Application Deadline: April 30, 2023
The Community Development Educator is an integral part of the UW-Madison Division of Extension and works alongside the people of Wisconsin to improve lives and communities. Extension serves the people and communities of Wisconsin by addressing local, statewide and national issues, improving lives through research-based education, fostering partnerships and action, and facilitating positive impacts.
As a Community Development Educator in Kenosha County, the position’s primary focus is to design, deliver and evaluate research-based educational programs and services to support underserved entrepreneurs and strengthen the local economy. The Community Development Educator will be responsible for the following:
– Assessing the needs of underserved entrepreneurs, including businesses owned by people of color, female-owned businesses, early-stage entrepreneurs, solopreneurs, and sector-specific businesses, and developing educational responses such as workshops, peer networks, and facilitated processes to build their capacity.
– Collaborating with community economic development leaders to build and support local and regional entrepreneurial ecosystems.
– Offering and supporting community economic development planning programs, including community economic analysis, downtown toolbox, and community vitality and placemaking, to help local communities and neighborhoods organize, prioritize, and achieve community economic development goals.
This position will also play a lead role in supporting the ongoing development and delivery of a statewide effort related to community economic development planning with specific attention to entrepreneurship in Kenosha County and throughout Wisconsin. The Educator will work with a team of colleagues to refine and deliver existing and planned programs to increase the success of entrepreneurs in Wisconsin by addressing targeted business development assistance and entrepreneurial ecosystem development and will support efforts related to comprehensive economic development planning.
Read the full article at: https://jobs.hr.wisc.edu/en-us/job/517822/community-development-extension-educator