Job Description

Program Manager

Young Women’s Freedom Center (YWFC)

Compensation

$72,000 - $75,000

The Program Manager at Young Women’s Freedom Center (YWFC) is responsible for ensuring strong program performance, operational consistency, and accountability across all site-based initiatives while upholding YWFC’s Theory of Change and values of Sisterhood, Self-Determination, Social Justice, and Spirituality.

This leadership role provides supervisory direction and operational oversight to ensure programming is implemented with quality, professionalism, and measurable impact. The Program Manager strengthens program infrastructure, supervises staff, ensures compliance with contracts and reporting requirements, and maintains strong relationships with youth, community partners, and system stakeholders. The role requires independent judgment, strong management capacity, and a deep commitment to youth leadership and community impact.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and manage assigned programs to ensure quality, contractual compliance, and strong performance outcomes.
• Implement and monitor annual work plans with clear benchmarks and accountability measures.
• Ensure programming reflects harm reduction, youth development principles, and education as a practice of freedom.
• Oversee curriculum implementation to ensure structured, consistent programming.
• Analyze participant data and program outcomes to strengthen performance and address gaps.
• Supervise staff, fellows, and interns through structured 1:1 meetings, performance feedback, and professional development support.
• Maintain strong documentation practices, including case notes, supervision records, and reporting systems.
• Ensure rigorous and timely reporting across internal systems.
• Provide comprehensive program summaries reflecting both quantitative metrics and qualitative impact.
• Support budget monitoring in partnership with the Site Director.
• Strengthen youth leadership by supporting self-advocacy, systems navigation, and accountability.
• Maintain professional relationships with probation, courts, detention facilities, and community-based partners.
• Represent YWFC in coalition, advocacy, and community spaces as appropriate.
• Participate in organizational planning, trainings, and strategic initiatives.

Qualifications

Young Women’s Freedom Center prioritizes the leadership and lived experience of cis and trans women and girls, trans men and boys, and gender expansive youth of color impacted by incarceration, foster care, gender-based violence, and poverty. Lived experience is deeply valued.

This role also requires demonstrated program leadership and operational capacity.

• 1–3 years of experience in nonprofit program coordination, program management, or team leadership with responsibility for outcomes.
• Experience supervising staff or peer leaders, including performance management and accountability practices.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple program components while maintaining strong systems, documentation, and follow-through.
• 1–3 years of direct experience working with system-impacted young people.
• Experience facilitating structured group programming or leadership development curriculum.
• Ability to build authentic relationships while maintaining clear professional boundaries.
• Experience maintaining data systems and supporting contract reporting requirements.
• Strong written communication skills and comfort with digital tools and spreadsheets.
• Experience collaborating with public systems such as probation, courts, or schools preferred.

Education & Equivalent Experience

We value multiple pathways to leadership. Lived experience, community leadership, and professional development are meaningful foundations for this work. An associate’s or bachelor’s degree in a related field may strengthen a candidate’s application but is not required. All candidates must demonstrate the applied skills necessary to supervise staff, manage programs (youth development experience preferred), maintain reporting systems, and uphold strong standards of accountability and professionalism.

Requirements

None