Healing to Advocacy Program Lead

Essie Justice Group; South Pasadena (CA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision benefits

401(k) option

Generous vacation package

Wellness stipend

Job summary

Essie Justice Group is seeking a Healing to Advocacy Program Manager in California. This full-time role leads the Healing to Advocacy Program, manages staff, and oversees day-to-day operations, with a salary between $90,000 and $95,000, and full medical, dental, and vision benefits.

Based in Los Angeles or Oakland offices, the role emphasizes Black feminist leadership, community organizing, and building cohorts statewide, with opportunities to influence program design and growth.

Qualifications

• 3-5 years of experience in complex program implementation, preferably in community organizing or direct services contexts.
• 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.

Responsibilities

• Directly manage 1-2 staff and day-to-day operations of the Healing to Advocacy Program.
• Create a logistics plan to reduce barriers to participation.
• Co-design the EssieKids! childcare program as part of the Healing to Advocacy Program.
• Recruit and manage member facilitators and oversee statewide cohorts.
• Develop and implement program evaluation systems and collect data.

Skills

Program management

People management

Logistics planning

Community organizing

Communication skills

Retreat facilitation

Job description

Essie Justice Group is seeking a Healing to Advocacy Program Manager in California. This full-time role leads the Healing to Advocacy Program, manages staff, and oversees day-to-day operations, with a salary between $90,000 and $95,000, and full medical, dental, and vision benefits.

Based in Los Angeles or Oakland offices, the role emphasizes Black feminist leadership, community organizing, and building cohorts statewide, with opportunities to influence program design and growth.