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Reports To:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Senior Director of Strategy and Mission AdvancementLocation: &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Must reside in WisconsinThe Contracts and Operations Coordinator will support the organization by managing contracts, ensuring compliance, and optimizing operational processes. This role requires strong organizational skills, attention to detail, and the ability to work collaboratively across departments to ensure smooth and efficient operations.ABOUT UNITED WAY OF WISCONSIN&nbsp;United Ways improves lives and strengthen communities by mobilizing partners to close gaps and open opportunities so everyone can thrive in Wisconsin. United Way connects partners, donors, volunteers, and community leaders to tackle the root causes of complex challenges while making a positive impact on the lives of Wisconsinites. Statewide our key initiatives are 211 Wisconsin, Volunteer Wisconsin, Workforce Development, and Techquity Wi. We also provide member support services to local and independent United Ways in Wisconsin, and 211 regional contact centers.&nbsp;CORE COMPETENCIESCandidates must be able to demonstrate strong analytical and problem-solving skills, exercise sound judgment, and dynamic teamwork. The person should excel at effective communication, sound technical skills, analytical ability, good judgment, and a strong operational focus. A commitment to adding value to the team with a goal of implementing United Ways strategic direction. The individual should have exceptional listening skills, demonstrate energy and initiative, and show integrity and compassion for all members of the team and community.&nbsp;ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILTIES:This role is essential in ensuring the organization’s operations run smoothly and efficiently, supporting the mission through effective contract management and operational coordination.Contract Management:<ul><li>Develop, draft, and review procurement contracts, ensuring alignment with the organization’s needs, compliance standards, and best practices.</li><li>Create, implement, and maintain a contract tracking and management system to oversee contract life cycles, renewals, modifications, and terminations.</li><li>Ensure all procurement contracts adhere to organizational policies, legal standards, and funder requirements.</li><li>Serve as a lead Contract Specialist for all types of contracts and MOUs.</li><li>Assist with contract submissions, including gathering information, progress tracking, signature processing, delivery, and serving as liaison with the executive office, finance, and other internal teams.</li><li>Coordinate the collection of data to maintain department dashboards for internal and external reporting (Key Performance Indicator reporting).</li><li>Coordinate interactions and manage relationships between partners, sub awardees, and contracted partners.</li></ul>Operations Coordination:<ul><li>Support the development and implementation of operational policies and procedures.</li><li>Assist in the planning and execution of organizational projects and initiatives.</li><li>Coordinate with various colleagues to ensure alignment and efficiency in operations.</li><li>Monitor and report on operational performance metrics, identifying areas for improvement.</li><li>Oversee the maintenance, continuity, and consistency of business processes related to operational services.</li><li>Identify service improvement opportunities to enhance operational efficiency.</li><li>Create and maintain documentation, procedures, standards, and policies related to operational services.</li></ul>Compliance and Reporting:<ul><li>Ensure compliance with local, state, and federal regulations related to contracts and operations.</li><li>Prepare and submit required reports to regulatory bodies and funding agencies.</li><li>Support the finance team in maintaining accurate records and documentation for audits and desk reviews.</li><li>Assist in the development and implementation of risk management strategies.</li><li>Ensure subrecipient monitoring procedures comply with federal and other applicable regulations.</li><li>Lead regular monitoring reviews to ensure sub awardee compliance with State of Wisconsin and OMB requirements for grant fiscal management.</li><li>Assist in interpreting and applying laws and regulations, executive orders, Office Management Budget (OMB) circulars, funder requirements, and state statutes as they relate to grant administration.&nbsp;</li><li>Ensure procurement activities align with legal standards, funding requirements, and organizational goals.</li></ul>Financial Management:<ul><li>Utilize financial accounting software systems to process expenditures, produce financial reports, reconcile expenses, and initiate corrections.</li><li>Assist in determining if grant budget modifications are needed to align with activities.</li><li>Support the accounting team in reviewing monthly and quarterly grant financials to ensure completeness and accuracy; initiate corrections as needed.&nbsp;</li><li>Work closely with program managers, finance, and other functions to establish vendor agreements that support the mission and objectives of the organization.</li><li>Build strong, long-term relationships with suppliers to ensure procurement activities contribute to the success and sustainability of the agency’s programs.</li></ul>Education and Experience<ul><li>Bachelor’s degree in business administration, management, or a related field; or appropriate combination of education and experience.</li><li>Minimum of three years of experience in contract management, operations, or a related role.</li><li>Experience in a non-profit or public sector environment is a plus.</li><li>Three years of grant project implementation and/or fiscal management experience.</li></ul>QUALIFICATIONSTo perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.<ul><li>Strong organizational and time management skills, with the ability to manage multiple tasks and projects simultaneously.</li><li>Excellent written and verbal communication skills.</li><li>Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite and contract management software.</li><li>Ability to work independently and as part of a team.</li><li>Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to think critically.</li><li>Knowledge of legal and regulatory requirements related to contracts and operations.</li><li>High level of integrity and professionalism.</li><li>Demonstrated project coordination skills, including knowledge of tools and processes for effective timeline monitoring, deliverables tracking, regular team communication, and continuous improvement strategies.</li><li>Demonstrated experience in handling and securing documents containing sensitive and confidential information.</li><li>Flexible – able to adapt to changes in client/internal needs quickly and work flexible hours to meet challenging and changing deadlines.</li><li>Customer service focus, curiosity, and analytical thinking.</li><li>Global/organizational perspective, problem-solving skills, ability to work in a fast-paced environment, high attention to detail, initiative, and commitment to excellence.</li><li>The ideal candidate is a quick learner, a strong performer, an individual with strong attention to detail, a desire for accuracy to support the organization’s contract’s function, and a team player passionate about their work and takes pride in attention to detail for successful outcomes.</li></ul>Physical and Mental Demands<ul><li>The physical and mental demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this class. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.</li><li>While performing the duties of this class, an employee is regularly required to stand, walk, and sit, talk or hear both in person and by telephone; use hands and fingers repetitively to handle or feel objects or controls and operate computers and other standard office equipment; reach with hands and arms.&nbsp; &nbsp;</li><li>Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, depth perception, color vision and the ability to adjust focus.</li><li>While performing the duties of this class, the employee is regularly required to use written and oral communication skills; read and interpret information; analyze and solve problems; observe and interpret people and situations; learn and apply new information or skills, work under intensive deadlines and interact with UWWi staff and members and others encountered in the course of work.</li></ul>

United Way of Wisconsin

Nonprofit Operations Coordinator

Department:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Community Impact&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Reports to:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Vice President, Contracts &amp; Quality Assurance &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Status:&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Exempt, Full TimeGeneral Description: Leads grant writing, program planning, data collection, program analysis and evaluation, and presentation of results related to United Way of Broward County’s (UWBC) Community Impact work.&nbsp; &nbsp;Primary Job Responsibilities &amp; Duties:&nbsp;<ol><li>Performs the programmatic grant acquisition process through grant identification, writing, and submission, workings with internal subject matter experts.</li><li>Designs, develops, and establishes the evaluative criteria or process for collecting the required program metrics, reporting requirements, and other quality grant outputs and outcomes, as well as compliance requirements for each awarded grant, utilizing prior program performance and identified best practices.&nbsp;</li><li>Determines Community Impact needs through analyzing various community assessments, establishes baseline data for shared objectives, summarizes the data, and contributes to the impact of community partnerships and strategies.</li><li>Works with both program staff and service providers to ensure appropriate data is being collected, measured, and communicated for accuracy of establishing baselines and gathering data, outcomes, and reporting results.&nbsp; &nbsp;</li><li>Supports program staff in using data for decision making by identifying data needs, producing data analyses, and incorporating staff input into ultimate visualization of program initiatives or pilots and strategic planning.&nbsp;</li><li>Conducts research on programs, initiatives, best, emerging, and evidence-based practices, tools for the output and outcome of programs, etc.&nbsp;</li><li>Assists with the facilitation of developing and implementing new program models to establish best/promising practices and evaluating them post implementation.</li><li>Prepares, launches, analyzes, and writes a report on findings of internal and external stakeholder surveys for organizational quality assurance and strategic planning.</li><li>Works with Compliance and Quality Assurance team to prepare from start to finish the procurement process of providers and programming, including the evaluation and notice of award of submitted proposals, in collaboration with Community Impact team members and external stakeholders.</li><li>Works with Compliance and Quality Assurance team to ensure United Way of Broward County maintains accreditation through Council on Accreditation (COA) and prepare for internal audits for programmatic and regulatory compliance.</li></ol>Other Job Duties:&nbsp;<ul><li>Collaborates with internal team members to write Request for Applications (RFA) and Request for Proposal (RFP) documents, drafting grant/application narratives, preparing budgets, and other required documents for submission to funders.&nbsp;</li><li>Develops and implements procedures to increase and maintain data integrity, monitoring program outcomes.</li><li>Ability to gather complex data and translate the key information into concise, simple and easily understandable charts, analyzing impact on community indicators.</li><li>Demonstrates success in using statistical modeling to analyze and interpret data, especially for analyzing outcome performance of funded programs.</li><li>Conducts background literature searches to identify best practices, benchmarks, outcome measures and model programs, providing recommendations to staff.&nbsp;</li><li>Conducts periodic internal and external trainings to instruct, assist, and report on program evaluation, research trends, and promising models and practices.</li><li>Provides training and technical assistance.</li><li>Responsible for ensuring internal adherence to model fidelity when United Way is involved in any type of evidence-based project.&nbsp;</li><li>Develops and utilizes logic models, SWOT Analysis, and other tools to further efforts through accreditation, initiatives, pilot projects, strategic planning, etc.</li><li>Facilitates COA activities i.e. reporting, drafting, and reviewing policies and procedures, staff training requirements, performance and quality improvement (PQI), etc., to enable quality assurance of COA standards and continued organizational accreditation.</li><li>Assists with all internal audits and monitoring's conducted by external auditors and funding sources to ensure regulatory and programmatic compliance.</li><li>Works with Contracts and Quality Assurance team to effectively coordinate and manage the Community Impact procurement process, including analysis of subject matter and synthesis of information, meeting management tools, notices, agendas, manuals, drafting of materials to be considered, minutes, fact sheets, statistics, etc.in collaboration with other internal team members and external stakeholders.</li><li>Performs other duties and assumes other responsibilities as assigned by supervisor.</li><li>Due to the leadership role United Way is called upon to play in the community, particularly during times of crisis, it is the expectation that all United Way staff will be fully engaged in the organization's crisis plan and response efforts.</li></ul>Supervises:&nbsp;N/AEducation &amp; Experience:&nbsp;<ul><li>Master’s Degree in Human Service related field. Doctoral degrees preferred.&nbsp;</li><li>Minimum of four years relevant experience in grant writing, planning, evaluation, and research, preferably in Human Service industry.&nbsp; Equivalent combination of education and experience is accepted. &nbsp;</li><li>Proficiency required in MS Word, Excel and other related computer programs.&nbsp;</li><li>Highly proficient and knowledgeable in the use of statistical analysis software and other data collection and analysis tools (for example: Qualtrics, Tableau)</li><li>Prior experience leading programmatic grant acquisition process is required.</li><li>Strong oral and written communication skills</li><li>Knowledgeable in research design as well as descriptive and inferential statistical analysis methods required.</li><li>Prior experience and certification in project management e.g. Lean Six Sigma, PMP, etc. preferred.</li></ul>Core Competency Requirements:<ul><li>Excels at customer service&nbsp;– Serves (treats) all customers (internal and external) with utmost respect and responsiveness in order to deepen relationships and advance UWBC’s mission.&nbsp;</li><li>Drives for results&nbsp;– Has a passion for innovation and risk-taking, meets and exceeds qualitative and quantitative goals in a thoughtful and time-driven manner.&nbsp;</li><li>Commits to the organization&nbsp;– Has the responsibility for aligning one’s own behavior, leadership and commitment with the needs, priorities, goals and culture of UWBC.&nbsp;</li><li>Embraces diversity and inclusion&nbsp;– Creates an atmosphere that respects and embraces engagement of all people, ideas and backgrounds and aligns with United Way’s values.&nbsp;</li><li>Seizes learning –&nbsp;Able and willing to learn new skills and knowledge and accept new challenges to further United Way’s mission.&nbsp;</li><li>Manages multiple projects and tasks&nbsp;– Effectively manages time and resources to respond to emerging needs while continuing to deliver on organizational goals, objectives and timelines, and seeks help when needed in juggling priorities.&nbsp;</li><li>Personifies teamwork&nbsp;– Demonstrates good collaboration and communication to be effective in any team setting.</li></ul>Environment &amp; Physical Demands:&nbsp;The environment is climate controlled (i.e., heated and air-conditioned).&nbsp; Lighting is adequate through overhead lighting as well as windows and blinds. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Physical demands include sitting and/or standing for extended periods of time, bending, lifting approximately 25 pounds, regular use of the telephone, copier, fax and computer.&nbsp; Demands also involve protracted concentration.&nbsp;Acknowledgement:&nbsp;I understand that the above information has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work required and does not list all of the duties of the position, and that I may be asked by my supervisor and/or management staff to perform other duties. I understand that United Way of Broward County has the right to revise this position description at any time based on business need. I also understand that this position description is not a contract for employment and that United Way if Broward County or I may terminate my employment at any time for any reason.

United Way of Broward County

Grants and Evaluation Director

<h2>Job Title:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Community Assistance Network (CAN) Advocate</h2><h2>Reporting to:&nbsp; Community Impact Coordinator</h2><h2>Department:&nbsp; Community Impact and Operations</h2><h2>Classification: Full-time and part-time available; Hourly wage</h2><h2>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Shifts available between the hours of 8:00 AM to 6:30 PM</h2><h2>Location: Yorktown, VA (THIS IS NOT A REMOTE POSITION)</h2><h3>Overall Purpose of this Role:</h3>The Community Assistance Network (CAN) Advocate functions to support United Ways’ collective impact work of providing advocacy and referral services. &nbsp;By connecting people to available resources for basic needs and ongoing assistance, the CAN Advocate is essential to helping people avoid and address poverty-related crises and create Pathways out of Poverty.<h3>Key Competencies</h3><ul><li>Models kindness with internal and external customers, upholding United Way’s commitment to equity and unity</li><li>Understands and consistently practices responsiveness and accountability to all customers</li><li>Communicates clearly and concisely with people from diverse backgrounds</li><li>Coordinates with multiple partners&nbsp;</li><li>Manages multiple case records including customer time as well as associated administrative duties and timelines</li><li>Adapts to changing needs and service delivery systems</li><li>Practices professional boundaries</li><li>Advocates on behalf of those in need</li><li>Able to problem solve creatively</li></ul><h3>Key Responsibilities</h3><ul><li>Actively listen with empathy to individuals experiencing vulnerability and crisis</li><li>Collect and utilize information to determine eligibility for various programs and services and identify perceived and unperceived needs</li><li>Work diligently and advocate on behalf of customers to connect those in need to available resources&nbsp;</li><li>Complete intake forms, referral forms, other needed documents, and referral processes for diverse partnerships</li><li>Enter data into appropriate customer record systems</li><li>Manage multiple phone lines; transferring calls</li></ul><h3>Requirements</h3><ul><li>Knowledge of and experience navigating human services and social systems</li><li>Basic knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite</li><li>Customer service experience</li><li>Preferred: lived experience of poverty on the Peninsula; skills in motivational interviewing</li></ul>To apply:Send your resume/inquiry to&nbsp;<a href="mailto:info@uwvp.org" target="_blank">info@uwvp.org</a>

United Way of the Virginia Peninsula (UWVP)

United Way of the Virginia Peninsula

Community Assistance Network (CAN) Advocate 

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