Program Management Specialist

Indiana University; Bloomington (IN); On-site; USD 51,156 - 62,524; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive medical and dental insurance

Health savings account with contributions

Tuition subsidy for employees and families

Paid holidays and time off

Employee assistance program (EAP)

Job summary

A prominent educational institution in Bloomington is seeking a program manager to coordinate community and academic garden initiatives. The role involves planning events, managing staff communications, and budget oversight. A Bachelor's degree and 2 years' experience are required. The position offers a salary of $56,840 and includes comprehensive benefits such as medical insurance, a retirement plan, and paid time off. This is an in-person position.

Qualifications

• 2 years of experience in a related field.
• Ability to operate standard office productivity equipment.
• Must be able to perform essential functions with or without accommodation.

Responsibilities

• Coordinates volunteers and maintains gardens.
• Plans and implements programs or events.
• Provides staff communication and serves as liaison.
• Constructs and administers program budgets.
• Researches grants and creates proposals.

Skills

Proficient written and verbal communication skills

Maintains a high degree of professionalism

Demonstrates time management skills

Demonstrates a high commitment to quality

Possesses flexibility to work in dynamic environments

Highly thorough and dependable

Demonstrates a high level of accuracy under pressure

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

CAPITAL PLANNING (UA-UART-IUBLA)

Capital Planning and Facilities (CPF) works to ensure that Indiana University (IU) campuses are beautiful, functional, and sustainable supporting excellence in teaching, learning, research, and community engagement across the entire university. A unit within CPF, Facility Operations, maintains our physical campus to support research, teaching, and learning at Indiana University Bloomington. As a unit of Capital Planning and Facilities, Facility Operations provides wide-ranging services all with the goal of creating a beautiful, well-functioning campus.

Department - Specific Responsibilities

• Coordinates volunteers.
• Maintains the gardens as living-learning laboratories, supporting research, and ensuring safe, consistent daily operations.
• Oversees major community and youth programs such as the Seed Kit Program, Wonder Camp, Family Gardening Programs, and Camp Good Grief.
• Supports multiple academic gardens and maintains strong partnerships with outside organizations.

General Responsibilities

• Plans, directs, and implements programs or events, including the creation of materials to support these events.
• Provides staff communications and serves as liaison to program participants, collaborators in other units, community partners, vendors and the public. Approves staff purchase requests; arranges staff travel, accommodations, and research activities.
• Provides mechanisms, training, and advice on a variety of issues such as budget management software and advanced strategies for timely spending of grant funds. May be responsible for meeting revenue targets.
• Recruits, trains, directs, schedules, and evaluates faculty and staff partners, students and volunteers. Mentors, serves as a resource and provides guidance to team staff members as needed.
• Researches available grants and works closely with managers to identify funding needs and potential sources, creates grant proposals that further advance support of the program and program participants. May be responsible for meeting revenue targets.
• Constructs and administers program budgets and approves spending. Tracks progress on deliverables, analyzes data on projected spending and prepares reports for higher management and funding sources.
• Keeps abreast of best practices to recommend policies and procedures that deliver a quality program experience.

Combinations of related education and experience may be considered. Education beyond the minimum required may be substituted for work experience. Work experience beyond the minimum required may be substituted for education.

Education

Required

• Bachelor's degree.

Work Experience

Required

• 2 years in a related field.

Skills

Required

• Proficient written and verbal communication skills.
• Maintains a high degree of professionalism.
• Demonstrates time management and priority setting skills.
• Demonstrates a high commitment to quality.
• Possesses flexibility to work in a fast paced, dynamic environment.
• Seeks to acquire knowledge in area of specialty.
• Highly thorough and dependable.
• Demonstrates a high level of accuracy, even under pressure.

This role requires the ability to effectively communicate and to operate a computer and other standard office productivity equipment. The position involves sedentary work as well as periods of time moving around an office environment and the campus. The person in this role must be able to perform the essential functions with or without an accommodation.

Bloomington, Indiana

This is an in-person position.

$56,840.00 per year

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical and dental insurance
• Health savings account with generous IU contributions
• Healthcare and dependent care flexible spending accounts
• Basic group life insurance paid by IU
• Voluntary supplemental life, long-term disability, critical illness, and supplemental accidental death & dismemberment insurance
• Base retirement plan with generous IU contributions, subject to vesting
• Voluntary supplemental retirement plan options
• Tuition subsidy for employees and family members taking IU courses
• 10 paid holidays plus a paid winter break each year
• Generous paid time off plans
• Paid leave for new parents and IU-sponsored volunteer events
• Employee assistance program (EAP)

Learn more about our benefits by reviewing the IU Benefit Programs Brochure.

Career Level: Career

FLSA: Exempt

Job Function: General Administration

Job Family: Program Management

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