PFE - Program Manager- Knowledge Development

Job summary:

This is a grant funded, full-time position in the Partners for Education Department that is expected to continue for three-years. The Program Manager will report to the Chief Strategy and Finance Officer and will work closely with the Rural Impact team to provide project management for national meetings, communities of practice and convenings. For each assigned project, the Program Manager will provide technical assistance, develop materials, support learning (virtually and in person), collect data and communicate logistics and program information to stakeholders and participants. Additionally, the Program Manager will assist with the development, design and continuous improvement of learning resources, materials and tools, and processes.

Education required to ensure success in this position:

• Bachelor’s degree required, master’s degree preferred.

• Demonstrated experience designing, hosting and creating learning resources.
• Demonstrated project management experience.

• Experience leading and designing virtual and in-person learning events
• Excellent written and oral communication and presentation skills

• Valid driver’s license
• Background check, including social media check

• Ability to work in a high energy office
• Ability to accurately communicate and exchange information with partners, stakeholders or meeting participants in person, in writing, and through visual aids.
• Ability to occasionally lift up to 30 pounds
• Able to travel independently by car and plane regionally or nationally
• Ability to navigate campus/public buildings and grounds.

• Work at a Partners for Education office in Appalachian Kentucky with regular national and regional travel.
• Work primarily in a professional, fast-paced office environment with frequent interruptions and moderate to high levels of activity.

• Standard office equipment – computer, telephone,
• Motor vehicle – college cars/vans

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Regular and predictable attendance is essential. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Serve as a project manager by creating, implementing and monitoring project management plans for virtual and in-person events, communities of practice and convenings to include obtaining bids and quotes for services, securing meeting venues and virtual platforms, managing virtual platforms, securing appropriate agreements, and tracking marketing and registration materials.
• Assist the teams with managing project budgets to ensure that all expenditures are allowable, allocable, and reasonable, and spent in accordance with the project plan.
• Work collaboratively with teams, session facilitators or consultants, and meeting participants to determine the appropriate content to design and produce.
• Manage the design, development, testing and publishing of engaging audio, video and visual learning resources to support the learning opportunities.
• Test innovative ways to share content with different audiences and share knowledge.
• Use continuous improvement processes to support the refinement and updates to learning materials and project management activities.
• Create and maintain a virtual online learning depository of materials that can be used throughout the organization.
• Assist with data collection and support the reporting and evaluation of the assigned projects.

Other roles/duties will be assigned as necessary to assist the College in the attainment of the goals set forth and the enhancement of a positive, respectful learning environment for all staff, faculty and students.

Berea College achieved national distinction as the first coeducational and interracial college in the South. With an emphasis on service to the people of Appalachia and beyond, Berea enrolls 1,600 students from 40 states and 70 countries. The College has along standing commitment to interracial education; here, people of different races seek to learn from and about each other, while also living together.

Berea is among the most racially diverse private liberal arts colleges in the United States. It admits only students whose families are unable to afford the high cost of tuition and awards each of them a Tuition Promise Scholarship, meaning no student ever pays tuition. Berea’s students excel in the College’s supportive but demanding academic environment, and many are the first in their families to graduate from college. The College is one of nine federally recognized Work Colleges, and all students hold a position in which they work 10-12 hours per week. Washington Monthly Magazine has consistently ranked Berea in the top 3 of Liberal Arts Colleges for its success in educating and graduating academically talented, low-income students who become service-oriented leaders in their professions and communities; in 2016 and 2017, the magazine ranked it number 1.

Located where the Bluegrass Region meets the Cumberland Mountains, the town of Berea (pop. 15,000) lies forty miles south of Lexington and is approximately two hours from Cincinnati, Louisville, and Knoxville. More information about Berea College is available at www.berea.edu.

Berea College, in light of its mission in the tradition of impartial love and social equality, welcomes all people of the earth to learn and work here.

Berea College is always looking for talented, self-motivated individuals to join our team. If you think you are ready to be a part of an exciting team, then we encourage you to continue with this applicant friendly, online job application!

Berea College is an Equal Opportunity Employer that recruits and hires qualified candidates without regard to race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, disability, or veteran status.