Girls Leadership is seeking an experienced educator to join our team. The Adolescent Program Manager works in collaboration with our partner, Latitude High School, in Oakland, California. The California Adolescent Program Manager is a member of the Girls Leadership Program team.
The primary job responsibilities include direct work with high school girls, co-designing curriculum with girls in Latitude High School, facilitating curriculum, providing coaching support to school educators and training teachers on the delivery of the curriculum. The position includes after-school and summer programming with middle and high school girls, as well as facilitating learning experiences for educators.
The CA Adolescent Program Manager will:
50% – Use liberatory design-thinking to develop, adapt, and innovate Girls Leadership curriculum through a culturally responsive, healing-centered approach that is designed to meet the needs of the most marginalized girls
- Innovate, create or modify Girls Leadership curricula with a culturally responsive, trauma-informed/healing-centered approach, incorporating a gender and racial equity lens to meet the social-emotional needs of girls and female-identified students. .
- Conduct needs assessment processes and focus groups with Latitude High School girls and educators to identify priority areas for lesson and curriculum design.
- Conduct design-thinking sessions with girls to create relevant curriculum.
- Design, facilitate and iterate lessons and activities to girls, based on girl and educator input.
- Collaborate with school educators to develop a scope and sequence to structure a spiraled curriculum focused on social-emotional learning for 9th through 12th grades.
- Collaborate with the Girls Leadership Programs team to design and implement a Girls Leadership scope and sequence and curriculum for 6th through 12th grades.
- Evaluate effectiveness of lessons and activities through informal and formal assessment methods, and revise as needed.
15% – Provide direct programming services to girls engaged in Girls Leadership activities
- Deliver programming to adolescent girls in Girls Leadership programming including after school clubs, day camps and summer programming and research projects
10% – Develop training and support for educators at Latitude High School
- Conduct needs assessment processes and focus groups with educators to identify areas of need for teacher support and training to effectively deliver curricula.
- Observe educators and provide feedback and support to effectively deliver social-emotional based lessons and activities.
- Design and facilitate learning experiences for educators to address identified areas of need.
- Evaluate effectiveness of learning experiences through informal and formal assessment methods.
- Collaborate with the Programs team to design, develop and iterate Girls Leadership teacher training.
25% – Deliver training for educators via Girls Leadership’s public professional development trainings
- Facilitate Girls Leadership Teacher Training nationally
- Evaluate effectiveness of Girls Leadership Teacher Training
Qualifications
Minimum qualifications
- Teaching experience with middle and high school students
- Commitment to gender and racial equity
- Experience facilitating and developing culturally responsive curricula and programs
- Knowledge and experience with trauma-informed/healing-centered teaching strategies and practices
- experience providing direct services to youth
- Experience designing professional development for educators
- Experience facilitating educator trainings
- Experience coaching educators
- Attentive to detail and efficient in the management of diverse tasks and competing priorities
- Self-motivated, resourceful, innovative, and comfortable working independently with high personal accountability
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Strong curriculum development skills
- Demonstrates social and emotional intelligence
- Ability to work from multiple locations across the Bay Area
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience organizing and conducting educational focus groups and/or needs assessment with youth from diverse backgrounds
- Experience and knowledge of mindfulness and self-compassion practices
- Background in Educational Theater and arts-integrated education
- Experience with Design Thinking
- Experience building partnerships with community-based organizations
- Degree in education or similar field
- Experience working with parents/caregivers through facilitating parenting workshops
- Bilingual, Spanish-speaking
- Women of color are strongly encouraged to apply
Compensation & Benefits: This is a full-time exempt position. Salary for this position is $71,000. Benefits include health insurance, optional dental/vision, unlimited paid time off with supervisor pre-approval, separate sick time, 11 holidays per year, and a 401(k) plan available after one year of service.
Applications
Girls Leadership encourages individuals of all racial, ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds to apply for this position. Girls Leadership is an equal opportunity employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, age, disability, veteran status, or any other basis prohibited by applicable law.
To apply, please send a resume and cover letter in Word or pdf format to hiring@girlsleadership.org. The subject line of the email should read California Adolescent Program Manager.
Applications will be reviewed and processed until the position is secured.
