Position Information

DESIRABLE QUALIFICATIONS
Experience in:
 

• Managing complex projects from start to finish, leading teams to meet deadlines, budget, and scope.
• Strategic planning, implementing systems, and measuring outcomes.
• Researching, analyzing data, and preparing detailed reports with recommendations.
• Building consensus and maintaining relationships with stakeholders, board members, and decision-makers.
• Making public presentations and writing clearly to address complex issues for the governing board or leadership team.

• Business/Public Administration: principles and practices of business and/or public administration.
• Organizational Performance Analysis: methods, techniques, and tools used to analyze program, organizational, and mission performance; includes methods that deliver key performance information (for example, comparative, trend, diagnostic, root cause, predictive) used to inform decisions, actions, communications, and accountability system.
• Project Management: principles, methods, or tools for developing, scheduling, coordinating, and managing projects and resources, including monitoring and inspecting costs, work, and performance. Ensures clear definition of project goals and criteria for success. Involves customers, suppliers, and other stakeholders. Determines the necessary activities, their logical sequence, interdependencies, and allocation of resources. Ensures necessary skill sets among project staff. Clarifies individual roles and responsibilities, deliverables, and schedule milestones. Establishes decision-making process and boundaries for independent decision making. Anticipates problems and mitigates risks. Guards against expansion of project scope. Reviews and evaluates completed project for lessons learned.
• Research Techniques: Including scientific principles, methods, and processes used to conduct a systematic and objective inquiry; including study design, collection, analysis, and interpretation of data; and the reporting of results for recommended courses of action.

• Analyze and Interpret Data: Organizes, codes, aggregates and disaggregates data for analysis. "Cleans" data for errors, redundancies, and omissions. Uses appropriate statistical or qualitative analysis techniques. Accurately summarizes data and presents it in charts, tables, graphs and computational or statistical reports. Recognizes relationships and trends in the data and draws credible conclusions, inferences, and generalizations. 
• Communicate Effectively (Verbally and in Writing): Delivers clear, organized, and persuasive speeches or presentation. Recognizes or uses correct English grammar, punctuation, and spelling; communicates information (for example, facts, ideas, or messages) in a brief, clear, and organized manner; produces written information, which may include technical and confidential material, that is appropriate for the intended.
• Demonstrates Accountability: Holds self and others accountable for measurable high-quality, timely, and cost-effective results. Determines objectives, sets priorities, and delegates work. Accepts responsibility for mistakes. Complies with established control systems and rules.
• Emotional Intelligence:  Identify, understand, and manage one’s own emotions, and empathize with others. Recognizes how one's own emotions can affect the thoughts and behavior of others. Able to regulate one's own emotions, especially in stressful situations. Diffuse highly charged situations. Handles emotional information from others, which involves empathizing with their emotional state, understanding their needs or concerns, and being able to help if needed.
• Leverage Technology: Proficient in the use of modern software applications, including Microsoft suite products, and flexible in applying new software solutions to achieve the work of the organization. Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite, including Microsoft Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint is required. Leverages technology and software for day-to-day operations and to optimize business efficiency.
• Problem Solve: Ability to identify and analyze highly complex problems that may arise; weighs relevance and accuracy of information to generate, evaluate, and apply solutions.    Readily identifies current opportunities for improvement. Examines old problems under a new light. Thinks outside of the box. Comes up with novel, resourceful, creative, or imaginative approaches to problems or opportunities. Breaks down an issue or problem into its elements and recognizes interrelationships. Attends to all pertinent facts and data. Updates conclusions and inferences in response to new information. Seeks the root causes of problems or underlying determinants of issues.
• Think Critically and Strategically: Breaks down issues into elements and recognize interrelationships. Consider relevant facts and data, ask incisive questions, and challenge assumptions. Identify flaws and inconsistencies in arguments. Develop strategies aligned with the organization's business and competitive strategy. Predict future trends and opportunities. Create and revise long-term plans considering core competencies, members, risks, resources, strengths, and weaknesses. Sets objectives and priorities that align with the organization's global interests. Seize opportunities and manage risk.