Welcome to Community Futures Grande Prairie & Region
INTERESTED IN WORKING WITH COMMUNITY FUTURES? OUR TEAM IS EXPANDING!
We are currently recruiting for the position of Administrative Coordinator.
The Administrative Coordinator will act as the first point of contact for all Community Futures services, welcoming clients in a friendly manner, ensuring a high level of customer service and professionalism when dealing with all clients.
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Closing date is May 12, 2008.
We are also recruiting for the position of Junior Business Officer.
Reporting directly to the Executive Director of Community Futures Grande Prairie & Region, the Junior Business Officer will be responsible for:
- initial client contacts,
- helping Community Futures Grande Prairie & Region clients prepare their business plans and loan applications;
- providing counseling and/or technical support;
- planning and facilitating workshops and working on projects directly associated with the CFGP & R mandate.
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We offer a wide range of services to entrepreneurs, not-for-profit organizations and communities in the Grande Prairie Region.
Our services include:
- Business counselling
- Business loans and business development programs to kick start or expand your enterprise
- Self-employment programs and entrepreneur training
- Community economic development – helping communities find local solutions to complex social and economic issues.
- Specialized programs for youth.
Community Futures Grande Prairie & Region serves the following municipalities:
- Beaverlodge
- Elmworth
- Grande Prairie (including county)
- Grovedale (including county)
- La Glace
- Sexsmith
- Valhalla
- Hythe
- Wembley
What is Community Futures?
Community Futures Grande Prairie & Region is a non-profit organization guided by a volunteer board of directors and staffed with business professionals, who together are actively engaged in helping to develop and implement community-based economic development strategies.
Community Futures organizations are user-friendly business development centres that control and manage investment funds from which they make fully repayable loans (up to a maximum of $150,000) to community members who are interested in starting or expanding their own businesses.
Community Futures organizations are entrepreneurial development centres that provide one-on-one business training to assist individuals who are interested in self-employment or in expanding their business.
Community Futures organizations are proactive, progressive community organizations dedicated to strengthening both their community's entrepreneurs and their community's economy as a whole.