Program Director - Los Angeles, United States - City Year

City Year
City Year
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Los Angeles, United States

3 weeks ago

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Number of Positions: 1


Compensation:
$70, $75,000.00 Commensurate with Experience and Location

Position Overview


Reporting directly to the Senior Program Director, as a member of the Program and Service team, the Program Director (PD) plays a critical role in implementing City Year Los Angeles' school-based service model.

The PD spends the majority of the work week in the field, supervising up to 6 Program Managers and overseeing up to 30-50 AmeriCorps members.

The PD is responsible for the overall management of the day-to-day programmatic operations of their team. The PD is also responsible for leading their team to ensure that all goals and service outcomes are met.


The PD oversees AmeriCorps member professional development, ensures a strong service impact, and supports the overall efforts of City Year's mission statement.

The PD also serves on the site's Leadership Team and is responsible for working to promote the long-term sustainability of the site, fostering strategic relationships, serving on committees/portfolio teams, etc.


City Year values and continuously works to build an equitable and inclusive culture where people with diverse lived experiences feel they belong.

elopment and support the overall efforts of City Year's mission statement.


Job Description:


Responsibilities:

People and Partnership Management

  • Program Manager Management
  • Develop, manage, and coach Program Managers through daily contact, site visits to schools, weekly checkins, beginning of year goal setting and planning, midyear and end of year performance reviews, and professional development opportunities.
  • Provide guidance on meeting monthly, quarterly, and annual Program and Service goals, and administrative deadlines.
  • Facilitate best practice sharing across teams.
  • Support Program Managers in team leadership and work with Program Managers to ensure that AmeriCorps members are in compliance with City Year, AmeriCorps, and School regulations and policies.
  • Relationship Management
  • Build and maintain relationships with principals and school liaisons and serve as supervisory contact.
  • Ensure Program Managers are building strong relationships with school site stakeholders.
  • Lead and support action planning and addressing any City Year and/or school crises.
  • Work with Program Manager, Sr. Program Director, and Managing Director of Impact to develop strategy to secure continuation of funding allocations from school partners annually.
  • Create and oversee neighborhood engagement strategy.
AmeriCorps Member Experience

  • AmeriCorps Member Management & Training
  • Maintain site's adherence to standards and national programmatic baselines.
  • Lead and manage Program Managers in their roles supporting & managing the team including through accountability and standards issues and manage disciplinary action regarding AmeriCorps members.
  • Communicate with Program Managers regarding AmeriCorps member professional development needs.
  • Work with Senior Service Director, Learning & Instructional Director and fellow Program Directors to develop trainings and training vision.
  • Provide quality trainings around service implementation to groups of staff and AmeriCorps members (ranging in size from a minimum of 8 to a maximum of 80).
  • Provide overall support for all AmeriCorps member trainings.
  • Team Development
  • Ensure team is welldeveloped, strong, connected to their work, and the organization.
  • The PD must be well respected by Program Managers and AmeriCorps members and be effective leaders of the team.
  • Support professional development of staff and AmeriCorps members.
  • Community Awareness
  • Engage team in activities and experiences that deepen their understanding of the communities in which they serve.
  • Leverage City Year Values and frameworks to help staff and AmeriCorps members develop perspective on their role in the school community.
  • Work with team to understand the resources provided by local community organizations that may benefit students and the school community.
Program Fidelity

  • Service Model Fidelity
  • Ensure Program Managers are implementing Whole School Whole Child model with fidelity to enhance service quality and maximize impact.
  • Ensure that service tools are utilized effectively.
  • The PD ensures that Program Managers are setting and monitoring clear, measurable weekly and monthly deliverables for AmeriCorps members to ensure effective planning and execution of service priorities and parent/community engagement events.
  • Service Impact & Evaluation
  • Support evaluation team in collection of data.
  • Track Program Manager's data deliverables, teams' progress, observations and general service impact.
  • Work with service team and Program Managers to coach around and ensure quality of daytoday service implementation.
  • Regularly observe classroom and outofschool activities.
  • Support Program Managers in placing AmeriCorps members in classroom.
  • Af
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