PROGRAM MANAGER - SSVF HELENA

Job Description

The Program Manager for Supportive Services for Veteran Families (SSVF) provides program oversight for their respective state location. This includes staff performance management, budgetary management, accreditation compliance, programmatic compliance and performance.

• Provide direct supervision and oversight of the Supportive Services for Veteran Families (SSVF) program to ensure program compliance.
• Oversee essential SSVF funding grant requirements including but not limited to: eligible enrollments, ensuring adequate grant-required admissions, and supervising appropriate temporary financial assistance spending.
• Direct supervision of SSVF teammates, providing program guidance and team performance management.
• Regularly communicate with the Director of Veteran Services and support individualized goals of communities served.
• Participate and lead local meetings and collaborative efforts to reach goals.
• Implement policy or accreditation standards to ensure organizational compliance.
• Ensures SSVF staff complete all required training per program requirements.
• Lead and manage program quality assurance strategies.
• Review and approve documentation needed for grant compliance.

Essential Functions

Provide direct supervision and oversight of the Supportive Services for Veteran Families (SSVF) program to ensure program compliance.

Oversee essential SSVF funding grant requirements including but not limited to: eligible enrollments, ensuring adequate grant-required admissions, and supervising appropriate temporary financial assistance spending.

Direct supervision of SSVF teammates, providing program guidance and team performance management.

Regularly communicate with the Director of Veteran Services and support individualized goals of communities served.

Participate and lead local meetings and collaborative efforts to reach goals.

Implement policy or accreditation standards to ensure organizational compliance.

Ensure SSVF staff complete all required training per program requirements.

Lead and manage program quality assurance strategies.

Review and approve documentation needed for grant compliance.

Supervisory Responsibility

This position provides regional location-based supervision of SSVF staff in the assigned area.

Work Environment

This job operates in a professional office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as laptop computers, photocopiers, and smartphones.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to perform the essential functions of this job successfully. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision and ability to adjust focus. This would require the ability to lift files, open filing cabinets, and bend or stoop as necessary.

Position Type/Expected Hours of Work

This is a full-time position. Days and hours of work are generally Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Occasional evening and weekend work may be required as job duties demand.

Travel

Regular travel required. Travel will include both day and overnight trips as necessary for essential program oversight.

Required Education, Experience Or Eligibility

• A bachelor's degree in social services or 3-5 years of experience in a closely related field.
• Familiar with veteran services and primarily SSVF or human service program delivery.

Preferred Education And Experience

• A master’s degree in human services or related field.
• Two years of program management in the non-profit sector.
• Five years of experience in the non-profit sector.
• Military/Veteran experience.

Competencies

• Effective communicator, both oral and written.
• Solutions and servant-based leadership.
• Ethical practice.
• Relationship management.
• Crisis Management.
• Continuous demonstration of behaviors aligned with a posture of servant leadership and our cultural values.

Supervisory Responsibility

This position provides regional location-based supervision of SSVF staff in the assigned area.

Work Environment

This job operates in a professional office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as laptop computers, photocopiers, and smartphones.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to perform the essential functions of this job successfully. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision and ability to adjust focus. This would require the ability to lift files, open filing cabinets, and bend or stoop as necessary.

Position Type/Expected Hours of Work

This is a full-time position. Days and hours of work are generally Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Occasional evening and weekend work may be required as job duties demand.

Travel

Regular travel required. Travel will include both day and overnight trips as necessary for essential program oversight.

Required Education, Experience Or Eligibility

• A bachelor's degree in social services or 3-5 years of experience in a closely related field.
• Familiar with veteran services and primarily SSVF or human service program delivery.

Preferred Education And Experience

• A master’s degree in human services or related field.
• Two years of program management in the non-profit sector.
• Five years of experience in the non-profit sector.
• Military/Veteran experience.

EEO Statement

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