Associate Director of Program

Special Olympics New York provides year-round sports training, athletic competition, health services, leadership opportunities, and inclusive programming for children and adults with intellectual disabilities. We believe every athlete deserves the opportunity to discover their strengths, build confidence, and experience the joy of belonging.

Responsibilities

• Support and monitor all program related operational procedures including regular accounting and an annual budget and planning process.
• Familiarity with event planning, management and implementation is preferred.
• Facilitate the health structure and monitor health program strategy, including local and statewide initiatives.
• Coordinate and monitor all Special Olympics activities associated with health programming, including new health related initiatives.
• Responsible for adherence to all health programs, Healthy Athletes, fitness programming and Healthy Communities components, related SOI and SONY minimum standards and grant deliverables in collaboration with the Senior Director of Program, Health Programming.
• Act as a knowledgeable authority and program leader on matters related to all health programming.
• Serve as a leader for all health-related communication internally, with colleagues locally through to SOI and externally with stakeholders in collaboration with the Senior Director of Program, Health Programming.
• Assist with planning and giving presentations to current and future partners/volunteers regarding the health of people with I/DD and the health work/initiatives of Special Olympics.
• Engage and collaborate with athlete leaders and Health Messengers to support all health initiatives.
• Provide support to grant writing, fundraising and partnership cultivation of health programming sustainability.
• Manage grant reporting and data collection required to support all grant related programming.
• Ensure the regions and the state are in compliance with all criteria, regulations, general rules and policy originating from SONY, Inc., Special Olympics International and other 501 (c) 3 governing bodies.
• Inclusion, Unified Sports and the Unified Champion School programming are present and prioritized in the foundation of our core elemental movement, found embedded in our seasonal and annual calendar, and activity.
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