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Position Overview:

The Program Coordinator will support PFI’s prison programs, specifically focusing on The Listener’s Way, the organization’s newest and fastest-scaling initiative. This role supports the objectives of the Global Impact department and is responsible for program data management, monitoring and evaluation, operational support, and performance analysis. Additionally, the Program Coordinator will develop credible and meaningful reports to help generate increased support from donors, national ministries, and strategic partners. The position requires someone who is organized, energetic, thoughtful, and reliable to ensure the successful execution and growth of the programs.

Core Responsibilities:

• Conduct monitoring and evaluation by leading quarterly and annual reviews and report publications.
• Evaluate program data to support program efficiencies and effectiveness.
• Develop and maintain stakeholder products and reports.
• Lead collaboration between Development and Program teams.
• Develop and deliver internal and external training and presentations.
• Coordinate gift-in-kind fulfillment and reporting.
• Enhance relationships with strategic partners to meet field and organizational needs.
• Other projects and duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Strong organizational skills to set priorities and manage time
• Excellent communication skills
• Thrives on meeting aggressive deadlines in a fast-paced environment
• Advanced experience with Microsoft Office Suite and Adobe products
• Technically adept; comfortable learning new software
• Ability to work on and prioritize multiple short-term and long-term projects at once
• Friendly, professional and helpful attitude; a self-motivated, coachable team player
• Ability to internalize PFI’s Mission, Vision, Values and Statement of Faith

Education & Experience

• Five years of work experience or an associates degree and three years of work experience

Work status

• Full-time, non-exempt in-office position

Travel

• < 15% travel (up to six weeks of international travel, domestic travel as needed)

Position Overview

This position’s primary mission is to establish Centers of Excellence (COE) throughout our global network to improve our overall ministry effectiveness. These Centers will achieve this goal by finding and disseminating best practices and providing leading-edge knowledge across our network. More specifically, the Director will accelerate our market penetration strategy by conducting evaluation research, identifying evidence-based best practices, promoting adopting these best practices, and training National Ministry leaders throughout our global network.

The Director will develop and test the first COE in Colombia over the course of the next three years. Once the prototype has been developed and evaluated to be effective, the Director will lead the replication of COEs in other regions throughout the world. This position requires successful collaboration across all PFI departments including program and regional offices, marketing & communications, development, and evaluation teams.

Core Responsibilities

• Identify a portfolio of promising programs that can be implemented by the host National Ministry and studied empirically. Ensure sufficient program scaling to provide adequate experimental and control groups for each program. Establish a rich program testbed that serves as a laboratory for identifying best practices.
• Work with evaluation partners to implement a comprehensive evaluation strategy, including targeted program activities, evaluation standards and processes and reporting and publishing requirements.
• Ensure full buy in and support from prison officials and ministry leaders. Ensure timely and high-quality data collection and reporting.
• Work with evaluators to publish and disseminate findings in peer reviewed journals and the popular press.
• Identify a cluster of evidence-based best practices within each program area that emerges from our evaluation research. Package these best practices in simple, understandable formats that are user- friendly and can be implemented out of the box.
• Lead COE marketing and communications strategies. Work cross functionally with MarCom to create and implement a comprehensive communications strategy and plan to promote evidence- based best practices worldwide. Drive best practice awareness and adoption through PFI communications resources and regional forums.
• Develop training curricula that supports the training of National Ministry leaders in each best practice program. Work with subject matter experts to create learning experiences, courses and assessments that are uniquely designed for National Ministry leaders. Package in the form of trainer and participant handbooks and resources.
• Develop and work cross functionally with Global Impact teams to execute a global training strategy that includes forum-based training, online workshops, and boot camp style onsite training. Mobilize a team of program innovators as an adjunct faculty to assist in the delivery of training worldwide.
• Mobilize and lead the core team responsible for each Center of Excellence, including program, evaluation, training and communications experts. Provide tactical leadership for Centers of Excellence that research and develop new programs, implement innovative projects and programs, evaluate and promote outcomes, and identify and promote best practices.
• Actively work cross functionally with PFI’s development teams to generate donor investments in the expansion and growth of COEs. This includes hosting vision trips, major donor proposals/reports, promoting Centers of Excellence, third-party evaluations, etc.
• Develop and maintain the COE operations plan, including outcomes and output Conduct a process and outcome evaluation of the Colombian prototype. Develop a multi-year Center of Excellence business plan to include replication sites around the world.

Requirements

• Knowledge and experience in program design and development within a prison context is essential.
• Knowledge and experience with program evaluation techniques and methods. Strong background in data analytics.
• Strong verbal, written, and presentation skills. Strong communication and relationship-building skills across a range of stakeholders.
• Proficient in strategic and business planning as well as project management.
• Experience leading or managing a Center of Excellence within government or nonprofit sector is desired.
• Digitally proficient (technically adept; comfortable learning new software).
• Proficient in the Spanish language desired.
• Major donor fundraising experience desired.

Education & Experience

• Master of Business Administration, Public Policy, Criminology, or Sociology plus five years of relevant experience.

Work status

• Full-time position located in Medellin, Colombia

Travel

• ≤ 40% travel

Applications for this position should go to [email protected]

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Position Overview

The Senior Director, Ministry Effectiveness is instrumental in Prison Fellowship International’s (PFI) achievement of its global market penetration goal. This person will lead PFI’s program development and drive the adoption of evidence-based, best practices worldwide. This includes all program research, development and evaluation activities as well as the identification, benchmarking, promotion, and adoption of innovative, best practice programs unearthed within our global family of 123 national ministries. The oversight and growth of PFI’s Centers of Excellence are essential to this strategy and also a key responsibility. This position requires close collaboration with field, programs, marketing & communications, and development teams.

Core Responsibilities

Lead PFI’s program design, development, monitoring, and evaluation systems (25%)

•  Ensures that all PFI programs are designed to be scalable, cost-efficient, and based on evidence-based best practices.
• Make certain that all PFI programs complete R&D protocols for each stage of development, including the development of concepts, written models, working prototypes, and pilot programs.
• Establishes program standards that represent the irreducible core of essential program activity that drive outcomes, and ensures these standards are maintained.
• Leads process evaluations are completed for all prototype and pilot programs to ensure programs are implemented as designed.
• Establishes and oversees PFI’s program monitoring and evaluation systems.
• Works closely with program and regional managers who manage PFI program partnerships (assessments, planning, budgeting, training, technical assistance) while ensuring that every program is implemented as it was designed.

Lead PFI’s strategy to drive best practice adoption throughout the PF global family (50%)

• This represents a key element of our organizational strategy and constitutes the next phase of PFI’s evolution.
• Success in this position will be determined by measuring significant improvement in the total # of prisoners and families served through evidence-based programs each year.
• Key responsibilities include devising and executing a comprehensive plan to drive the adoption of evidence-based best practices throughout our global network.
• Lead the identification, research, and network-wide promotion of discrete best practices that increase program scale, quality, and return on investment. Build training and communications strategies that advance best practice adoption.
• This role includes conducting empirical research (both qualitative and quantitative methods) of promising programs, benchmarking best practices within these programs, isolating key activities and outcome drivers, locating or creating operational and training materials, and driving best practice adoption throughout the network.
• Requires working in concert with MARCOM and Regional staff to optimize existing communications and training infrastructure and tools while creating additional ways to drive change.

Lead the global development of regional Centers of Excellence (25%)

• Provide tactical leadership and support for the Colombia COE prototype, including the hiring and supervision of onsite staff, managing key stakeholders (PF Colombia, INPEC, Pepperdine, Biblical Seminary of Colombia), developing COE annual plans and budgets, and close monitoring of day-to-day operations.
• Lead the evaluation of the Colombia COE prototype, including both a process and outcome evaluation. This includes reviewing and refining program outcomes, performance indicators, benchmarking COE best practices, and evaluating the Colombia COE against these benchmarks.
• Lead the expansion of COEs into other regions of the world, including the development of a global COE business plan, the qualification of prospective pilot sites, and preliminary meetings with key stakeholders to assess and verify feasibility and costs.
• Support Development Team in their efforts to fund a global network of COEs, including technical support in proposal development, donor reports, vision trip participation, and one on one donor meetings.

Requirements

• Deep experience in social program design, development, monitoring and evaluation is required. “Soup to nuts” understanding of the key R&D protocols in developing and maturing effective, evidence-based social programs. Previous experience working within a prison or criminal justice context is highly desired.

• Working with social program evaluation techniques and methods, including process, outcome, empirical, and quasi-experimental design evaluations is essential.

• Experience in working cross-functionally with program, field and marketing nonprofit teams. Must be proficient in working in a matrix-managed organization. Must be able to lead program, field and affiliate ministry staff right out-of-the-box.

• Evidence of strong analytical, problem solving, design and evaluation instincts. Strong process improvement competencies. Must be able to “engineer” social programs based on empirical data.

• International experience within a federated nonprofit organization highly desired, preferably in program design/evaluation capability.

• Program design and/or evaluation leadership role within a Christian international ministry highly desired.

• Strong communication and relationship-building skills across a range of stakeholders.

• Digitally proficient (Technically adept; comfortable learning new software).

• Able and willing to travel to domestic or international destinations to observe program execution, participate in evaluations, provide onsite technical assistance and training, or providing supervision to COE staff. Forecasting 12 to 16 trips per year (≤ 30%).

Education & Experience

• Advanced degree in social sciences, criminology, or nonprofit management, or business administration.

• Minimum 8 years of relevant experience in the non-profit sector with strong preference for previous experience working internationally, within a federated Christian nonprofit organization, and/or with prison systems.

Work status

• Full-time position located at PFI’s headquarters in Ashburn, Virginia. Structured hybrid arrangement may be available with supervisors’ approval upon completion of the first three months on the job.

Travel

• ≤ 30% travel

Position Overview

The purpose of this role is to restore the lives of prisoners, their families, and victims in the LAC region through a network of PFI ministry partners. The Senior Regional Director is responsible for developing and implementing strategies to increase the scale and impact of National Ministry (NM) partners in the region to achieve organizational goals and objectives. This role requires an experienced, dynamic, adaptable and innovative leader with strong cross-cultural and relational competencies. This role combines both partial director level and manager levels of responsibility.

Core Responsibilities

• Increase the scale of PFI NM partnerships throughout the region.
  • Maintain NMs by providing member services outlined in the charter agreement.
  • Ensure consistent implementation of PFI charter policies by PFI and NMs.
  • Expand the PFI network in the
    • Cultivate NM opportunities and interest in non-PFI represented countries.
    • Qualify new NM partners to become a chartered PF National Ministry.
    • Develop national strategic partnerships with other existing entities.

• Increase the impact of PFI Ministry partners in the region.
  • Oversee implementation of all PFI Program Partnerships in the region according to program standards and agreed goals for the region.
  • Monitor and build the capacity of affiliates by customizing PFI capacity building resources according to NM needs.
  • Develop pipelines of National Ministries qualified to enter formal PFI partnerships.

• Increase the financial investment in Prison Fellowship Ministries in the region.
  • Coordinate, support and/or host major donor vision trips.
  • Support PFI’s donor engagement team as requested.
  • Supervise your Regional Manager and contract temporary staff as required.

Requirements

• Mature Christian who is a dynamic and energetic leader with evident passion, skills and ambition to lead, facilitate, and serve the Prison Fellowship mission in the region.
• Strong organizational development skills and experience.
• Performance-based orientation with demonstrated experience in goal setting and developing and executing plans to achieve them.
• Ability to internalize and communicate PFI’s vision, mission, values and statement of faith.
• Strong relationship building skills at all levels (volunteers, staff, leaders, board, donors).
• Demonstrated program and financial management experience.
• Skilled in negotiating and executing financial agreements.
• Outstanding verbal, written and presentation skills to promote PFI program and reporting to donors. Fluency in Spanish and English is required.
• Available for regional and international travel.
• Willing to work flexible hours to accommodate time zones in other regions where PF staff and contractors are based.

Education & Experience

• Advanced degrees in business management plus 3 (three) years of relevant leadership experience working in a regional/or global environment or with diverse business or a Bachelor’s degree in business management plus 5 (five) years of relevant experience.
• Divinity, international development or similar is desired.
• Proficiency in using digital technology including Microsoft Suite, video conferencing and project management tools (access to reliable internet infrastructure required).

Work status

• Full Time

Travel

• ≤ 50% travel

Applications for this position should go to [email protected]

Position Overview:

The Staff Accountant will assist the Finance team with day-to-day financial transactions, including handling all aspects of the general ledger, processing cash receipts, and supporting all accounts payable and receivable.

Core Responsibilities:

Cash Processing

• • Provide weekly cash status report to Director, Finance & Technology, and VP of Finance and Administration
  • Assist with cash forecasting
  • Work with Rose (outsourced accounting) to reconcile bank accounts. Provide support for any open issues.

Accounts Receivable/Revenue Processing

• • Complete weekly cash and check deposit
  • Run daily receipt reports, monitor banking transactions, and report on receipt of donations
  • Maintain cash receipt documentation
  • Petty cash reconciliation and maintenance
  • Work with Rose (outsourced accounting) to reconcile all payments between CRM (Salesforce) and accounting software (IntAcct) and for timely entry of all deposits into the GL system.
  • Act as liaison between finance and fundraising teams.
  • Accounts Payable/Expenses
  • Weekly collection and processing of invoices and A/P requests
  • W-9 and W8BENE collection and maintenance
  • Gather and process expense reports and credit card expenses from Concur
  • Review all entries into Bill.com
  • Process wires and ACHs through online banking
  • Update monthly cash commitments report
  • Prepare and file annual 1099s
  • Administer Concur
  • Maintain vendor files/documentation
  • Create positive and seamless working relationships with all who submit payment requests.
  • Support all aspects of review and approval of weekly payment processing.

General Financial Acumen

• • Prepare backup for monthly accounting journal entries
  • Maintain contract(or) files
  • Assist in reducing the timeline for issuing monthly financial reports
  • Assist with all required tax filings and annual audit
  • General file maintenance
  • Work closely with the Director, Finance & Technology, to determine the tasks that are presently inefficient and offer solutions to improve efficiency and effectiveness
  • Other duties as assigned

Requirements

• Solid understanding of accounting and bookkeeping.
• Strong proficiency in Excel and accounting software
•  Strong organizational and time management skills
• Ability to work with a diversity of cultures
• Ability to internalize PFI’s mission, vision, values, and Christian statement of faith.

Education & Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree or 2 years of relevant experience.

Work status

• Full Time

Travel

• < 5% travel