Job Description

Job Summary
The program manager will lead an initiative called the Uncles/Nephews Training Project. This program will support young men ages 16-24 in learning from their Uncles/male mentors. They will learn cultural processing and harvesting foods, cultural knowledge and protocols and ways to maintain healthy mind, body and spirit. The Program Manager will execute independent judgement to plan and organize a diversified workload and to recommend changes in relation to program practices or procedures. The project will involve a significant amount of coordination and planning, under the direct supervision of the Indigenous Science & Higher Education Director.
Duties/Responsibilities
• Establish the project Leadership Team, ensure that the team meets monthly, and lead the team’s review of the project schedule to ensure the timely delivery of quality products and services.
• Coordinate the collaborative partnership with the Latseen Committee, Curriculum Specialist, and Instructor of Record to co-design the curricular resources and provide lecture-based instruction during the project.
• Coordinate the involvement of the Project Collaborators in developing and implementing college/career programming during the project.
• Ensure that 24 harvesting mentors are recruited, trained, and provide experiential instruction during the project and support them to provide that instruction for the young Native men participating in the project.
• Ensure that two cohorts of 30 young Native men, ages 16-24, are recruited, trained, and complete lecture- based and experiential instruction during the project.
• Support the Curriculum Specialist to co-design field experience curriculum to be delivered during the project in collaboration with the Instructor of Record and Latseen Committee.
• Ensure that the Academies and field experiences, serve two cohorts of 30 young Native men.
• Ensure that the two cohorts of young Native men served by the project complete their community-based instruction during the project and that they attend the Regional Wooch Yax̱ Event.
• Collaborate with partnering entities to ensure that the Wellness & Prevention objectives are met and serve the young men in their home communities.
• Coordinate, lead, and/or participate in other project related meetings.
• Assist and monitor the performance of all project collaborators and contractors.
• Participate in monthly review of the project budgets, and financial reporting with the Principal Investigator, Chief Operating Officer and Indigenous Science & Higher Education Director.
• Prepare all required grant reporting.
• Coordinate project evaluation and reporting, including tracking of activities, gathering and maintaining data for performance measures.
• Other duties as assigned
Required Skills
• Demonstrate strong supervisory skills
• Demonstrated high level of verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects and activities with attention to detail
• Strong organizational and planning skills in project management and program coordination
• Experience managing federal grants, grant reporting, and project evaluation
• Technical capacity and expertise in using charts, tables, graphs, spreadsheets, and databases
• Knowledge of Southeast Alaska Native culture and Southeast Alaska’s communities
Supervisory Responsibility
This position will have several direct reports.
Work Environment
This position’s duties are performed at the Walter Soboleff Building and schools within the Juneau School District and the project’s urban and rural communities. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets, and fax machines.
Physical Demands
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to verbally communicate. This position is very active and requires standing, walking, bending, kneeling, stooping, crouching, and climbing. The employee must frequently lift and/or move objects up to 20 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move objects up to 50 pounds.
About this Role
This is a full-time benefited position. SHI employees are expected to work during SHI’s regular business hours of 8:00am to 4:30pm Monday to Friday. Additionally, employees may work up to or over 45 hours per week or additional time as needed to meet workload demands or special events such as Celebration.
Required Education and Experience
• Bachelor of Arts or Science Degree in education or project-related field or similar related experiences.
• Knowledge, understanding, and experience in traditional harvesting practices, wildlife, homelands and environment, cultural values, protocols, practices and in oratory skills of Southeast Alaska Native tribes.
• Experience working with Native youth
• Experience sharing Indigenous knowledge specific to Southeast Alaska Native culture and Southeast Alaska’s communities, cultural practices and ceremonial life.
Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

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Who is Sealaska? Established in 1972, Sealaska is the Alaska Native regional corporation for Southeast Alaska. Our 23,000 shareholders are Tlingit, Haida and Tsimshian people with more than 10,000 years of ancestral ties to the oceans, forests and communities of Southeast Alaska. We serve the twin goals of economic prosperity and environmental protection. Sealaska Heritage Institute is an affiliate of Sealaska.

We are committed to providing the best possible climate for maximum development and goal achievement for all our employees. As a subsidiary of a Native-owned company, Sealaska Heritage Institute is proud to promote an inclusive and diverse workplace, with respect for the cultural traditions in the communities where we operate.

Sealaska Heritage Institute is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants are considered without regard to race, color, sex, gender, age, religion or religious creed, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, physical or mental disability, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. However, preference may be extended to an enrolled member of a federally-recognized Indian Tribe.*

*“Indian Tribe” means an Indian Tribe, band, nation, or other organized group or community, including any Alaska Native village or regional or village corporation as defined in or established pursuant to the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (85 Stat. 668; 43 U.S.C. 1601) which is recognized as eligible for the special programs and services provided by the United States to Indians because of their status as Indians.