Title: PT Interim Program Manager, Protégé

Department: SEO Leadership Institute

Report to: Director, Leadership Institute

Compensation: $31.00 - $35.00 per hour

FLSA: Part-Time/Non-Exempt

Term : July 9, 2024 – December 13, 2024 (Employee Leave Coverage)

Location: Remote (Hybrid Optional)

Hours: 20 hrs/week

About SEO

For more than 60 years, SEO has created a more equitable society by closing the educational and career opportunity gap for ambitious Black, Hispanic/Latinx, and Native American young people. All are welcome to apply to our programs.

About SEO Leadership Institute

SEO Leadership Institute focuses on mobilizing SEO alumni and their peers as a collective force in creating a more equitable society. The SEO Leadership Institute supports SEO alumni in advancing their professional and civic development.

Responsibilities:

We are seeking a program manager of the SEO Leadership Institute who will be responsible for the day-to-day operations of the SEO Mentoring Program. The Program Manager is expected to partner with SEO leadership to cultivate professional mentoring relationships between senior executives and early career professionals. This role requires a strategic thinker with excellent relationship and project management skills.

• Collaborate with SEO board members, alumni and staff to recruit mentors and mentees to participate in the SEO Mentoring

• Lead effort to make appropriate mentor-mentee matches

• Work across departments to create relationships with mentoring managers to codify mentoring best practices

• Participate in reporting on program impact measures and outcomes

• Track expenses, facilitate payment to vendors as assigned

• Manage technical and administrative aspects of the program including training platforms

• Support the development of presentations, webinars, program materials, and assist with tracking of responses to surveys and other constituent inquiries

• Assist in creating various feedback surveys, information forms, etc.

  Qualifications:

• 4+ years of professional experience. Deep understanding of analyst, investing and other front office roles in financial services is strongly preferred.

• General technical proficiencies within a cloud-based environment, including using MS365 products, Box, Monday.com, and Excel. Direct experience with Salesforce, or similar content management databases is desired.

• Successful track record of managing complex projects towards successful completion

• Ability to collect and analyze data to provide strategic direction;.

• Adaptable, particularly in environments with shifting priorities

• Strong organizational and time management skills, critical thinking, and ability to complete ad hoc projects promptly.

• Proven ability to build relationships, influence key partners, and get results through collaboration. Must be able to interface with executive-level professionals, as well as early career professionals.

• Excellent communications skills. Must be proficient communicating across email, chat, and phone; a high degree of comfort with public speaking, presentation, and training is a plus.

• A deep curiosity and passion for SEO’s mission, vision, and values is nonnegotiable.

  Competencies & Skills

• Passion for SEO: A deep curiosity and awareness of the barriers to entry and obstacles for early career professionals from underrepresented communities launching careers in Corporate America, and a passion and dedication to closing those opportunity gaps.  

• Initiative: Proactive in identifying ways to contribute to SEO’s goals and mission by setting achievable goals, addressing problems head-on, preparing for contingencies, and identifying opportunities.   

• Problem-solving: The capacity to anticipate needs, use the best resources, and employ careful decision-making.  

• Teamwork & Collaboration : The ability to be a self-starter and a team player who builds people-first relationships and centers the SEO’s core values whenever possible.  

• Project Management: An affinity for strategic planning with the ability to break down issues into component pieces, build project work plans, assume accountability for timelines, lead cross-functional working teams, evaluate data for continuous improvement, and navigate ambiguity all along.

• Relationship Management: Proven ability to build relationships, influence key partners and stakeholders from the SEO community, and produce outcomes through collaboration.  

  COMPENSATION & BENEFITS    

  This position is benefits ineligible in accordance with local, state, and federal regulations.

  The compensation listed in this posting reflects what SEO believes it will pay for this position at the time of this posting. Consistent with applicable law, compensation will be determined based on the skills, qualifications, and experience of the applicant along with the requirements of the position, and SEO reserves the right to modify this pay range at any time.  

  EEOC Policy  

  At SEO we are committed to cultivating a team that embodies the backgrounds and experiences of the constituencies we serve and the communities we live in, and a workplace that reflects the impact we make in the world. Candidates from all communities – including people of color, women, members of the LGBTQIA+ Community, veterans, and people with disabilities are strongly encouraged to apply. 

  Equal Employment Opportunity is not just the law, it is our commitment.  

  Sponsors for Educational Opportunity is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer – M/F/D/V. We will consider all qualified applicants for employment regardless of race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex, gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, age, marital status, veteran status, pregnancy, parental status, genetic information or characteristics, or any other legally protected status. 

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