Program Manager I - State of North Carolina

The NCIC Program Manager I is an administrative position responsible for directing, planning, and coordinating all activities of the NC Innovation Council.  This position serves as Executive Director of the Council with overall responsibility for the encouraging participation in the regulatory sandbox and for staffing, administration and execution of the decisions and orders of the NC Innovation Council according to the NC General Statutes Chapter 169-4.

Duties include but not limited to:

• Facilitating operations of the Council, including management of budgetary and financial responsibilities as necessary.
• Planning and coordinating activities with State agencies and units.
• Facilitating and documenting the flow of sandbox applications.
• Communicating with sandbox participants and NC Council members.
• Organizing and facilitating the NC Innovation Council meetings and decisions and preparing reports upon request of the Council.
• Ensuring compliance with open meetings requirements, including preparation and keeping of minutes of all Council meetings and preparing and publishing required notices for all meetings.
• Responding to telephone, email, and mailed inquiries relating to the Innovation Council from members of the public, sandbox applicants, media outlets, elected officials, and other governmental agencies, including responding to public records requests.
• Serving as the Administrative Rules Coordinator for the Council, preparing and revising administrative rules and coordinating and conducting the periodic review and administrative rules readoption process.
• Serving as Legislative and Ethics Liaison for the Council before the State Ethics Commission.
• Conducting special projects as directed by the Council.
• Representing the NC Innovation Council before the public, the legislature, and other entities to communicate the mission of the Council and generate interest in the regulatory sandbox, and developing materials that encourage participation including management of the Council website and other methods of information delivery.

Please Be Advised
if you are selected as a candidate finalist, the NCIC Executive Leadership Team will require a writing sample.

About N.C.G.S 169-4
The purpose of the Innovation Council is to support innovation, investment, and job creation within North Carolina by encouraging participation in the regulatory sandbox. The Council is empowered to set standards, principles, guidelines, and policy priorities for the types of innovations that the regulatory sandbox program will support. The Council shall be responsible for admission into the regulatory sandbox program and for assigning selected participants to the applicable State agency.  Read more about the N.C.G.S 169-4 here.

About the NC Innovation Council
NC Innovation Council was established to manage a regulatory sandbox that encourages innovative product and services to be piloted and businesses established in rural, urban and suburban areas of the State of North Carolina.  The NC Innovation Council is located at the UNC-Charlotte School of Data Science 1028D Colvard Building, 9105 University Road Charlotte, NC 28223

Incentives of NC State Employment
We value our employees and offer a wide variety of competitive and family-friendly benefits. Benefits to include:

• 12 Annual paid Holidays 
• North Carolina State Health Plan administered by Blue Cross Blue Shield of NC 
• Supplemental Benefits including Flexible Spending Accounts, Accident Insurance, Cancer & Specified Disease, Critical Illness, Dental and Vision 
• NC State Retirement (TSERS)
• WeSave Employee Discounts

Learn more about new hire resources, safety, health, and wellness information, leave options, employee discounts and more by selecting the link below:
 
 https://oshr.nc.gov/state-employee-resources/benefits