Overview
Please read our full job description here: https://www.bigcitymountaineers.org/careers/birmingham_rpm
BCM will open a new region of programming in 2024 in Birmingham, Alabama. We are thrilled to be moving into the Southeast and to be working in the Birmingham community. We are commencing our search for BCM’s inaugural Regional Program Manager in Birmingham, who will have the opportunity to oversee and rollout BCM’s program.
The Birmingham Regional Program Manager (RPM) will be responsible for all aspects of BCM programming based out of the Birmingham, AL region. This includes delivering high quality and mission focused day trips, overnights, and weeklong backcountry expeditions for youth affiliated with partnering youth agencies in the region. To see this realized, RPMs hire and support seasonal instructors, coordinate program logistics, collaborate with partner agencies, manage a regional budget and occasionally facilitate programs directly. RPMs are supported directly by and report to BCM’s National Program Director.
The Birmingham RPM will work from a home office, and will need to be physically located in or near both the city and surrounding public lands where outdoor programming is held. RPMs can expect to travel regionally to meet with youth and partners, 3-5 times per year to the BCM headquarters in Colorado for professional development and national team meetings, and possibly to other regions to assist with pre-season instructor orientations.
More specifically, Regional Program Managers’ essential duties include:
Community Engagement
Program Design, Delivery, and Evaluation
Risk and Safety Management
Program Administration
Qualifications:
Personal and professional values consistent with BCM’s mission, values, and principles, including principles of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
High degree of motivation to increase access to the outdoors for youth from disinvested communities,
Unwavering belief in the power of nature-based experiences to help youth strengthen life skills and build community
Residence in or near Seattle/Tacoma
Prior professional experience working with youth from disinvested communities
Required Skills:
Familiarity with the local communities BCM works in, and the natural areas BCM utilizes on its courses
Ability to work both collaboratively and independently, and to know when each is required
Interpersonal awareness, ability to cultivate trusting interpersonal relationships and connect with people across lines of difference
Demonstrated ability to manage administrative details, including maintaining accurate and complete data
Experience serving in an on-call capacity
About Big City Mountaineers
At Big City Mountaineers, we work alongside the transformative powers of nature to foster a lasting impact in the lives of youth from disinvested communities. BCM creates opportunities for 12 to 18 year-olds to connect with nature and realize their own sources of strength, resilience, confidence, serenity and joy by providing free, fully outfitted, and professionally led outdoor experiences. BCM’s programming culminates in a weeklong backcountry trip, which is often the first time the youth we serve experience the outdoors in such a way. The BCM experience enables youth to take on healthy and relevant challenges and cultivate a connection to themselves, their community, to nature, and to joy.
