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Supervise daily program operations and lead a team through staffing, training, performance coaching, and workflow improvements while ensuring client contract compliance and customer satisfaction.
Small Business Program Director - Transportation
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Small-business DevelopmentProcurement Technical AssistanceDBE ProgramsSupplier Diversity
📜 Description
- Direct outreach, training, and counseling for a regional small-business technical assistance center.
- Help small and disadvantaged businesses prepare for transportation contracting and certification.
- Build partnerships with transportation agencies, prime contractors, and business associations.
- Plan and run business-development events, workshops, and matchmaking sessions.
- Track and report client outcomes, contract awards, and program metrics.
- Contribute qualifications and past-performance narratives to proposals when authorized.
🛠️ Requirements
- Experience leading small-business development, procurement technical assistance, or DBE/supplier-diversity programs
- Knowledge of public-sector or transportation procurement processes
- Outreach and partnership-building experience with agencies and prime contractors
- Program management and outcomes-reporting experience
- Comfortable as a project-based contract collaborator; remote US
- APEX Accelerator / PTAC or SBDC experience
- Transportation construction or DBE certification background
- Regional business-network relationships
Full job description
WIL is seeking a Small Business Program Director for transportation contracting to run a regional center that helps small and disadvantaged businesses compete for and win transportation contracts.
About the Workforce Intelligence Lab (WIL)
The Workforce Intelligence Lab (WIL) is an applied workforce research initiative. WIL builds methodology-transparent workforce intelligence, including labor demand signals, occupational and credential pathways, and training-to-employment outcome measures, and works with education, employer, research, and community partners to turn that evidence into grant and sponsored-project collaborations. Learn more: https://wilinstitute.org
Opportunity type: this is a contingent proposal opportunity in WIL's expert collaborator network, not a funded vacancy. It supports a competitive grant application WIL is preparing; no award has been made, and there is no guaranteed work or funding. If an award proceeds and the staffing model calls for it, WIL may offer a project-based contract or consulting engagement. We will ask before naming you or including your resume in any proposal.
What you'll do
- Direct a regional small-business technical assistance center's outreach, training, and counseling
- Help small and disadvantaged businesses prepare for transportation contracting and certification
- Build partnerships with transportation agencies, prime contractors, and business associations
- Plan and run business-development events, workshops, and matchmaking sessions
- Track and report client outcomes, contract awards, and program metrics
- Contribute qualifications and past-performance narrative to WIL proposals when you authorize naming
Apply to be considered.
Requirements
Required
- Experience leading small-business development, procurement technical assistance, or DBE/supplier-diversity programs
- Knowledge of public-sector or transportation procurement processes
- Outreach and partnership-building experience with agencies and prime contractors
- Program management and outcomes-reporting experience
- Comfortable as a project-based contract collaborator; remote US
Nice to have
- APEX Accelerator / PTAC or SBDC experience
- Transportation construction or DBE certification background
- Regional business-network relationships
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