Laramie Program Director

Climb Wyoming•Laramie, WY

30d•$70,000•Onsite

About The Position

Climb Wyoming is offering an exciting opportunity for a highly enthusiastic networker and community trailblazer. The ideal candidate is deeply rooted in the Laramie community and knows how to build, leverage, and mobilize relationships to help local families find success. Not one to wait for things to happen, you are proactive, curious, creative, collaborative, and excited to help your community! Climb Wyoming’s mission is to help low-income single mothers discover self-sufficiency through career training and placement. To date, the program has helped thousands of families overcome poverty, the effects of which will be felt for generations to come. The basis of the Climb model is a job training and placement program, but there is more to permanent life change than getting a job. Essential elements of the Climb model also include skills that ensure participants maintain successful relationships on the job and far into the future. For more information, please visit our website: www.climbwyoming.org

Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree or 3+ years relevant experience
Some exposure to low-income population is a plus

Nice To Haves

Deeply rooted in the Laramie community
Enthusiastic networker and community trailblazer
Proactive, curious, creative, collaborative
Assertive and well-connected community leader
Confident, empathetic leader
Approachable and positive

Responsibilities

Build, leverage, and mobilize relationships within the Laramie community to help local families find success.
Connect employers with hard-working, valuable employees by understanding local workforce needs.
Provide empathetic leadership with reflective listening skills and the ability to effectively model accountability.
Act as a creative problem-solver, thinking and communicating strategically to drive decisions.
Meet program participants with curiosity and compassion.
Deepen Climb's presence in the community as an ambitious self-starter.