Program Coordinator - ROSES Advocacy Coordinator (Full-Time)

New York University; New York (NY); On-site; USD 60,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

New York University in New York, NY seeks a Program Coordinator to implement the ROSES Advocacy Program, supervising 10–15 advocates and coordinating with NYU and community partners to support youth in navigating school, family, and social contexts.

Responsibilities include program management, staff supervision, and data tracking; strong emphasis on equity, anti-racism, LGBTQIA+ affirmation, and trauma-informed approaches.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in psychology, sociology, criminology, public health, or related field.
• Minimum two years supervising, mentoring, or coordinating employees, students, interns, or volunteers.
• Experience managing projects, programs, research studies, or community-based initiatives.
• Commitment to transformational change and advancing equity for youth and families.
• Excellent interpersonal, oral and written communication skills.
• Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, team-oriented environment.
• Familiarity with Microsoft Office and Google Drive.

Responsibilities

• Develop, supervise, and train an advocacy team of around 10–15 students.
• Supervise weekly sessions; maintain advocacy calendars and structures.
• Build relationships with child welfare and juvenile legal systems.
• Coordinate recruitment of advocates and referrals.
• Develop data management systems to track advocacy activities.
• Compile community resources into usable guides for advocates.
• Establish feedback mechanisms with PIs and supervisory staff.
• Troubleshoot implementation challenges and adapt as needed.
• Synthesize insights into accessible materials for agencies and families.
• Handle research administration tasks including expenses and grants.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Leadership

Organizational skills

Communication

Team coordination

Adaptability

Education

Bachelor's degree in psychology, sociology, criminology, public health, or related field

Tools

Microsoft Office

Google Drive

Airtable

Trello

Asana

Job description

New York University: NYU - NY: Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development: Office of Research: Institute of Human Development and Social Change

Location

New York, NY

Open Date

Aug 21, 2026

Description

Drs. Shabnam Javdani and Erin Godfrey are seeking a Program Coordinator who is excited to implement a strong intervention, and to help shape and strengthen a growing program committed to changing the systems and conditions that constrain young people's lives. The candidate will coordinate and support the Resilience, Opportunity, Strength, Education, Safety (ROSES) Advocacy Program. Currently implemented in collaboration with the New York Community Trust, ROSES is a community-based program pairing girls and LGB/TGNC+ youth experiencing school pushout or who have had police, probation, or court contact with a highly trained advocate. ROSES advocates work with young people in their communities free of charge to support them in their week, for 10-15 weeks, working with clients by providing access to resources and education, helping girls and young people define individual goals, supporting the development of self-efficacy skills, encouraging girls' and LGB/TGNC+ youths' engagement with multiple social contexts (school, family, peer, etc.), and promoting contextual competence to reduce school pushout, and child welfare and legal system involvement.

The Program Coordinator is responsible for the day-to-day leadership and implementation of the ROSES program. This position combines program management, personnel supervision, community partnership development, and youth advocacy within the juvenile legal and child welfare systems. The Program Coordinator trains and supervises a team of 10-15 undergraduate and/or graduate advocates with strong model fidelity, ensuring high-quality and timely program implementation. The Program Coordinator also manages relationships with community partners and legal system stakeholders, collaborating across settings and systems within and outside of NYU, and supports youth and families through these complex systems. Lastly, the Program Coordinator will be expected to monitor and track program implementation and fidelity, including overseeing and carrying out day-to-day administrative tasks within NYU's infrastructure.

ROSES is grounded in feminist, anti-racist, LGBTQIA+ affirming, trauma-informed, and community-based approaches that recognize and address the structural conditions that contribute to the criminalization of young people. We seek candidates who are committed to these principles and who approach their work with humility, curiosity, and a strong desire to partner with young people in pursuit of their self-determined goals. As such, the ideal candidate is both deeply committed to social justice and highly organized. They will have a strong interest in community-based outreach and interventions that support individuals from minoritized and often-excluded racial and ethnic backgrounds, as well as working knowledge or a strong desire to learn about the needs of youth in child welfare and juvenile legal settings in New York City with a focus on girls and LGBT+ and gender expansive youth. The role is well-suited for someone who is passionate about advancing equity and who is equally comfortable discussing structural racism and inequity as they are overseeing project tasks, providing constructive and strengths-based feedback to others, and trouble‑shooting implementation challenges. The successful candidate will be excited to build, train, and directly supervise advocates in their work with young people while coordinating multiple moving pieces across the program. They will be comfortable providing weekly supervision and written feedback to advocates, providing on-call individualized support to advocates, clients, and families, and collaborating closely with ROSES leadership and supervisors and community partners, to ensure high-quality implementation of the intervention program. The Program Coordinator should be an effective project manager who can balance competing priorities, anticipate challenges, and develop thoughtful, responsive solutions. They will demonstrate sound judgement, adaptability, and attention to detail in complex and evolving situations. Strong interpersonal and communication skills, dedication to social equity, and clear organizational and project management skills are required.

Specific responsibilities of the Advocacy Coordinator will include:

• Develop and maintain mastery of the ROSES advocacy model with support from study PIs.
• Build, train, lead, and supervise the advocacy team (around 10-15 advocates), composed of both undergraduate and graduate students at NYU, including developing and implementing training activities that foster and maintain critical consciousness and advocacy mastery among the intervention team.
• Supervise the advocacy team during multiple weekly supervision sessions; maintain advocacy calendars; develop and implement organizational structures and implement adaptive and creative responses to address shifting team needs.
• Develop, manage and maintain strong working relationships with a broad range of stakeholders in the child welfare and juvenile legal systems to promote their active engagement with the ROSES program.
• Coordinate recruitment of advocates and referrals of young people; work closely with the supervision staff and PIs, ensure smooth interactions between NYU departments, referring agencies, young people and their families.
• Develop, and utilize data management systems to track advocacy needs and acitivites, adherence or deviation from program framework.
• Research and compile community-based resources that can be organized into guides that advocates can utilize in their interventions.
• Establish feedback mechanisms to maintain responsiveness towards advocates, young people and families, in coordination with study PIs and the advocacy team.
• Devise swift troubleshooting mechanisms for emergent issues that affect the quality and sustainability of the program.
• Synthesize and translate insights across interventions into accessible communication materials that educate and inform referring agencies, young people and families about the program and the challenges of school pushout and legal system involvement.
• Perform research administration coordination tasks, including expense processing, procurement, and grant reporting.

The Advocacy Program Coordinator position offers a number of excellent training opportunities, including collaboration with senior and junior members of the research team, exposure to university-community research partnerships, and experience with community-based intervention research. This position also allows for professional development opportunities, including opportunities for accruing intervention hours, conference presentations, and publications that support building a strong professional portfolio. Access to a rich array of NYU seminars, and special training workshops in research methods and statistics, and in areas of social justice, intervention/evaluation, implementation science, and gender-informed approaches are also available.

In compliance with NYC's Pay Transparency Act, the annual base salary range for this position is $60,000-$75,000. New York University considers factors such as (but not limited to) the specific grant funding and the terms of the research grant when extending an offer.

Per NYU's remote-work policy, this position is expected to be fully in-person.

This position has supervisory responsibilities, responsible for supervising 10-15 undergraduate and graduate students.

Qualifications

• The candidate must have at least a Bachelor's degree in psychology, sociology, criminology, public health, intervention or prevention science or a related field.
• Minimum two years experience supervising, mentoring, or coordinating the work of employees, students, interns, voluneets, or community advocates.
• Demonstrated experience managing projects, programs, research studies, or community-based initiatives and familiarity with office and/or research administration.
• Commitment to transformational change and advancing equity for young people and families through community-based, relationship-centered work, and a shared belief that effective advocacy is rooted in anti-racism, feminism, LGBTQIA+ affirmation, and respect for young people's autonomy, strengths, and self-determined goals.
• Excellent interpersonal communication/rapport-building skills, and ability to work with and coordinate across diverse individuals, stakeholders, and organizations.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Excellent organizational skills, attention to detail, leadership, and follow-through.
• Comfort and capacity to work in a fast-paced team-oriented environment.
• Ability to work well independently and collaboratoively on a multidisciplinary team.
• Proven ability to adapt and respond quickly to changing needs, manage multiple conflicting priorities, overcome challenges, and lead with solutions.
• Comfort "managing up" and "managing down" as needed to accomplish advocacy goals.
• Available to work outside regular office hours, when needed.
• Competence with Microsoft Suite (e.g. Word, PowerPoint, Excel) and Google Drive.
• Familiarity with project management tools (e.g. Airtable, Trello, Asana, etc.) is a plus.

NYU is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to a policy of equal treatment and opportunity in every aspect of its recruitment and hiring process without regard to age, alienage, caregiver status, childbirth, citizenship status, color, creed, disability, domestic violence victim status, ethnicity, familial status, gender and/or gender identity or expression, marital status, military status, national origin, parental status, partnership status, predisposing genetic characteristics, pregnancy, race, religion, reproductive health decision making, sex, sexual orientation, unemployment status, veteran status, or any other legally protected basis. All interested persons are encouraged to apply for vacant positions at all levels.

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