Arkansas Project Manager-Delta Region

Requisition Number	11-0003
Post Date	3/17/2011
Posting Title	Arkansas Project Manager-Delta Region
Job Level	Manager
City	Little Rock
State	AR
Description	This position will remain open until filled. Function: As part of Heifer USA’s priority program strategy, this position is responsible for providing leadership and strategic direction in the development and coordination of a large, integrated, and impactful statewide program to end hunger and poverty throughout the state of Arkansas and as part of the larger Delta Region. The project manager will provide leadership and vision in program conceptualization, design, planning, management, coordination, communication, evaluation, policy and learning. This position will work in teams and in partnership with community coalitions, serving as convener, collaborator and catalyst for the social and economic benefit of Heifer’s constituents. Responsibilities: Develop and direct a large-scale state-wide program through organizing, participatory planning, and ongoing support for the multi-year, multi-partner projects that will improve food access, quality and affordability and generate innovative, impactful economic development opportunities in depressed regions of the state. Analyze, build capacity of and work alongside intermediary organizations at community, state, regional and national levels, building support for coalitions of diverse, common-purpose organizations. Develop partnerships with and among organizations including civic groups, public and private sector stakeholders, schools and universities and public health departments to promote sustainable agriculture practices, the interests of small- and medium-scale producers and consumption of local, healthy food. Facilitate the expansion of markets for locally grown food by working with communities to identify and access new institutional markets, working with schools, hospitals, senior food programs and food banks. Support and develop community advocacy, cross-community and cross-organization collaboration and economic development efforts. Identify and promote best practices in community assessment, strategic planning and implementation, organizational and economic development, community-based financing and social investment strategies. Link community partners with potential funders at the local, regional and national levels to ensure sustainability of their work above and beyond Heifer’s support. Facilitate technical assistance training through needs assessment and alignment of appropriate resources from within the community, Heifer International divisional partners, Heifer’s Partnership Network and/or external technical consultants. Maintain a working knowledge of the latest data metrics, tools and methodologies for measuring, monitoring and reporting on progress toward goals and impacts. Work in collaboration with Heifer USA’s management team, community partners and Heifer International’s Marketing & Resource Development team to promote consistent messaging strategies, public information and awareness efforts. Maintain a working knowledge of Heifer International’s mission and philosophy and participate with Heifer staff and partners to continually shape the strategic direction of the region, national program and organizational focus. Work in collaboration with the country program managers, operations manager and country director to ensure operational transparency and accountability. Help to ensure proper support, monitoring and evaluation of Heifer regional programming and collecting and sharing lessons learned, both within the country program and across the Americas area program. Contribute to the content and strategic thinking of grant application materials in support of regional programming. Prepare and manage a large regional budget including submission of reports, as required by the Heifer USA office. Assist and ensure that project partners submit accurate, timely and complete project progress and financial reports as required. Submit monthly progress and planning reports to the Heifer USA Program Country Director. May perform other job related responsibilities as assigned. Minimum Requirements: Bachelor’s degree plus seven (7) years of experience. Ability to speak, read and write fluent English. Preferred Requirements: Master’s degree preferred. Ability to speak, read and write fluent Spanish preferred. Experience with organizational development and capacity building, including leadership development, training of trainers, networking, staff development and conflict resolution. Experience in grant writing, fundraising and proposal development. Experience in complex project management, developing and advancing work plans, aligning resources, interdependencies, timelines, budgets and deliverables to completion. Most Critical Proficiencies: Knowledge of farm and food issues, sustainable agriculture, poverty and/ or hunger in rural and urban environments. Knowledge of and experience in group dynamics, meeting facilitation and collaborative governance. Ability to consider complex multi-stakeholder perspectives. Experience in organizing and maintaining relationships and networks between multiple organizations. Knowledge of and experience in participatory community development. Self-starter and proven ability to work with remote teams. Proven ability to be a clear, effective, and timely communicator using various electronic communication technologies. Knowledge of and experience developing and managing a large complex budget and project portfolio, in keeping with annual operations. Knowledge and experience with issues of diversity and race with sensitivity to multiple cultures and belief systems. Computer skills in standard office productivity software (Microsoft Office Suite, Microsoft Project, multi-media presentations, etc.) and electronic communication technology. Excellent presentation, organizational and budgeting skills. Working knowledge of sustainable agriculture movement, practices, challenges and opportunities. Solid knowledge base of federal, state and local initiatives and policies that impact the farm and food sector, and support or hinder sustainable agriculture. Essential Job Functions and Physical Demands: Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to relate to diverse individuals diplomatically and tactfully. Ability to write clearly and effectively both for proposal/grant development and for reporting. Ability to prepare and present documents in a well-designed and attractive format with impeccable attention to detail. Ability to cooperate effectively with all staff, other field personnel, project partners and collaborating organizations. Ability and willingness to work flexible schedule with extensive travel. Willingness to live in the region worked. Physical ability to travel to and walk through project and program sites. Ability to engage in teamwork with spirit of cooperation; ability to adapt to change easily. Ability to work with sensitive information and to maintain confidentiality.
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Director of Philanthropy - Western Region

Posting Title	Director of Philanthropy - Western Region
Job Level	Director
Minimum Salary	$79,988.18
Maximum Salary	$85,986.81
City	Seal Beach
State	CA
Description	Function: In collaboration with the fundraising team, the Director works within a multi-state geographic territory in the Western Region of the United States as defined by Heifer. This position leads, directs and mentors the major gifts staff within the Western Region as well as manages an independent portfolio of major donors to ensure the development and implementation of the departmental strategic and operation plans. Responsibilities: In collaboration with Vice President of Philanthropy and other regional Directors of Philanthropy, create strategy and objectives for the Philanthropy Department and implement and monitor fundraising plans for the Western Region. Provide leadership, direction and mentoring to Western Region major gift officers to significantly grow revenue through major donors and to meet the revenue and expense targets of the Western Region. Oversee and direct prospect cultivation, solicitation, and stewardship efforts leveraging a moves management process. Manage a portfolio of major gift prospects and donors using short-term and long-term fundraising strategic plans; secure gifts through the systematic and effective cultivation, solicitation and stewardship of individuals, corporations and foundations. Liaise with appropriate internal teams for development and implementation of resources, materials and proposals for solicitation and fundraising events. Work closely with Vice President of Philanthropy, Executive Vice President of Marketing and Resource Development, other directors of Philanthropy, and Heifer Foundation staff to ensure effectiveness of all Major Gifts activities through development of systems and processes to support major gifts. Collaborate and manage Regional staff to ensure a seamless transition for donors and prospects into major gifts development and develop volunteer leadership councils to promote priority fundraising objectives. Effectively work with and support the President, Chief Executive Officer, Chief Operating Officer and other Heifer executives (Board, International Program Country Directors, etc.) to cultivate and solicit funds from Major Donors. Supervise and lead the development team within the Western Region as required. May perform other job-related responsibilities as assigned. Minimum Requirements: Bachelor’s degree plus 10 years’ job-related experience. Preferred Requirements: Proven track record in securing major and/or planned gifts from individuals, foundations, corporations. Experience primarily in non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that require majority of the organization’s budget on an annual basis. International experience and knowledge of global sustainable development and hunger organizations. Minimum of five (5) years in a supervisory capacity. Most Critical Proficiencies: Inherent curiosity about people is a must. Proven ability to lead, motivate, inspire and deliver revenues from major gifts. Proven supervisory skills with the ability to lead a team of diverse staff in remote locations. Sense of urgency to deliver the revenue goals while being collaborative and a team player within the Marketing & Resource Development Division and Heifer. Knowledge of the principles and practices of fiscal management. Knowledge of and adherence to Association of Fundraising Professionals ethical standards of practice. Strong general management, strategic planning, organizational, implementation and administrative skills. Familiarity with the fundraising history and practices of individuals, corporations and foundations. Strong communication skills both written and verbal at all levels of the organization. Strong analytical and process integration skills including data analysis and Excel. Essential Job Functions and Physical Demands: Constant sitting and working at a computer for extended periods of time. Willingness and ability to travel frequently. Ability to prepare and present documents and reports in a well-designed, attractive format with impeccable attention to detail. Willing and able to give directions, plan and observe the work of others. Ability to manage and motivate team members and lead cross-functional teams in meeting deadlines and achieving goals. Ability to combine effective team leadership with the ability to train and work cooperatively with a diverse staff, fostering and maintaining a spirit of unity, teamwork and cooperation among all personnel and volunteers within Heifer International. Constant telephone, face-to-face and electronic communication with colleagues and the general public. Ability to manage and execute multiple tasks, work independently and meet deadlines. Proven interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to relate to individuals and groups diplomatically and tactfully. Ability to work with sensitive information and to maintain confidentiality.
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Senior Web Developer

Requisition Number	11-0004
Post Date	3/17/2011
Posting Title	Senior Web Developer
Job Level	Senior Specialist
City	Little Rock
State	AR
Description	This position will remain open until filled. Function: This position is responsible leading the Web Development team and perform the analysis, design, development, implementation, maintenance, testing, and support of software applications systems. Makes recommendations of workable solutions to processing problems. All deliverables should be timely and cost effective. Assignments include analysis, data gathering, program logic development, coding, testing, documentation and various other tasks as requested by the IT or Internet Marketing Team. The Senior Web Developer is expected to conduct detailed analysis of defined system specifications. Responsibilities: In collaboration with the Web Development team and the Internet Marketing team, create strategy and objectives for the web development team and implement and monitor development plans for the entire organization. Provide leadership, direction and mentoring to other members of the Web Development team. Oversee and direct the project management of development requests from the organization. Liaise with appropriate internal teams for development and implementation of resources, materials and proposals for solicitation and fundraising events. Supervise and lead the Web Development team. Assist in the development of service level benchmarks and track service requests accordingly. Report routinely on performance against these benchmarks. Participate on, or lead teams, as appropriate, to address specific business requirements or to improve the overall efficiency of Heifer initiatives, business processes and work environments. May perform other job-related responsibilities as assigned. Minimum Requirements: Bachelor’s degree plus five (5) years of related experience. Preferred Requirements: Experience building web applications that can scale as well as cross-browser web interfaces. Experience with CSS3, HTML5, PHP, JavaScript, .NET, and Ajax. Facebook Application development experience. Experience working with multiple API’s to reorganize disparate data sources. Experience working with object oriented code and experience working with mobile development frameworks such as JQ Touch, Sencha, etc. Most Critical Proficiencies: Excellent oral and written communication skills. Knowledge of Information Technology techniques and quality assurance methodologies. Broad familiarity with and understanding of Heifer’s major functional areas and knowledge of data needs of the organization. Knowledge of the fundamental of supervising, leadership, team concepts, and human relations. Demonstrated knowledge of building web applications that can handle a large level of financial transactions. Familiar with model, view, controller framework. Must write maintainable code with extensive test coverage in a professional software engineering environment with source control, a development/staging/production release cycle and continuous integration and deployment processes. Essential Job Functions and Physical Demands: Ability to meet and deal with all levels of Heifer staff, volunteers, and outside organizations. Ability to assign and review the work of direct reports. Willingness and ability to motivate and engage staff. Constant face-to-face, telephone and electronic communication with colleagues and the general public. Ability to conceptualize, logically identify and reason through issues/problems, make effective decisions and develop alternative solutions. Ability to manage multiple tasks individually while under a full workload and tight deadlines. Ability to prepare and present documents and reports in a well-designed and attractive format with impeccable attention to detail. Ability to present technical information in user-friendly language.
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Cost Business Analyst

The Cost Business Analyst will assist Headquarters Program staff and Country Office staff, based in Tier One countries in Africa, Asia/South Pacific, Latin America and the Caribbean, and Central and Eastern Europe, in their efforts to design project proposals for funding from diverse institutional sources, such as bilateral, multilateral, mega-foundations and host government donors. This position will coordinate with the Area Vice Presidents, Directors of Programs, Regional Directors, Senior Director of PM&E, Country Directors of Tier One countries, Directors of Finance and Administration, and Project Managers. The Cost Business Analyst will work closely and in coordination with team members of the Business Development Unit, based at Heifer International’s HQ in Little Rock, AR, and the Washington, DC office.

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