Program Manager

Medici Road•Atlanta, GA

23d•$70,000 - $95,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Medici Road is a nonprofit consulting practice that partners with community development organizations, foundations, municipalities, and mission-driven businesses to reduce poverty and uproot systemic racial inequities. We work at the intersection of housing, education, economic development, and public health — helping clients move from strategy to implementation using community co-creation, data, and human-centered design. Racial equity isn't a separate workstream at Medici Road; it's embedded in how we scope engagements, facilitate with communities, structure partnerships, and measure success. Our team moves fluidly across sectors and client types, which means our Program Managers build broad, transferable expertise rather than project-specific knowledge. The Program Manager is the backbone of engagement delivery at Medici Road. This is a role-based position: rather than being hired to run one named initiative, you'll be staffed across a rotating portfolio of 2–3 concurrent client engagements at any given time, drawing on a consistent set of project management, facilitation, and human-centered design skills. You'll be the person who keeps engagements on scope, on budget, and on timeline while making sure the process itself reflects our values — centering the people closest to the problem, building trust with stakeholders, and translating community and client input into clear, actionable plans. You'll partner closely with Medici Road's leadership, subject-matter leads, and external partners, and you'll often be the most consistent point of contact a client has throughout an engagement.

Requirements

3+ years of experience as a project or program manager, ideally including at least one role managing multiple concurrent projects or workstreams
Demonstrated ability to independently manage the full lifecycle of a project — scoping, work planning, budgeting, execution, reporting, and closeout
Comfort managing 2–3 active engagements simultaneously, each with its own timeline, stakeholders, and deliverables
Experience facilitating meetings or workshops with diverse stakeholders, ideally including residents or community members in underserved communities
Familiarity with, or strong interest in, human-centered design methods (discovery, ideation, prototyping, co-design)
A genuine commitment to racial equity and a willingness to bring an equity lens to planning, facilitation, and decision-making — not just program content
Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to translate complex or technical information for varied audiences
Proficiency with project management tools (e.g., ClickUp, Asana, MS Project or similar) and standard office/collaboration software
Comfort working independently in an evolving, client-facing consulting environment
Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
Ability to travel up to 5% of the time for client meetings, site visits, and community engagement activities.
Ability to lift up to 10 pounds and to sit or work at a computer for extended periods.
Ability to speak clearly and understandably, and to operate effectively under deadline pressure.

Nice To Haves

Experience in nonprofit consulting, philanthropy, or professional services
Grant writing or federal/foundation compliance experience
Experience with Results-Based Accountability or similar evaluation frameworks
PMP or other formal project management certification
Graduate degree in public policy, urban planning, nonprofit management, or a related field is a plus but not required

Responsibilities

Own day-to-day delivery for 2–3 concurrent client engagements, ensuring each stays on scope, on timeline, and on budget
Develop and maintain work plans, timelines, and budgets in coordination with engagement leads and Medici Road's finance team
Establish and track KPIs and benchmarks to demonstrate progress and impact to clients and funders
Flag risks, resourcing conflicts, or scope changes early and propose solutions
Design and facilitate human-centered design sessions — discovery interviews, co-design workshops, prototyping sprints — with clients, residents, and partners
Apply a racial equity lens throughout the engagement lifecycle, from who is in the room to how decisions get made and documented
Synthesize qualitative and quantitative input into clear findings, recommendations, and action plans
Serve as a primary point of contact for client staff, partner organizations, and — where relevant — community members
Coordinate across multiple partner organizations to keep communication clear and expectations aligned
Represent Medici Road at client meetings, community forums, and partner check-ins
Prepare progress reports, deliverables, and presentations for clients, funders, and internal leadership
Maintain clean, current project documentation and contribute reusable tools and templates to Medici Road's internal knowledge base
Contribute to proposal development and scoping conversations for new or renewed engagements, drawing on lessons from current project work