Program Manager, USDA Advancing Markets for Producers (AMP)

TITLE: Program Manager, USDA Advancing Markets for Producers (AMP)

LOCATION: Remote, within the United States

DEPARTMENT: The Wallace Center

This role will be fully remote, however, preference will be given for applicants residing in: Arkansas, California, Colorado, Maryland, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Washington DC, Wisconsin.

Winrock International is a nonprofit organization that works with people in the United States and around the world to empower the disadvantaged, increase economic opportunity, and sustain natural resources. Winrock matches innovative approaches in agriculture, natural resources management, clean energy, and leadership development with the unique needs of its partners. By linking local individuals and communities with new ideas and technology, Winrock is increasing long-term productivity, equity, and responsible resource management to benefit the poor and disadvantaged of the world. The Wallace Center is a unit of Winrock International working to advance a more regenerative, equitable and resilient U.S. food system.

BACKGROUND:

The Wallace Center at Winrock International works to bring together diverse people and ideas to co-create solutions that build healthy farms, equitable economies, and resilient food systems. We envision a future where all communities have the power to nourish themselves and regenerate ecosystems through just food and agricultural systems.

DESCRIPTION:

The Wallace Center is recruiting a full-time Program Manager for its U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Advancing Markets for Producers project. The project supports the production and marketing of conservation-grown rice, primarily in Arkansas and Missouri, through providing voluntary incentives to U.S. growers to implement improved practices. Riceland Foods is a key partner.

Essential responsibilities will include:

Program Management

• Working in close cooperation with the Project Lead and other staff and Winrock support units (Awards Management, Procurement, Human Resources, Information and Communications Technology, and Finance) to provide management, administrative oversight, and leadership to achieve outcomes of the project. • Highly organized, detail-oriented, responsive, self-directed and able to connect individual projects and decisions to broader programmatic vision and ultimate impacts. • Tracking project activities and progress against targets and goals. Ensures accuracy, quality, and timeliness of mandatory deliverables and collaborates in production and approval of final deliverables. · • Demonstrating creativity, initiative and resourcefulness in problem solving and idea generation. • Significantly contributing to project management across the program, including updating, analyzing, and enhancing project management tools. · • Supporting the preparation of work plans, reports, working budgets, budget forecasts, implementing project planning and analyzing project successes to build on lessons learned.