Program Manager Resilient States
Program Manager Resilient States
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16-04-2025
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Job Description
Team Summary
We are a dynamic motivated and diverse team committed to working across divides to generate locallyrooted responsive and sustainable solutions to some of the nations most seemingly intractable issues. The Program Manager will support the Resilient States Program working with the Program Director and alongside the State Leads for Texas and Pennsylvania (and potentially additional states) as well as a broader team of finance operations monitoring and evaluation public engagement. The Program Manager will also engage and coordinate with external implementation partners and peer organizations.
Position Summary
We seek a Program Manager for the Resilient States Project which aims to support leaders in key states to build greater social resilience and to mitigate risks for toxic polarization and political violence. The program brings together state leaders across different sectors ideologies and backgrounds and helps them work together to build up strengths and address risks specific to their states. The project currently works in Texas and Pennsylvania and may extend to other states in the future.
The Program Manager will lead national team coordination program planning and grant management; implement national projects; and support instate programming. They will facilitate coordination with our national partners and collaboration with other peers in the field. In close coordination with the Program Director and State Leads they will oversee partner subgranting and support capacity building of state partners. The Program Manager will also lead collaboration with other CGUSA team members engage in teamwide planning and strategysetting and lead special team projects as assigned.
The ideal candidate has a background in democracy peacebuilding social science advocacy or other related field and a strong track record of program and grant management. The ideal candidate is a problem solver has demonstrable success in fostering teamwork is flexible and comfortable adapting to varied contexts and is energized by responsive partnerdriven programming.
Core Responsibilities
- Plans overall program implementation supports instate programming and tracks program progress.
- Analyzes research data and contextual changes to adapt strategy and mitigate risks.
- Manages grant cycles from proposal writing grant startup reporting and close out in close coordination with Program Director and Finance Manager.
- Coordinates and assists team of peers and contributors to achieve programmatic goals and overcome obstacles.
- Supports Program Director with team leadership for key staff recruitment and employee development.
- Independently implements national and wholeofprogram projects including research and multistate events.
- Manages collaboration and learning with peer organizations.
- Contributes to outreach and representation on behalf of the program.
- Facilitates subgrants and other direct supports to partners.
- Directs technical resources and supports partner training.
- Recruits and manages consultants as needed.
Manage Resilient States Program Implementation and Team Coordination:
Lead nationallevel projects and collaboration:
Support instate programming and capacity building
Other Contributions
- Workplan: Improve finalize and monitor costed work plans and spendout plans; support in finalizing and monitoring the Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) plan.
- Project activities: Design project activities in collaboration with team members; lead and/or deliver project activities.
- Reporting: Review project documents; finalize donor reports; review General Ledger (GL) and support CGUSA Finance Manager in financial reporting.
- Compliance: Coordinates with the appropriate team members ensuring project finance and logistics staff follow donor rules/regulations; ensure 501(c)3 and legal compliance; lead capacitybuilding sessions to streamline rules and regulations.
- Support procurement: Facilitate team members to manage logistical planning and as needed coordinate with project vendors (e.g. hotel catering transportation etc.
- Financial management: Ensure project financial health; engage regular Budget versus Actual (BvA) meetings; ensure budget revisions are done as needed.
- Subaward management: Provide oversight to partner work plans and facilitate subgranting.
- Staffing and performance management: Lead in staff capacitybuilding and identifying learning/growth opportunities; coordinate with the Program Director on project staffing plan; lead recruitment for key staffing roles; manage key roles.
- External engagement: Maintain regular communication with donors (including reporting and briefings); support regular meetings with partners in the field.
- Program management quality and project design: Coordinate with relevant colleagues in documenting achievements and adaptations recording lessons learned organizing reflection sessions adapting work plans and supporting program fundraising.
- Program Strategy: Provide inputs to strategy development planning and Objectives and Key Results (OKRs).
- Values: Infuses organizational Values into all work.
- Other duties: Tasks broadly in line with the above key contributions as assigned.
Qualifications
- Typically BS/BA with minimum 9 years experience.
- Experience in democracy peacebuilding advocacy or other related fields.
- A strong trackrecord of program management including grant management
- A demonstrated ability to work with teammates partners leaders and constituencies from different backgrounds and viewpoints
- A commitment to working across difference to build a more peaceful and just America and a commitment to CGUSA and Search values
- A highly collaborative working style
Competency Behavior Indicators (Knowledge Skills and Abilities)
- Manages overall strategy and vision. Provides functional and program/project management. Anticipates and plans for needs and takes action accordingly. Provides guidance to direct reports or matrixed team members.
- Develops and maintains collaborative relationships with vendors organizations professional associations partners funders and CGUSAs network of experts.
- Modifies a planned course of action in response to new information or new circumstances.
- Responds to changing circumstances and expectations readily.
- Articulates CGUSA program goals and objectives within and external to Search. Develops program objectives that reflect broader Search strategies and approaches.
- Provides input for standards across functions globally within Shared Services teams and with a view from a multicultural perspective that reflects consideration of other cultures other viewpoints and other ways of doing things.
- Overcomes obstacles using ethical practices; formulates and evaluates morally and ethically justified solutions.
- Assesses risks and opportunities to lead decision makers to a favorable outcome.
- Checks the accuracy of ones own and others work and sets up systematic checks and balances to support content and data integrity.
- Has knowledge of project management tools including technology as resources for efficiency and reduction of stress.
- Works with employees to set and communicate performance standards that are specific and measurable.
- Anticipates the consequences of situations and plans accordingly.
- Analyzes the costs benefits risks and chances for success in making a decision.
- Provides coaching and mentoring to staff.
- Remain alert and responsive to any safeguarding risks acquire relevant knowledge and skills that will enable you to promote strong safeguarding practices understand the safeguarding policy and procedures and conduct yourself in a manner consistent with the Safeguarding Policy.
$72500 $90000 a year
Location
The candidate must be based in the United States. Standard work will take place remotely/at a home office but will require interfacing and attending inperson events in DC Pennsylvania Texas and other potential RSP states. Occasional travel to other US locations will be required. Standard work hours are Eastern or Central timezone business hours.
Working Conditions and Physical Requirements
Usual office environment conditions; ability to travel at least 15.
Supervisory and Budget Responsibility
May manage one direct report as well as consultants.
As job descriptions cannot be exhaustive the position holder may be required to undertake other duties that are broadly in line with the above key responsibilities.
Only applicants invited for an interview will be contacted. No phone calls please. Please see our website for full details of our work.All Search Employees must adhere to the values: Collaboration Audacity Tenacity Empathy Results. In accordance with these values Search enforces compliance with the Code of Conduct and related policies on Anti Workplace Harassment Protection from Exploitation and Abuse Child Safeguarding Conflict of Interest and Antifraud. Search is committed to safeguarding the interests rights and wellbeing of children youth and vulnerable adults with whom it is in contact and to conducting its programs and operations in a manner that is safe for children youth and vulnerable adults.Search for Common Ground does not and shall not discriminate on the basis of race color religion (creed) gender gender expression age national origin (ancestry) disability marital status sexual orientation or military status in any of its activities or operations.View our code of conduct hereand our privacy policy here.
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Dado que la descripcin de funciones no puede ser exhaustiva el titular del puesto puede tener que realizar otras tareas que coinciden en lneas generales con las responsabilidades clave mencionadas.
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