Partners for Rural Impact

• Support pre-award grant activities, including proposal coordination, and submission support, while ensuring effective award transition and partnership with the Director of Post-Award for ongoing grant administration and compliance. • Manage grant-related systems and infrastructure, including technical Salesforce assistance, document libraries, and external grant portals, to implement funding opportunities. • Maintain organizational registrations and submission systems to ensure eligibility for public and private funding opportunities. • Support the technical development and submission of federal and private grant proposals in collaboration with Funding Infrastructure, CEO, program and finance teams. • Develop compliant proposal budgets, conduct strategic financial analysis across the grant portfolio, and support post-award financial management, including indirect cost calculations and subrecipient monitoring. • Serve as a primary liaison with Finance and the Controller on audits, providing direct support for year-end close activities, Schedule of Expenditures of Federal Awards (SEFA) preparation, and the Single Audit, ensuring adherence to financial and regulatory requirements. • Provide grant-related guidance and technical assistance to program, accounting, purchasing, and operations teams, including documentation, reporting, and compliance support. • Design and deliver trainings to ensure staff understand and apply PRI processes and procedures consistently. • Provide direct supervision and performance oversight of staff setting clear expectations and holding teams accountable for results. • Lead continuous improvement and process optimization efforts across grant and finance operations, developing and refining tools, workflows, internal controls, and documentation to strengthen efficiency, accountability, and compliance. • Identify and mitigate operational, financial, and compliance risks across assigned grants and projects. • Lead and support cross-functional projects and initiatives related to grant services, financial operations, and process improvement, ensuring alignment with organizational priorities and measurable outcomes.

• Provide direct supervision and performance oversight of Project Directors and implementation staff, setting clear expectations and holding teams accountable for results. • Maintain expert knowledge of programs and grants within the federal program portfolio to provide strategic leadership, monitor budgets, and assess goals, objectives, and outcomes. • Assume leadership of high-priority or time-sensitive initiatives, stabilizing implementation and restoring momentum when projects require focused intervention. • Launch, implement, measure, and assess all projects to ensure compliance and progress toward milestones. • Collaborate across teams to oversee project implementation, ensuring performance measures are met while providing coaching and capacity-building support as needed. • Develop and implement risk management protocols across assigned projects, proactively identifying challenges and recommending solutions to mitigate operational, financial, or compliance risks. • Develop and maintain reporting systems and accountability dashboards to monitor performance, progress. • Cultivate relationships with project partners, funders, and stakeholders to advance project outcomes. • Provide ongoing, targeted technical assistance across the federal program portfolio to ensure compliance with federal spending, district reimbursements, document storage, and reporting. • Develop and edit contractual documents to improve project implementation and identify areas for continuous improvement. • Collaborate across teams to translate strategic priorities into actionable initiatives. • Prepare regular progress reports. • Plan and coordinate the development, implementation, and execution of sub-programs, special projects, and initiatives across federal programs, ensuring alignment with organizational priorities and shared outcomes. • Develop and manage program infrastructure, including forms, data collection tools, templates, protocols, and documentation to support organizational workflows and reporting requirements. • Assist in the launch of new programs, preserve existing programs, and closeout of ending grants. • Serve in interim leadership capacities to maintain continuity, compliance and performance. • Represent PRI, upholding organizational credibility while building and maintaining strategic relationships with partners, funders, and stakeholders.

• Serve as a point of contact for initial and escalated tech support requests via email, phone, chat, or in person for hardware, software, or network issues. • Perform remote and in-person troubleshooting and determine the best solution based on the issue and details provided. • Identify, research, and resolve basic and advanced technical problems for end users. • Provide technical assistance through information sharing and hands-on problem-solving support. • Coordinate with school, district, and partner organization technology staff to troubleshoot and resolve issues when needed. • Install network equipment such as network cables, wireless access points, switches, and routers in PRI offices. • Perform network troubleshooting in PRI offices to determine and resolve internet and network-related problems. • Configure printers and multifunction devices for printing, scanning, and network connection. • Use scripting tools such as PowerShell to automate and streamline operations. • Direct unresolved issues to the next level of support personnel. • Conduct new staff technology onboarding sessions. • Provide technology training to end users. • Monitor and manage the PRI information systems and network infrastructure to support the company’s computing, data processing, and communications needs. • Assist with training workshops for staff members on new technologies and organizational technology policies and procedures. • Prepare and maintain documentation for performed tasks, procedures, and IT-related policies. • Create documentation for troubleshooting and resolution steps for IT issues, technical documentation, manuals, and IT policies. • Manage backup and restoration of files in cloud-based systems.

• Manage the Executive Vice President’s calendar, scheduling, meeting logistics, and travel arrangements. • Support email management, document organization, and internal communications workflows as needed. • Coordinate and track priority projects and initiatives, ensuring timelines, deliverables, and responsibilities are clearly defined. • Support coordination across teams and functions, helping align people, processes, and information. • Maintain shared project documentation, templates, and systems to improve organizational efficiency. • Draft first versions of internal and external communications, including talking points, presentations, briefing memos, and basic reports. • Assist with basic social media coordination or content preparation, in collaboration with communications staff. • Support the organization and maintenance of digital files, resources, and knowledge assets. • Assist with coordinating team schedules, meetings, and internal communications using online technologies. • Support team collaboration by helping convene meetings, document decisions, and ensure follow-through. • Uphold professionalism, confidentiality, and strong interpersonal relationships with staff and partners. • Perform other related duties as necessary to support the EVP and their division.

• Develop and lead a mission-aligned, cross-functional insights and analytics strategy that advances PRI’s cradle-to-career and place-based priorities. • Ensure data, evaluation, and collaborative improvement approaches are integrated with PRI strategy, communications, and direct service work. • Translate quantitative and qualitative information into accessible insights that explain context, root causes, and rationale for action. • Guide organizational learning processes that help PRI staff, partners, and stakeholders reflect on progress, adapt strategies, and strengthen impact. • Shape how PRI tells the story of rural communities, grounded in evidence, local experience, and an assets-based narrative. • Support development of shared metrics with local, regional, and/or statewide PBPs to track outcomes and system change. • Monitor effectiveness of rural strategies, using insights to inform course corrections and continuous improvement. • Oversee evaluation plans for PRI initiatives and funder-supported projects, ensuring rigor and practical relevance. • Strengthen infrastructure and systems that promote transparency, accountability, and responsible data use. • Support and mentor leaders within rural communities to strengthen local data capacity. • Manage a team of staff and consultants with expertise in analytics, improvement science, and evaluation, aligning their work to organizational priorities. • Effectively build and maintain internal relationships with PRI teams to successfully marshal PRI resources and expertise as needed to advance local, regional, and statewide strategies. • Oversee the design and application of analytic methods, dashboards, and improvement cycles that support partners and internal teams. • Collaborate with PRI leadership to document and elevate rural place-based learnings and promising practices. • Serve as a strategic advisor to PRI Leadership on trends, opportunities, and emerging issues. • Represent PRI as a speaker, facilitator, and thought partner at local, regional, statewide, and national convenings. • Partner with communications staff to craft narratives, reports, and tools that make insights actionable for diverse audiences. • Strengthen state and national partnerships that expand access to data, research, and innovative practices benefiting rural communities. • Ensure the insights and analytics strategy drives meaningful impact across multiple levels, including PRI teams, place-based partnerships, and local, regional, and national stakeholders. • Support PRI, local, regional, and partners as they identify and secure funding opportunities (public and private) to support rural initiatives. • Ensure high-quality funder communications that clearly articulate progress, insights, and impact. • Build strong relationships with funders and field partners, positioning PRI as a trusted collaborator and ensuring that PRI initiatives are impactful, sustainable, and well-aligned with PRI’s broader strategic priorities. • Ensure integration and alignment with core functions through ongoing collaboration with cross-functional leadership to embed data and analytics into the work. • Ensure high-quality communications that clearly articulate progress, insights, and impact.

• Talent Acquisition: Build relationships with various internal stakeholders and subject matter experts to assess talent acquisition needs and provide solutions. • Ensure consistent application of PRI’s Talent Acquisition Processes and Procedures. • Support a positive talent acquisition experience for candidates, hiring managers, and hiring committees. • Conduct phone screens with candidates. • Participate in recruitment activities and make recommendations to hiring manager. • Develop and carry out hiring plans in collaboration with hiring managers. • Post roles on recruitment platforms and source potential candidates online. • Coordinate reference check process. • Provide input on talent acquisition system optimization and process improvement. • Learning & Development: Assess training needs and provide solutions, assist with employee training programs, and provide administrative support for Learning Management System. • Onboarding: Support employee onboarding process with tools and surveys. Assist in continuous improvement of staff onboarding and professional development. • Responsible for maintaining confidentiality and accurate storage of HR-related documents.

• Develop and monitor project timelines, due dates and milestones for events, including drafting contracts, initiating purchase requests, and creating registration sites; provide regular progress reports to teams to ensure work is compliant and progressing as expected. • Perform general clerical/administrative support, including correspondence, order office supplies, travel arrangements and arranging for the pickup, sorting and delivery of mail. • Manage communications/correspondence with internal and external partners via telephone, e-mail, and mail. • Coordination and administration of strategy applications and database services. • Coordinate meeting logistics for training programs and special events; initiate bids and quotes for meeting space, meals, audio/visual equipment and program materials, and booking travel for participants and staff. • Manage synchronous and asynchronous technology needs for virtual and in-person learning engagements, providing technical assistance to participants and drafting training materials for each learning engagement. • Supports grant development activities to include researching proposed grant programs, creating files for potential grant applications, reviewing and editing grant narratives, and collaborating with grant services staff to obtain required submission documents. • Develop community and organizational profiles for partners, including both qualitative and quantitative data. • Oversee and maintain weekly schedules of staff on Outlook and coordinates with partners to determine engagement dates and times. • Meeting preparation and onsite meeting support activities: refreshments, agenda dissemination, provide prior meeting summaries and post-meeting summaries electronically to participants. • Manage project budgets, ensuring all expenditures are allowable and within scope of work; and contributes to budget projections. • Review purchase card reports, district reimbursement requests and travel requests prior approval; collaborate with Finance department to ensure expenses are allowable, reasonable and necessary to meet program goals & objectives. • Prepare and track necessary contracts and agreements. • Serve on Partners for Rural Impact committees, as needed.