Maine Connectivity Authority / Chief Program Officer / Portland, Maine
Maine Connectivity Authority has an exciting opportunity for a Chief Program Officer to join the organization’s executive leadership team and lead the strategy, design, and execution of the organization’s program portfolio.
The Chief Program Officer, reporting to the President, will lead a team of grants management and program design and deployment professionals to implement infrastructure/middle-mile programming, digital opportunity programming and grants administration.
The CPO will be instrumental in driving a comprehensive, coherent approach that integrates MCA’s efforts to strengthen the state’s broadband infrastructure, scale affordability and accessibility programs and meet MCA’s statutory responsibilities and impact goals.
This key leader will work at both the strategic and hands-on levels, ensuring programming strategies are aligned, integrated, and positioned to deliver strong, measurable outcomes that are sustainable over time.
Maine Connectivity Authority (MCA) is a quasi-governmental agency, led by an experienced team and a board appointed by the Governor. Created in 2021 to address the state’s need for access to reliable, high-speed internet connectivity, MCA serves as the primary agency to plan, develop, manage, and invest in broadband for Maine. High-speed internet access is essential to participation in the modern economy and has the potential to dramatically improve Mainers’ quality of life. The MCA is designed to be proactive in decision-making, explore public-private partnerships, deploy a range of financial tools, and enable a strategic network of digital infrastructure for Maine’s future.
Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, familial status, age, physical or mental disability, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.