Virginia Management Fellows Program Manager

Job Description
The Virginia Tech (VT) Virginia Management Fellows (VMF) Program Manager is a restricted, full-time, calendar year, administrative and professional faculty position. The incumbent will report to the Virginia Tech Institute for Policy and Governance (VTIPG) Associate Director for Research and Organizational Innovation. The VT VMF Program Manager is a researcher, educator, practitioner, and mentor with a strong interest in improving leadership, management, and succession planning capabilities in Virginia state government.

The VT VMF Program Manager has primary responsibility for leadership, design, delivery, expansion, and evaluation of the Virginia Management Fellows (VMF) program, in partnership with the Department of Human Resource Management and other leaders in the Commonwealth. The VT VMF Program Manager leads development and refinement of the program's curriculum, coordinates state agency partnerships, assures delivery of excellent programming, collaborates on recruitment and onboarding of fellows, and conducts research to evaluate program operations and outcomes. The ideal candidate brings a collaborative approach to curriculum development, cohort training, program logistics, data analysis, and reporting and will be able to work with a broad spectrum of colleagues for the success of the VMF. The VT VMF Program Manager, over time, will explore, develop, and implement new research and educational programs and scholarly endeavors independently and in collaboration with internal and external stakeholder groups, particularly those connected to public administration and management.

The VTIPG faculty and staff seek a colleague who shares our vision of a learning community that is compassionate, dedicated, and creative. We seek a leader who can be both operational and strategic: a collaborator who rolls up their sleeves and gets the job done, but who also works toward a shared vision. We seek an imaginative educator who goes the extra mile in their commitments to discovery, integration, application, and teaching in support of our students and program participants. If you are curious, innovative, solutions-oriented, and appreciate collaborative decision making, then this position is right for you.

VTIPG is committed to increasing the diversity of our campus. We embrace diversity in multiple forms, including identity, background, theoretical and methodological orientations, and opinions. Candidates who have experience working with a diverse range of faculty, staff, and students, and who can contribute to the climate of inclusivity are encouraged to identify their experiences in these areas.

The position is located at VTIPG's Richmond Office in the greater Richmond, VA area and the incumbent will work alongside faculty, staff, students, and state agency partners.

For the right applicant, we are open to structuring the position as a part-time role.

Key responsibilities include:

Program Support
• Provides overall leadership for VT VMF program activities.
• Ensures effective development and delivery of all activities and programming for the Virginia Management Fellows Program.
• Collaborates with the Virginia Department of Human Resource Management to deliver on shared responsibilities under the Memorandum of Agreement.
• Maintains collegial and productive collaborations with Department of Human Resource Management (DHRM) partner staff for joint implementation of the VMF program, as well as agency leaders and community partners.
• Delivers, monitors and enhances the VMF educational curriculum.
• Maintains relationships with state agency partners to cultivate and implement experiential learning opportunities for fellows, including the development and support of agency partner mentors.
• Leads Virginia Tech's responsibilities to recruit and select candidates for the fellowship.
• Supervises the VMF Coordinator and oversees management of the VMF program calendar.
• Facilitates coaching, training, and professional development of Fellows throughout the program stages.
• Maintains regular and meaningful contact with fellows through individual and group meetings for mentoring and support.
• Promotes the VMF program publicly and with key stakeholder groups.
• Evaluates and revises current standard operating procedures as necessary, responds to program needs, and recommends administrative strategies or changes.
• Monitors the overall program aspects of assigned research projects from conceptualization to final execution.
• Designs and oversees any research efforts associated with the Virginia Management Fellows Program, as well as for any future related programming or projects in the areas of public administration and leadership.
• Oversees and implements the ongoing comprehensive program evaluation in collaboration with the Principal Investigator.

Training, Instruction, & Mentoring
• Oversees, facilitates, and enhances credit and non-credit curricular materials and offerings.
• Identifies and oversees instructors and provides direct instruction in non-credit curricular offerings.

Research
• Stays abreast of the latest relevant research as it applies to public administration, organizational development, and leadership in state government.
• Identifies discovery, integration, and application opportunities as they apply to the VMF program.
• Produces scholarly works based on external and internal program related research.

Required Qualifications
• Graduate degree in Public Administration, Public Policy, Economics, Education, or a related field in the humanities or social sciences or other advanced degree with substantial relevant experience.
• Demonstrated leadership experience in talent development and mentoring young professionals, especially in the public sector.
• Demonstrated experience managing project tasks and timelines with focus on shared goals and outcomes.
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively in diverse, multicultural, and poly-cultural team settings, with a strong commitment to building an inclusive and equitable work environment.
• Self-motivated, energetic individual who thrives in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial, and scholarly environment.
• Experience working in a partnership-oriented environment.
Preferred Qualifications
• Doctoral degree in Public Administration, Public Policy, Economics, Education, or a related field in the humanities or social sciences.
• Prior experience working in a university research environment.
• Prior experience working in Virginia state government.
• Demonstrated experience as a policy practitioner in state government.
• Demonstrated competencies in writing policy briefs, white papers, policy analysis, and research papers.
• Demonstrated skills in proof-reading and editing articles, reports, and presentations in an academic environment.
• A demonstrated track record of scholarly publication.

Appointment Type
Restricted
Salary Information
$82,000 - $92,000
Review Date
12/9/2024
Additional Information
The successful candidate will be required to have a criminal conviction check.
About Virginia Tech
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