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Vision To Learn (VTL) Program Manager (PM) Job Description – Iowa
Application due date: May 29,2024
About Vision To Learn
Join Vision To Learn and make a direct impact in your community by helping provide vision services to school-aged children in underserved communities who would otherwise go without access to care.
Vision To Learn is the largest school-based vision care nonprofit in the country. VTL exists to address one basic premise – if you can’t see, you can’t learn. Vision To Learn provides free eye exams and free glasses to students in underserved communities to help them succeed in school and in life. Founded in Los Angeles in 2012, Vision To Learn has since expanded to schools across the country. Vision care is critical as 80% of all learning during a child’s first 12 years is visual, we work to solve the problem of lack of access by partnering with school districts to provide eye exams and glasses at no charge to families. We have provided over 2 million vision screenings, 500,000 eye exams and 400,000 new, prescription glasses in the last decade.
Who We Are
With operations that began in 2016, The Vision To Learn – Iowa program is a well-established region. Vision To Learn has helped more than 19,000 students within the state providing more than 16,000 children with eyeglasses. We are friendly, high energy, knowledgeable, and detail-oriented professionals committed to Vision To Learn’s mission. We approach our work with a value system of service excellence, empathy, integrity, open communication, empowerment, and an eagerness to help the communities we serve.
Core Description
We are looking for a Program Manager (PM) for the Iowa region. This position oversees the operation of two mobile clinics and clinical staff. The PM will be a leader to this staff and strategically leverage their talents to smoothly maintain and run a program to support students throughout urban, suburban, and rural underserved communities across Iowa. The PM will steward existing and new community partnerships with various school district and organization partners ensuring that all required support documentation and system data materials are managed in an efficient and timely manner.
This is a wonderful opportunity for someone that loves a challenge and who would be eager to be the face of a very successful, scaling program while building community and brand partnerships.
The PM is responsible for the day-to-day operations of VTL’s mobile vision clinics within their region including but not limited to:
To do this, the PM is responsible for running the mobile vision service program during the school term (primarily in schools) and the summer (primarily in community organizations) throughout their region and is expected to:
Core Job Responsibilities
Operations
Relationships
Management & Quality of Care
Interface with VTL Management
Who You Are
· A strong leader with experience overseeing multiple staff in a fast paced environment
· A multi-tasker with the ability to prioritize tasks and organize responsibilities in an effort to manage various projects
· A self-motivated, positive individual with a can-do attitude, excellent judgement and the ability to work with uncertainty.
· A problem solver with a keen understanding of how logistical decisions impact others.
· A data analyzer comfortable compiling large data sets and the technology (such as Excel) required to compile and manipulate data, weighing multiple factors, balancing qualitative and quantitative information to make sound recommendations / come up with robust solutions
· A strong communicator, both written and verbal, with staff as well as our community partners.
Qualifications
Required
· Minimum education: Bachelor’s Degree
· Computer/IT literacy and comfort with Microsoft Office Suite, email, spreadsheets, databases, and web-base software
· Ability to communicate well with staff and constituents, both written and verbal
· Ability to perform analysis using spreadsheets
· Strong organizational skills and ability to work independently
· Basic understanding of budgets, planning and data analysis
· Strong leadership and project management skills working with a multi-person team
· Positive, can-do attitude and ability to work and make sound decisions under uncertainty
Preferred
· Background in nonprofit, education, social service or other related field
· Experience managing and leading teams
· Experience in logistics and project management
· Prior budget management responsibilities
· Public speaking experience
· Fundraising and grant writing experience
Compensation
Commensurate with experience. Range: $70,000-$75,000
Successful candidates will have a proven track record for success, with positive, proactive attitudes who are dedicated to our mission. Vision To Learn is a rapidly growing organization and team players are critical to our collective success. For more information, please visit www.visiontolearn.org. Qualified applicants should email resume and cover letter - Application Deadline is May 29, 2024.
News To Share
In 2022, Vision To Learn was selected by two-time Pulitzer Prize winning New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof as a recipient of the well know Holiday Impact Prize. This Prize recognizes non-profits helping children in need through outstanding, heroic work that changes communities for the better. https://kristofimpact.org/ http://tiny.cc/VTLKristof
The work done by VTL has also been featured in The Washington Post, ESPN, PBS News Hour, countless local television pieces and newspaper articles. VTL was commended by the US Senate in a bi-partisan resolution signed by 43 Senators. In terms of evidence-based service, glasses provided by VTL have been found to have a high impact on the academic success of students by researchers at both UCLA Mattel Children’s Hospital and Johns Hopkins University.
Values Statement
Vision To Learn is committed to promoting diversity, equity and inclusion by striving to embrace, recognize and cultivate differences and honor the strengths and contributions of all employees. VTL welcomes applicants who bring a variety of perspectives, experiences, and competencies. People of color, women, people with disabilities, and LGBTQIA persons are strongly encouraged to apply. VTL is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate based on race, creed, color, religion, ethnicity, national origin, party or political affiliation, sex, sexual orientation or gender identity, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, or any illegal or prohibited factor.
As a direct healthcare provider and to protect the health and well-being of our employees, VTL has implemented best practices for ensuring a clean and safe work environment. Employees will be asked to provide proof of COVID-19 vaccination and pass a Department of Justice background check/fingerprinting (LiveScan), child abuse history clearance, TB, and drug test.
Job Type: Full Time
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Job Type: Full-time
Pay: $70,000.00 - $75,000.00 per year
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Work Location: In person
Full Time
Civic & Environmental Advocacy
$104k-130k (estimate)
05/10/2024
09/06/2024
visiontolearn.org
LOS ANGELES, CA
25 - 50
2017
ANN HOLLISTER
<$5M
Civic & Environmental Advocacy
Vision To Learn provides free eye exams and free eyeglasses to students in low-income communities. Vision To Learn solves a problem affecting as many as 1.5 million children nationwide who lack the glasses they need to see the board, read a book, study math or participate in class. Kids in low-income communities and minorities are disproportionately affected. The problem is one of access as most of the kids, for a host of reasons, do not get to a doctor. Vision To Learn solves the problem by bringing the clinic to the kids at schools and community organizations and providing eye exams and glas...ses free of charge. Vision To Learn has accomplished a great deal since it was started in 2012 in Los Angeles and plans to use that experience to serve as a model for the rest of the nation.
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