Director Rural Small Cities Program
Director Rural Small Cities Program
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$ 115000 - 140000
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Job Description
Overview
Responsibilities
The Director of Rural and Small Cities Initiatives will lead a key new program at the Public Finance Initiative (PFI) that promotes supports and strengthens the ability of leaders who work in rural communities to shift patterns of disinvestment. Through the Rural Initiative PFI is focused on several key areas including 1 building the capacity of Rural Initiative members to develop and implement comprehensive placebased and crosssectoral approaches to capital planning and leveraging public finance to invest in critical infrastructure; 2 facilitating greater investment of capital resources in underserved rural areas by working with state and county partners who serve as channels of investment in rural cities; 3 expanding and enhancing the range of tools and resources available to Rural city leaders to build their capacity; and 4 promoting systemslevel approaches that increase and deepen partnerships and investment in areas of rural persistent poverty.
Essential Functions
With support from the Executive Director of PFI and team of analysts associates/operations staff at PFI the Director will lead the rural initiative and drive forward its goals with activities that include the following:
- Leading and convening an advisory council of experts and fellows to serve as a kitchencabinet to comment on our strategy provide thought partnership and amplify the work of the rural initiative
- CoDesigning and coleading capacity building efforts and inperson convenings to support rural leaders and supervising operations staff in the creation of site plans/agendas/run of shows and other materials to support smooth event operations in the 6 states selected for the program.
- Serving as a key liaison to build partnerships with partner organizations that work with rural cities in the states selected for the program (i.e. the Citizens Institute on Rural Design the Vermont League of Cities Invest Appalachia etc. and build partnerships that help us deliver programs that are attentive and responsive to local needs.
- Supporting strategic discussions with our funders Robert Wood Johnson and other philanthropists we bring into our funders collaborative to shape how the rural program can scale and grow in future years.
- Support strategic reporting on the grant that supports the initiative and help manage the grant budget.
- The Director is a missiondriven leader who serves as an advocate and voice for rural communities and will help shape a communications strategy (with an external communications firm) and participate as a speaker and voice in the field when we share learnings.
This position will be a strategic leader who collaborates with colleagues across various external organizations (GFOA National League of Cities etc. to support and grow the field of rural investment.
Qualifications
We will consider exceptional candidates who demonstrate a strong combination of the specific qualifications and skills described below.
Education:A bachelors degree is required; a graduate degree in a related field (e.g. public policy urban planning or nonprofit management business) is preferred. Relevant experience will be considered in lieu of a degree.
Experience:At least seven 5 years of professional experience working to promote comprehensive city and municipal strategies within rural or urban sectors. Direct experience working with cities is vital.
Licenses Certifications:None specified
Competencies Knowledge Skills & Abilities:
- Passion for and dedication to improving lives and strengthening communities across rural America and in small cities across American.
- Kindness and a sense of humor.
- Experience designing and implementing strategies aimed at advancing municipal initiatives at the local regional and/or national level.
- Experience developing partnerships with diverse national regional and local stakeholders to address critical issues facing cities.
- Familiarity with public finance and capital and financial resources that support the sustainability and growth of cities.
- Demonstrated project management experience including independent management of project goals budgets and timelines as well as coordinating with diverse groups of internal and external stakeholders to implement project plans.
- Experience developing operations plans for events in person.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills including experience developing blogs publications and presentations to promote new ideas and share best practices.
- A commitment to teamwork integrity effectiveness and efficiency including demonstrated leadership ability to influence and bring about consensus and to work independently.
- Strong interpersonal skills with a demonstrated ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with others and successfully interact with people at all management and support levels as well as people of diverse socioeconomic backgrounds.
Physical Demands/Work Environment
The physical demands described here are representative of those for this position. Reasonable accommodations will be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the functions. Work is performed in an office environment and in close proximity to other workers.
While performing the duties of this position the employee is required to:
- Handle or feel objects tools or controls;
- Reach; traverse; sit (usually for longer periods of time); occasionally ascend/descend; and position self (to) move;
- Occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds;
- The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate;
- Job is not subject to significant occupational or environmental hazards;
- Likelihood of personal injury would be relatively slight;
- Environmental and work hazards are not present to a measurable degree.
Compensation and Benefits
Location:Work will be primarily performed remote.
Compensation:The salary range for this position is $115000 $140000/yr. and is commensurate with experience.
Benefits: This position is eligible for a full benefits package including:
- Generous PaidTimeOff (PTO): twelve paid holidays three weeks of vacation one week of personal holiday and ability to accrue up to 487.5 hours of health leave time for benefited staff.
- 80 Employerpaid offering some $0 deductible Health Insurance through Harvard Pilgrim along with several lowdeductible plans;
- Lowcost Guardian Dental and Vision.
- Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) for Health and Dependent Care.
- Employerpaid Life Long and ShortTerm Disability Insurance.
- Employerpaid Pension and Employeepaid 403b plan through TIAA.
- ...and more!
TSNE/PFIstrives to achieve excellence through a diverse equitable and inclusive work environment that embraces all of our individual and collective differences. Black Indigenous People of Color Middle Eastern and North African Bilingual and/or Bicultural candidates and LGBTQ2SIA candidates are encouraged to apply. We value and honor the unique talents learning styles and lived experiences of each individual that enrich and strengthen our workplace culture and we are proud to be an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer.
All employment conditions are based on an individuals performance and job qualifications. TSNE/PFI prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race creed color religion native language gender sexual orientation gender identity/expression national origin physical or mental disability age genetic information veteran status marital status parental status pregnancy racebased hairstyles or any other protected characteristic stated by federal and state law. Regardless of any class protection under the law or lack thereof TSNE/PFIcelebrates diversity and values the strengths that come with having a diverse team of employees. It is represented in our workplace culture and it is who we are.
TSNE/PFIs EEO statement extends to volunteers interns contractors vendors and clients.
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