Senior Program Manager - Communications

at TASC, Inc in Chicago, Illinois, United States

Job Description

Working at TASC: At TASC, we serve people who have cases in courts, corrections, and family service systems across Illinois — and we help people move beyond their involvement in these systems, rebuild their lives, and connect to positive supports in the community. When you work with TASC, you're part of a team committed to reducing people's involvement with the justice system, increasing health and recovery, and advancing racial and social justice. We also strive to reform systems through public policy work in Illinois and nationally, and through our consulting services across the globe.

Through TASC's Center for Health and Justice, we inform public policy; provide consulting, training, and technical assistance; and conduct research to advance knowledge and evidence-based practice.

Position Summary: This is a management position working in partnership with the Director of a federally funded national U.S. Department of Justice Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) Training and Technical Assistance (TTA) Center around issues relating to reentry, particularly with and on behalf of corrections and community-based entities. The communications & outreach director oversees the development and delivery of communications/public marketing, civic outreach, and community engagement consulting, strategies, and tools to advance the goals and missions of Center grantees – and supervises production and products (e.g., webinars, toolkits, training materials, policy briefs, etc.) in support of grantee efforts and the larger sector nationally. The position may be remote or based in Chicago.

We are seeking a full time Senior Program Manager, Communications & Outreach:

Starting at $65,000 – contingent upon experience, education, etc.

Training, Technical Assistance

• Delivers and supervises the delivery of communications and public outreach-oriented consulting, training, and technical assistance deliverables for grantees to expand their public outreach, broaden community partnerships across corrections and community stakeholders, and sustain grantee programs through leveraging exposure and access to new funding sources.
• Works directly with the Center director, partners, and TTA coaches to identify all grantees' communications and outreach-related needs and assign/distribute work appropriately.
• Oversees and supports all communications- and outreach-related TTA functions.
• Coordinates development, prioritization, production, dissemination, and promotion of products/thought leadership activities for grantees and the field.
• Works with Center director, partners, SMEs, and coaches to develop, produce, and deliver materials and thought leadership products to grantees and the field.
• Develops/implements communications/social media strategy to promote and leverage thought leadership/events across the field; supervises overarching external communications/outreach activities, including with/for partners, grantees, and BJA.
• Responsible for the overall direction, coordination, and evaluation of Center communications and marketing activities, including supervision of a Communications Program Manager.
• Assures completion of communications-related Center goals, reporting, and evaluation as per Center, TASC, and BJA standards.

Our Ideal candidate:

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