Compensation:

Salary Grade: CS121 Minimum starting rate: $69,620.00
Final offer will be based on relevant experience, education, and other applicable factors.

Compensation Type:

Salary

Employment Type:

Fixed Term (Fixed Term)

FLSA:

Exempt

Scheduled Weekly Hours:

40

Position Summary

The Center Director for the Small Business Development Center (SBDC) at Santa Fe Community College promotes, administers, provides, and coordinates the delivery of SBDC services in accordance with the SBDC Statewide Network Business Plan and Cooperative Agreement. Collaborates with individuals, groups, service providers, and others, maximizing resources for entrepreneurs and small businesses within the designated service area. Performs quality business counseling and training both in person and virtually. Evaluates data and outcomes to improve center processes and services provided to meet the needs of the SBDC program, SFCC, stakeholders, small businesses and the community. Supervises direct reports.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Administers and coordinates services of the Santa Fe Small Business Development Center, to provide quality counseling and training to entrepreneurs and small businesses. This includes educating clients on New Mexico statutes federal, state and local laws, codes and regulations applicable to small businesses.
• Collaborates with individuals, groups, service providers, and others, maximizing resources for entrepreneurs and small businesses. Creates connections and referrals, sharing strategies, ideas and common business practices. Uses resources, innovation, and effective program tools to deliver services.
• Manages and executes the center budget, tracks expenditures, assesses resource needs, provides prior authorizations for purchases, and monitors spending. Reconciles monthly receipts, prepares financial reports for administration, allocates funding for center activities and projects.
• Motivates, guides, and supervises direct reports while guiding them on the SBDC mission, vision, and values. Delegates tasks and responsibilities to ensure center goals are met; interviews candidates for vacant positions; trains new staff in the center; provides constructive and timely performance evaluations; handles discipline and termination of employees in accordance with company policy.
• Provides business counseling and training to SBDC clients, diagnosing core business challenges, facilitating business planning, assessing operational needs, and performing data and financial analysis.
• Serves as primary liaison for SBDC program activities within the designated service area, representing SFCC as a small business powerhouse of information, resources, and community and stakeholder support, extend awareness and use of program services.
• Regularly travels throughout the designated service area to recruit clients, increase awareness of program services, and provide counseling to clients.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree.
• 10 years of job-related experience.

Preferred Qualifications: 

• Bachelor's degree in Business.
• Business ownership experience.
• Experience in managing or consulting to businesses.
• Bilingual English and Spanish speaker.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Ability to communicate effectively both orally and in writing; demonstrated knowledge and skills in a variety of business functions.
• Ability to consult with businesses in the areas of Marketing, Management, and Finance.
• Demonstrates a philosophy of personal accountability and values collaboration, collegiality, and teamwork.
• Ability to build capacities of college employees by coaching, mentoring, training, and empowering.
• Demonstrates an advanced level of skill in open, proactive, and timely communication.
• Demonstrates effective listening skills.
• Demonstrates fiscal responsibility and resourcefulness.
• Exhibits sustained leadership skills for organizing and motivating people to a common purpose.
• Demonstrates organizational skills which include knowledge and sound management of institutional processes and deadlines.
• Ability to use a computer, standard office software, and learn job related software programs.

Conditions of Employment:

• Must possess and maintain a valid New Mexico Driver's License.

Physical Demands and Working Conditions:

• Work is primarily performed in a standard office environment.
• Regular day and occasional overnight travel required.

Work Hours:

• This role will be required to work onsite in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
• Typically, 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday.
• May be required to work evenings and weekends.

Instructions to Applicants:

• Please upload the following documents to the "Resume Drop Box" section of your application.
• Resume
• Cover Letter
• Copies of Transcripts

Best Consideration Date:  4/10/2026

Notice of Background Check and Education Verification:

All offers for employment with Santa Fe Community College (SFCC) are contingent upon a successful completion of a criminal background check. Some positions may require additional educational verification for compliance with accreditation standards.

Additional Comments to Applicants:

Applications are disqualified in the first level of review if they do not meet all Minimum Qualifications listed in this job posting. (Years of experience are calculated based upon numbers of hours worked per week. Example: 2 years of experience working 20 hours per week equals 1 year of experience.) Relevant experience pertains to Minimum Qualifications, Job Summary/Basic Function, and Preferred Qualifications/Knowledge, Skills and Abilities described in this job posting. ASSUMPTIONS ARE NOT MADE at any level of SFCC’s Hiring Process if information presented in the application material does not clearly address the Minimum Qualifications, Job Summary/Basic Function, and Preferred Qualifications/Knowledge, Skills and Abilities. Number of pages of application material will not negatively/positively affect your application, however, LACK OF DETAIL may.

EEO Statement:

As an EEO employer, Santa Fe Community College will not discriminate in our employment practices based on an applicant’s race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, serious medical condition or status as a protected veteran or spousal affiliation. Santa Fe Community College hires only U.S. citizens and individuals lawfully authorized to work in the U.S.

ADA Statement:

The SFCC is an EOE and Affirmative Action Employer. In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Acts (ADA and ADAAA), SFCC will provide, if requested, reasonable accommodation to applicants in need of access to the application, interviewing and selection processes.

SFCC Recruiting Statement:

Santa Fe Community College is a Hispanic-serving institution, which neighbors the eight northern Indian pueblos in Northern New Mexico. We are committed to attracting and retaining highly qualified and diverse faculty and staff. SFCC strives to make our campus a place where all individuals feel welcome, nurtured, and valued. At the heart of SFCC’s mission – Empower Students, Strengthen Community. Empoderar a los Estudiantes, Fortalecer a la Comunidad – is a commitment that higher education and opportunity should be open to everyone. SFCC fosters a welcoming environment and a climate of inclusivity for students, faculty, and staff. Join the SFCC team in working to empower students and strengthen community!

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