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Program Officer – Schools, Recreation and Active Living

Category:
Senior Staff
Foundation/Organization:
Pottstown Area Health & Wellness Foundation
Location:
Pottstown, PA
Date Posted:
July 1, 2010
Closing Date:
N/A
The Pottstown Area Health & Wellness Foundation is seeking a program officer to coordinate grants to the organization's school and recreational programs. The desired candidate will manage these and other related program priorities of the foundation, develop and maintain relationships with grantees, as well as lead or participate in selected programs with grantees, as appropriate.

Required competencies are:

  • the ability to collaborate effectively with public and private schools,
  • analytical approach and skills,
  • experience in team building, and
  • the ability to multi-task.
Preference will be given to candidates with professional experience in primary or secondary schools or as a schools program evaluator.
  

A background including the following is preferred, but not required:

  • familiarity with grantmaking and grantwriting;
  • experience or education related to the key interplays between nutrition, physical fitness, education, and preventative medicine; and
  • a master’s degree.


Competitive compensation, including benefits, is offered, based on experience.

 

Background:  The Pottstown Area Health & Wellness Foundation, located in Southeastern Pennsylvania, is a conversion health foundation created in 2003 with assets of approximately $75,000,000 and annual grantmaking of $2.3 million. The foundation's service population includes 150,000 residents living within a 10-mile radius of Pottstown. For the past six years, the foundation has funded programs to reduce obesity in children and families. It foster and promote active, healthy living through grants for nutrition and fitness programs based at public and private schools. The foundation also funds studies of current needs and future wellness strategies, including needs assessments measuring health outcomes, psychographics for social marketing, and a recently completed regional recreation study. For additional information visit: http://www.pottstownfoundation.org/ and www.missionhealthyliving.org.

 

Mail resume to Applications@PottstownFoundation.org and type “Program Officer – Schools, Recreation and Active Living” in the subject line. Cover letters may be addressed to Dave Kraybill, Executive Director. The foundation will accept resumes on a rolling basis, until the position is filled.


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