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Program Director
Location
United States
Posted
2 days ago
Salary
$121.9K - $149.2K / year
Seniority
Lead
Job Description
Program Director
Code for America
• Own partnership escalation and/or strategic direction across a portfolio of approximately four to six projects, ensuring each project meets its commitments to government partners, funders, and clients, and outputs are high-quality and delivered on time and within budget. • Collaborate with the Partnerships team to ensure efficient scoping and smooth handoffs, including clear kickoff processes and well-defined responsibilities during project kickoffs and transitions. • Ensure programs staff apply consistent delivery management practices, focused on setting clear project timelines and goals, clarifying roles, and running appropriate meeting cadences, leveraging Code for America's standard best practices, tools, and processes. • Ensure ongoing project-level direction & strategy aligns with organizational strategy, ensuring your portfolio advances mission priorities and contributes to measurable client outcomes. • Work with programs team members, programs leadership, and discipline leads to ensure each project has a clear, realistic plan for success aligned with organizational goals, partner expectations, client outcomes, and/or philanthropic commitments, and that programs staff understand how to drive aligned progress. • Anticipate risks, staffing needs, and resource constraints across your portfolio; serve as the primary escalation point for APDs and programs staff, escalating to programs leadership when the decision has implications beyond your purview. • Support APDs in driving clear, frequent communication internally and with external stakeholders to maintain alignment on program progress, scope changes, risks, and emerging opportunities. • Partner with programs and resource management leadership to ensure project teams are staffed appropriately from a programs perspective; contribute to headcount recommendations and support recruitment and onboarding of new team members. • Ensure APDs serving as Project Sponsors surface staffing needs across delivery disciplines early and escalate when tradeoffs or reprioritization are required. Proactively flag when teams need resource adjustments to ensure strong delivery across multiple teams. • Directly manage Associate Program Directors (APDs) and, where applicable, other Program ICs within your portfolio; provide coaching, feedback, and development support that builds their effectiveness as program leaders. • Coach and develop people managers on the team, supporting them in managing their own direct reports effectively. • Lead goal setting, performance reviews, and regular check-ins to support team performance, professional growth, and team culture. • Model Code for America's values and ways of working across your team, setting expectations for how program staff use best practices and tools, engage with partners, clients, and each other, to ensure strong and efficient program delivery across your portfolio.
Job Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in program development, policy, or government service delivery, with demonstrated progression of responsibility; some experience working within or directly alongside government required.
- Familiarity with agile or iterative program delivery approaches, and experience collaborating with product and engineering teams.
- 3+ years of experience managing teams, including direct management of at least one people manager.
- Proven track record of owning complex, multi-stakeholder program delivery — from strategy through execution — in a government, civic tech, or social sector context.
- Deep familiarity with at least one of Code for America's program areas: Safety Net benefits access (including SNAP, Medicaid, or multi-benefit enrollment), Tax programs, or Criminal Justice; ability to credibly represent Code for America's approach with government partners in that area.
- Demonstrated ability to build and sustain trusted relationships with federal and state agency leadership, county partners, and community-based organizations across political and institutional differences.
- Strong understanding of government service delivery structures, including the social safety net, and the policy landscape shaping program implementation.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to present complex program and policy information clearly & concisely to government partners, funders, and internal leadership.
- Ability to manage multiple programs simultaneously, maintaining clarity and accountability across a portfolio with competing priorities.
- Willingness to travel 15–25% of the time to partner sites, government offices, and program locations.
- Curiosity about emerging AI tools and a commitment to using them responsibly and effectively.
- A deep commitment to Code for America's mission of making government services work well for the people who need them most
Benefits
- Leadership and teammates who share a strong work ethic and values, and who respect and care for one another
- A collaborative, cross-functional, hardworking, and joyful environment
- Laptop provided
- A one-time $700 payment for remote environment setup; $200 stipend (in first paycheck) and up to $500 reimbursement, in accordance with our equipment policy
- Cell phone and/or internet reimbursement of $50 per month
- $500 annual (per calendar year) stipend towards professional development; prorated at time of hire
- Up to $500 of professional development funds can be rolled over each year, up to a maximum of $1000
- Training / guidance for staff required to utilize AI as part of their role, plus opportunities for employees to gain AI-related skills to support job and career growth
- Employees receive a 100% employer match on the first 3% of contributions.
- Employees with 3+ years of service receive an additional 50% match on contributions between 3% and 5%, for a maximum employer contribution of 5%
- At least one no cost health insurance option for full-time employees for employee-only coverage
- A minimum of 80% of the cost of dependent coverage
- Code for America employees may work remotely across the US
- Code for America employees main residence must be within the US
- Full-time employees work 40 hours per week, Monday - Friday
- Collaborative working hours: we aim to hold all internal meetings between 10 AM - 3 PM PT. We expect all Code for America staff to be available during these set working hours
- Open personal time off (subject to manager approval), a minimum of 14 paid holidays, and an org-wide closure from Christmas Day through New Year's Day
- Paid sick time; up to 96 hours annually
- 17 weeks of paid parental and family leave
- 3 weeks of paid sabbatical after 5 years of service
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