South Pasadena, California, United States of America
Full Time
2 hours ago
$90,000 - $95,000 USD
No H1B
Key skills
Communication
About this role
Role Overview
Manage Essie’s Healing to Advocacy Organizing Program: Directly manage 1-2 staff members and run the day-to-day operations of the Healing to Advocacy Program.
Logistics: Create a top-notch logistics plan to reduce barriers to participation.
Childcare Program: Manage and co-design the EssieKids! Program, ensuring childcare needs are reasonably met within the Healing to Advocacy Program.
Contractor & Relationship Management: Manage contractors, including childcare providers, guest trainers, and other specialists.
Member Recruitment & Cohort Filling: Coordinate and oversee the implementation of a member recruitment strategy.
Recruit and Manage Member Facilitators: Identify, onboard, and support member facilitators who co-lead program sessions and activities.
Cohort Launch: Launch cohorts in 15-20 different locations across the state.
Cohort Graduations: Coordinate to ensure that 2-4 Healing to Advocacy Graduation events occur per year that graduate multiple cohorts each.
Evaluation: Manage data and administration goals during all parts of the program.
Coordinate the multi-day agenda and facilitate the Essie Facilitator Training Retreats.
Requirements
3-5 years of experience in complex program implementation, preferably in community organizing or direct services contexts.
Detail-oriented project manager with experience managing multiple, complex projects at once.
Understands and demonstrates knowledge of best practices in recruitment, retention, and Black feminist culture-setting.
Excellent prioritization skills (i.e. understands the difference between what’s important, urgent, and what is neither).
Advanced experience in facilitating retreats, workshops, and/or political education trainings.
Experience supervising people in a way that acknowledges differentials in privilege and power, recognizes their gifts, encourages their confidence, supports their growth, and holds them accountable to standards and achieving collective goals.
Effective writing, editing, and verbal communication skills.