Program Manager, GreenLight Detroit
Detroit, MI
Full Time
Sites
Experienced
Organization Overview
GreenLight Fund is a national nonprofit with a local focus that partners with communities to create opportunities for inclusive prosperity.
Each year we facilitate a community-driven process that matches the local needs of individuals and families not met by existing programs, to organizations with track records of success elsewhere. Working with communities, we identify, invite in and launch proven organizations, providing collaborative support so they can quickly take root and deliver change.
Everything we do is designed to remove barriers to inclusive prosperity all too often rooted in racial inequities. Our impact increases exponentially as we address one specific, community-identified need each year, in each GreenLight site.
Since 2004, we have launched over 50 new organizations across 13 sites, invested $30.5M, and attracted an additional $206M from other funding sources, reaching more than 550,000 individuals and families last year alone.
To learn more about the GreenLight Fund, please visit www.greenlightfund.org.
Position Overview
We seek a driven, highly organized, and community-focused Program Manager with 5-7 years of experience and a passion for equity and promoting economic mobility for Detroiters. This position will report to the Executive Director of GreenLight Fund Detroit, and work collaboratively across a growing local team as well as the GreenLight Fund national network of sites.
Key Areas of Responsibility
This position is based in Detroit.
Qualifications
The ideal candidate will be an organized, collaborative, and results-oriented professional with 5-7 years demonstrated experience in the following qualifications:
The salary for this position is $84,000 annually.
GreenLight Fund offers a generous benefits package that includes:
If you need assistance or accommodation due to a disability, you may contact us at [email protected].
GreenLight Fund is a national nonprofit with a local focus that partners with communities to create opportunities for inclusive prosperity.
Each year we facilitate a community-driven process that matches the local needs of individuals and families not met by existing programs, to organizations with track records of success elsewhere. Working with communities, we identify, invite in and launch proven organizations, providing collaborative support so they can quickly take root and deliver change.
Everything we do is designed to remove barriers to inclusive prosperity all too often rooted in racial inequities. Our impact increases exponentially as we address one specific, community-identified need each year, in each GreenLight site.
Since 2004, we have launched over 50 new organizations across 13 sites, invested $30.5M, and attracted an additional $206M from other funding sources, reaching more than 550,000 individuals and families last year alone.
To learn more about the GreenLight Fund, please visit www.greenlightfund.org.
Position Overview
We seek a driven, highly organized, and community-focused Program Manager with 5-7 years of experience and a passion for equity and promoting economic mobility for Detroiters. This position will report to the Executive Director of GreenLight Fund Detroit, and work collaboratively across a growing local team as well as the GreenLight Fund national network of sites.
Key Areas of Responsibility
- Work closely with the Executive Director and Selection Advisory Council to execute the GreenLight Method, ensuring alignment with community needs by leading the following team processes:
- Research current, relevant community-based social issues and priorities confronted by children, youth and families facing historical barriers to social and economic mobility.
- Perform local landscape analysis including qualitative and quantitative market research, data evaluation and attending meetings with key stakeholders and relevant local leaders with the Executive Director.
- Conduct due diligence of prospective organizations, completing financial and impact assessments to determine readiness and ability to scale and replicate their program model
- Foster and maintain strong relationships with community leaders, nonprofits, and other stakeholders to understand local needs and build collaborative partnerships.
- Create and implement a strategy to engage with individuals with lived experience, ensuring their voices are heard and incorporated into the selection process
- Support with portfolio management by researching and connecting with capacity-building resources and community partnerships for staff hiring, participant recruitment, and local brand building opportunities to meet the needs of new portfolio organizations.
- Work in partnership with the Executive Director to research and connect with private and public funding opportunities identified by portfolio organizations for their fundraising efforts.
- Lead the planning and execution of quarterly portfolio gatherings.
- Execute site data collection and reporting processes, ensuring accurate and timely submission of programmatic information.
- Prepare reports for internal and external stakeholders and funders, highlighting program impact and outcomes.
- Work across national sites to identify internal best practices to replicate and implement locally.
- Other tasks as assigned.
This position is based in Detroit.
Qualifications
The ideal candidate will be an organized, collaborative, and results-oriented professional with 5-7 years demonstrated experience in the following qualifications:
- Proven experience in program management across different and simultaneous workstreams in the nonprofit sector.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to build relationships with diverse stakeholders.
- Strong analytical skills, with the ability to distill key findings across multiple data sets and information.
- Commitment to and understanding of the Detroit community and the social issues affecting it.
- Familiarity with data collection and evaluation processes in a social impact context.
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team, demonstrating flexibility and adaptability.
- Candidates with experience researching public funding for nonprofit entities through grant writing and/or the appropriations processes on the local, state, and federal levels.
- Previous experience with grantmaking and due diligence of nonprofit organizations.
The salary for this position is $84,000 annually.
GreenLight Fund offers a generous benefits package that includes:
- Health Insurance through Blue Cross Blue Shield (80% paid by GLF, 20% by the employee for employees and family members)
- Dental and Vision Insurance through Guardian (80% paid by GLF, 20% by the employee for employees and family members)
- Full coverage of all mental health visit copays through Blue Cross Blue Shield (100% paid by GLF)
- Safe Harbor 401k. GLF will match 100% of the first 3% of salary and 50% of the next 2%
- Short and Long-term disability and Life insurance fully paid by GreenLight Fund
- 10 company-wide holiday closings and 3 floating holidays
- The week between Christmas Day and New Year's Day off
- Up to 12 sick days (6 days in your first year, if you start after July 1st)
- Up to 2 personal days (1 day in your first year, if you start after July 1st)
- COVID-19 Benefits
- Vacation Days: 15 days in years 1-3, 20 days in years 4-5, and 25 days in year 6 and beyond
- 12 weeks of paid parental leave for birth parents, 6 weeks of paid parental leave for non-birth parents
- Up to $75 per month of cell phone reimbursement
- Up to $100 per month of WiFi reimbursement
- Up to $1,500 per year for professional development
- Access to Holisticly (40 Holisticly Credits per Month)
If you need assistance or accommodation due to a disability, you may contact us at [email protected].
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