Overview
Program Manager for Nonprofit and Civic Professionals Jobs in Silver Spring, Maryland, USA at Maryland Nonprofits
ICJS seeks a hopeful, creative, and courageous individual who is interested in religion and public life. ICJS believes that nonprofit and civic professionals are uniquely positioned to dismantle religious bias and bigotry and build a more just, interreligious society. At a time of polarization and partisanship, we need to cross divides between communities. We need people willing to engage and mobilize across religious difference, including with people who identify as non-religious.
Often when religion is invoked in public spaces, it ends the conversation – we seek someone who understands how to extend the conversation instead.
ICJS Vision:
An interreligious society in which dialogue replaces division, friendship overcomes fear, andeducationeradicates ignorance.
ICJS Mission:
To dismantle religious bias and bigotry, ICJS builds learning communities where religious difference becomes a powerful force for good.
POSITION SUMMARY:
The Program Manager for Nonprofit and Civic Professionals develops and manages educational programming that builds interreligious literacy, dialogue skills, and relationships among nonprofit and civic leaders from the Greater Baltimore region, to further the mission and vision of ICJS. The Program Manager recruits, develops, teaches, and facilitates a fellowship of civic and nonprofit leaders. The goal of the fellowship is to learn and dialogue together in order to dismantle religious bias and bigotry, gain understanding andrespectfor religious difference, and developappreciationand skills for how interreligious dialogue could play a role in building a just society.
The Program Manager develops relationships with civic and nonprofit leaders, sustains those relationships, and develops networks between them.
POSITION DETAILS:
The Program Manager develops and manages programming that builds interreligious literacy, dialogue skills, and relationships among nonprofit and civic leaders from the Greater Baltimore region, to further the mission and vision of the ICJS.
Fellowship Development, Planning, and Evaluation (50%):
The Fellowship for Nonprofit and Civic Professionals is an intensive program designed to explore the contested role of religion in public life through study and dialogue. The Program Manager recruits, develops, and manages the fellowship, recruiting an interreligious network of civic and nonprofit leaders who work together to learn and dialogue in order to gain understanding,appreciation, andrespectfor different religions and a newappreciationfor how interreligious dialogue and religious values play a role in building a just society.
Annually recruit adiversecohort for the fellowship.
Think strategically about how to promote the fellowship for both recruitment and educational purposes.
Design the fellowship curriculum, create monthly lesson plans, and facilitate the sessions.
Design and evaluate learning experiences for fellows incollaborationwith ICJS scholars and staff.
Identify, collect, and archive materials to support the learning of fellows.
Cultivate and maintain a network of institutions that can serve cohort members as place-based sites for learning about religiousdiversityin the Greater Baltimore region.
Establish and monitor an annual program budget.
Assess and evaluate program outcomes and impact.
Ensure ongoing programmatic excellence.
Relationship- and Community-building (20%):
The Program Manager develops relationshi…
Title: Program Manager for Nonprofit and Civic Professionals
Company: Maryland Nonprofits
Location: Silver Spring, Maryland, USA
Category: Non-Profit & Social Impact, Management
