Program Specialist, Success Center
Job Description
Full job description
Program Specialist, Success Center
100% Remote within California, Must reside in California
We are seeking a Program Specialist to join the Foundation in its mission of benefiting, supporting, and enhancing the California Community Colleges—the largest and most diverse system of higher education in the nation. The Foundation for California Community Colleges is on a mission to double its impact in the next 10 years. We are a group of relentless optimists and innovators in education, working collaboratively with public and private partners to help improve the student experience and expand pathways to economic and social mobility in communities across California.
What You’ll Do
The Success Center’s role is to support the California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office and Foundation in implementing the Chancellor’s Vision 2030. Our work is engaging, fast-paced, and ever-evolving and requires a passion for serving California community college students and a commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility.
The Program Specialist will support the Strategic Projects and Initiatives unit of the Success Center by participating in program and project planning, implementation, and reporting on student success initiatives.
- Contributes to the Success Center’s ability to envision, design, and implement innovative student success projects that advance the systemwide goals of Vision 2030.
- Provide project management support from start to finish, including initiating, planning, executing, monitoring, evaluating, and closing projects.
- Works with team members to implement project plans including working with consultants, working with college practitioners, utilizing strategic communications, tracking progress and lessons learned, and presenting findings.
- Independently researches specific policy and programmatic topics to develop subject matter expertise as needed. Monitors policy and other changes in those topic areas during the duration of the project.
- Engages with high-level stakeholders such as the Chancellor’s Office staff and leadership and representatives from system professional organizations.
- Represents the Foundation’s Success Center at meetings and events that may require travel both regionally and nationally.
- Synthesizes complex data (quantitative and qualitative) and translates it into digestible findings or recommendations for a variety of audiences.
- Synthesizes project findings and works with team members to identify how these findings can influence system level actions to improve student success.
- Monitors requirements of grant agreements and contracts and tracks progress.
Attributes for Success
- General understanding of the California higher education policy and reform environment and the California Community Colleges system.
- Strong attention to detail, ensuring that communications and deliverables are accurate, professional, and audience appropriate.
- Ability to work on multiple projects with competing deadlines.
- Ability to work effectively, accurately, with good judgment and with optimism in stressful, high-visibility situations.
- Coordinate with many stakeholders and work in a complex policy and political environment with large teams of professionals.
- Maintain a high level of discretion and good judgement, ability to take initiative, integrity, trustworthiness, respect, and team collaboration are required.
- Ability to work remotely and navigate various technology platforms (Zoom, MS Office Suite-Teams, Outlook, Google Suite, etc.)
- We’re recruiting for mission-driven, passionate, equity-minded individuals with a strong desire to impact and change people’s lives for the better
- Our work holds great weight and responsibility, and the opportunity to impact the lives of millions
- Innovation, creativity, collaboration, and entrepreneurship are encouraged as employees work to achieve organizational goals
- FoundationCCC blends the impact of a non-profit, the culture of an entrepreneurial start-up, and the scale of a state agency
- Team members are hired for their expertise in niche areas across our areas of impact and higher education overall, and for their knowledge of business, philanthropy, technology, communications, and more
- We have a commitment to professional development and an emphasis on shared leadership, to ensure growth for employees and the organization overall
What we Offer
FoundationCCC is fully committed to a “remote-first” philosophy, and recruits and hires talent across the state in fully remote positions, where virtual work is possible. Our headquarters are located in Downtown Sacramento, just blocks from California’s State Capitol.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation, generous PTO, holidays
- Medical, dental, and vision plans, Flexible Spending Accounts, and Health Savings Accounts (HSA), Employee Assistance Program (EAP), and Wellness offerings
- CalPERS retirement program and optional 403(b) and 457 Retirement plans
- Tuition reimbursement
- Public Service Loan Forgiveness certified employer
This posting is a condensed version of the full job description. To request the full job description, please email us at
jobs@foundationccc.org
.Budgeted Annual Salary Pay Range:
$65,000.00 - $75,000.00
Final salary and rates are based on education, experience, skills relevant to the role, and internal equity.
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