include:
- Comprehensive medical, vision, and dental insurance for employees and their dependents – 100 percent covered by MEDA
- 401(k) plan for employees
- Generous paid time off – with a minimum of 20 days for new employees
- Employee Assistance Program that offers free financial or legal counseling to employees or their families
- Other forms of voluntary benefits
Applicants must be authorized to work for ANY employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time.
