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Open Positions

Position Title

Job Overview

A Community-Based Network Navigator represents KCSourceLink at a grassroots level in the community, helping current, and prospective entrepreneurs through three assets. Community-Based Responsibilities, Entrepreneur-Based Responsibilities and Office-Based Responsibilities. 

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This is a Temporary Contract Position for 20 hours a week at $20 per hour through August 2026.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Bilingual in Spanish, both written and spoken.

Experience/Skills

  • Have excellent telephone and face-to-face customer service skills

  • Be detail-oriented with demonstrated administrative skills

  • Demonstrate a proven ability to listen to and understand the needs of people at different levels,
    assess their needs and refer to appropriate resource

  • Have the ability to learn the capabilities of the service providers in the KCSourceLink network

  • Can work independently and with a team

  • Maintain confidentiality

  • Work with a high degree of integrity and hold high ethical standards

Responsibilities and duties

  • Community-Based Responsibilities

    • Event attendance - work with KCSourceLink and partner staff to identify and attend relevant
      events to represent KCSourceLink (i.e. vendor fairs, faith-based socials, community-building
      events)

    • Community discovery - identify, meet with and build relationships with key individuals to
      discover business needs within the community and provide feedback to KCSourceLink and
      Resource Partner staff

  • Entrepreneur-Based Responsibilities

    •  One-on-one meetings - meet in person, have phone conversations and/or email interactions to discover business needs and develop action plans for current and prospective business owners to help them achieve their goal by connecting them with the resources they need to complete each step of the plan

    • Follow up - provide follow up assistance for businesses as needed

    • Log entrepreneur interactions in the KCSourceLink database

  • Office-Based Responsibilities

    • Attend weekly operations/marketing meetings with KCSourceLink staff. 

Other Duties

  • Attend a minimum of one event per week to share KCSourceLink services and provide feedback to KCSourceLink and your site staff

  • Create a minimum of two personal action plans for entrepreneurs or business owners from the community each week and document them in the database

  • Attend weekly KCSourceLink staff meetings

  • Support KCSourceLink and Resource Partner teams on projects aligned with the role

Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis. Please name "The Toolbox KC" in the email subject line.

If interested, please submit a letter of interest and resume at castrob@kcsourcelink.com

Cutting Ribbon

Essential Steps for Launching Your Business
Available in English & Español

Are you thinking about starting a business, but don’t know where to begin? This FREE workshop will take you through the essential steps.

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We will lay out and demystify the most effective path to startup success. We will explain step-by-step how to get from concept to launch. You will learn the different legal structures for forming a business, how to register your business entity, tax responsibilities of small businesses as well as common pitfalls small businesses run into and how to avoid them.

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This program is funded through a grant from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation and hosted by The Toolbox.

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Date: First Tuesday of every month

Time: 6:00 p.m.

The Blueprint: Subtractor Development Program

Available in Español

When scaling your construction business, your legal risks change as you grow your company. Bigger projects mean bigger money. Bigger money means bigger risk. This workshop is your key to ensuring you know the appropriate steps to take on the projects you pursue, and that starts with learning how to legally protect yourself.

 

This workshop will equip subcontractors wanting to grow their business with the essential steps they need to take to make sure they get paid!

 

By attending this workshop, you will:

 

  • Learn what your rights are as a residential/commercial subcontractor

  • Best practices on how to prevent issues with the owner/project

  • Learn the keys to a construction contract/service agreement

  • Learn what to do if you are having problems getting paid

 

And so much more!

Construction Worker
Stock Market

Computer Class - How to use Excel/Google Sheets for your Business

Available in Español

Join us for our Excel/Google Sheets course, where you'll learn essential skills for business and beyond. 

 

 Don't miss out on the opportunity to:

  • Create Excel workbooks (spreadsheets)

  • Format your Excel workbook (spreadsheets)

  • Develop databases

  • Master formulas and functions (accounting)

  • Create visually appealing charts and diagrams for your data.

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Enroll today and unlock the full potential of Excel and Google Sheets!

Kauffman FASTTRAC 

Join us for our 4-week workshop that will take your business idea from concept to action! Our activity-based program is designed to help you assess your strengths, refine your competitive-advantage, and create an actionable plan that you can implement right away.

 

Here's what you'll learn:

  • How to conduct market research

  • How to develop a business model

  • How to create a financial plan

  • How to market and sell your product or service

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Additional benefits of participating in our workshop:

  • You'll get to network with other entrepreneurs and learn from their experiences.

  • You'll receive one-on-one support from our experienced instructors.

  • You'll have the opportunity to get feedback on your business plan from both your classmates and the instructors.

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Check out our calendar of events to see when the next session is coming up!

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