Youth Center Program Director

The Ethos Youth Center Program Director oversees the day-to-day operations of Ethos Youth Center (Ethos). This role is responsible for supervising staff, ensuring compliance with agency policies and funding guidelines, and evaluating program effectiveness. The Program Director is dedicated to creating a safe, supportive environment for youth, and facilitating personal growth and development through various programs and activities. This position is vital to ensuring the continued success of Ethos Youth Center and its ability to support and empower youth in the community.

Folks who are queer, trans, non-binary, Black, Indigenous, people of color, disabled, and bilingual are encouraged to apply. 

This position will be expected to work Monday – Friday; 8:00am – 5:00pm 

Essential Duties

• Grant Management: The Ethos Program Director is responsible for managing multiple funding streams and ensuring that all grant objectives are met in accordance with funders' expectations. This includes monitoring the progress of each project or program to ensure timely and accurate completion of deliverables and reports.
• Staff Supervision: Provide ongoing support, guidance, and professional development opportunities for staff to enhance their skills in working with youth.
• Program oversight: Provide leadership and direction for all Ethos Youth Center programs, ensuring they align with the agency’s mission and the needs of the community.
• Youth Programing implementation: Lead the design, development, and implementation of a variety of youth-focused programs and activities that promote personal growth, leadership, healthy relationships, and resilience.
• Data/reporting oversight: Develop and maintain systems for accurate data collection and reporting, ensuring all program activities and outcomes are tracked in compliance with funder requirements.
• Establish and maintain external relationships: Foster strong, collaborative relationships with external partners, such as schools, law enforcement, social service agencies, mental health providers, and community organizations.
• Represent Ethos Youth Center at community meetings, coalitions, and events to advocate for the needs of the youth and ensure the center’s visibility in the community.

Additional Responsibilities

Personal Management:

• Ensures program staff and volunteers receive the necessary training and orientation needed for successful job completion.
• Supervise all Ethos Youth Center staff.
• Oversee the implementation of personnel policies and address any issues in a timely manner.
• Ensures staff and volunteers receive the necessary administrative training upon hire.
• Ensures all staff are successfully implementing personnel policies and that all staff and volunteers are compliant with policies.
• Ensures ongoing staff meetings are occurring in a productive manner.
• Ensures ongoing attention to morale and self-care issues.
• Oversee evaluations of all staff.

Data Oversight:

• Works to develop and maintain protocols and procedures for client data collection as necessary.
• Oversees data entry and reporting for each program.
• Ensures staff are adequately trained and have a good comprehension of data collection and reporting strategies.
• Ensures data are entered into database in a timely manner.
• Ensures statistical progress and data reports are run in timely and accurate manner, so information may be included in progress reports.
• Ensures data entry staff receives adequate training and supervision to ensure accurate and timely data entry.

Program Oversight/Support:

• Drop-in Center support.
• Ensure compliance with agency policies, funding guidelines, and program objectives.
• Evaluate program effectiveness and identify areas for future development.
• Oversee office operations and facilities management.
• Ensure adequate staffing and resources to meet program needs.
• Provide crisis support and facilitate meaningful learning opportunities for youth.
• Attend program and agency staff meetings when requested by Senior Program Officer.

Training:

• Provides oversight and implementation trainings as necessary.
• Seeks additional training for staff and volunteers when needed for professional and program growth.

Volunteer Management:

• Ensures effective recruitment, screening, training and coordination of volunteers.

Administrative Duties:

• Attends Program and Administrative Team meetings.
• Organize, coordinate, and attend meetings, as requested.
• Attend Board meetings and create a board report for each meeting.
• Acts as a liaison between administration.

External Relationships/Community Collaborations:

• Responsible for building and maintaining strong, collaborative community relationships throughout Mariposa County.
• Represents the agency at all functions in Mariposa County.
• Provides advocacy with external partners as needed, including law enforcement, human services agencies, etc.
• Regularly communicate with staff and community partners to ensure ongoing and effective communication between Programs.
• Ensures the provision of training to community partners, as requested and appropriate.
• Ensures the development and maintenance of essential community collaborations.
• Ensures program representation at community meetings deemed to be important to one or more program.
• Includes Executive Director of agency in meetings and functions at times where it benefits a particular program, and at times where decisions may be made which will impact overall funding or operations of agency.
• Support youth in crisis by coordinating with community partners like resource officer, CWS, MCUSD.

Fiscal Responsibilities:

• Monitors existing program budgets.
• Regularly reviews financials for each program and makes recommendations to the admin team when budget changes are necessary.
• Ensures spending remains within budget guidelines or that budget modifications are completed according to funding guidelines.
• Responsible for ensuring each program’s compliance with day-to-day accounting policies and procedures.

Fund Development:

• Searches for and proposes new grants and fundraising opportunities to Executive Director in accordance with program's needs.
• Incorporates program evaluation results in searching for additional or different funding opportunities.
• Responsible for overseeing local fundraising efforts (individual donors and events)– works to increase community and board involvement in fundraising efforts.
• Ensures donors are thanked and information is compiled in agency database.
• Works with Administrative Team in development of grant proposals.

Grants Management:

• Ensures compliance with work plan objectives of all grants and contracts of the programs.
• Ensures compliance with budget expenditures of all grants and contracts of the programs.
• Works with the Administrative Team and program staff to ensure all fiscal and progress reports are completed in a timely and accurate manner.
• Maintains ongoing communications with funders in program matters.
• Maintains ongoing communication with Administrative Team when work plan and budget modifications are necessary.

Complaints and Grievances:

• Reviews all complaints and grievances by community partners, staff, and clients of each program.
• Brings complaints and grievances to the Administrative Team/Executive Director when necessary.

Facilities Management:

• Ensures all facilities meet program standards, operates according to the health and safety policies, and are run efficiently and effectively.

Information and Technology:

• Ensures all program staff have their needs met with regards to technology.
• Communicate with Administrative Team regarding major needs or problems with IT systems.

Qualifications and Education Requirements  

Education/Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree or equal life experience in social work, psychology, sociology, management, education or other related field preferred.
• Four years’ experience working or volunteering within a non-profit youth program, violence prevention/response or related field preferred.

Knowledge of:

• Primary prevention of domestic and sexual violence.
• Adolescent development.
• Positive youth development approaches.
• Teen dating violence and sexual violence.
• Crisis intervention and supportive counseling techniques.
• Computer skills: Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Internet/Emailing, Website Management, Social Media Strategies.
• Office Equipment Operation, including computers, phone, fax, copier, etc.
• Trauma-Informed Care.
• Current social, economic and health problems and of human behavior and social functioning.

​ Other

• Must have reliable transportation, a valid driver’s license, and DMV clearance.
• Must have and maintain current auto insurance.
• Can be depended upon to report consistently to work at scheduled time and is seldom absent from work.
• Notifies supervisor with appropriate notice when absent.
• Employee can be depended upon to complete work in a timely, accurate, and thorough manner and is conscientious about assignments.
• Follows instructions, responds to management direction, takes responsibility for own actions, keeps commitments.
  

Ethos Youth Center is a program of Alliance for Community Transformations. 

Alliance for Community Transformations is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer.  All qualified applicants will be considered regardless of race, color, religion, ancestry, national origin, age, gender, marital status, sexual orientation, medical condition or physical disability.

Benefits: 12 paid holidays, 152 hours of paid time off per year, Cafeteria Plan with Health, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, and Retirement Benefit Options.

Salary : $6,006 - $6,635