Executive Assistant, Entry Level
Jerry
Director, Program – Employment and Education
Covenant House International
full-time
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Origin: • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $83,640 - $108,120 per year
Job Level
Lead
About the role
- Lead the strategic development, implementation, and oversight of employment and educational programming that helps youth experiencing homelessness across the Americas access meaningful employment, career pathways, and academic advancement
- Report to the VP, Program and ensure alignment with Covenant House’s Journey Home roadmap and organizational standards including equity, dignity, and youth voice
- Collaborate closely with Covenant House site leaders and foster strong partnerships across sectors to expand opportunities for young people
- Collaborate with CHI’s Program team to support the development and rollout of standards, guidelines and best practices around site-based employment and education programs
- Identify, build, and support site implementation of career pathway programs that reflect employment trends by site location and support occupational pathways for youth
- Support site education and employment leads in identifying and connecting to local skilling partners and employers, training providers, schools, post-secondary institutions, and workforce systems
- Take a leading role in identifying and nurturing employment partners at the national and local level and lead existing national employer partners (Accenture, Delta, Cisco)
- Provide hands-on support with local implementation of employment and training programs, credentialing, pre-apprenticeships, internships, and specialized training opportunities
- Support the development and management of national and local strategies for Adult Basic Education and GED/HED attainment, literacy, numeracy, and ESL
- Collaborate with CHI’s Research, Evaluation and Learning team to enhance data collection protocols, reporting, and evaluation methods
- Assist in creating collateral materials including video presentations and support the piloting and implementation of life skills curricula
- Collaborate on development and fundraising efforts, including grant proposals, reports, and publications
Requirements
- Experience in workforce development and education fields and in developing content and related resource packages
- Exceptional project management, organizational and interpersonal skills
- Highly developed communication skills, both verbal and written
- Strong technical skills; experience with MS365 and SharePoint
- Ability to work both independently and collaboratively, with a curious and collaborative mindset
- Experience working in a multi-cultural environment and working with people from a variety of backgrounds with a customer service orientation
- Bachelor’s degree in social work, public health, nonprofit administration, or a related field
- 5 years of program leadership experience in social service administration, preferably in youth homeless services
- Experience with Job Corps, Youth Build, Npower, YearUp, TRIO or similar programs (preferred examples listed)
- Familiarity with Smartsheet and Canva (preferred)
- Spanish fluency (written and oral) (preferred)
- Ability to travel once per year to New York City in January for annual in-person traditions
- Potential for up to 30% travel as needed within the US and Canada
