Milton Hershey School Program Manager

Job Location: Hershey, PA

Role Summary:

The Program Manager for the Milton Hershey School will lead and enhance The Hershey Company’s strategic partnership with Milton Hershey School (MHS), overseeing program development, stakeholder alignment, execution, and continuous improvement across multiple workstreams including shaping career readiness for MHS students and building a talent pipeline, engaging employees in purpose-driven activities, delivering our founder’s legacy ​and supporting student experiences and connections to the Hershey company and our brands.

Key Responsibilities

Program Strategy & Leadership

• Shape and refine program strategy & execution for Hershey’s partnership with MHS in alignment with enterprise objectives

• Serve as the central point of contact and day‑to‑day leader for all MHS partnership activities across the HSY enterprise.
• Anticipate needs, emerging priorities, and communication expectations from senior leadership.

Program Execution & Collaboration

• Build and maintain annual and multi-year calendars of events for both MHS and THC

• Refine, manage, and evolve the MHS Program Playbook and all supporting documentation.
• Facilitate planning and execution for student engagement experiences, career readiness initiatives, and new talent‑pipeline programming.

Stakeholder Engagement & Communication

• Represent the program with executive leaders within the Hershey Company and MHS.

• Develop executive‑ready materials, presentations, updates, and reporting.
• Ensure consistent, clear, and timely communication across stakeholder groups.

Program Optimization & Governance

• Identify opportunities to streamline, standardize, and automate processes across the partnership.
• Track program effectiveness, identify gaps, and drive continuous improvement.
• Maintain program governance tools, documentation, dashboards, and updates.

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of relevant experience.
• Strong project management and communication skills.
• Ability to build executive-level materials.
• High proficiency with Microsoft Office.

• Demonstrated capability to deliver executive level presentations and communications with the ability to navigate sensitive or evolving priorities

• Proven track record of managing cross-functional teams and scaling a high impact program
• Exceptional communication, leadership, and organizational skills.
• Bachelor’s degree with experience working/volunteering with educational institutions or youth programs.

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