business coaching intern

Responsibilities 

  • Key leader for Student Mowing entrepreneurship program management and operations - you carry the weight of making sure customers and students are served well.. 

    • Coaching, feedback, and accountability for student business owners.

    • Oversee the training and development of JV students. 

    • Coordinating new customer requests with the appropriate student business owner. 

    • Work closely with Student Startup’s office manager who receives customer requests and routes mowing and window washing questions to you. 

    • Providing rides on Saturdays for students who don’t have cars. Help them on-job as well. Shoulder to shoulder training and mentoring. 

    • Have the difficult coaching conversations with students who receive negative customer feedback.  

  • Business coaching for teen entrepreneurs offering products and services outside of mowing.

  • Ministry Coordinator - how are each of the guys doing, and what should we be doing to shepherd them in their development both personally, vocationally, and spiritually. Not doing everything, but making sure it all gets done. Several of the guys have great mentors/business coaches, but others are in flux. Pray for student roster regularly. 

  • Coordinate volunteer donations of equipment and equipment repair. You may need to do a small amount of equipment maintenance yourself.  

  • Manage/Grow the program so that we are true to our promise of “developing first-class students for first-class service.” 

    • Training new students - Technical Training - Customer Service Training 

    • Quality Control - join the new business owners on the job from time to time to ensure first-class quality.

    • Covering for students during busy times with school if necessary

  • Assist with Raising Men Mowing and Mentoring Program for younger students.

Expectations 

  • Personal Growth

    • Exemplify the Student Startup Culture: Humble, Hungry, People Smart 

    • Read 1 book (minimum) per month from the SSI library.

    • Model faithful service to your local church. Submit to the spiritual authority of your pastors/elders.  

  • Produce Spiritual Profit

    • Help students see how the Gospel of Jesus Christ affects all of life (including our work, rest, careers, relationships, etc).   

  • Produce Societal Profit

    • Effectively recruit high character students from low-income communities, representing the demographics of Wichita. 

    • Help students develop the entrepreneurial mindset and break through barriers to success.  

    • Work with Student Startup mentors to guide students through their personal development curriculum (audio books, podcasts, music). 

  • Produce Economic Profit

    • Serve customers well in ways they value 

    • Steward resources well (time, gas, supplies, equipment,etc). 

    • Make sure the value we provide to our customers is greater than the value of the resources consumed. 

Compensation/Hours: We expect starting pay to be near $16 per hour with opportunities for increase/advancement based on performance. 10-25 hours per week during the school year; 30-40+ hours during the summer if availability allows.

About the company: Student Startup, Inc is a non-profit that empowers high school and college students to start and grow their own businesses. Our goal is to use the opportunities and challenges of owning a small business to break the cycle of perpetual adolescence and help young people become mature adults, like Jesus, who love their neighbor through their vocation and carry an entrepreneurial mindset with them in all areas of life.