Senior Advisor
Rhode Island Commerce is seeking a Senior Advisor to join a dynamic team of mission-oriented professionals. This position provides a unique opportunity to make a meaningful impact on job creation and economic opportunities for the citizens of the State of RI.
Responsibilities
- Act as a key liaison between the Executive Office of Commerce and Rhode Island Commerce Corporation to align priorities and foster collaboration.
- Lead initiatives to improve organizational effectiveness, streamline processes, and drive long-term operational efficiency and impact.
- Support internal teams with structure and focus to advance projects and execute deals effectively and strengthen ongoing business relationships.
- Champion cross-functional initiatives, anticipate challenges, and remove barriers to accelerate growth and enable faster decision-making.
- Provide regular reports and maintain accurate records of business engagement, pipeline progress, and economic outcomes.
- Represent Rhode Island Commerce with credibility at high-level meetings and events, fostering partnerships that drive long-term growth.
- Lead or support special projects that promote innovation and competitiveness.
- Engage with entrepreneurial accelerators to support scalable ventures and attract investment.
- Work closely with the Secretary and senior team members in the Executive Office of Commerce and at the Rhode Island Commerce Corporation, including its President & CEO, to fulfill the mission and requirements of the Senior Advisor position.
- Perform other duties as required.
Key Competencies
- Strategic skills: Job requires the ability to determine opportunities and threats through comprehensive analysis of current and future trends. Comprehends the big picture.
- Resourcefulness: Job requires problem solving and finding ways over, around or through barriers to success. A results-oriented "doer."
- Initiative: Job requires a willingness to take on responsibilities and challenges.
- Achievement/Effort: Job requires establishing and maintaining challenging goals for self and others and exerting effort toward mastering tasks.
- Written Communications: Job requires ability to write clear, precise, well-organized documents.
- Dependability: Job requires being reliable, responsible, and dependable, and fulfilling obligation
Qualifications and Skills
- Relevant professional experience or demonstrated high level of success related to business development, sales, investor relations, or a related area in government or private sector.
- Bachelor’s Degree required. Master’s, J.D. or other advanced degrees preferred.
- Excellent communication and relationship-building skills, with the ability to engage and influence stakeholders at all levels.
- Ability to manage multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced work environment.
- Self-motivated, creative, organized, and deeply committed to personal and organizational success.
- Ability to communicate clearly and accurately and to interact with professionals at all levels in all business units.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and critical thinking skills with attention to detail.
Classification
Regular – Full Time Non-Exempt
Reports to
Secretary of Commerce
The Rhode Island Commerce Corporation (the ‘Corporation’) is an Equal Opportunity Employer. The Corporation does not discriminate based on race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non- disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status or any other basis covered by applicable law. All employment is decided based on qualifications, merit, and business need. The Corporation will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics.