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Job Opportunity: Policy Coordinator (dynamic writer, policy extraordinaire, human encyclopedia)
Location: Upper Peninsula
Organization Overview: UPward Talent Council drives workforce development and a strong economy. We serve UP employers and job seekers through Michigan Works! offices, community events, schools and local businesses. Our mission is to promote and address the needs of businesses for current and future work-ready talent. We are active in building a skilled workforce for the future and enabling local employers to compete in a globally competitive economy.
Our Culture: We impact lives everyday by connecting job seekers to employment. Were not curing disease or finding black holes, but its important and meaningful.
Our Teams:
We work in modern office spaces with the best tech.
Our teams work Monday through Friday, 8-5. We travel for training and events.
We model job seeking behavior for the public, but we also appreciate personality.
You will make friends at work! Our teams consist of people from all ages and career stages.
The Role: Your mission will vary from strategic writing grants, planning the organizations path to achieve goals, to tactical pouring over, diagramming, and systematizing information.
Your role is to be the internal voice of our brand, writing consistent, clear and engaging policies. Are you a technical writer who can bend language to your command?
You will be charged with taking lengthy and vague policy issuances, laws and grant verbiage, explaining it to the organization and designing steps for us to consistently carry out whats required. Do you eat information for breakfast?
You will bounce from the c-suite to the front line on projects. We want to deliver services effectively and within the lines. Theres no room for ego on our org chart. Are you a team player?
Projects include:
Writing plan narratives for all funding sources.
Responsible for developing and maintaining the Workforce and Innovation Opportunity Act (WIOA) local and regional plans to accurately reflect agency strategy and practice.
Supporting Career and Education Advisory Council (CEAC) activities.
Designing and preparing activities to increase staff comprehension of regulations, compliance requirements, and expectations.
Gathering data (Labor Market Information, Structured Query Language) and analyzing for the system.
Writing grant proposals.
Coordinating Equal Opportunity functions.
Wage: We will negotiate.
Benefits:
Premier Blue Cross Blue Shield medical. UPward pays for employees to have low cost premiums.
Dental and Vision are included at no cost.
SEP IRA, 12.5% of the employees annual salary. Employer paid retirement funding!
Employer paid long term disability, life insurance.
Tuition reimbursement and employer paid professional development.
Generous leave policies. 9 holidays and 29 days PTO in the first year. PTO payouts and flex time.
Travel:
There is a moderate amount of travel within the Upper Peninsula. We meet monthly in Marquette.
The Policy Coordinator goes to Lansing monthly for MI Works! meetings. We maintain a fleet of vehicles for company use and prepay or reimburse all incurred travel expenses.
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