Healing to Advocacy Program Manager
South Pasadena, California, 91030-6141, United StatesAll locationsSouth Pasadena, California, 91030-6141, United StatesLos Angeles, CA On-site
$90,000–$95,000 a yearJobFig found this opening at its original source and checks that it remains available.
About the role
Essie Justice Group (Essie) is building grassroots power to dismantle the US incarceration system, the most egregious creator of racial and gender injustice of our time. We are a loving and powerful community of women with incarcerated loved ones. Our community includes cisgender women, transgender women, formerly incarcerated women, gender expansive people, elders, and young people. After twelve years of building an active membership across California and beyond, Essie is deepening its base-building and leadership development strategies with the 1 in 4 women with incarcerated loved ones to propel bold decarceration agendas across the nation. We seek to transform the criminal legal system and create a Black feminist future rooted in care, equity, community safety, and liberation. The Healing to Advocacy Program Manager is a full-time, salaried, exempt position. This position leads the Healing to Advocacy Program and reports to the Associate Director of Strategy & Organizational Impact. The position can be based at either of Essie’s offices in Los Angeles or Oakland, California.
What you'll bring
- 3-5 years of experience in complex program implementation
- Detail-oriented project manager with experience managing multiple, complex projects at once.
- Understands and demonstrates knowledge of best practices in recruitment, retention, and Black feminist culture-setting.
- Excellent prioritization skills (i.e. understands the difference between what’s important, urgent, and what is neither).
- Advanced experience in facilitating retreats, workshops, and/or political education trainings.
- Experience supervising people in a way that acknowledges differentials in privilege and power, recognizes their gifts, encourages their confidence, supports their growth, and holds them accountable to standards and achieving collective goals.
- Effective writing, editing, and verbal communication skills.
- Track record as a collaborative leader.
- preferably in community organizing or direct services contexts.