Job Details
Job Location
Houston, TX
Position Type
Full Time
Education Level
Graduate Degree
Travel Percentage
Up to 25%
Job Shift
Day
Job Category
Nonprofit – Social Services
Description
Being theChief Program Officer, you will serve as a critical member of the executive management team. In collaboration with the Deputy Chief Executive Officer (DCEO) will be responsible for the developing, articulating, and implementation of the agency’s strategic vision and leadership with ongoing oversight of all client-focused programs/services and community education, outreach, and prevention programs/services.
Your Schedule:
- Full Time
- Monday – Friday from 9 am – 6 pm or 8 am-5 pm
- Work Model: hybrid
- Local Travel: 25%
Our Total Compensation Package:
- Starting Pay Range: $125k-$135k
- Pay schedule bi-monthly
- Medical, Dental, Vision, Life and Disability Insurance Programs
- Generous Paid time Off- 11 paid holidays per year, 3 personal holidays per year, 15 paid Vacation days per year, Approx 7 hours per month of accrued Sick days
- 401K the agency matches 125% of employee contributions up to 4% of the annual salary of a full-time employee
- Company paid Life Insurance
- Company paid Long Term Disability
- Employee Assistance Program
Imagine a place where your talent can make a meaningful difference in people’s lives. Working at Houston Area Women’s center gives you a rewarding experience in which our diverse team of employees work together as part of the empowerment of a survivor’s life and at the same time part of a much larger mission. We are committed to doing the work and challenging each other to be an organization in which everyone is respected and heard. Every day we continue to embed diversity, inclusion, belonging, and equity in everything we do as we provide service to survivors of domestic and sexual violence.
Qualifications
The Requirements We are Seeking:
- Master’s Degree in Business Administration, Public Health, Social Work, Psychology, Counseling, Education, or Law
- A minimum of tenyears of experience in a leadership role with direct reports.
- A minimum of ten years of experience within program development in a social service setting working with vulnerable, diverse populations.
- Experience with domestic violence and sexual violence is highly preferred.
- Intermediate proficiency in Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Teams).
- You have a valid Texas driver’s license with a good driving record; reliable transportation; ability to travel to off-site locations utilizing personal transportation.
What you Deliver in this role:
- You plan, develop, implement, manage, and evaluateall client-focused, education and prevention programs and services at all locations that advance the agency’s strategic goals.
- You monitor and manage budget development.
- You motivate, inspire, and coach the program teams, in developing, evaluating, and coaching staff in a way that engages staff to ensure alignment and advancement of the agency’s strategic goals.
- You represent agency in the community and on state and national levels as needed and requested.
- You foster effective, cross-functional communications to ensure optimal deployment of programming strategies.
- You analyze metrics, propose solutions, and report findings to the leadership team.
- You facilitate and oversee continuous quality improvements for overall program strategies based on data trends and projections.
- You collaborate with the Chief Deputy Executive Officer in creating and executing a comprehensive ongoing evaluation of grantor compliance and outcome requirements and propose solutions to ensure compliance and outcomes are being met and achieved.
- You monitor industry best practices and evaluate the introduction of new policies, procedures, and program components to existing programs to continually improve program operations.
- You evaluate evolving client and community needs to identify needed new programs or changes to existing programs. Conduct program planning and implementation activities, when appropriate.
- You promote compliance with agency policies and procedures. Advise DCEO and senior management team of needed new policies or revisions to existing policies.
- As needed, you serve as agency spokesperson with media and in public speaking engagements.
- Other duties/projects may be assigned.
What Skills and Assets you bring, and more:
- Excellent leadership and team development skills.
- Excellent attention to details.
- Demonstration of professional objectivity and appreciation for confidential information.
- Ability to follow instructions and to adhere to policies and procedures.
- Ability to prioritize tasks to meet individual and team deadlines.
- Excellent communication skills, both verbally and in writing.
When you work here at HAWC you make an impact not just in the lives of the survivors and the people you help, but also make an impact in our own lives and our community. We learn and grow with a purpose where we strive to work for a common cause, which is to end domestic and sexual violence for ALL.