Program Manager I (Recycling)

Salary: $52,260 - $81,874

Position Grade: 15M

Department: Brightside St. Louis

Job Type: Full-Time (Permanent)

Examination Number: EX1389

Location: 4646 Shenandoah Ave. - St. Louis, MO

This is a managerial position planning and coordinating environmental outreach and education programs for the Brightside St. Louis. Duties include the planning and coordination of program operations and the supervision of subordinate staff.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities:

● Educates the public about recycling and other sustainability issues, encourages citizen and City department participation; plans and implements a coordinated outreach effort.

● Secures grant funds for recycling education; ensures grant proposals complement objectives of other city depts.; develops procedures to meet grant requirements; tracks/reports grant tasks and outcomes.

● Supervises subordinate personnel (Program Specialists, volunteers and contractors); assigns tasks; ensures compliance with objectives; oversees daily activities.

● Coordinates with government and nonprofit stakeholders to promote and implement existing programs; collaborates with City leaders to maximize awareness and implement City’s sustainability initiatives; seeks opportunities to improve recycling/sustainable practices in community and City venues.

● Designs/develops high-quality educational materials to achieve goals and objectives.

● Prepares and presents at meetings and events to encourage recycling, clean-up activities, litter awareness and native plantings.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

● Data Utilization: Requires the ability to perform basic level of data analysis including the ability to review, classify, categorize, prioritize and/or reference data, statutes and/or guidelines and/or group, rank, investigate and diagnose. Requires discretion in determining and referencing such to established standards to recognize interactive effects and relationships.

● Human Interaction: Requires the ability to provide paraprofessional level counseling in semi-specialized areas, such as social service referral and casework.

● Equipment, Machinery, Tools and Materials Use: Requires the ability to operate a variety of office equipment such as computer terminal, typewriter, telephone, fax machine, calculator/adding machine, computer printer and photocopier. Verbal Aptitude: Requires the ability to utilize a variety of advisory data and information such as detainee records, case notes, referral recommendations, incident reports, contact sheets, grievance forms, treatment plans, intake forms, directories, statutes, procedures, guidelines and non-routine correspondence.

● Mathematical Aptitude: Requires the ability to perform addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.

● Functional Reasoning: Requires the ability to apply principles of rational systems. Ability to interpret instructions furnished in written, oral, diagrammatic or schedule form. Ability to exercise independent judgment to adopt or modify methods and standards to meet variations in assigned objectives.

● Situational Reasoning: Requires the ability to exercise the judgment, decisiveness and creativity required in situations involving the evaluation of information against sensory, judgmental and/or subjective criteria, as opposed to criteria that are clearly measurable or verifiable.

● Environmental Factors: Work is normally performed in an office environment under generally safe and comfortable conditions where exposure to disease and irate individuals poses a very limited risk of injury.

● Physical Requirements: Requires the ability to lift files and office materials up to twenty pounds.

● Sensory Requirements: Requires the ability to recognize and identify similarities or differences between characteristics of shapes and sounds associated with job-related objects, materials and tasks to clearly distinguish objects and communicate with detainees and others.