Economic Advancement Director

Organization
YWCA Greater Los Angeles (YWCA GLA) is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women and promoting peace, justice, freedom and dignity for all. YWCA GLA provides direct services, empowerment programming, and advocacy to support marginalized individuals and families, especially women and girls of color, while working to challenge structural barriers to equity. 

Position Overview
The Economic Advancement Director (EAD) is responsible for developing and advancing an innovative programmatic vision for helping women and their families achieve economic security through workforce development and financial empowerment. The EAD supports and grows workforce programming by obtaining or developing curriculum, program processes and protocols, community partnerships and referral pipelines, employer connections and provides client support as needed.

Statement of Duties

• With Chief Programs Officer, collaboratively plans and implements a portfolio of programs that support the economic advancement of women and their families, including but not limited to, workforce development, financial education and other related activities
• Develops workforce development programming that prepares graduates for family-sustaining wages, aligns with best-practices, and is implemented in a manner that positions the organization to be competitive for public funding
• Develops an array of financial empowerment programs to include financial literacy, coaching, topic-specific speakers, events and workshops
• Responsible for development of program outcomes, benchmarks, and indicators and ensures full evaluation plan implementation including collecting data from clients, entering data into proper technology and reporting out on data as directed
• Develops annual budgets for approval, reviews monthly financial statements and reports out to the Chief Program Officer and Chief Financial Officer on variances and changes in projections to ensure a balanced budge at the close of the fiscal year
• Leads the development of funding proposals and submits funding reports

Career Readiness and Placement Service

• Cultivates employer relationships that lead to successful job placements and career growth for workforce program participants
• Develops and implements employer cultivation strategies resulting in program volunteers, mentors, internships and job placement
• Works closely with the Early Child Development Schools, Sexual Assault Crisis Services and Senior/Youth Empowerment Services teams to plan and deliver trauma-informed career readiness and individualized employment case management and support services
• Delivers group and individualized career readiness support including trainings, coaching, resource referral and employment placement and retention support

Community Outreach and Partner Development

• Identifies, cultivates and maintains strategic community partnerships that contribute to employment support services and advocates within those organizations for the benefit of workforce participants.
• Coordinates all volunteers participating in workforce development programs
• Develops and implements outreach strategies to internal program participants that result in a reliable pipeline for participant referrals and meeting recruitment and registration goals

• Bachelor's degree in social sciences, business or related field
• At least 3 years of program management experience with a demonstrated increase in scope of responsibility in the fields of workforce development, financial literacy, financial coaching, or related financial empowerment programming
• At least 1 year of supervisory experience
• Experience planning and launching new programming
• Experience developing and overseeing the delivery of career readiness trainings for a diverse audience
• General knowledge of workforce development ecosystem in the Los Angeles County area
• Experience developing and managing community partnerships that raise the profile of programming, increase participant referrals and supportive services
• Certified Workforce Professional Certification preferred