Job Title: Manager, Strategic Planning
Department: 988 Strategy
Reports to: Director, Strategic Planning
Location: Remote
Schedule: Monday – Friday; 9am – 5pm
Salary Grade: $66,400 - $111,900
Formerly the Mental Health Association of New York City (MHA-NYC), Vibrant Emotional Health’s groundbreaking solutions have delivered high-quality services and support, when, where and how people need it for over 50 years. Through our state-of-the-art technology-enabled services, community wellness programs, and advocacy and education work, we are building a society in which emotional wellness can be a reality for everyone.
Position Overview:
The Manager, Strategic Planning, is responsible for driving the successful implementation of impactful, cross-functional projects and initiatives of the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline. The Manager, Strategic Planning will be a key point of contact for all individuals in 988 when it comes to navigating and reporting on cross-functional projects, acting as a project manager for several 988 Lifeline projects at any given time. The project management role will involve providing consistent and detailed updates, risk elevation, and blocker management to high level Vibrant leaders to ensure the successful completion of organizational objectives. The Manager, Strategic Planning, will work in deep partnership with Vibrant teams across 988 and shared services verticals, external contractors and partners to ensure successful project delivery and adherence to organizational and federal objectives and requirements.
Duties/Responsibilities:
The Manager, Strategic Planning, is a key member of the Vibrant 988 Lifeline team. In this role, you will collaborate with leaders and stakeholders across the 988, Vibrant, and SAMHSA teams to drive operational success and excellence within the organization and grant requirements. You will collaborate and build relationships with team members at all levels to create structures and systems to support teams in successfully meeting their objectives. A strategic thinking and proactive problem solver, you will wear many hats potentially acting as a project manager, strategy consultant, and/or detail-oriented implementer depending on the situation's needs. You must be comfortable raising issues and suggesting solutions with leaders at all levels.
Required Skills/Abilities:
· Design and lead grant deliverable tracking and adoption efforts with teams across 988, Vibrant and SAMHSA to better address and elevate risks, blockers, and issues with Vibrant grant funded work in deep collaboration with Grants Management
· Organize and draft goals, objectives, and ideas generated with Vibrant teams, developing strategies to align those with Vibrant’s organizational structure and SAMHSA grant requirements
· Highlight grant deliverables at risk or off track and develop recommendations and solutions with Teams to minimize disruption to project timelines and outcomes
· Serve as a project manager for a number of complex, cross-functional projects each quarter, requiring deep collaboration with internal and external partners
· Review requests for project management and contribute to the building of feasibility studies and plans related to implementation
· Make recommendations to high level Vibrant leaders around project feasibility, timeline, capacity and constraints, adherence to grant deliverable goals and impact to the 988 Suicide & Crisis Line network
· Manage recurring cadence of meetings to report out team grant deliverable and project status to drive progress
· Develops presentations to update executive and senior leadership on project and grant deliverable status in collaboration with the Director, Strategic Planning, and the AVP of Strategy
· Collaborate deeply with other Vibrant teams to identify optimizations and efficiencies for SAMHSA grant development, reporting, and project management processes
· Collects, interprets, and reports on data related to 988 Lifeline projects and…