Program Manager - River City Youth Ops
Full-time employee with goal to maintain communications and youth activities year-round. Salary depends on experience, cap at $45,000 without health insurance benefits.
Overview
The Program Manager will be responsible for delivering programming at River City Youth Ops as we grow our year-round, seasonal engagement with our Youth Ops team, youth ages 12-18, their families/guardians, and residents of the West Central neighborhood.
Apply with a resume and cover letter detailing your qualifications and experience in communications, working on a team, and working with youth in an educational setting. Apply to info@youthops.org by Feb 27, 2023.
Location
River City Youth Ops is in Spokane, Washington, in the West Central neighborhood, with on-site meetings/duties out of our office and farm space at The West Central Abbey. Program Manager will participate fully in Youth Ops Summer Program June - August, Tuesday - Friday, 8am - 3pm with occasional weekend events (such as Community Work Days with partner organizations and volunteer groups).
While located in Spokane, this position will be able to work remotely/independently, communicating by email, Google Drive, and phone, manage projects such as drafting/scheduling newsletters/social posts, managing program projects and/or lessons, scheduling presenters and field trips, and assisting in the preparation of the future seasonal calendar.
Responsibilities
Manage digital communications to engage and grow email subscribers and draft and schedule regular newsletters, quarterly updates, and publicize community events and farmers markets through email, phone, and social media (Instagram and Facebook).
Manage communications calendar and public informational calendar on Squarespace.
Provide supervision, training, and relatability to incorporate youth in project-based learning and management of farm and market operations via farm and food access related projects.
Represent us in the community by attending community partner events and meetings.
Provide supervision, training, and incorporate youth in project-based learning and management of farm and market operations through farm-and-food-access-related projects.
Centering relationships at the core of our contact/donor/volunteer/youth data and recordkeeping management, we use Little Green Light for our CRM/database, Google Drive for Documents and Spreadsheets, and Google Forms.
Communicating with youth participants utilizing active listening, non-violent communication, and motivational interviewing (attend team training in April).
Thank you acknowledgements, event invitations, and other donor communications.
Donation/gift entry and database management for accuracy.
Qualifications
Bachelor's degree or relevant work experience in nonprofit development, communications, education, trauma-informed care, and behavioral health.
Unwavering commitment to delivering a sincere, high-quality, educational job-training program for young people from diverse backgrounds.
Passion for working with youth in a respectful, positive, and empowering way.
Excellent relationship-building and collaboration skills with people.
Willingness to learn and implement compassionate communication strategies, such as active listening and nonviolent communication.
A commitment to cultivate an inclusive organizational culture that recognizes existing systemic inequity.
Strong sense of ownership and integrity, from small tasks to large projects.
Additionally, share your experience with:
Knowledge of regenerative agriculture, small farms, urban agriculture, market gardening, and youth education in experiential/classroom setting.
Food access and food systems issues.
Phone, email, Google Suite - Drive (Forms, Sheets and Documents), and nonprofit administration. Squarespace, Mailchimp, Salesforce, and surveying audiences.
About River City Youth Ops
River City Youth Ops creates opportunities for youth enrichment in Spokane’s West Central neighborhood through community engagement, job training, and education. We envision a diverse community of empowered, skilled and capable youth working to strengthen themselves and their local environment. River City Youth Ops is an urban farm project—founded with the vision to create environmentally friendly and restorative opportunities for youth. Our program supports trauma-impacted and low-income residents who may have challenges that we learn about over the course of the summer. This position will be meaningful because you are directly involved with our youth and facilitate daily activities that educate, inspire, and help our youth experience their first job in a team setting on our farms and grow our programs and partnerships for year-round presence in the community.
