Project Director, DBTAC - Atlanta
Category: Faculty and Staff Opportunities - Exempt (Salaried)
Title: Project Director
Department: Law College - Dean
Job#: 025632
The Burton Blatt Institute (BBI) of the Syracuse University College of Law is currently hiring for the following position. Applicants must complete a brief online confidential Application and attach a CV (PDF or Word file, maximum 2MB in size) through the SU Online Employment Site [ https://www.sujobopps.com].
Job Description
The Burton Blatt Institute: Centers of Innovation on Disability (BBI) of the Syracuse University College of Law seeks a Project Director for the DBTAC: Southeast ADA Center (Southeast DBTAC) - Atlanta, Georgia.
The Southeast DBTAC provides information, training, and technical assistance about the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and disability rights throughout the Southeast (Federal Region IV) region (Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee).
The Project Director provides direction and leadership toward the successful achievement of the project's mission, goals and objectives. This includes developing, coordinating, and maintaining a viable ADA network in the region, developing, producing and disseminating training, technical assistance and materials, identifying and working with researchers to carry out relevant research regarding disability issues in the region, and participating in national DBTAC activities and programs.
Location: Southeast DBTAC office in Atlanta, Georgia.
Required Qualifications
- Masters degree, experience in disability rights, vocational rehabilitation, health, education, legal, social work, human resources, or related field required.
- Demonstrated knowledge of the ADA, other disability-related laws, assistive technology, and other disability-related issues.
- Extensive prior project management experience and demonstrated skills, including financial/budget and personnel performance management of large sponsored projects, preferably on research, training and consultation-related projects.
- General knowledge of business, accounting, and marketing principles and procedures.
- Ability to communicate with a variety of audiences via written communication and public speaking.
- Excellent interpersonal, collaboration, teamwork, facilitation and presentation skills.
- Demonstrated ability to establish and maintain effective relationships and partnerships with key stakeholders.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience using information technologies for real-time, remote communications
Summary of Job Duties
- Provides leadership to assure the project and its mission, programs, products and services are consistently presented in strong, positive images to relevant stakeholders.
- Assures that the project has a long-range strategy to achieve its mission and makes consistent and timely progress. This includes developing an annual project work scope and timeline.
- Ensures all the project's products and programs and communications are accurate, high quality, relevant and appropriately disseminated. This includes websites, documents, trainings, technical assistance activities, and new media.
- Effectively recruits, manages and supervises project staff and maintains a climate that attracts, keeps, and motivates a diverse staff of top quality people by assisting program staff in relating their specialized work to the total program of the organization. Also ensures that job descriptions are developed, that regular performance evaluations are held, and that sound human resource practices are in place.
- Establishes sound working relationships and cooperative arrangements with community groups and organizations.
- Represents the project and point of view of the organization to government agencies, organizations, and the general public.
- Maintains a working knowledge of significant developments and trends in the field.
- Develops project workscope, timelines, annual budget, and effective marketing plan to increase awareness about project services.
- Maintains records and documents and prepares multiple reports to document project outcomes and ensure continued funding.
- Recommends annual budget for BBI approval and prudently manages organization's resources within those budget guidelines.
- Coordinates and monitors activities conducted by the ADA Leadership Network in the eight states served by the project.
- Conducts workshops and training programs, as needed, to build ADA capacity in the eight states served.
- Identifies and assists in securing additional funding to ensure project's long-term sustainability.
- Participates in BBI management activities.
To Apply for this Position
Applicants must complete a brief online confidential Application and attach a CV (PDF or Word file, maximum 2MB in size) through the SU Online Employment Site [ https://www.sujobopps.com].
The position is listed under: Faculty & Staff - Exempt (Salaried) Opportunities with the Title: Project Director, DBTAC - Atlanta, and Department: Law College-Dean as Job #025632.
Syracuse University is an equal opportunity, affirmative-action employer. BBI is committed to enhancing diversity and especially encourages applications from women, members of minority groups, and individuals with disabilities.
Contact For More Information
Burton Blatt Institute (BBI)
Syracuse University College of Law
Phone: (315) 443-2863 [voice]
Fax: (315) 443-9725
Websites:
• Burton Blatt Institute (BBI) [http://bbi.syr.edu]
• DBTAC: Southeast ADA Center [http://sedbtac.org]
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