Lead Program Manager
Best Buddies in Minnesota · Minneapolis, MN · 3 wk ago
On-siteInformation Technology$44k–$48k/yrFull-time
We need to output HTML fragment with headings for sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections that have real specific content. We must not repeat job title as heading. Must preserve all substantive info. Remove boilerplate etc.
We need to parse the posting.
Key info:
- Organization description: Best Buddies International is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to establishing a global volunteer movement that creates opportunities for one-to-one friendships, integrated employment, leadership development, inclusive living, and family support for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). Best Buddies is the largest organization dedicated to ending the social, physical and economic isolation of the 200 million people worldwide with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). Our programs empower people with IDD to form meaningful friendships with their peers, secure jobs, improve communication and advocacy skills, and live independently, while also offering support for their families.
- Job Title: Lead, Program Manager Department: State Operations and Programs Reports to: Director, Programs Salary Range: $44,000 - $48,000
- Position Overview: The primary responsibility of the Program Manager is to work with those throughout their communities to drive the mission of Best Buddies forward through their involvement with our school and community-based Friendship and Leadership Development Programs. Our Program Managers are fundamental to engaging people in our mission and serving as a support person as our members create more inclusive communities for people with intellectual/developmental disabilities (IDD). The Program Manager is responsible for working closely with our chapter & community leadership to manage our volunteer base and provide a high-quality experience. This role is fundamental to establishing an environment that is inviting, engaging, inclusive and volunteer driven. The Lead, Program Manager’s primary role is to recruit, engage, train, and support volunteer committees and build a strategic community base to move Best Buddies’ mission forward. This included building relationships and identifying potential partnerships and funding sources; identifying Ambassadors for events; working with committees to plan and implement state events, in addition to chapter onboarding and chapter management.
- Job Qualifications – Qualified applicants must have: Bachelors degree or 3-4 years relevant experience in volunteer and committee management; Best Buddies program experience a plus Have experience managing and motivating volunteers. Must be comfortable engaging with people with IDD, including youth and adults. Must be adaptable and able to quickly and effectively develop and balance multiple relationships and get results from a variety of people. Basic project and time management skills. Exhibit strong oral and written communication skills; Ability to adapt & convey; Influence Ability to enhance, improve, and change processes and procedures; resolve tactical & operational issues Exhibit strong initiative, drive for results, and self-assessment skills. The ability to work independently and as part of a team. A clear understanding of multiple communication platforms and proficient use of social media. Familiarity with Microsoft Office Suite. Must be willing and able to travel frequently, use personal cell phone, and work evenings and weekends as necessary to accomplish job responsibilities. Access to an automobile with applicable insurance or other reliable transportation
- Job Duties (include but not limited to): Programs: list of duties.
- Development: Assist with identification and development of fundraising opportunities and partnerships to support regional events and/or programmatic support and expansion. Assist with planning and execution of regional events and partnerships as directed by the State/Area Director.
- Marketing: Research social media content opportunities among all different programs (school friendship, citizens, etc.) and follow all local chapter social media accounts Represent Best Buddies programs through public speaking, community involvement, and other initiatives.
- Operations: Understanding of standards on processes and be in compliance to the Best Buddies policies and procedures (i.e. incident reporting, etc.) Ability to maintain confidential and sensitive Best Buddies information and participant PII. Use Bene, Microsoft Outlook, social media, and Salesforce to appropriately communicate with participants and the community Maintain data integrity and tracking in all systems. Abide by all professional standards for staff when working with volunteers and program participants, as detailed in the Best Buddies Staff Policy Handbook, including the use of social media, office attire, and use of Best Buddies email accounts. Oversee data integrity and tracking in all systems.
- Benefits: Best Buddies offers a comprehensive and generous benefits program that include financial security, health and wellness and time off.
- Pay: Salary Range: $44,000 - $48,000
- Schedule: Not explicitly given. There's mention: Must be willing and able to travel frequently, use personal cell phone, and work evenings and weekends as necessary to accomplish job responsibilities. That implies schedule may include evenings/weekends, but not a defined schedule. The instruction: never create Pay/Schedule/Benefits sections unless the posting actually states them. For Schedule, we have no explicit schedule like "full-time", "part-time", "Monday-Friday 9-5". So we should not create a Schedule section.
- Benefits: we have a statement: "Best Buddies offers a comprehensive and generous benefits program that include financial security, health and wellness and time off." That's specific enough to create a Benefits section.
- Pay: Salary Range given, so we can create Pay section.
- About the role: Could be the Position Overview paragraph. That's substantive.
- Responsibilities: Could be Job Duties list.
- Requirements: Could be Job Qualifications list.
- Qualifications: Might overlap with Requirements; but we need to decide which sections to include. The instruction: Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones. We could combine Requirements and Qualifications into one? But they ask to use headings for those specific names if content exists. We have both "Job Qualifications" and "Job Duties". Also there is "Development", "Marketing", "Operations" subcategories within duties. But we should follow the instruction: Use
for sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections that have real specific content. We must not repeat job title as heading. Must preserve all substantive info. Remove boilerplate etc.
We need to parse the posting.
Key info:
- Organization description: Best Buddies International is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to establishing a global volunteer movement that creates opportunities for one-to-one friendships, integrated employment, leadership development, inclusive living, and family support for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). Best Buddies is the largest organization dedicated to ending the social, physical and economic isolation of the 200 million people worldwide with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). Our programs empower people with IDD to form meaningful friendships with their peers, secure jobs, improve communication and advocacy skills, and live independently, while also offering support for their families.
- Job Title: Lead, Program Manager Department: State Operations and Programs Reports to: Director, Programs Salary Range: $44,000 - $48,000
- Position Overview: The primary responsibility of the Program Manager is to work with those throughout their communities to drive the mission of Best Buddies forward through their involvement with our school and community-based Friendship and Leadership Development Programs. Our Program Managers are fundamental to engaging people in our mission and serving as a support person as our members create more inclusive communities for people with intellectual/developmental disabilities (IDD). The Program Manager is responsible for working closely with our chapter & community leadership to manage our volunteer base and provide a high-quality experience. This role is fundamental to establishing an environment that is inviting, engaging, inclusive and volunteer driven. The Lead, Program Manager’s primary role is to recruit, engage, train, and support volunteer committees and build a strategic community base to move Best Buddies’ mission forward. This included building relationships and identifying potential partnerships and funding sources; identifying Ambassadors for events; working with committees to plan and implement state events, in addition to chapter onboarding and chapter management.
- Job Qualifications – Qualified applicants must have: Bachelors degree or 3-4 years relevant experience in volunteer and committee management; Best Buddies program experience a plus Have experience managing and motivating volunteers. Must be comfortable engaging with people with IDD, including youth and adults. Must be adaptable and able to quickly and effectively develop and balance multiple relationships and get results from a variety of people. Basic project and time management skills. Exhibit strong oral and written communication skills; Ability to adapt & convey; Influence Ability to enhance, improve, and change processes and procedures; resolve tactical & operational issues Exhibit strong initiative, drive for results, and self-assessment skills. The ability to work independently and as part of a team. A clear understanding of multiple communication platforms and proficient use of social media. Familiarity with Microsoft Office Suite. Must be willing and able to travel frequently, use personal cell phone, and work evenings and weekends as necessary to accomplish job responsibilities. Access to an automobile with applicable insurance or other reliable transportation
- Job Duties (include but not limited to): Programs: list of duties.
- Development: Assist with identification and development of fundraising opportunities and partnerships to support regional events and/or programmatic support and expansion. Assist with planning and execution of regional events and partnerships as directed by the State/Area Director.
- Marketing: Research social media content opportunities among all different programs (school friendship, citizens, etc.) and follow all local chapter social media accounts Represent Best Buddies programs through public speaking, community involvement, and other initiatives.
- Operations: Understanding of standards on processes and be in compliance to the Best Buddies policies and procedures (i.e. incident reporting, etc.) Ability to maintain confidential and sensitive Best Buddies information and participant PII. Use Bene, Microsoft Outlook, social media, and Salesforce to appropriately communicate with participants and the community Maintain data integrity and tracking in all systems. Abide by all professional standards for staff when working with volunteers and program participants, as detailed in the Best Buddies Staff Policy Handbook, including the use of social media, office attire, and use of Best Buddies email accounts. Oversee data integrity and tracking in all systems.
- Benefits: Best Buddies offers a comprehensive and generous benefits program that include financial security, health and wellness and time off.
- Pay: Salary Range: $44,000 - $48,000
- Schedule: Not explicitly given. There's mention: Must be willing and able to travel frequently, use personal cell phone, and work evenings and weekends as necessary to accomplish job responsibilities. That implies schedule may include evenings/weekends, but not a defined schedule. The instruction: never create Pay/Schedule/Benefits sections unless the posting actually states them. For Schedule, we have no explicit schedule like "full-time", "part-time", "Monday-Friday 9-5". So we should not create a Schedule section.
- Benefits: we have a statement: "Best Buddies offers a comprehensive and generous benefits program that include financial security, health and wellness and time off." That's specific enough to create a Benefits section.
- Pay: Salary Range given, so we can create Pay section.
- About the role: Could be the Position Overview paragraph. That's substantive.
- Responsibilities: Could be Job Duties list.
- Requirements: Could be Job Qualifications list.
- Qualifications: Might overlap with Requirements; but we need to decide which sections to include. The instruction: Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones. We could combine Requirements and Qualifications into one? But they ask to use headings for those specific names if content exists. We have both "Job Qualifications" and "Job Duties". Also there is "Development", "Marketing", "Operations" subcategories within duties. But we should follow the instruction: Use for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). So we should map content to these headings.
We have:
- About the role: Position Overview paragraph.
- Responsibilities: Job Duties (including Programs, Development, Marketing, Operations). Could list as bullet points.
- Requirements: Job Qualifications (list of qualifications). Could be bullet list.
- Qualifications: Might be similar to Requirements; maybe we can skip Qualifications if it's redundant. But we have also "Skills" maybe from list: strong oral/written communication, project management, social media, Microsoft Office, etc. Could extract skills.
But we need to avoid thin sections. Let's think: We have substantive content for About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements (qualifications), Skills (maybe extracted), Benefits, Pay. That's 6 sections. Could be okay.
We must not create sections with filler like "commensurate with experience". We have actual content.
We need to ensure we don't repeat job title as heading. So no Lead, Program Manager
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We need to output only HTML fragment, no /, no markdown fences.
We'll produce something like:
About the role
Lead, Program Manager
. We need to output only HTML fragment, no /, no markdown fences. We'll produce something like:About the role
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Responsibilities
- ... ...
Requirements
- ... ...
Skills
- ... ...
Benefits
Best Buddies offers a comprehensive and generous benefits program that includes financial security, health and wellness, and time off.
Pay
Salary range: $44,000 - $48,000.
We must not include Schedule. Now we need to extract the content precisely, preserving all substantive information, not inventing or summarizing away detail. However we can condense into bullet points but must preserve all info. The instruction: "Preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail." That means we cannot omit details. But we can rephrase? It says do not summarize away detail. So we need to keep the details, but we can format them as list items; each duty should be a bullet. Must not lose any detail. Thus we need to include all duties listed under Job Duties (include but not limited to): Programs..., Development..., Marketing..., Operations... Also the bullet points under Job Qualifications. We need to ensure we capture each distinct duty. Let's parse the Job Duties section: "Job Duties (include but not limited to): ProgramsDevelop and facilitate leadership trainings specific to the volunteer roles; focus on volunteer engagement; ensure mission advancement and participation in all Best Buddies initiatives. Recruit and manage volunteer committees to implement trainings, manage chapters and advance missionEvaluate and track chapter engagement in Best Buddies trainings, including providing certification for advisors and ongoing training opportunities for members and communities.Develop and lead community trainings to promote awareness of and engagement in Best Buddies mission, including but not limited to corporate partner trainings, ambassadors, and e-Buddies trainings. Message expectations for participation in all state events and programmatic initiatives.Use program analysis to develop support plans and strategic designs for key volunteers to identify opportunities for growth, training needs, and other tactics to advance the mission.Ensure participation from all chapters in the Annual Best Buddies Leadership Conference and the state’s Friendship Walk. Oversee state citizen matches and support/cultivate corporate chapters. Plan and implement community trainings to promote awareness of and engagement in Best Buddies mission, including but not limited to corporate partner trainings, ambassadors, and e-Buddies trainings. · Support and provide management services for adolescents/young adults making the transition from school to the workforce, engaging effectively with their families, employers, and other community providers. Facilitate educational and vocational groups to help adolescents/young adults develop social, vocational, and workplace competency skills. Development Assist with the identification and development of fundraising opportunities and partnerships to support regional events and/or programmatic support and expansion. Assist with planning and execution of regional events and partnerships as directed by the State/Area Director. Marketing Research social media content opportunities among all different programs (school friendship, citizens, etc.) and follow all local chapter social media accountsRepresent Best Buddies programs through public speaking, community involvement, and other initiatives.OperationsUnderstanding of standards on processes and be in compliance to the Best Buddies policies and procedures (i.e. incident reporting, etc.)Ability to maintain confidential and sensitive Best Buddies information and participant PII.Use Bene, Microsoft Outlook, social media, and Salesforce to appropriately communicate with participants and the community Maintain data integrity and tracking in all systems.Abide by all professional standards for staff when working with volunteers and program participants, as detailed in the Best Buddies Staff Policy Handbook, including the use of social media, office attire, and use of Best Buddies email accounts.Oversee data integrity and tracking in all systems." It seems there is some duplication: "Plan and implement community trainings..." appears twice. Also "Develop and lead community trainings..." similar. We need to preserve all info, but we can deduplicate? The instruction says do not invent or summarize away detail. Duplication is part of the original; we could keep both but it's redundant. However we could keep as is; but better to keep each bullet as appears, even if similar. But we risk being seen as summarizing away detail if we remove duplicates. Safer to keep them as separate bullets, preserving the text exactly as appears (maybe with minor punctuation). However the text is messy due to missing spaces. We need to insert appropriate punctuation for readability but not alter meaning. The instruction: preserve ALL substantive information; do not invent or summarize away detail. Adding spaces and punctuation is okay as it doesn't change meaning. We should ensure we don't lose any content. Thus we need to split the duties into sensible bullet points. Let's extract each sentence/clause separated by periods. I'll rewrite with proper spacing. Programs: - Develop and facilitate leadership trainings specific to the volunteer roles; focus on volunteer engagement; ensure mission advancement and participation in all Best Buddies initiatives. - Recruit and manage volunteer committees