Senior Manager, Program Development (CS)
Senior Manager, Program Development (CS)
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09-05-2025
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Job Description
Program Overview
The Senior Manager Program Development for Youth Services is responsible for designing and preparing impactful evidenceinformed programs that support the personal social and educational development of young people. This role focuses on the design and development phase of programming and is responsible for the conceptualization validation testing and fulsome development of new Youth Services programs including program descriptions curriculums resources measures of success and other items that support the successful implementation of new initiatives. Once finalized this role will work with the Youth Services operations teams to hand over the programs ensuring a smooth transition for ongoing success.
What You Will Do
Program Design & Development
- Liaise with educators community leaders and service providers to ensure the program aligns with community priorities and resources.
- Complete and analyze an environmental scan of local programs and agencies and other stakeholder groups related to the youth work.
- Identify access analyze and evaluate key data sets to inform program design and development.
- Develop and conduct program pilots as needed with established metrics in place to test program viability and outcomes.
- Design innovative outcomesdriven youth programs in alignment with organizational goals and identified community needs (e.g. leadership employment readiness wellness and life skills).
- Collaborate with the Youth Operations Team during the design phase to ensure operational readiness and sustainability.
- Develop program frameworks curriculum materials toolkits and resources that are easy to adopt and execute.
- Ensure all content is inclusive traumainformed and culturally responsive.
- Monitor sector funding opportunities including government and philanthropic to align program opportunities with potential funding sources; includes collaborating with WoodGreens Foundation to develop programming for donors to support.
- Prepare and submit funding applications as required.
- Prepare detailed program documentation and training materials for the Youth Operations Team.
- Provide initial guidance onboarding or training to operational staff as needed.
- Ensure a structured wellcommunicated handover process including timelines expectations and followup support if required.
- Design evaluation tools to measure impact and success metrics.
- Collaborate with the Youth Operations Team on data collection strategies to ensure meaningful evaluation posthandover.
- Use findings and feedback from pilot phases (if applicable) to refine the program before full rollout.
- Engage youth voices throughout the program development process through surveys focus groups or cocreation.
- Identify potential partnerships and develop strategic outreach strategy to key stakeholders and community partners to inform or support program opportunities.
What You Bring to the Team
- 3 years experience in education program development youth services programming and/or related fields.
- Strong ability to translate ideas into implementable programs.
- Strong ability to manage multiple workstreams and multidiscipline teams to achieve shared objectives.
- Experience in curriculum design an asset.
- Experience with the educational sector particularly in Toronto an asset.
What Will Set You Apart
- Drive and ability to learn quickly and effectively across a diverse range of project types and sectors.
- Excellent facilitation communication and influencing skills.
- Excellent relationship building and management skills across all levels of an organization (from frontline staff to Csuite executives).
- High degree of comfort with Microsoft suite of products (PPT Excel Teams SharePoint OneDrive etc.).
- Demonstrated ability to operate independently with sound decisionmaking skills.
- Experience in a matrixed reporting structure.
- Familiarity with PMBOK an asset.
WoodGreen is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to providing an inclusive and barrierfree selection process and work environment. If contacted in relation to an employment opportunity please advise our People & Culture representatives at of the accommodation measures required. Information received relating to accommodation will be addressed confidentially.
Required Experience:
Manager
Employment Type
Contract
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