JOB TITLE
Project Director
PROGRAM
PREIS
REPORTS TO
Senior Program Director
SALARY
$70,000 / Annual
LOCATION
Remote, Puerto Rico
JOB TYPE
Exempt
WORK SCHEDULE
Full -Time
General Description
Serves as PREIS Project Director and lead to implementation and delivery of the intervention across all project sites. The Program Director will oversee program implementation and assist the US Sr. Program Director and Executive Leadership in ensuring project compliance with all applicable federal, state, and local regulations. The Program Director manages the program’s fiscal system, human resources system, reporting, and monitoring. The Program Director oversees all aspects of program implementation to ensure the grant is carried out effectively and is implemented in line with the organization’s mission and values. Holds overall programmatic responsibility for training, curriculum certification, implementation of fidelity, corrective action, and continuous quality improvement. Leads work across all three PREIS phases while preserving the operational and analytic independence of the third-party evaluation team.
About You
A collaborative project leader who translates approved plans into coordinated implementation, holds teams and partners accountable, reviews implementation evidence, and advances approved improvements while respecting independent evaluation responsibilities.
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelors degree in public health administration, social services, or Business Administration
- Three (3) Years experience directing program implementation or managing complex projects.
- Ability to lead planning, training, curriculum certification, fidelity monitoring, corrective action, and continuous quality improvement.
- Ability to oversee partners, subcontractors, budgets, and participant protections across project sites.
- Strong organizational, communication, supervision, and decision-making skills.
- Ability to review operational, training, fidelity, and evaluation information while preserving independent evaluation boundaries.
Preferred Qualifications
- Masters Degree in public health administration, social services, or Business Administration.
- Three (3) Years Experience directing federally funded adolescent pregnancy prevention or family engagement programs.
- Experience managing planning, pilot, implementation, and closeout or dissemination phases.
- Experience coordinating multi-site implementation with an independent evaluation team.
- Bilingual (Spanish and English)
What You’ll Be Doing
- Serve as the lead for PREIS implementation and ensure the program is carried out consistently across all project sites.
- Guide the overall direction of the project and oversee implementation of the intervention in alignment with approved grant requirements, the implementation plan, organizational mission, and applicable federal, state, and local regulations.
- Manage key project systems, including training, curriculum certification, fidelity monitoring, corrective action, continuous quality improvement, reporting, budgeting, partner coordination, and participant protections.
- Lead planning and pilot activities, coordinate allowable adaptations, develop the full implementation plan, and ensure facilitators are trained, and fidelity systems are in place before full implementation begins.
- Oversee program delivery across Bayamón and Ponce.
- Monitor the performance of staff, partners, and subcontractors and ensure participant protections are followed.
- Lead improvement efforts when implementation issues are identified.
- Review operational, training, fidelity, and evaluation-related information from the Program Manager, Training and Curriculum Specialist, Lead Program Facilitator, Family Advocate, and independent Evaluation Lead.
- Coordinate approved program improvements based on implementation and evaluation-related information.
- Support final reporting, intervention packaging, dissemination, and sustainability planning.
- Maintain clear boundaries with the independent evaluation team and ensure program staff do not direct study assignment, evaluation analysis, participant responses, or evaluation findings.
- Provide leadership, oversight, accountability, and coordination to ensure PREIS is implemented with quality, fidelity, compliance, and integrity.
About Urban Strategies
Urban Strategies exists to equip, resource and connect faith- and community-based organizations so that all children and families can reach their full potential. Headquartered in Washington, D.C., our team serves in the U.S. mainland, Puerto Rico, and Central America.
COMPANY CULTURE
Our work is driven by our three core values:
- Authentic Relationships are foundational to our work and move beyond a transactional nature to truly know people. They serve as opportunities for mutual development and growth and are based on the belief that all people have inherent dignity and worth.
- Servant Leadership is rooted in an other-centric mindset that informs the way one leads and builds up individuals, families, and communities.
- Intentional Compassion describes a deliberate commitment to understand, formulate strategic responses, and activate others to reach their full potential.
BENEFITS
- Remote work for eligible positions.
- Medical and Dental is paid 95% by company and 5% by employee (individual or family).
- Vision is covered 100% (individual or family).
- 401K matched contributions up to 4%.
- Employee Assistance Program.
- Vacation time is generous but varies depending on program and position.
- 9 Sick Days and 11 Holidays.
- Every teammate gets long and short-term disability free.
- Positions that require laptops, the company provides one.
- Positions that require cellphone, company issues one.
PERKS
- Meaningful employee engagement programs.
- Education discounts (BA-PhD) with a variety of education partners.
OTHER
- Employment is conditional pending satisfactory results of all required tests and background checks.
Urban Strategies provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, disability, or other legally protected classifications under applicable federal, state and local legal protections.
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