The Program Manager Community Education advances community- centered learning and education by transforming LFJs frameworks into localized culturally grounded education across Community Justice Sites and SPLCs five-state region.
This role centers program design localizing curriculum development workshop writing facilitation and train-the-trainer leadership to ensure that communities are equipped with sustainable knowledge and skills for collective action. This role collaborates across SPLC departments to translate specialized expertise into accessible community learning opportunities. The Community Education Program Manager serves as a bridge between SPLCs internal knowledge and the lived realities of local communities ensuring education fuels both advocacy and long-term community power movement for liberation. This position will work 100% of the time in SPLCs five states and is expected to live in one of SPLCs five states AL FL GA LA or MS.
Community-centered Program Manager with experience educating organizing and working alongside local communities across SPLCs cover area.
Empathetic culturally responsive communicator skilled at building trust with diverse stakeholders community leaders and partner organizations and listens to understand community needs and meet them where they are.
Strategic visionary leader who can co-create program plans with communities and take initiative to implement and manage those plans and turn them into workshops trainings and learning spaces designed to inform empower and mobilize communities.
Strong creative writer and trainer able to adapt organizational content and values into language that resonates with local communities and manage multiple programs and community partnerships simultaneously.
Flexible adaptable and organized able to prioritize effectively across multiple communities while responding to evolving community needs and realities.
Design write and implement Community Justice Site workshops and curricula that localize LFJ frameworks into accessible culturally grounded education.
Lead and manage Community Justice Site programming across five SPLC states ensuring alignment with LFJ frameworks and responsiveness to community needs.
Facilitate and lead community dialogue sessions that promote honest history identity diversity justice and action. Develop and manage train-the-trainer programs that build sustainable capacity among local leaders and educators.
Collaborate across SPLC departments (Policy Legal Intelligence Project Development and State Offices) to integrate specialized expertise into community learning.
Build and maintain partnerships with community leaders educators organizations and cultural institutions to sustain local autonomy.
Provide program management oversight including timelines budgets reporting and multi-state coordination. Document educational themes participant insights and emerging community priorities to inform LFJs broader education and advocacy strategy.
Represent SPLC and LFJ in external meetings conferences and convenings centered on education and community learning.
Up to 80% travel is expected.
Perform other duties as required or assigned which are reasonably within the scope of the duties in this job classification.
We are committed to equitable hiring practices; therefore you must meet the minimum qualifications to be considered for the role.
This is an exempt role and the minimum starting salary is $64202 annually. Salary will be commensurate with experience.
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This job is performed under general office conditions and is not subject to any strenuous physical demands or dangerous conditions.
This position will travel within the SPLCs five state footprint up to 80% of the time.
This position is represented by the Washington-Baltimore News Guild.
The statements herein are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by the employee in this position. These statements are notintended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities duties and skills required of a person in this position.
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