Tim Pehlke serves as Program Design Manager for Big Brothers Big Sisters of America (BBBSA). In this role he works with the BBBSA’s network of 230+ local agencies to design and implement specialty youth mentoring initiatives in collaboration with corporate and foundation partners. Tim provides strategic leadership to the following national initiatives: Beyond School Walls, Bigs in Blue/Bigs with Badges, Family Engagement, Sports Buddies, and Children Impacted by Incarceration. Prior to this he served as Assistant Director for Special Projects at the University of Central Florida (UCF) Center for Public and Nonprofit Management. In this role he founded the UCF Walking School Bus program and brought the UCF Homeless Student Education AmeriCorps VISTA project to scale across the Central Florida region. In addition, Tim served as 4-H Youth Development Coordinator in Orlando, Florida for University of Florida IFAS Extension. During his time with the 4-H program he led efforts to expand STEM programming through FIRST Robotics and designed The Garden, an innovative inner-city gardening workforce education program, in partnership with the City of Orlando and Bloomberg Philanthropies: Cities of Service. Tim is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) and Certified Scrum Master (CSM) specializing in positive youth development. Mr. Pehlke earned his Master of Public Administration from the University of Missouri and holds a Master of Science in Family and Child Studies from Miami University (Ohio). He received his undergraduate degree in Psychology from Greenville University (Illinois).