Program Specialist

Futures Without Violence • San Francisco, CA

11d • Hybrid

About The Position

The Program Specialist will provide programmatic support for the Public Education Campaigns & Programs Department of FUTURES. The Department is a global leader in developing solutions for broad-based social norm change with extensive efforts engaging men and boys to end gender-based violence, preventing teen dating abuse, and pioneering strategies to end relationship and sexual abuse on college campuses to name few. Specifically, the Program Specialist will work on a variety of programs in the Department’s portfolio including Team: Changing Minds, Coaching Boys Into Men, LinkUp Lab and Engaging Campus Men. In addition, the Public Education Campaign & Programs Department works extensively with the Communications and Development/Public Engagement teams in message building, curriculum development, and production (e.g., PSAs, public relations, social media outreach, visual/copy design, filming/photography/editing), reaching diverse audiences from athletic coaches and school counselors, to teens and parents.

Requirements

• Community organizing and relationship management
• Administrative and program operations skills
• Training on youth healthy relationships and gender-based violence prevention skills
• Experience/Study on gender norms, masculinity, and/or mental health
• Media and marketing campaign development (e.g., target/audience insight and segmentation, media outreach and strategy, message/concept design)
• Social media, design, podcasts) knowledge
• Measurement & Evaluation (e.g., mixed methods: qualitative/quantitative testing knowledge
• Located in San Francisco Bay Area, with a Hybrid schedule (1-2 days in office) expectation.
• Some local and long-distance travel to attend meetings, presentations, and events required.
• Some long-distance travel required.
• Essential functions of the position require use of a cell phone, a standard computer, and the ability to follow reasonable ergonomic recommendations.
• Bachelor’s degree and at least 3 years related work experience or equivalent combination of education/training and work experience (7 years combined)

Nice To Haves

• Experience working with: Youth or college-age populations and/or boys/men
• Community-based organizations, preferably organizations serving survivors of domestic and sexual violence, harassment, and/or human trafficking
• Communications, media, marketing, or public relationships firms
• Superior written and verbal communication skills
• Experience utilizing various social media platforms to engage the public on social justice issues
• Highly creative, entrepreneurial, and detail-oriented professional who works as successfully independently as well as part of a diverse team of dedicated professionals
• Strong interpersonal skills, and the ability to exercise effective judgment in a highly visible role.
• Demonstrated skills in building cross-sector community partnerships or community organizing
• Researching and synthesizing best practices to create accessible resources/tools
• Flexibility, and the ability to multi-task and prioritize competing deadlines
• Commitment to social justice with an emphasis on preventing and ending domestic and sexual violence and harassment, and promoting anti-discrimination
• Superior attention to detail and command of contemporary computer skills including Microsoft Office suite, Canva, Zoom meeting and other web-based meeting platforms and/or customer-relationship management (CRM) and learning management systems

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain relationships collaborating with partner organizations for effective project design and implementation.
• Respond to requests for assistance from the public and work with local advocates to provide strategic aid to communities, organizations, and institutions on related program issues.
• Conduct surveys, interviews and other forms of communication with program participants.
• Aid Development and Policy teams with action alerts, database management, and maintenance.
• Manage occasional mailings to constituents, funders, community advocates, and other supporters.
• Lead daily administrative work that supports program decision-making and operations.
• Prepare agendas, meeting notes, written draft and final versions of correspondence, data reports, advocacy updates, announcements, contracts, and other written materials.
• Coordinate and attend meetings, education/training conferences, and other events.
• Assist with timely grantee reporting and delivery of other reports requested by funder.
• Implement comprehensive initiatives that include public awareness building, social marketing, training (delivery), community organizing, and policy/advocacy work.
• Develop/compile written content and present on behalf of departmental campaigns and programs.
• Generate program content for website, social media, and other platforms across departments as needed.
• Support website strategy implementation and management of multiple FUTURES’ sites.
• Research new engagement strategies and emerging issues/trends uncovering opportunities for the organization and the field at large.
• Strong use of technology and social media to engage the public on issues of social justice.

Benefits

• excellent medical, dental, and vision coverage
• tax-advantaged Flexible Spending Arrangements for Health Care and Dependent Care
• generous sick and vacation benefits
• 13 paid holidays
• 3 weeks of vacation to start
• 12 days of sick and safe leave per year
• an employer-contributed 401k retirement plan

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level