Program Officer, Racial Equity Initiatives

3 weeks ago

Buffalo, New York, United States Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Full time
Racial Equity Initiatives Program Officer

The Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo is seeking a highly skilled and dedicated Program Officer to join our team. As a key member of our Community Impact team, you will play a critical role in advancing our mission to improve lives in Western New York.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Work on racial equity projects/initiatives, coordinating with internal members, external partners, consultants, and others as necessary.
  • Effectively conduct and perform programmatic work and needed activities for projects/initiatives for which the position has responsibility.
  • Facilitate and/or support initiatives with internal and external groups, teams, and community partners and entities.
  • Organize meetings and events around racial equity-approved topics involving external individuals, groups, community, or organizations.
  • Manage the work of consultants hired for functions related to projects/initiatives, including developing and managing requests for proposals and competitive bidding processes.
  • Use project management tools in a standardized fashion, maintaining project calendars and milestones to ensure projects stay on track according to pre-approved timelines.
  • Manage and control multiple projects through the project life cycle, organizing, analyzing, and presenting complex information to internal and external groups, teams, community partners, and entities.
  • Preserve the Foundation's established cross-sector partnerships that engage public, private, and nonprofit institutions, as well as residents, in collective action efforts.
  • Maintain a strong knowledge of community issues and extensive engagement and relationships in various community sectors.
  • Facilitate the efforts of stakeholders to create shared agendas, common action plans, assessment systems, and sustainability strategies related to projects/initiatives.
  • Work to continually improve the metrics and assessment tools, create and update dashboards useful to the projects/initiatives underway.
  • Work with the Associate Vice President, Racial Equity Initiatives, to deliver key messages about projects/initiatives that are underway, ensuring they reflect the Foundation's brand and brand promises.
  • Reviews grant applications to determine awards using the Foundation's grant application system, conducts research associated with grant applications, processes grantee agreements, award/declination letters, and related correspondence, ensures timely submission of grant documents and reports, evaluates and follows-up on grants, and responds to grant information requests.

Requirements:

  • Bachelor's degree in a relevant field, such as planning, public administration, nonprofit management, business, economics, etc.
  • Associates Degree with five years' experience in philanthropy, community engagement, business consulting, sales, leadership, project management, or similar.
  • Proven program development and project management experience, prioritizing multiple projects within tight deadlines.
  • Strong interpersonal and team-building skills, working knowledge of the nonprofit sector, and experience in leading and facilitating community coalitions.
  • Demonstrated ability to establish and maintain effective relationships with persons of diverse backgrounds and organizations through the Western New York community.
  • Experience in communicating in a persuasive, credible manner, in person, in digital settings, and in writing and presentations.
  • Good negotiating and conflict resolution skills, strong analytical, evaluative, and managerial skills, and computer proficiency in all Microsoft technology skills and the ability to use software.

About the Community Foundation:

The Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo has enhanced and encouraged long-term philanthropy in the Western New York community for over a century. As a 501(c)(3) organization, our mission is to connect people, ideas, and resources to improve lives in Western New York. We are committed to growing and evolving as our community's needs change, and we are seeking talented individuals who want to use their abilities to make a lasting difference.

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