Position Summary: This classification under the direction of the Director of Economic Development, the Economic Development Special Project Coordinator facilitates internal and external meetings, organizes economic development programs so that they run efficiently, manages key economic development initiatives to ensure program continuity, and learns how to evaluate economic development projects. Responsibilities include but are not limited to the economic development and workforce development pipeline to ensure proper handoff of projects between economic development staff and city departments, assisting with Business Retention and Expansion efforts as needed, and/or other economic development, redevelopment, or capital improvement programs or projects as assigned.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

The functions listed below are those that represent the majority of the time spent working in this position. Management may assign additional functions related to the type of work of the position as necessary.

• Coordinating economic development activities in the economic development department
• Developing plans and analyses for economic development-related projects including responding to requests for information from companies and site selection consultants.
• Working with the economic development team to evaluate projects on a cost/benefit basis; eventually, this role will be responsible for performing economic impact reviews on projects.
• Assisting the economic development team with inquiries from companies and developers. This will include gathering project data (jobs, investment, site location) and packaging that data for the economic development team.
• Ensuring that projects/updates/presentations are ready for Economic Development-related meetings, including DDAs, Main Street Board Meeting, and Development meetings. Additionally, this role will assist the team with data preparation for regular updates to the City Council.
• Administrative duties: this role will help arrange group meetings for the economic development team and will assist the Economic Development Director in organizing meetings.
• Manage various economic development programs as assigned by the economic development director.
• Other duties and administrative tasks as assigned.