SGA Youth & Family Services is Hiring a HIGHER SITES COORD Near Chicago, IL
The salary range for the role is $45,000 - $50,000 per year. 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.