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Other important responsibilities of the Program Director include: Overseeing multiple projects and project managers simultaneously, including consultants and sub-contracts with states and external partners; Overseeing and analyzing project budgets, projecting future spending, and developing financial proposals for potential new efforts; Communicating effectively in verbal and written forms, with an ability to communicate clearly with policymaking audiences such as state and federal officials, national experts, and others; Designing project concepts and identifying funding for these concepts to enable this team to provide relevant and timely expertise and assistance to Governors, their staff and other executive branch leaders, including by writing project concept papers and proposals, building and maintaining relationships with philanthropic, public, corporate, and federal funders, and working with NGA’s Office of Development to support fundraising efforts; Demonstrating strong interpersonal skills to effectively work with colleagues, partner organizations, and a variety of high-ranking state and federal officials; Managing wide-scale projects with multiple staff and tasks simultaneously, in coordination with a diverse group of stakeholders; Organizing and facilitating workshops, conferences, seminars, panel discussions, state strategy sessions and other events; Identifying and tracking key issues of concern to Governors, develop promising initiatives to address these concerns, and connecting Governors’ key staff with other states and national experts who can assist them in addressing these issues; Demonstrating a commitment to NGA’s mission and goals to constructively serve the needs of all Governors; and. Key issues the Program Director will focus on include identifying and developing policy solutions related to a variety of human services programs and benefits, including those focused on increasing economic mobility (such as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program, and Medicaid), strengthening families, supporting early childhood education and care, protecting children, improving youth mental health, and others—as well as focusing on improving the workforce supporting these programs and the systems used to administer them.