Small business advisor

Location: Binghamton, NY Category: Professional Posted On: Thu Oct 16 2025 Job Description:

Budget Title: Senior Staff Assistant (SL-3)

Salary: $59,000 - $61,000

The Southern Tier Small Business Development Center hosted by Binghamton University (STSBDC) helps existing and potential small businesses in twelve New York State counties. The STSBDC currently has one outreach office and many satellite offices with a staff of an Administrative Assistant, Business Advisors, Interns, and a Regional Director. This Advisor will be located in Ithaca, New York.

Reporting to the Regional Director, the Small Business Advisor is responsible for providing business counseling to clients, creating and executing small business training, acting as an ambassador for the SBDC in the community, and following SBDC at BU operational procedures to ensure compliance with NY SBDC, Host and Funding Partners. The Small Business Advisor works together with the Southern Tier SBDC staff to meet the annual objectives of fulfilling the Center's mission of serving entrepreneurs and creating new businesses. Small Business Advisement Services are the priority of this position.

• Small Business Advisement Services - Provides a comprehensive range of small business-based assistance including one-on-one client counseling in the area of business plan development; financial analysis; maintaining record-keeping systems, and assisting clients with market-related issues.

• Small Business Training - Small Business Training is an important portion of the services offered by the SBDC. Small Business Training is used to both addresses the challenges and opportunities of small businesses and also as outreach to create SBDC clients. Working with the Regional Director the Small Business Advisor will perform or facilitate training for SBDC at BU. This includes: event management, creating content ideas, budget development, speaker research, outreach, and marketing activities.

• Community Outreach and Collaboration - Initiate and maintain contact with the business community as well as other related public and private entities to promote program services and enhance outreach services.

• Grant, Host, NY SBDC Deliverables and Compliance - The NY SBDC is funded through support from Binghamton University, Federal Grants, State Funding, and Private and Public Initiatives. The multiple sources of funding increase the complexity of compliance as different activities have different rules and deliverables.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Small Business Advisement Services - 75%

• Small Business Training - 15%

• Other - 10%

• Community Outreach and Collaboration

• Grant, Host, NY SBDC Deliverables and Grant Compliance

Other Job Objectives:

• Maintain a client caseload and provide technical management assistance to potential and existing small businesses throughout region.

• Understand the needs of the small business community and provide small business training.

• Develop working relationships with other economic development agencies.

• Promote the SBDC by volunteering to give presentations to stakeholders of the SBDC.

• Travel to client locations for evaluation purposes and to better understand the client's small business entity.

Long Term Objectives: This position is funded annually.

Supervisory Relationships:

• The Regional Director supervises this position.

Job Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree in public administration, management, finance or another business-related field

• Effective written and verbal communications skills

• Ability to work with other local economic development agencies, service providers and the banking community

• Demonstrated proficiency in Microsoft Office suite, including Excel, Word, and PowerPoint

• Valid driver's license to operate a vehicle in New York State

Preferred:

• Economic development agency, entrepreneurial support organization, small business ownership, or banking experience

• Experience creating and/or reviewing financial projections such as cash flows, profit and loss statements, and balance sheets

• Experience writing or reviewing business plans

This position is temporary, grant funded.

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Additional Information:

Offers of employment will be contingent upon successful completion of a pre-employment background check and verification of degree(s) and credentials.

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