Program Manager

The Coalition for Anti-Racism and Equity (CARE) is dedicated to transforming education to ensure equity and justice for all students. The Program Manager will support state-wide organizing efforts and implement CARE youth programs aimed at empowering high school and college students from underrepresented communities to become civic and community leaders.

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with CARE Program Director and leadership team on the design, implementation, and evaluation of program curricula, schedules, and activities
  • Facilitate workshops, training sessions, and seminars—both virtually and in-person
  • Lead outreach, recruitment, and selection process for programs with efforts to attract diverse applicants and an emphasis on equity-deserving groups
  • Coordinate logistics for program events, including speaker engagement, venue booking, and technology support
  • Support fellows in the development and execution of capstone projects, community initiatives, and/or advocacy campaigns
  • Develop and sustain a fellowship host network by engaging experienced leaders, elected officials, community partners, and program alumni
  • Assist in the development of CARE Student Clubs Network in school communities where students are interested in working with CARE to establish a club network to support high school student clubs across the state, whose mission and work align with CARE Student Club’s goal
  • Build relationships with grassroots organizations to support statewide efforts regarding anti-racism and equity that reflects the values and mission of CARE
  • Collaborate on cross program initiatives and promote the visibility of CARE’s work
  • Assist Program Director in maintaining relationships with partner organizations, funders, guest speakers, and community leaders
  • Strengthen CARE’s visibility within state wide coalitions, partnerships, and networks of power building community organizations
  • Manage day-to-day schedules, calendars, and documentation to ensure timely and effective program delivery
  • Collect and monitor program to track progress and report on participant and host site feedback surveys, program impact, lessons learned, and outcomes
  • Prepare quarterly updates for the Program Director and assist in the delivery of final reports for CARE leadership, funders, and community partners
  • Assist the Program Director in preparing budgets, managing expenditures, and ensuring financial accountability

Skills

  • Strong understanding and commitment to social justice, youth leadership development, anti-racism, civic engagement, and education equity, as well as CARE's mission and vision
  • Minimum of 1-2 years of experience working with youth in a community organizing, social justice nonprofit and/or educational setting
  • 1-2 years of experience of youth advocacy, legislative advocacy and/or legislative work with elected offices
  • Experience with building curriculum and content development for a youth centering civic engagement and social justice topics
  • Strong facilitation and public speaking skills, with experience leading workshops and group sessions
  • Strong organizational, project management skills, communication, and interpersonal skills
  • Proficiency in Google Suites (Doc, Excel, etc.), graphic design platform (Canva, etc.), and social media platforms (Facebook, Instagram, etc.)
  • Ability to represent CARE in a professional manner to a wide range of partners, institutions, and community-based organizations
  • Excellent time management, ability to prioritize and multitask, take initiative, support a team, work independently, and be an accountable self-starter
  • Ability to work collaboratively with diverse groups of people
  • Available to work some nights and weekends
  • Must be able to pass a background CORI and SORI check

Benefits

  • Federal and State Holidays
  • Paid time off
  • Professional development opportunities
  • $500/month for healthcare insurance stipend

Company Overview

  • Action-driven members with diverse experience, expertise and most of all, passion for making life better for our youth. It was founded in undefined, and is headquartered in , with a workforce of 0-1 employees. Its website is https://www.care4equity.org/.

 

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