Director, College & Career Success
Director, College & Career Success
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12-05-2025
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12-05-2025
Job Description
The Los Angeles Brotherhood Crusade is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization founded in 1968 to enrich the lives of youth seniors homeless populations economically disadvantaged families and underserved individuals in South Los Angeles by providing and facilitating a variety of essential educational services social services cultural activities vocational opportunities and economic empowerment opportunities.
Brotherhood Crusade envisions a South Los Angeles devoid of health disparities disenfranchisement and poverty associated adverse public health conditions. We believe that South Los Angeles can be a safe thriving culturally relevant and inclusive community that provides all residents equitable access to human and social services and continually improves their quality of life. Our mission is to remove and/or help individuals overcome the barriers that deter their pursuit of success in life; effectuate academic and vocational success; provide opportunities for personal social and economic growth; promote access to artistic excellence and cultural awareness; increase financial literacy; facilitate opportunities for a better quality of life; and promote health and safety.
SUMMARY
The College & Career Success Program Director will be responsible for the development implementation and management of the South Los Angeles Youth WorkSource Center college access program. The position will develop and establish a postsecondary program including the outreach recruitment teaching and providing provision of services to a cohort of students and parents with college awareness advising sessions workshops and/or events on a weekly basis.
The goal of the South Los Angeles Youth WorkSource Center is to provide services to youth who are engaged in improving their life by developing social and vocational skills that lead to selfreliance and subsequently advance their career objectives. The College & Career Success Program Director will work with the Youth WorkSource Leadership team to develop collaborative efforts that directly establish and instruct appropriate curriculum in partnership with employers and workforce training institutions. This position guides the work of staff that assist youth in achieving their individual employment and college plans as it relates to their readiness to succeed in college interviews internships and job placement. Responsibilities may include but are not limited to:
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
Motivate Inspire and have vision
Strategize implementation and plan for achieving outcomes as required by various grants and Brotherhood Crusade
Develop measures for benchmarking achievement of milestones and progress indicators along the way
Foster collaboration opportunities with community partners
Identify and develop quality programming to meet the needs of the community
Daily troubleshooting and problem solving
Provide regular outcome and evaluation reports as requested
Prepare reports for Brotherhood Crusade senior management
Establish effective relationships with private nonprofit and community partners
Develop programs and activities to motivate participants participation and retention
Monitor departmental budget and track expenditures
Manage staff; hire train and develop staff
Responsible for program plan and implementation
Develop and evaluate curriculum and instructional workshops
Resolve issues pertaining to delivery of services with respect to local college access programs
Develop and maintain collaborative relationships with students parents school community and partner personnel
Develop systems to maintain records of applicants not selected for employment and create support plans with Case Managers.
Oversee youth workforce projects including those related to:
Tutoring and enrichment services to improve academic skills
Recreational programs
College and career services
Financial literacy services
Develop and maintain database and statistics as required by program and funding sources.
Participate in staff meetings supervision training programs and other meetings as required.
Work closely with the case management staff in keeping open communication and interaction to meet customer satisfaction and job placement goals.
Design coordinate and implement student and parent services at the Youth WorkSource site
Develop programming in areas such as postsecondary education options financial aid career exploration through workshops events individual and small group counseling and classroom presentation
Ensure student participants and parents are served from the surrounding high schools and local community colleges.
Provide training for case managers in areas such as but not limited to the following: postsecondary preparation financial aid and college selection academic preparation
Ensure that all objectives are met in a timely and costeffective manner
Resolve issues pertaining to delivery of services with respect to local college access programs
Develop and maintain collaborative relationships with students parents school community and partner personnel
Attend community events forums and other events that relate to the goals and objectives of the program
Participate in community meetings staff meetings parent coordinators meetings and trainings that relate to the goals and objectives of the program
Complete required reports and update supervisor weekly
Guide services and curriculum development to ensure that objectives are met
Responsible for managing program outcomes
Other duties as assigned.
QUALIFICATIONS
Bachelor degree in social sciences or similar field.
At least three years of paid experience in workforce development case management/career counseling and /or recruiting.
Minimum 35 years experience providing direct services to students and parents multicultural populations or underprepared students.
Demonstrated ability to establish and maintain effective relationships with school personnel after school personnel program officers evaluators parents students and community professionals.
Experience working in collaboration with mentoring afterschool and other activities (such as events workshops field trips) that relate to the goals and objectives of the program.
Excellent oral and written communication skills.
Demonstrated competency with technology internet software etc.
Demonstrated competency with recordkeeping documentation and data management.
Ability to teach service delivery skills to volunteers interns peer mentors and high school students.
Expertise in program design and availability to decision making regarding participant service delivery and liability.
Ability to provide leadership and coordination of daytoday programming.
Knowledge of principles and processes for providing outstanding customer service.
Strong knowledge of recruiting interviewing selecting hiring.
Selfstarter organized and detailoriented.
Ability to work effectively as a team member.
Ability to communicate openly and effectively with all staff.
Strong problemsolving ability organizational skills and deadlinedriven. Must have independent judgment and problemsolving ability.
Must be available to work flexible schedule (some mornings some evenings).
Job requires a willingness to take on responsibilities and challenges. Ability to work under only general supervision selfstarter ability to effectively multitask.
Must be punctual and deadlinedriven.
Must have access to reliable transportation for frequent travel between sites.
Job requires being open to change and to considerable variety in the workplace.
Experience facilitating workshops.
Strong computer skills.
Proficient in Microsoft Office (Word Excel Access PowerPoint)
Bilingual/Spanish a plus
If applicable will be required to present current California driver license proof of acceptable driving record (DMV H6 printout) and liability auto insurance
MINIMUM KNOWLEDGE SKILLS TRAINING EXPERIENCE AND ABILITIES FOR ALL POSITIONS
The ideal candidate shall possess a passion and commitment to the betterment of all individuals especially low income and atrisk individuals. The candidate must: have an acuity for implementing alternative/innovative programming; demonstrate patience with hardest to serve hardest to teach individuals; demonstrate competence through education and experience; understand human nature and be able to provide reasonable counsel; possess demonstrable leadership skills; have strong interpersonal skills; have strong organizational skills; and have a clean criminal record. In addition the candidate should have at least 2 years of experience or any equivalent combination of training and experience which provides the required knowledge skills and abilities.
$80000 $90000 a year
SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS
Must possess a valid California Drivers License.
Due to our inperson and in office work with LAUSD City of LA County of LA and other work partners that require our team to be vaccinated we require that all potential candidates must be COVID19 vaccinated with either Pfizer Moderna or Johnson & Johnson.
WORKING CONDITIONS WHILE PERFORMING ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS AND EQUIPMENT USED
The successful candidate will be required to report to and work from the office complex at least five days a week. Offices are traditionally equipped with computers telephones desks chairs and office machines. Additionally each office offers an instructional classroom from which orientations and trainings are conducted.
SALARY RANGE:
Benefits and salary will be negotiated based on experience education and the needs of the program.
DISCLAIMER
This program is unique in that the successful candidate may be working with individuals who heretofore have never been exposed to the subject matter and as such may not readily adopt the precepts or methodologies. Moreover these clients may exhibit stressrelated emotions such as tension frustration and anger. The successful candidate must understand this phenomenon and possess a psychologically stable profile and a demeanor that minimizes the opportunity that these emotions will escalate to conflict.
The preceding job description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties responsibilities and qualifications required of employees to perform in this job.
BENEFITS
Excellent full benefits package.
SCHEDULE
Must be available to work Monday Friday from 9:00am 5:30pm.
There may be occurrences when a work or community event occurs on Saturday and/or Sunday. Your work schedule will be flexed to accommodate this change and you will be notified in advance.
Required Experience:
Director
Employment Type
Full-Time
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