Description

Salary Range $45,000 to $50,000

Oversees all aspects of the Higher Sites program.

MAJOR DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: 

• Responsible for all aspects of the Higher Sites program to ensure that program, training, and educational engagements are performed professionally and effectively.
• Through strategic planning and evaluation process, develop new or modify existing services to meet the varied needs of program participants.
• Provides a thorough description of education opportunities to program participants from area schools, community organizations, and partnered agencies.
• Supervises, trains, and evaluates the performance of staff.
• Works in partnership with the VP of Programming on effective public awareness campaigns.
• Develops and updates participant evaluation tools to determine the quality of education programming and regularly evaluates feedback from audience participants.
• Ensures all program deliverables are met per contract requirements and works closely with program staff to ensure timely outcome reports are being submitted.
• Works closely with VP of Programming and program staff in overall performance of approach to the education programming including multiple partner agencies and community linkages.
• Leads the identification of program updates required as a result of regulatory changes; responsible for documenting, training, and communicating key messages to the team.
• Ensures that all program services are of the highest quality.
• Utilizes the latest data and current thinking within the college-to-career field to inform the program development process.
• Develops and maintains strategies to meet program goals and outcomes.
• Ensures appropriate data collection for internal purposes and funders and evaluates analytical outputs in order to test relevance and applicability, and identify key insights
• Ensures the complete and timely submission of internal grant reports. Prepare for and oversee program audits.
• Establishes agency policy and protocol for the employment services, working with Executive and Senior level staff.
• Represents the agency to the community through participation in site visits, contractor meetings, events and collaborations, and membership in professional organizations.
• Develops and enhances working relationships with community-based organizations, city, federal government agencies, and partner agencies as appropriate.
• Maintains sound financial management over program budgets.
• Collaborates with all levels of senior management in identifying additional funding sources and responding to requests for proposals.
• Serves as liaison between existing dedicated resources to promote shared learning and best practice identification and communication.
• Performs additional duties as assigned.

Requirements

QUALIFICATIONS FOR THE JOB: 

Education:

• Bachelor’s social work, psychology, education, or in a related field, Masters preferred.

Experience:

• At least three to five years of experience working within a high school and or college setting.
• At least five years of extensive management experience.

Other:

• Experience in organizational/administrative development, and program management with a demonstrated track record of success.
• A clear understanding of the community(s) being served.
• Demonstrated track record of strong community engagement skills.
• Sensitivity to cultural diversity is required. Ability to communicate and cooperate with diverse families, various professionals and community groups.

KEY COMPETENCIES:

• Competent in Microsoft Office tools and inputting services in an online database.
• Efforts to Outcomes.
• Screening tools.

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:

• Must be able to remain stationary 50% of the time.
• Must be able to frequently move inside the office to access file cabinets, office machinery, etc.
• Must be able to transport oneself to and from work sites.
• Occasionally ascends/descends stairs.
• Constantly moves to assist during program activities.
• At times may be required to lift up to 25 lbs. for various classrooms and events needs.
• Frequently moves in outdoor weather conditions.