Reports To: CEO and president
Job Location: remote
Employment Status: full time
Travel Requirements: moderate travel for company business and events; 25%
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Position Summary:
The MBDA program director, Accelerated Growth and Innovation is a key leadership role responsible for executing the activities of the Center of Accelerated Growth and Innovation (the Center) and meeting its objectives. The Center is a new activity of NMSDC, funded through the award of the Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA) Capital Readiness Grant, a technical assistance funding program that focuses on capacity building, access to capital, and access to networks.
The project director will have a highly visible role within NMSDC and the minority business enterprise (MBE) ecosystem, with the ability to create significant outcomes and impact for this community. Additionally, this individual will build excellent relationships with the entire NMSDC network, its corporate members, government, and capital partners.
Major responsibilities include refining key operating strategies to meet the Center’s goals, connecting current and new NMSDC activities, creating and overseeing budgets and reporting, and building a strong team to meet its defined outcomes. Additionally, the MBDA project director will be a key component in identifying opportunities to strengthen corporate and government relationships to help promote MBE growth.
Essential Functions and Responsibilities:
- Grant Management
- Effectively manage the MBDA Capital Readiness grant, ensuring compliance with all grant requirements and deadlines.
- Develop and implement strategies to maximize the utilization of grant funds to achieve program objectives.
- Ensure grant reports and documentation are submitted on time as required by MBDA and other relevant stakeholders.
- Strategic Leadership
- Collaborate with senior management to define and refine the strategic vision of the Center.
- Align project initiatives with the organization’s strategic goals and objectives.
- Provide strategic guidance to project teams and stakeholders to ensure the successful execution of the Center’s mission.
- Budget Oversight
- Develop, monitor, and manage budgets related to MBDA grant activities.
- Allocate resources effectively to support grant-funded programs and initiatives.
- Properly identify direct and indirect expenses, as well as non-federal funds contributions to maximize the outcomes of the Center.
- Stakeholder Engagement
- Identify, establish, and nurture relationships with regional affiliates, NMBEIC, corporate, government, and capital entities to foster collaboration and partnership opportunities.
- Act as a liaison between the Center and external stakeholders, including MBDA, government agencies, potential capital sources, and external resources that can help meet the Center’s goals.
- Ensure appropriate representation for the Center at meetings, conferences, and events to promote its programs and initiatives.
- Team Leadership –
- Identify, establish, and nurture relationships with regional affiliates, NMBEIC, corporate, government, and capital entities to foster collaboration and partnership opportunities.
- Act as a liaison between the Center and external stakeholders, including MBDA, government agencies, potential capital sources, and external resources that can help meet the Center’s goals.
- Ensure appropriate representation for the Center at meetings, conferences, and events to promote its programs and initiatives.
Education and/or Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field (master’s degree preferred).
- Eight or more years of professional experience in a nonprofit organization (preferred).
- Proven experience in grant management, particularly with government grants and programs.
- Strong understanding of budgeting and financial management, especially as it pertains to federal government grants.
- Excellent strategic planning and leadership skills.
- Exceptional communication and interpersonal abilities.
- Demonstrated success in building and maintaining relationships with corporate and government stakeholders.
- Proficiency in project management software and tools.
- Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.
- Strong organizational skills and attention to detail.
- Commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion principles.
Competencies:
- Customer-centric: committed to providing a positive experience and ensuring our customers and clients are supported to the best of our ability.
- Critical and creative thinking: the ability to assess, analyze, and problem solve.
- Patient and magnetic listener: listens to understand our customers and clients and their problems truly and can explain solutions in a way that they understand.
- Emotional intelligence: navigating complex interactions with emotional awareness, compassion, and tact. Ability to handle interpersonal relationships and ease concerns.
- Emotional resilience: the ability to adapt to stressful situations and crises to support.
Compensation and Benefits:
- Salary Exempt.
- This position is an outstanding opportunity for a self-motivated individual to assume a pivotal role in the evolution of a fast-growing, highly respected organization.
- Benefits: Medical Insurance, 401K Plan, Short-Term Disability, Term Life, Long-Term Disability, Vacation and Sick Pay, Performance Bonus – tied to the financial health of the organization and individual performance.
Physical Demands
The physical demands described here represent those that an employee must meet to perform the essential functions of this job successfully. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, talk, and hear. The employee must frequently use their hands to finger, handle, or feel. The employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl, and taste or smell. The employee must occasionally lift and or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, and the ability to adjust focus. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate. During NMSDC events, the employee will need to travel over long distances.
Work Environment
The work environment characteristics described here represent those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally exposed to outside weather conditions. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.
Duties and responsibilities may be added, deleted, or changed at any time at the discretion of management, formally or informally, either verbally or in writing.