Main Areas of Responsibility:
Position Overview: The Program Manager for School Friendship Programs works with area schools (middle, high, and/or college) to maintain quality Best Buddies chapters. Key responsibilities include recruiting, training, and mentoring student leaders with and without intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD), and working with faculty, campus and/or host site administration to form quality friendships between people with and without IDD.
Additional Areas of Responsibility:
Programs
• Recruiting, selecting, training, motivating, evaluating and mentoring student and faculty/host site volunteers
• Overseeing all day-to-day operations of chapters
• Overseeing student leaders and advisors as they manage recruitment, chapter meetings, group outings, chapter development and matching and evaluation process
• Evaluating and selecting new schools and appropriate public/private schools and college/host site pairings as needed