Business Advisor: Help underrepresented young adult entrepreneurs build their business

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Volunteer Position: Business Advisor

Do you want to help underrpresented young entrepreneurs make their business idea a reality?

To become a business mentor or advisor, go to skysthelimit.org and click "Signup as an Advisor or Mentor"!

Your work will directly impact the lives of under-served young adults (ages 18 to 29), helping them create new economic opportunities. The impact of micro business ownership is huge - you will enable young people to create a new source of income, develop marketable skills and enhance their sense of empowerment and dignity.

skysthelimit.org is a 501(3)c non-profit that helps underrepresented young adults 18-29 connect with advisors and mentors who can help them through their entrepreneurial journey.

We use our digital platform at skysthelimit.org to get to know our volunteer business advisors & mentors and make high quality matches with underserved young entrepreneurs.

On skysthelimit.org, we're looking for business mentors, advisors and subject matter experts (i.e. web consultants/developers, lawyers, accountants, etc.) who want to work with underserved, young entrepreneurs. Effective mentors are great communicators with excellent listening and coaching skills who can strengthen our young peoples' business acumen.

Responsibilities include:

• Collaborating with and coaching our young entrepreneurs through their business journey,
• Building their confidence and developing their capacity to launch and sustain their enterprise to maximize their chances of success,
• Drawing support from colleagues and others in the mentor's community to provide the entrepreneur needed information, support, and access to resources where needed

Details:

Mentors and advisors usually work with one young entrepreneur at a time, supporting them in a combination of in-person and virtual forums depending upon what is needed.

Mentoring and advising sessions usually last ~1hr and take place remotely or in-person (if possible) a few times a month.

Mentors/advisors and young entrepreneurs can end their matches at any time.

• Ability to quickly create a trusting relationship founded on the right intentions, recognizing the respect you show to your young entrepreneur and the confidence our young people place in you.

• A strong belief in and demonstrated alignment with skysthelimit.org's social mission, and an interest in small business development.

• Patience and empathy to "get in the shoes" of our young entrepreneurs, identifying and providing the support that they need when they need it.

• Ability to appropriately break down business strategy and effectively communicate with young entrepreneurs, while understanding your role as a mentor, not an owner.

• Mindset: Personable, high-energy, innovative, creative, outside-the-box, analytical, emotionally intelligent, supportive.

Please contact Danee at program@skysthelimit.org for more information! We would love to hear from you.

To become a business mentor or advisor, go to skysthelimit.org and click "Signup as an Advisor or Mentor"!