Program Manager, Executive and Staff Education

NRECA is a unique national trade association providing advocacy, financial services and business support to over 900 consumer owned electric cooperatives across the country. NRECA employees are united by our mission, inclusive culture, collaborative workplace and commitment to service excellence. As a "best place to work" employer, we operate with integrity, transparency and a spirit of innovation.

Summary of Position:

NRECA's Education, Training & Events team designs, delivers, and facilitates high-impact learning experiences and events-both online and in person--that empower cooperative leaders and staff to guide their organizations and communities into the future. The portfolio includes certification programs, a robust education curriculum of 100+ courses, leadership development programs, a trade show, thought leadership events and multi-day conferences.

This position manages course and program content and provides multi-level, cross-functional and integrated support to facilitate the successful development, design and delivery of several NRECA Education, Training & Events (ET&E) programs for electric cooperative staff from across the country. The operating location is the NRECA-Madison, Wisconsin satellite office.

Key Responsibilities

• Serves as the day-to-day program manager for assigned programs, including collaborating with colleagues on the instructional design, development, and delivery of program content.
• Collaborates with relevant departments to ensure the promotion, identification of potential sponsorship and delivery of effective educational experiences.
• Assists with development, tracking and adherence to annual course/program budgets. Monitors the revenue and expenses month-over-month to ascertain concordance to approved budget. Reviews and accepts required agreements, tax, and banking information and invoices from external vendors and processes accordingly.
• Demonstrates experience in data-driven cross-team discussions to continuously improve the member experience.
• Researches and identifies speakers, instructors, subject matter experts to deliver high impact training and education. Contributes to needs assessment process to determine applicable content.

Required Qualifications and Skills

• Bachelor's degree education, business, accounting, communications, or industry related degree.
• 5 or more years of business experience (or equivalent), preferably in an adult learning environment.
• Experience in educational program management, including budgets, course/curriculum design, instructor research and acquisition, marketing/communication, registration, classroom logistics, and audio-visual technology.
• Experience in adult education delivery including facilitating an audience, instructor and participant management.

Preferred Qualifications

• Applicable Masters degree or certifications supporting program management role are a plus.
• Experience with online course facilitation through various platforms including Zoom, WebEx, or other online tools.

• Subject focus in the electric cooperative or utility environment is a plus. Experience using learning technologies is important (both online and in person) as well as learning management systems.

Essential Physical Requirements:

• The worker is required to have close visual acuity to perform an activity such as: preparing and analyzing data and figures; transcribing; viewing a computer terminal and extensive reading.
• Exerting up to 20 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 10 pounds of force frequently, and/or a negligible amount of force constantly to move objects. If the use of arm and/or leg controls requires exertion of forces greater than that for sedentary work and the worker sits most of the time, the job is rated for light work.

Disclaimer Statement: The preceding job description has been written to reflect management's assignment of essential functions. It does not prescribe or restrict the tasks that may be assigned.

Additional Requirement:

The preceding job description has been written to reflect management's assignment of essential functions. It does not prescribe or restrict the tasks that may be assigned. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, disability, veteran status, or other legally protected status.

NRECA is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to individuals with physical and mental disabilities. If you need special assistance or an accommodation while seeking employment, please e-mail humanresources@nreca.coop or call: 703-907-5992 - NRECA Arlington Human Resources. Please call 402-483-9275 - NRECA Lincoln Human Resources, for Lincoln, NE employment opportunities. We will make a determination on your request for reasonable accommodation on a case-by-case basis.

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