Director of Strategic Initiatives – Operations

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🚗 Michigan – Remote

🚗 Michigan – Remote

💵 $90k - $105k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🧐 Strategy

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Michigan College Access Network

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2009

📚 Education

🤝 Non-profit

💰 Grant - Michigan College Access Network (MCAN) on 2022-07

Education • Non-profit

Michigan College Access Network is a statewide nonprofit organization that works to increase postsecondary access and attainment for Michigan residents, with a stated goal of raising degree or certificate attainment to 60% by 2030. MCAN focuses on equity for low-income students, students of color, and first-generation college-going students through programs and initiatives that include advising and coaching, community mobilization, high school and higher education innovation, adult student attainment efforts, advocacy and alignment, data resources (including an Impact Map), grants, and professional development and convenings (annual conference, Advocacy Day, etc. ). It partners with schools, colleges, community organizations, funders, and government entities (e. g. , Michigan Department of Corrections for prison education initiatives) to support policy, practice, and place-based initiatives.

📋 Description

• Lead implementation of MiCHEP’s four-year Ascendium-funded statewide initiative • Maintain an integrated workplan covering priorities, responsibilities, timelines, budgets, deliverables, and progress measures • Coordinate member institutions, the Michigan Department of Corrections, Michigan College Access Network, consultants, evaluators, government agencies, reentry and workforce organizations, and justice-impacted students • Monitor progress, identify obstacles, recommend solutions, and ensure commitments are completed on time • Integrate the Ascendium initiative with MiCHEP’s other grants and priorities • Prepare reports, briefings, agendas, decision documents, and project updates • Support the President in funder and major partner conversations, attend meetings, document decisions, and manage follow-through • Serve as primary day-to-day administrative liaison with MCAN, MiCHEP’s fiscal sponsor and employer of record • Manage contracts, consultants, and vendors, including scopes of work, approvals, deliverables, renewals, and records • Prepare and track invoices, payment requests, reimbursements, consultant payments, and other financial transactions • Reconcile records with MCAN reports and monitor grant budgets • Coordinate personnel matters with MCAN, including position approvals, recruitment, hiring documentation, onboarding, payroll, benefits, leave, and performance documentation • Establish systems for project management, document organization, decision tracking, meeting preparation, internal communication, and organizational follow-through • Plan and coordinate statewide convenings, mediated dialogues, working groups, site visits, and collaborative activities • Coordinate external evaluators and technical-assistance providers and connect activities to performance measures and organizational learning • Supervise additional MiCHEP staff as established and coordinate consultants and project teams • Ensure incarcerated and formerly incarcerated students meaningfully shape initiative priorities and activities • Report to the MiCHEP President

🎯 Requirements

• Equivalent combination of education, professional experience, and lived expertise will be considered • At least five years of progressively responsible experience in organizational operations, project leadership, grant implementation, nonprofit administration, or a related area • Experience managing complex initiatives involving multiple institutions or partner organizations • Experience with contracts, budgets, payments, vendors, personnel processes, grants, or fiscal-sponsor relationships • Strong judgment and ability to translate strategy into organized implementation • Excellent writing, communication, and relationship-management skills • Ability to anticipate needs, manage competing priorities, and advance work without continuous supervision • Experience handling confidential financial, contractual, personnel, or organizational information with discretion • Ability to navigate institutional complexity, disagreement, and competing interests constructively • Demonstrated commitment to educational access, equity, human dignity, and the success of justice-impacted learners • Ability to travel regularly within Michigan, including visits to correctional facilities • Experience in higher education, corrections, workforce development, reentry, collective-impact initiatives, or systems-change work is preferred but not required • Familiarity with Michigan’s higher-education or criminal-justice landscape would be valuable • Lived experience with incarceration or the criminal legal system is welcomed and valued • Résumé and cover letter required

🏖️ Benefits

• Benefits administered through MCAN • Payroll, benefits, and leave administration through MCAN • Primarily remote work arrangement