Monday, November 16, 2015

[KITlist] Program and Project Manager (San Ramon, CA)

 

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Job Title: Program and Project Manager

The Program Manager is accountable for managing and overseeing all aspects of one or more Inventures clients. This is a highly visible position with direct responsibility to the Board of Directors for each client. In this role, the Program Manager provides proactive guidance and counsel to the clients, maintains open and effective communications with the clients and their members, and proposes new programs and methods for clients to better achieve their objectives, including the additional use of Inventures resources and experience when appropriate. Accountabilities also include the internal coordination and management of all resources required for the successful and timely execution of client programs, reports and billing streams. This position reports directly to the VP of Relationship Management and requires a high degree of leadership, collaboration, discretion, confidentiality, and professionalism.

Primary Duties Responsibilities:

Leadership and Strategic Counsel (Client Focused)

• Provides strategic guidance and counsel on operational plans, Board operations, financial budgets and legal issues

• Provides support to the Board in recruiting and member on-boarding activities as requested by the Board and its Councils/Working Groups

• Leads Annual Strategic Planning to determine annual strategic priorities and facilitates annual budget development for future years

• Defines and leads the necessary programs and projects to meet those strategic priorities

• Defines and manages alliance annual budget aligned to strategic and operational priorities

• Measures and reports progress on strategic priorities and financial health of the organization to Board and other alliance stakeholders

• Makes Organization life cycle recommendations

• Develops of longer range programs such as opportunities for strategic branding and alliance marketing



Ongoing Operations Management, Oversight and Reporting (Client Focused)

• Partner with client to create yearly budget and review financial status with clients and update forecast on a monthly basis

• Review monthly client invoices generated by Inventures finance to ensure contract and special project billings are correct

• Perform monthly review of past due member accounts, and determine next steps for members that have not made payment as a result of Business Operation Services (BOS) collection calls

• Attend client board and member meetings and events.

• Provide weekly client status updates, with focus on performance against alliance objectives

• Conduct cross functional meetings as necessary to ensure that all client commitments and deadlines are being met

• Take accountability for any cross functional projects by providing direction and guidance to team members to ensure successful execution of client deliverables

• Partner with Business Operations (BOS) to ensures all documentation is filed to establish and maintain clients' non-profit status

• Responsible for reviewing results and any associated issues/actions of annual financial audits of client records (provided by BOS and external auditors)

• Approve all invoices and expense reports on behalf of client prior to payment

• Manage grant budgets, narratives, and reporting for clients



Account Management (Inventures Focused)

• Actively seeks new opportunities to grow overall Inventures footprint with client - additional Program Management Services, Marketing Program Management and Support, Strategic Market Planning, Events Management

• Demonstrates leadership and adds value to enhance the overall level of Company professionalism by documenting best practices, recommending speaking opportunities, blogging, providing newsletter content, ensuring client contacts are up to date, participating in Core team meetings as requested, provide monthly dashboards on clients health and mentor junior employees

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities:

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills are required, as are strong interpersonal skills and the ability to produce, edit, and deliver quality presentations

• A self-starter capable of making decisions and accepting responsibility

• Extremely well organized and detail oriented with good follow through on commitments

• Travel is a requirement for this position, including international travel (an unrestricted passport is required) -travel may exceed 40% depending on the needs of the clients

Education Work Experience Required:

• Bachelor's Degree or higher (advanced degree such as MBA, or Masters, strongly preferred); equivalent work experience will also be considered

• Five to ten years of experience working in the key industry segments Inventures supports, preferably in a managerial capacity, is required

• A broad background including experience in technology, finance, marketing, events, web and operations

• Experience in program and project management and be able to handle multiple priorities at any given time

• Knowledge of grant management is preferred

About Global Inventures, Inc.

Founded in 1992 as Interprise Ventures, Global Inventures, Inc. offers association management services, produces conferences, and provides specialized consulting. Since 1993, we have helped build 17 associations focused around technology initiatives. Each was created from a "blank sheet of paper" and designed to meet the particular requirements of their founders and membership. Currently, our associations are centered around Communications Infrastructures, Broadband Enterprise and Home Networking, and Web Applications.

About SmithBucklin

SmithBucklin is the association management and services company more organizations turn to than any other. Our mission is to achieve the missions of the client organizations we serve and provide uncompromised stewardship for their long-term prosperity. SmithBucklin offers full-service management and outsourced services to trade associations, professional societies, technology user communities, industry consortia, charitable organizations, corporations and government institutes. Founded in 1949, SmithBucklin has offices in Chicago, Washington D.C., Old Lyme, Conn., St. Louis, Bethesda, Md., and San Ramon, Calif., and delivers seamless association and event management services worldwide. The company is 100 percent employee-owned.

Equal Employment Opportunity

At SmithBucklin Corporation, Equal Employment Opportunity is our commitment and goal. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, national origin, gender, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation, veteran status, marital status or any other protected status designated by federal, state or local law. Applicants are encouraged to confidentially self-identify when applying. Employment is contingent upon successful completion of a reference and background investigation based on position.

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