Senior Program Manager, Racial Wealth Equity Strategy
Founded as CFED in 1979, Prosperity Now has spent the last 40 years supporting communities on the ground and creating a movement to provide opportunities for households, individuals, and families to prosper.
In 2020, Prosperity Now reaffirmed and evolved its vision, role, and strategy to better support those most adversely affected by a broken economic system—in particular those in Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC) communities where individuals and families have been precluded from building wealth over centuries of discrimination. We seek to build a fair and just economy free from structural inequity and racism -- an economy where everyone can fully participate across their life cycles, families can build sustainable wealth across generations and communities can prosper without exception.
The Senior Program Manager, Racial Wealth Equity Strategy (RWE) will work collaboratively with the Racial Wealth Equity Strategy pillar team, across Prosperity Now departments, pillars and teams, and with external partners and stakeholders to support the design, development, testing, evaluation, and dissemination of emergent and innovative strategies and solutions created to address the root causes of structural racial economic inequity that demonstrate the potential to contribute to racial economic and wealth equity and justice.
Accountability: Reports to the Director, Racial Wealth Equity Strategy
Responsibilities:
- Serve as a program and project owner from start to finish for Racial Wealth Equity Strategy portfolio of strategies, innovations, and processes.
- Develop and manage work plans, timelines and budgets when serving as project owner, maintaining responsibility for grant or contract deliverables and leading project teams.
- Collaborate with Racial Wealth Equity Strategy team members to identify creative ideas and strategies for designing, developing, and implementing strategies and innovative programs.
- Proactively anticipate the needs and potential challenges on a project and identify ways to address them with the team.
- Work to advance the Racial Wealth Equity Strategy team’s racial equity goals and collaborate, when appropriate, enterprise wide to support teams’ ability to embed racial equity concepts and practices.
- Conduct research for, draft, collaborate on, and edit internal and external communications, including presentations, reports, programmatic policies and procedures, practice briefs, tools and templates, website content, RFPs, blog posts, op-eds, and newsletter articles.
- Lead in the planning, coordination and implementation of technical assistance processes, site visits, events and conferences, webinars, conference calls, and Prosperity Now’s biennial Summit
- Provide capacity building to practitioners of community-based organizations and multi-sector stakeholders through racial economic and wealth equity programs, lessons learned, and emerging practices via technical assistance, site visits, calls, webinars, and tools.
- Establish and maintain relationships with external practitioners, subject matter experts and funders to identify new opportunities for collaboration, develop and advance existing projects and initiatives, and remain abreast of current issues impacting the field.
- Other duties as assigned.
Qualifications:
- Educational background in social service, economics, political science, public policy, or other related fields, or an equivalent combination of education and work experience
- Minimum of five years’ experience working with community organizations, social service agencies, financial institutions, and/or local governments; hands on experience with asset building, organizational development, and/or financial capability services a plus.
- Strong project management skills; excellent organizational abilities with strong attention to detail; ability to manage multiple deadlines in highly organized and efficient manner.
- Experience facilitating in-person and virtual meetings, providing trainings, and delivering technical assistance.
- Proficiency developing relationships with low- and moderate-income, low-wealth communities and Black, Indigenous and people of color (BIPOC) preferred.
- Familiarity with initiatives aimed at expanding economic opportunity and achieving economic outcomes for low- and moderate-income, low-wealth populations preferred.
- Exceptional written and oral communication skills (including effective facilitation and public speaking
- Demonstrated proficiency using PowerPoint, Word, Excel, and other software to create effective presentations, documents, and analysis.
- Ability and willingness to travel 30-40%.
Supervisory Responsibility: None
Work Environment: This job operates in a professional office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment.
Physical Demands: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. This job description is subject to change at any time.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to communicate and exchange information. The employee frequently is required to remain in a stationary position and constantly operate computer and other office productivity machinery.
FLSA Classification: Exempt
Salary Range: $75,000 - $80,000
Prosperity Now is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We believe that diversity of background and perspective are strengths, and seek to continue to grow a diverse, highly committed, skilled, and collaborative staff. We encourage candidates from various backgrounds to apply.