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Young Women's Freedom Center · 21 hours ago

Program Manager - LA

Los Angeles, CA

Full-time

Onsite

Mid, Senior Level

Young Women's Freedom Center is dedicated to supporting young women and gender expansive youth. The Program Manager is responsible for ensuring that the organization's programs meet their goals and objectives, providing training, and maintaining safe spaces for youth to learn and grow.

Training

Responsibilities

Maintain and develop relationships with Probation Officers, Judges, the District Attorney, Deputies, and other key personnel overseeing facilities and or judicial services that directly impact the lives of the young women we work with

Develop and maintain relationships with organizations, service providers, stakeholders, etc. that work with and or support young women in Detention programs and ensure all Detention Programs staff are aware of program partners

Attend key meetings hosted by facilities staff and other collaborating agencies to ensure case coordination, advocacy plans for young women, and coordinated services

Lead efforts in revising and updating trainings, curriculums, forms, intakes, and program-related documents in partnership with the Director and

Oversee and direct assigned programs, ensuring programs are of the highest quality and in alignment with YWFC Theory of Change, meeting the needs of the young people they serve, following YWFC’s guidelines, and meeting all contractual requirements

Ensure the facilitation of weekly healing and connective circles with young women and trans youth of all genders post-release. On an annual basis update the 12-week curriculum to ensure it's relevant to the young women in the group including the county that the group is located in. The curriculum should reflect; barriers to reentry, life skills, job skills, healing and political education, leadership development, and Self-determination

Oversee advocacy efforts, provide feedback and supportive training to any other organization staff person or volunteer working directly with young women and trans youth of all genders

Co-manage program budgets and conduct expense control and variance analysis on a monthly basis in partnership with Site Director

Oversee and implement an annual curriculum development process for each program using person centered participatory approach, YWFC Theory of Change, and YWFC Leadership Rubric in partnership with Site Director and Site Team

Develop and update annual work plans in partnership with Program Staff and Site Director

Work with youth to increase their ability to advocate for themselves and navigate the systems and service providers they are involved with

Support in the development of local and statewide campaigns providing research, review, resources, and campaign evaluations methodology

Actively participate in building a campaigns that centers the leadership and power of young people that have been directly impacted by gender based violence, incarceration, foster care, and the juvenile justice system

Ensure youth are well-informed of YWFC’s movement, policy, and local campaign work on an ongoing basis including and ensure interns are participating in strategy and strategy related meetings as necessary, participating in work to advance local campaigns, and participate in coalitions and other community based work as approved/ requested by supervisor

Participate in YWFC’s movement, policy, and local campaign work on an ongoing basis including; participating in strategy and strategy related meetings as necessary, participating in work to advance local campaigns, represent the organization publicly as requested and approved, and participate in coalitions and other community based work as approved/ requested by supervisor

Embody and model the values of the organization: Sisterhood, Self-determination, Social Justice, and Spirituality

Maintain and enter data into appropriate data systems for reporting for both city and county, and foundation grant requirements and internal organizational systems/databases in a timely manner

Maintain weekly program notes, and collect data pertaining to programmatic goals to contribute to quarterly progress reports

Facilitate weekly Mic-Check meetings with other team members to ensure holistic support and additional support strategies needed to better support participant, and ensure accurate reporting

Oversee all reporting requirements for your respective work plans (monthly reports, data collection, operations reports, Supervision check ins, etc.) and ensure all proper forms are completed, progress is monitored, and data is updated

Provide monthly program summaries to the Site Director including quantitative and qualitative data of all programmatic activities, trainings and outcomes pertaining to programmatic goals for programs

Ensure programs are evaluated and updated on an ongoing basis ,and that feedback and findings from evaluations are used to develop, revise, and update programs and activities

Track participant attendance and engagement, and provide support and accountability to youth fellows and interns around consistent attendance and engaged participation, including conducting and documenting learning opportunities, verbal and written write ups and developing transition plans when needed

Ensure program forms, overviews, flyers, curriculums, and any other significant program data is updated and stored appropriately, in accordance with YWFC’s filing and storage procedures

Attend regularly scheduled supervision and other planning and strategy meetings as set by the Site Director and Senior Leadership Team

Facilitate regular program strategy meetings and weekly 1:1 supervision meetings with program staff

Build and maintain relationships in the community that increase YWFC’s ability to fulfill its mission, and increase the success of programmatic efforts

Work with the Executive Team to identify opportunities to increase your visibility in the community that directly increase YWFC’s impact including; Commissions, Boards, Committees, etc

Work to ensure the organization’s mission, vision, and guiding principles are a guide to your work at the Center and that all program activities, curriculums, etc. are developed based on these principles

Manager special and additional projects, and tasks as needed and directed by supervisor and other YWFC Directors in efforts to support the advancement of YWFC and site goals

Create ongoing opportunities for leadership development of young women that we work with including opportunities to learn new tasks and skills, take leadership in the work, and engage in ongoing opportunities

Respond to emails, text messages, and other correspondence in a timely manner

Participate in YWFC events, staff meetings, trainings, and staff development opportunities on an ongoing basis