An employee in this class provides a wide variety of complex tasks to recruiting new businesses and assisting expansions throughout Pinellas County. This position is responsible for maintaining a working relationship with existing economic development organizations, local governments, chambers of commerce, existing business and industry. A portion of the work entails dealing with highly confidential and sensitive issues requiring a high degree of discretion and tact and involving continual inter-departmental relations and extensive public contact. This position requires thorough working knowledge of departmental programs, procedures, and policies and entails the exercise of extensive initiative and independent judgment. Performance of work is essentially self-generated and under minimal supervisory guidance.
Work is reviewed through reports, conferences and effectiveness of results obtained.
The employee is directly responsible to the Director. Illustrative tasks Develops and supervises prospect presentations and statistics for use in promoting the county. Must continue to enhance and upgrade all products for marketing county. Maintains contact with business prospects, providing acquaintance tours of the county and introductions. Coordinates with regional, state and national economic development organizations to insure resources available are being leveraged to the greatest extent possible.