Program Manager
$56,300–$84,500 year
On-siteBaltimore, Maryland, United States
Job Summary
Build and execute a strategy to ensure assigned high school young people complete their degrees and pursue post-high school pathways. Design and implement programming to build capacity for staff, volunteers, and youth while regularly analyzing academic data to monitor progress and address credit recovery needs. Develop transformative partnerships with site schools to meet resource needs, prevent transfers, and advocate for necessary supports. Coach and develop a team of volunteers and Teammates to deploy the Thread Engagement Process, ensuring they connect with young people and families to remove barriers and achieve goals. Manage project timelines, budgets, and compliance while collaborating with functional teams to deliver quality outcomes.
Required Qualifications
- At least 3-5 years of demonstrated success in project and program management, including building and developing people towards common goals as well as data input, monitoring, and evaluation.
- Demonstrated commitment to and experience with equity and inclusion through an intersectional lens, including experience navigating and/or coaching others through a racial equity journey.
- Demonstrated experience in working with diverse people, process, and project management, with a strong sense of accountability to achieving goals and student outcomes
- Highly responsive, adaptive communications style; ability to inspire one-on-one and in groups of all sizes.
- Ability to clearly communicate and live out Thread's core values & core competencies.
- Ability to work during the evenings and weekends as necessary.
- Recognition of the ways that race and other identities (historically and presently) intersect and play out in the workplace.
Desired Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree in an associated discipline.
- Knowledge and experience facilitating group programming that connects young people to academic/professional goals
- Experience counseling young people through the goal-setting and attainment process, as well as identifying high school and post-high school interests
- Demonstrated success leading, coaching, and developing a team of volunteers to achieve common goals.
- Familiarity with Baltimore's human services landscape, including City Public School System, neighborhoods, and/or organizations and resources.
- Prior experience working in a youth-serving and/or nonprofit environment.
- Prior experience working with mobile app-based data input and with Salesforce.
- Fluency in a second language, Spanish.
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