Better Jobs Project Manager

Better Together is a mission-driven organization that works with local churches to help families overcome poverty, dependency, divorce, and child abuse. The Better Jobs Project Manager trains, supports, and equips churches as they establish and grow employment ministries, while managing job fairs, church partnerships, employer relationships, job coaching, data reporting, and project execution.

Responsibilities:

• Lead churches and volunteers through Better Jobs ministry trainings
• Attend job fairs and support Better Jobs Ministry launches
• Nurture and cultivate church cohorts and partners
• Lead churches and support them as they start their Better Jobs Ministry
• Manage detailed project schedule and work plan, which includes meeting with churches on a weekly or bi-weekly basis to help churches successfully implement and sustain their jobs ministry
• Manage multiple job fairs simultaneously, which are at different stages of the process
• Provide problem-solving support to partner churches to determine and define project scope and objectives
• Export and share data to church and key partners
• Comfortably use Canva and established templates to create professional flyers and promotional materials in support of partner job fairs
• Step in as needed to ensure a successful job fair
• Debrief churches, businesses and volunteers to seek feedback to help further innovate our model
• Work with Partnership Manager for Florida church partners to assist and coordinate partners
• Run reports and share data
• Measure project performance to identify areas of improvement
• Use best practices, techniques, and standards throughout the entire project’s execution
• Ensure that each job fair maintains success benchmarks
• Nurture Better Jobs employer partners who engage with Better Jobs
• Match job coaches to job seekers during job fairs
• Provide support to job coach volunteers as needed
• Update employer information for job coaches at job fairs
• Assist other Better Together team members with job coaches and job placement recommendations for families as available
• Track job coaching and job seeker interactions and job placement
• Must maintain regular communication with the team to coordinate efforts and provide updates

Requirements:

• • Bachelor's degree in communications, project management, business management, or a related field, plus a minimum of three years of relevant project management experience; or
• • A minimum of eight years of relevant professional experience in lieu of a bachelor's degree
• • Technological requirements: Salesforce, Asana, Canva, and Basecamp
• • Match Better Together's core values (described above)
• • Must maintain regular communication with the team to coordinate efforts and provide updates