Healing to Advocacy Program Manager
$90,000–$95,000 year
HybridOakland, California, United States
Job Summary
Manage Essie's Healing to Advocacy Organizing Program by directing 1-2 staff members and overseeing day-to-day operations. Create logistics plans to reduce participation barriers, co-design the EssieKids! childcare program, and manage contractors including guest trainers. Coordinate member recruitment strategies involving thousands of nominations and fill dozens of statewide cohorts. Recruit and support member facilitators, launch cohorts in 15-20 locations, and coordinate graduation events welcoming participants into the advocacy body. Facilitate multi-day training retreats, respond to participant needs, and track leadership development outcomes for the Directors' Team. Ensure the program meets organizational goals through collaborative evaluation systems and proactive improvements. This full-time, exempt role reports to the Associate Director of Strategy & Organizational Impact and is based in Los Angeles or Oakland, California.
Required Qualifications
- 3-5 years of experience in complex program implementation
- experience 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
- 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
- Track record as a collaborative leader
- Program manager extraordinaire
- You believe in the power of an excellently designed and run program as a key avenue for social and personal change
- You build air-tight plans, through your skill as an if, then thinker, mitigating risks of a plan failing by imagining and preparing for various scenarios, smart prioritization, and advance problem-solving
- If things go wrong or when faced with an unforeseen complexity you draw on your professional experience and flexibility to come up with possibilities and motivate others
- You're very into root causes
- You think about programmatic challenges from a big picture lens, wondering if what you observe is a symptom of a broader problem, and identifying possible patterns and system-based solutions to address it
- Discernment and honesty we can trust
- You are a thoughtful team member who acts in alignment with your integrity and are unfailingly trustworthy
- Committed to evolution
- You are committed to continuously deepening and evolving your own understanding of systems of oppression through study, openness, and humility
- And, you easily recognize your own relationship to privilege and power, examining and shifting your behaviors as appropriate
- Uplifting and additive
- You see mistakes as opportunities for growth
- problems as catalysts for solutions
- You carry a positive approach, can-do attitude, a sense of humor, and authentic kindness wherever you go
- You can lead from an authentic and calm place to help others feel confident, assured and hopeful that possibilities exist in the face of challenge or uncertainty
- full-time
- salaried
- exempt position
- The position can be based at either of Essie's offices in Los Angeles or Oakland, California
Desired Qualifications
- preferably in community organizing or direct services contexts
- 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
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