Job Opening -- Credit Builders Alliance

Credit Builders Alliance -- www.creditbuildersalliance.org
Job Opening – Based in St. Louis, Missouri
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Position: Program/Research Coordinator
Expected start date: October 1, 2007
Location: St. Louis, Missouri (Justine Petersen new offices)
Reporting to: Vikki Frank, Executive Director
Status: Full-time employment-at-will position
Compensation and Benefits:* Competitive, based on experience and qualifications.
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Qualifications & Characteristics:

• Demonstrated skills in both quantitative and qualitative research methodologies and analysis. Master’s degree strongly preferred. Practicum or research experience working directly with data collection for a research evaluation project required.
• Superior writing and oral communications skills.
• Comfortable in a highly collaborative environment.
• Self-starter, highly motivated and ability to work independently
• Extremely detailed oriented.
• Demonstrated software skills in word processing, graphics and PowerPoint applications. Demonstrated skills with statistical software packages and data sources.
• Strong desire to be engaged in community development mission-related work.

Job responsibilities (include but not limited to):

• Coordinate day-to-day operations of CBA Reporter program (40% time) including interacting with community lenders and other nonprofits to provide technical and credit reporting support services, managing monthly secure transfer of customer data, and process applications and manage relationships using Salesforce.com client management system.
• Coordinate day-to-day activities of multi-year research project on asset building and credit (60% time) including coordinating communication with researcher team and committee, work with researchers to collect data, update database, cleanse and prepare database for analysis.

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To apply, please send resume and short writing sample ASAP – and preferably by September 13 to info@creditbuildersalliance.org (info@creditbuildersalliance.org)
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About Credit Builders Alliance
Credit Builders Alliance was incorporated as a non-profit organization in 2006 to respond to the need and demand of community financial service providers to have better data flow and better tool with respect to the changing credit industry. CBA’s purpose is to help low and moderate income individuals currently served by non-traditional financial and asset building institutions to build their credit and access conventional financing in order to grow their businesses and/or personal assets. CBA does this through three activities:
·******* One-Stop Shop for community financial service providers to provide and receive data critical to their mission through our unique partnerships with major credit bureaus
·******* Dissemination of tools and best practices for asset-based credit building strategies and products relevant to community financial service providers;
·******* Awareness-raising to open new credit building opportunities for low-income and underserved populations by bringing together the needs, demands and innovations of community and credit industry partners.
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Vikki Frank
Executive Director
Credit Builders Alliance
Direct: 202-368-0500
Main: 202-730-9390
Fax: 240-293-4895
vikki@creditbuildersalliance.org (vikki@creditbuildersalliance.org)
www.creditbuildersalliance.org
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