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Job Title: Program Director
Salary Range: $55,000-$60,000
Status: Full Time
Reports to: Executive Director

UNITY IN MOTION OVERVIEW
Our Purpose is to disrupt segregation by empowering young leaders to build diverse, equitable, and loving communities.

We accomplish this through incredibly fun and empowering community-building adventures for diverse young people delivered by caring, consistent, culturally competent near-peer mentors.

POSITION MISSION
The Mission of the Program Director is to build and lead a highly skilled and effective program team; with this team, design and deliver engaging, high quality, culturally responsive experiential programming for young people that empowers, supports the growth of diverse relationships, and develops culturally responsive socioemotional skills and equitable leadership skills; throughout, developing and nurturing authentic and consistent relationships with those young people and their families.

AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITY
1. Program staff hiring, training, evaluation, and coaching/development
2. Program design, delivery, and continuous improvement
3. Volunteer recruitment, training, management
4. Family and participant recruitment and engagement

WHAT YOU’LL DO
If you were in this role right now, you might be:

• Leading a fun, hands-on training for our summer program team.
• Designing curriculum and creating a program plan for an upcoming middle school program.
• Conducting a program quality and equity assessment and making a plan for improvement.
• Providing feedback and coaching to a program team member.

• Calling participant families to recruit for our high school leadership program.

VALUES
We expect candidates to demonstrate accountability to and alignment with Unity in
Motion’s Vision, Mission, and Strategic Plan. Additional values we expect a candidate to demonstrate are:

1. Self-Awareness - We are true to ourselves and we own our impact
2. Kindness - We uplift ourselves and others with thoughtful words and actions.
3. Courage - We choose to stand up for ourselves and each other, even when it's hard.
4. Community - We include, respect, and empower one another.
5. Joy - We share our passion, playfulness, and positivity with one another.

PRIORITY COMPETENCIES
To be successful in this role, you will excel in the following areas:

1. CULTURAL COMPETENCE: Possesses the ability to appreciate and interact effectively with individuals and groups across cultural boundaries.
Acknowledges that “culture” goes beyond what’s visible, and extends to many other facets of the human experience, such as sexual orientation, socio-economic status, ability, etc. Understands their own dimensions of difference and how those inform the lens through which they approach cultural differences. Continuously works to develop relationships with people of various backgrounds.

2. MANAGING OTHERS: Establishes clear direction, objectives, and responsibility for tasks. Distributes workloads and delegates appropriately. Helps to focus others on meaningful and specific goals and maintains appropriate accountability for follow-through. Provides training as needed. Monitors and measures progress. Maintains regular two-way dialogue to provide feedback and support and ensure success.

3. INITIATIVE: Begins work that will improve or enhance products or services without being asked. Evaluates, selects, and acts on strategies for solving problems and meeting objectives without prompting. Plans ahead to minimize and avoid problems.

4. CREATIVITY: Examines problems and opportunities from a unique perspective; sees patterns and themes not always apparent. Makes connections among previously unrelated notions. Comes up with new and unique ideas. Reexamines traditional approaches and practices; proactively looks for new ideas and ways to improve products, services, and work processes. Shapes new ideas to bring value to UIM.

5. CUSTOMER FOCUS: Is dedicated to meeting or exceeding the expectations and needs of customers (internal and external). Solicits first-hand customer information and proactively uses it to help deliver and improve products and services; acts with customer in mind. Establishes and maintains effective and trusting relationships with customers.

6. PRIORITY SETTING: Understands and responds to multiple issues and needs deliberately and constructively. Can balance multiple demands and inputs; manages to focus on the "right" things to achieve results in sometimes chaotic times.

REPORTING & RELATIONSHIPS
The Program Director reports to the Executive Director. The Program Director leads the Program Leadership Team. The Program Director may supervise directly or indirectly a Program Coordinator and other direct service sta and volunteers.

POSITION AVAILABILITY

• The responsibilities of this position generally require 35-40 hours of work per week.
• During the summer season, this is a 24-hour on-call position. You will work onsite at our overnight camp programs throughout Wisconsin for 3-5 weeks.
• Some programming occurs on weekday nights and weekends during the school year.

CERTIFICATIONS

• Valid CPR/AED and First Aid certification is required within the first 30 days of employment. Unity in Motion will cover the cost of this certification.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

• Experiential Education/Programming Expertise - Knowledge of experiential education and cutting-edge youth development practices
• Program Facilitation Skills - Proven ability to facilitate experiential youth programming and mentoring
• 2-3 years of successful supervisory and management experience.
• Proven ability to develop and maintain collaborative relationships internally and externally with strong interpersonal skills and cross-cultural proficiencies.
• Strong computer skills, ability to use existing technology to achieve desired results and proficiency in Google applications.

COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS

• Salary Range: $55,000-$60,000
• 6 weeks paid time o.
• Professional development and training stipend.
• Annual compensation is calculated to include money to reasonably purchase health, dental and vision insurance. The employee has the choice to use this money to purchase these benefits or retain as additional monetary compensation. Unity in Motion will refer all new employees to a licensed professional benefit expert upon request.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS/WORKING CONDITIONS

• Must be physically and mentally able to meet the challenges of navigating and working in a remote, natural, camp setting.
• This position lives on-site during the summer.
• Must be comfortable working in an office setting in the “off-season”, situated in an urban setting in the community we serve.

PLEASE CONSIDER…
In the spirit of transparency, we want to share some additional information about this position and our organization to help in your decision making:

• This is an extremely entrepreneurial and creative role that requires someone highly self-motivated.

• This is a small team, you will spend a lot of time working with and interacting with the Executive Director.

• Please consider the varying work environment of this position. You’ll spend some of your work week working remotely, some in-person in an oce or remote workspace, and some out in the “field” connecting with stakeholders and facilitating programming.

• In a small team, you’ll need to wear many hats. You will have to transition between these hats rapidly. You may be mitigating a serious parent complaint one moment, plunging a toilet the next, drafting a curriculum for our next leadership seminar, and ending the day leading a game of capture the flag.

• At times you will be the primary program facilitator for our teen leadership program, community reunions, and more. You’ll be providing programming directly to our young people. Please consider if you’re passionate about this part of the role.

• You’ll live and work onsite for the summer camp season (3-5 weeks each summer, as the program grows). These are LONG days and can feel isolating for some. You’ll have at least 24 hours o each week to go home, but please consider if you’re excited to make the transition each year to living on-site.

• We’re still figuring things out. Our programs are very new, and we are approaching youth development in a radical way. We try things, make mistakes, and work to get a little better every day.

OUR COMMITMENT TO EQUITY & JUSTICE IN THE HIRING PROCESS
We are committed to racial equity, and we encourage people of color, indigenous people, gender-nonconforming people, people from poor and working-class backgrounds, women, and people with historically more marginalized identities to apply for open positions.

Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply for jobs unless they believe they meet every one of the qualifications as described in a job description. Please do not hesitate to apply if our mission aligns with yours and if this position interests you.

The purpose of our hiring process is to select the best possible candidate to fulfill the duties outlined above. Our Hiring Committee will assess qualifications based on an individual's skills and ability, rather than credentials, degrees, or access to social power and resources.

HOW TO APPLY
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HIRING PROCESS

1. Online application (30-45 minutes)
2. Initial screening conversation (30 minutes)
3. 1:1 Interview with Executive Director (90 minutes)
4. Take-home project (1-3 hrs)
5. Panel interview (90 minutes)

At each step, the applicant pool will be assessed, and we will inform you whether or not we are inviting you to the next round. All applicants who advance to step 4 or higher will be compensated for their time at $15/hr with a Visa gift card, regardless of the final offer decision.

The above job description is not intended as, nor should it be construed as, exhaustive of all responsibilities, skills, efforts, or working conditions associated with this job.
Reasonable accommodations may be made in appropriate circumstances to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this job.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $55,000.00 - $60,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Flexible schedule
• Paid time off
• Professional development assistance

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday
• Weekend availability

Experience:

• Youth Program: 1 year (Required)
• Management: 1 year (Required)

Work Location: Multiple Locations