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Overview

🎤 About Us

At Vocal Justice, we position youth who are proximate to injustice as leaders for social change. We do this by partnering with educators to cultivate learning conditions for youth that strengthen their community, critical consciousness, and communication skills. Ultimately, we believe that every young person deserves an education that affirms their identities, builds their social awareness, and prepares them to speak out against the very injustices they may have experienced firsthand.

Our flagship program is our Teacher Fellowship. Every school year, we pay and train about 30 middle and high school teachers to facilitate our youth power-building curriculum at their schools, and share feedback about our youth curriculum and professional learning workshops. We use that feedback to update our offerings and sell them to educators beyond our fellowship. Our priority regions are Atlanta, GA; Chicago, IL; Detroit, MI; Jackson, MS; and New Orleans, LA.

In the long-term, we plan to advance structural changes to the U.S. education system, advocating for new curriculum standards, assessments, and funding allocations that make social justice education and youth power core to every school.

Since 2019, we have engaged 2000+ young people and 55+ educators in our programs; raised over $1M from Echoing Green, New Profit, Chicago Beyond, and other funders; and built a team of 4 full-time staff, 9 Board Members, and 9 Youth Advisory Council members.

<aside> 💡 Review our strategic plan to learn more about where we’ve been and where we’re going.

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🚀 Role Overview

We’re eager to hire a Program Manager to help bring us closer to a world where every young person is inspired and prepared to advocate for justice — wherever they choose to lead in life.

The Program Manager will recruit, select, and coach middle and high school teachers across the U.S. on how to integrate our youth power-building curriculum into their schools; refine our youth curriculum and create supplementary materials; analyze data from youth and teachers to inform program improvements; brainstorm and oversee new initiatives to expand our reach; and serve as a thought partner to our Director of Programming and Critical Consciousness.

We’re looking for someone who:

• Is frustrated by our education system’s failure to build leaders for liberation, yet optimistic about our ability to change that;
• Cares about youth power, not just youth voice;
• Thinks expansively about how to integrate critical pedagogy and youth power into schools across unique geographies and sociopolitical contexts;
• Is driven to take initiative, but with intention and care;
• Brings levity and love to their work;
• Is as thoughtful as they are vocal; and
• Is eager to tackle the ever-changing tasks of a burgeoning social venture on a bold mission to rethink what education can and should look like.

This is a full-time, remote role that begins late April 2024. A minimum two-year commitment is required. The first-year salary is fixed at $72,700 and will increase annually based on performance and organizational budget. Benefits include healthcare, unlimited vacation; 401(k); and funding for work equipment and professional development.