Program Manager, No Kid Hungry New York

Since 1984, Share Our Strength has led the fight against hunger and poverty by inspiring an organizing individuals and businesses to share their strengths. Today, through the No Kid Hungry and Cooking Matters campaigns, Share Our Strength is ending childhood hunger in America by ensuring all children get the healthy food they need. No child should go hungry in America—we’re on our way to making that a reality and we want you to join us. We’re bold, creative, always open to new ideas, and 100% dedicated to our mission. If that sounds like you, we’d like to consider becoming part of our team.

The Program Manager is responsible for the coordination and effective execution of the No Kid Hungry New York (NKH NY) campaign. This includes developing strategies for aligning in-state staff and internal departments at Share Our Strength headquarters, managing reporting and tracking procedures, and managing relationships with key external partners across New York. Under the direction of the Director, the Program Manager will lead efforts to ensure stakeholders such as elected officials, school districts, donors, and other partners are regularly updated and engaged in our work. The Program Manager will also track maintain data and grant impact reporting, develop sustainable tracking processes for grants, and oversee partnership plans to ensure terms are being met.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

•  Manage outreach and engagement with schools, school districts and partner organizations around implementation of school nutrition programs, including providing technical expertise, and collaborate on resources and materials (toolkits, focus group materials, fact sheets, etc.) for stakeholders to support successful program implementation.
• Represent No Kid Hungry New York at statewide and local conferences, and parent and coalition meetings for organizations working on child nutrition to continue to build new programmatic partners for No Kid Hungry efforts in New York State and speak on the importance of child nutrition programs.
• Manage events which might include as New York School Breakfast day, annual contests supporting school nutrition staff, summer meals kick-offs and site visits to see programming, including coordinating with internal departments in the organization, creating materials, and managing timelines and budgets for activities.
• Support and identify opportunities for new strategic partnerships with education associations, unions, and other key stakeholder organizations, and represent No Kid Hungry New York at coalition meetings in New York State City and New York State.
• Develop a strategy for grant-making to school districts in New York State. Maintain a strong knowledge of metrics, strategies, best practices and program impact stories related to No Kid Hungry NY and grantees and develop strategies and plans for supporting advocacy and fundraising work both statewide and nationally.
• Identify needed resources and materials for schools, community organizations, and other partners and work directly with Center for Best Practices and Communications colleagues on the development of public-facing materials and develop plans for dissemination of resources to target audiences.
• Manage No Kid Hungry NY social media channels, including developing strategy to build social media presence and engagement across the state. 
• Provide administrative and logistical support and coordinate invoicing for No Kid Hungry contractors and external vendors.
• Other duties as assigned. 

CONTACTS

 Has regular interaction with school districts, state agencies, No Kid Hungry partner organizations and consultants and with the internal Programs department, Communications and Shared Support teams.

SUPERVISION

 This individual has no supervisory responsibilities, and reports to the Director, No Kid Hungry New York.

WORKING CONDITIONS

Normal office work environment with up to 25% regional travel post-pandemic travel restrictions.

QUALIFICATIONS

•  Exceptional attention to details and highly organized.
• Bachelor's degree and 3-5 years of work experience in a professional environment; experience with school nutrition or outreach programs is a plus.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently and proactively in a fast-paced environment, lead projects, meet multiple concurrent deadlines, and organize time and priorities. 
• Ability to organize and manage data.
• Excellent written and verbal communications skills and interpersonal skills. 
• Ability to work effectively with culturally diverse populations. 
• Emotional intelligence and strong orientation towards customer service
• Experience with Microsoft Office, including Microsoft Excel, and PowerPoint. 
• Ability to collaborate and work well as a member of a team. 
• Demonstrated passion for our work. 
• Strong work ethic. 

FLSA CLASSIFICATION

This position is classified as exempt from the Fair Labor Standards Act and is ineligible for overtime pay.

COVID VACCINATION REQUIREMENT

Share Our Strength is committed to providing a safe and healthy workplace for our staff. In order to maintain this safety, we have implemented a mandatory vaccination policy for all staff. This position is subject to the policy (on the website). If selected for the role you will be required to present proof of full vaccination prior to your start date. 

DIVERSITY

 At Share Our Strength, we value an individual’s diversity of backgrounds, experiences, ideas and perspectives. A hallmark of our history, culture and values has been the organization’s desire to bring together motivated, intelligent, and talented people to work together to find and implement solutions to eliminate childhood hunger. We each come to Share Our Strength with a unique background, but together we form a team that yields amazing results. This shared value of encouraging and embracing diversity in our organization fosters a workplace and culture that is highlighted for its innovation, open expression of ideas, and collaboration. With a strong shared commitment to the organization’s mission, and a unique blend of individual strengths, we are all working toward ensuring that each child in America has food where they Live, Learn, and Play.