Program Manager - State Resilience

Search For Common Ground
United States, D.C., Washington
1730 Rhode Island Avenue Northwest (Show on map)
Jan 13, 2025
Recognizing the severity of the challenges we face requires nothing less than the best of all of us, we work to foster social cohesion, pushing back on toxic polarization, for a new way forward, built from our experience of supporting recovering from violent conflict in dozens of countries around the world. Together, Search for Common Ground's Common Ground USA (Search/CG-USA) and Over Zero (OZ) will build state-wide leader networks. These networks will empower diverse civil society stakeholders with strengthened relationships, skills, and tools to collaboratively prevent rising tensions and political and electoral crises. The program is committed to starting in one state, but is exploring work in multiple. These state-level networks will be built and scaled through 2025, spanning the 2022 midterms (early stage work) and the 2024 election cycle, its aftermath, and any additional flashpoints throughout this period. The ideal candidate is passionate about conflict transformation and coalition-building. They also have extensive experience in program management, implementation, and facilitation. Responsibilities Support development and maintenance of national and state-level staff relationships with state-level partner organizations Assist broader team with model and development of a political violence prevention curriculum Support risk management and mitigation in program implementation Maintains the overall management of the project budget, including monitoring Budgeted versus Actual expenditures, tracking project revenue, and subawards. Develops policies, tools, and templates for program implementation and learning Contributions Supports and facilitates the project design and work plan process in line with Search's strategy, analyzes current program implementation practices and articulates recommendations for mitigation of risks. Collaborates with other team members in developing policies and standard operating procedures on project implementation processes. Helps oversee state fellows, strategize, and build their capabilities on proactive and responsive action Prepares analysis for partnership decision-making, including identifying, conducting outreach to, and coordinating with prospective partners. Oversees the financial management of the project, including maintenance of the project budget, implementation, monitoring and compliance with financial standards applicable to internal and donor requirements Immersed and connected with national and state-level individuals and organizations working on democracy, bridge-building, social justice, and other relevant fields. Builds partnerships and donor relations in line with strategy. Assists with ensuring donor compliance through strengthening systems, policies, and procedures. Provides Finance support in development of cost-related responses to post-submission donor questions/requests for revision. Supports grant start up and close out of key and strategic grants in the CG-USA portfolio and positions the teams in a better technical position to implement and monitor compliance. Competency Behavior Indicators (Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities) Engages and communicates effectively across functions and across teams. Demonstrates appreciation for diversity of thought and builds cross-functional relationships with other functional departments. Initiates brainstorming or problem-solving meetings. Develops skills for analyzing and communicating program successes and failures; reports lessons learned to the team and other members. Builds relationships and engages effectively with vendors, organizations, professional associations, partners, funders, and Search's network of experts critical to the area of purview. Uses resiliency and exhibits flexibility and adaptability to changing tasks and team priorities. Articulates Search and Common Ground USA's program/project goals and objectives within and external to Search; supports development of program objectives, indicators, and results; and participates in strategy development for the team. Overcomes obstacles, including personal biases, by following Search's ethics code in complex situations; displayed in activities as ethical principles and values that guide professional interactions. Works across functions from a multicultural perspective that reflects consideration of other cultures, other viewpoints, and other ways of doing things. Sensitively recognizes ethical situations. Independently prioritizes time to reach deadlines and reaches end results of assignments with ability to accomplish multiple steps with limited to no supervision. Type and Nature of Contacts Routinely coordinates with colleagues and consultants on-site and in the field and resolves problem situations with tact. Represents, as assigned, selected programs or projects and other organizations, including donors, vendors, and international and local partners. Education and Experience Typically BS/BA with minimum 6 years' experience. Working Conditions and Physical Requirements Usual office environment conditions; ability to travel across the United States at least 20%. Supervisory and Budget Responsibility May supervise two or more staff members. 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 www.sfcg.org 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 Anti-fraud. Search is committed to safeguarding the interests, rights, and well-being 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 here and our privacy policy here. Les descriptifs de pouvant ne pouvant etre exhaustifs, le titulaire du poste pourra etre amene a entreprendre d'autres taches qui correspondent globalement aux responsabilites cles ci-dessus. -------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------- Seuls les candidats invites a un entretien seront contactes. Pas d'appels telephoniques s'il vous plait. Veuillez consulter notre site Web www.sfcg.org pour tous les details de notre mission. Tous les employes de Search doivent adherer aux valeurs de Search : Collaboration- Audace - Tenacite - Empathie - Resultats. Conformement a ces valeurs, Search fait respecter le code de conduite et les politiques connexes sur la lutte contre le harcelement au travail, la protection contre l'exploitation et les abus, la protection des enfants, les conflits d'interets et la lutte contre la fraude. Search s'engage a preserver les interets, les droits et le bien-etre des enfants, des jeunes et des adultes vulnerables avec lesquels elle est en contact et a mener ses programmes et ses operations d'une maniere qui soit sure pour les enfants, les jeunes et les adultes vulnerables. Search for Common Ground ne fait pas et ne doit pas faire de discrimination fondee sur la race, la couleur, la religion (croyance), le sexe, l'expression de genre, l'age, l'origine nationale (ascendance), le handicap, l'etat matrimonial, l'orientation sexuelle ou le statut militaire, dans aucune de ses activites ou operations. Consultez notre code de conduite ici et notre politique de confidentialite ici.