Operations Manager

Mental Health of young people is in the spotlight this year. A free dance school for girls in East Harlem, Groove With Me is a sanctuary for their physical and mental wellness, so they continue to express themselves and discover their capacities in a healthy environment.   Our girls face serious challenges, especially in a year like 2020 when COVID-19 had an outsized impact on their homes & communities in East Harlem and South Bronx. We offer them a place to thrive.

“It’s a place where I don't worry what people think of me … during the pandemic, school from home has been difficult and "performing" well has felt really hard … at GWM, I can be myself …”

Groove With Me, Inc. is a youth development organization using free dance classes and performance opportunities as a tool to instill in young women the leadership, pride, spirit of cooperation, creativity, joy and discipline needed to confront the adversity in their daily lives and throughout their future development. The program seeks to decrease teen pregnancy, truancy, crime, violence, prostitution, substance abuse and gang related activity by nurturing youth, building self-confidence, offering positive choices, and providing a safe place to go.

We are looking for an energetic, compassionate, and experienced team player. Groove With Me is an ever growing and evolving organization that requires an entrepreneurial spirit and the ability to wear many hats.

Responsibilities:

• Human Resources
• Employee supervision
• Bookkeeping/Audit
• Manage budget of $600,000
• Ensure administrative records and data collection are timely and high quality
• Use data to monitor and improve program quality
• Technology, legal, insurance, real estate, landlord
• Database admin.
• Manage key vendor relationships
• Provide support to our department staff and participants
• Work with staff to develop systems to ensure consistent, high-quality project management
• Compliance, licenses, filings
• Ensure ongoing programmatic excellence
• Other responsibilities as assigned by the Executive Director

Qualifications:

• Ability to adapt; encourage openness, flexibility and creativity in meeting programmatic and regulatory needs
• Outstanding collaborator and consensus builder
• Flexible, multi-tasker who can handle multiple priorities and meet deadlines
• Strong commitment to personal and professional development
• Strong attention to detail
• Solid interpersonal and communication skills, and desire to help others
• Ability to encourage adherence to and enforce policies for all students, parents, and other stakeholders