Senior Program Manager

Senior Program Manager

Are you an agile program manager in the housing / energy-saving industry? Do you excel in both strategy and execution of innovative and ambitious community nonprofit engagement? Are you willing to learn a little about construction project management and facilitate community impact? If so, then keep reading. If you have additional interests in the intersectional impact of affordable housing, education, and / or public health on poverty in urban centers, you may be in the right place.

About the Employer

Medici Road is a nonprofit, community development corporation that addresses the intersection of poverty and race. Our mission is to reduce poverty by creating education, housing, and public health solutions that uproot systemic racial inequities. We serve and advocate for low-and middle-income urban communities, especially people of color and other historically underserved groups. Our point of differentiation is that we provide long-term solutions that connect multiple sectors, including education, housing, public health, and REI, from a systemic point of view. Our distinctive approach leverages community co-creation, data analysis, and human-centered design to create solutions in the forms of products, programs, and policies.

Role Summary

We're looking for someone to lead an exciting new program in the organization. This leader will primarily help the organization lead a federally funded energy project. This leader will manage a robust department of energy grant program that has both project management and community engagement pieces. As the DOE program gets later into its performance period and requires a smaller management demand, this position will lead a homeownership program. At the heart of this role is project management and vision for innovative community engagement of nonprofits, community members, contractors, and the general workforce. A great fit for this role would be prepared to oversee multiple partners and monitor program impact across 3 states where we will have active projects.

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This position will be responsible for working with nonprofit grantees and an energy partner to facilitate energy-saving retrofit upgrades so they can redirect the cost savings to their mission’s work.

To succeed, this candidate should feel comfortable taking on a range of responsibilities, including managing contract partners, mapping / tracking a 3-4 year project life, holding a general understanding of energy savings programs (technical energy expertise not required), completing federal quarterly reports, and having superior project management skills.

Ideal Candidates

• A LEED-certified project manager with a background in energy efficiency or Department of Energy Programs.
• A program manager with 2 years experience leading a new grant-funded program as a grantor.
• 2 years experience in the systemization of process management, vendor management, and cost monitoring
• 2 years experience using ClickUP or other equivalent project management software
• Works well both independently and within a team environment
• Strong computer skills, including Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, and Project) and Google applications, preferred
• 2 years experience facilitating community conversation, town halls, and / or surveys
• Understand that there is a place for laughter, equity, and compassion in the workplace.

Supervisory Responsibility : Contract partners only

Compensation : $ 82,764 - $107,590K; health and life insurance, 401K match, 4 weeks of vacation, commuter benefits, and more.

Physical Demands :

This job requires the employee to stand, stoop, bend, climb stairs, sit for long periods, work on computer screens for up to 8 hours a day, and lift up to 20 lbs. The position requires fine motor skills of typing, writing, filing, and visual acuity. This position requires the ability to speak clearly and understandably and operate under what can sometimes be stressful deadlines.

Work Environment :

This is a hybrid opportunity where you will typically be in the office two days a week. Thirty Percent (30%) of time may be allocated for local travel to / from client projects, community meetings, and Medici Road activities as part of this position. There will also be 2 community engagement meetings with each of 24 projects across DC, Baltimore, Virginia, and Delaware over a 3 year period that will require travel.

Expected Start Date : Immediately

Salary : $82,764 - $107,590