Senior Program Manager, Wharton Opportunity Lab

Senior Program Manager, Wharton Opportunity Lab

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Job Description Summary

The Senior Program Manager is a full-time role within the Wharton Impact, Value, and Sustainable Business Initiative ("Wharton Impact"), with a primary focus on Opportunity Lab. The Senior Program Manager is responsible for Opportunity Lab programs, including program management, student management, liaising with program partners; working with Opportunity Lab Faculty Lead Damon Phillips on planning and strategy for the Lab. Beyond Opportunity Lab specifically, the Senior Program Manager will support other programs across Wharton Impact, as time allows, and collaborate with other colleagues within Wharton Impact, across the school and university, and the Philadelphia community. This individual will report to Wharton Impact's Director of Student Programs, with a dotted line reporting to the Opportunity Lab Faculty Lead, Damon Phillips.

This includes the current programs that are a part of Opportunity Lab :

• The primary focus of the Senior Program Manager's role is leading the program management of Wharton WORKS. This includes support of in-prison teaching, teaching for returning citizens, workforce and entrepreneurship mentoring, development of assistance for formerly incarcerated entrepreneurs, education of employers, and the overall satisfaction of each WORKS stakeholder (as measured by participants' evaluations, employment, and recidivism rates, and the success of businesses and non-profits started by formerly incarcerated entrepreneurs). The Senior Program Manager will work closely with Civic House, a key partner in this work at the University, as well as Resilience Education, and the PA Department of Corrections and related organizations like Ardella's House. The Senior Program Manager will need to be an experienced and confident leader of this program, including onsite management of students at correctional facilities, who can manage dynamic situations to keep programming on track.
• Support Wharton's role as curriculum partner for the Champions for Financial Legacy program : supporting training events for participating schools, executing program survey and analysis of survey results.
• Supporting other programs with economic opportunity elements across Wharton Impact's programs; for example, supporting relevant project work in the Wharton Impact and Sustainability Consulting program, or the Penn Medicine- Wharton Fund for Health and Wharton Impact Venture Associates program, as time allows.

Additional Duties and Responsibilities :

Required Qualifications :

Preferred Qualifications :

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Wharton School

$66,000.00 - $85,000.00 Annual Rate

Salary offers are made based on the candidate's qualifications, experience, skills, and education as they directly relate to the requirements of the position, and in alignment with salary ranges based on external market data for the job's level. Internal organization and peer data at Penn are also considered.

Equal Opportunity Statement

The University of Pennsylvania is an equal opportunity employer. Candidates are considered for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, religion, creed, national origin (including shared ancestry or ethnic characteristics), citizenship status, age, disability, veteran status or any class protected under applicable federal, state or local law.

Special Requirements Background checks may be required after a conditional job offer is made. Consideration of the background check will be tailored to the requirements of the job.

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