POSITION:
LISC is seeking a Program Officer for its national IWB department focusing on asset-building initiatives, youth financial wellness, micro-entrepreneurship, credit building, and general technical assistance to LISC’s network of Financial Opportunity Centers® (FOCs) and Bridges to Career Opportunities (Bridges) partners. The FOC program seeks to help low-income households achieve greater financial stability through an integrated system of workforce development, financial services, and income support. Bridges, an initiative of the Financial Opportunity Center, is a career pathways program that integrates long-term coaching to promote individual economic opportunity. LISC’s network of FOC sites has a firm commitment to building evidence through data and outcomes. This position will be responsible for day-to-day technical assistance, grant management, and program implementation of LISC’s asset-building strategies.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
The primary duties of the position include:
- Center justice, diversity, equity, and inclusion in LISC’s asset-building strategies through the frame of LISC’s Project 10X
- Implement LISC’s asset-building/financial health efforts. This position will execute programmatic strategy and provide virtual and in-person technical assistance
- Manage asset-building grants including program implementation, reporting, compliance, outcome tracking, and grantee support
- Program management of LISC’s youth financial wellness work including scheduling regular meetings with partners, leading in-person events, and tracking initiative progress
- Support the implementation of LISC’s homeownership strategies
- Provide support to the local LISC offices. (Program Officers in LISC’s local offices are the primary contacts and TA providers to the community-based FOCs in their respective cities; LISC’s national IWB department provides TA to the local LISC offices and collaborates with the local LISC offices on TA to the FOCs.)
- Coordinate the training for FOC staff on financial coaching, credit building, and the FOC/Bridges model
- Interface with donors and key partners regularly
- As needed, manage consultants and vendors supporting LISC’s FOC/Bridges program
- Other duties as assigned
QUALIFICATIONS:
- Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university; however, relevant related work experience may be considered a proxy
- Minimum of 3 years of experience in asset-building and financial products programs for low-income populations
- Strong understanding of community-based organizations, intermediaries, and the broader asset-building field
- Strong program management skills including organization and prioritization of multiple projects
- Effective training skills and experience providing training to groups of 15-30 individuals. Coaching skills are a plus
- Ability to work effectively—in-person and virtually, via phone, e-mail, or webinar—with numerous field offices
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- Flexibility and willingness to learn, improve and iterate
- Experience working effectively in a team environment; comfort and willingness to interact with colleagues across departments and office locations, in either in-person or remote work settings
- Ability to travel nationally estimated at ~25% annually
COMPENSATION & BENEFITS:
LISC provides a competitive salary ($62,300- $77,900) commensurate with experience and location and excellent fringe benefits for this position.