Program Manager

About us: Shareable is an award-winning nonprofit media outlet and action network with a mission to empower communities to share for a more resilient, equitable, and joyful world. In collaboration with global partners, we inspire social change through storytelling, advocacy, and organizing — with a mandate to prioritize high-potential, under-resourced communities. 

Shareable creates unique, high-impact programming that combines storytelling expertise and grassroots organizing. In that spirit, we recently launched a new core program designed to empower local communities to cultivate social infrastructure through collaborative education and collective action. SolidarityWorks facilitates “Co-labs” that include 12-month “deep dives” into rotating social infrastructure topics (the inaugural being Libraries of Things), and feature live webinars, comprehensive resource toolkits, capacity-building grants, and paid fellowships to help launch projects in historically marginalized communities. The program also includes shorter, 2-3 month Co-Labs that crowdsource best practices in the field and animate how-to guides to empower more people to adopt and build upon proven sharing practices in their own communities.

About you: You are passionate, mission-driven, and have previous nonprofit program management experience. You thrive in opportunities to forge new paths and are comfortable navigating the conflicts encountered and changes necessary along the way. You have a collaborative, innovative spirit and will help us passionately build and strengthen the sharing movement — across the US and around the world.

About the position: Shareable’s new Program Manager will coordinate and facilitate program implementation, with particular focus on SolidarityWorks. They will be an integral part of our team as the primary liaison with program participants and as a co-steward of the organization.

Timeline: We hope to have the new hire in place by early 2024. Applications accepted until the role is filled.

Core Job Duties:

• Help build a programmatic strategy based on emergent needs and in alignment with organizational goals.
• Help develop curriculum and course materials in collaboration with other team members and external partners; Collaborate with editorial/communications staff to provide program-related content. 
• Lead communications with program partners and participants, including facilitation of peer support through an online community network, via email, and during virtual trainings & networking sessions.
• Serve as a trainer or facilitator when appropriate.
• Collaborate on resource development, including supporting grant writing/reporting and relationship cultivation with key stakeholders, as relates to Shareable programming.
• Help cultivate and build well-structured partnerships in order to maximize resources for the communities we engage; work collaboratively with the team to identify partnerships and priorities related to programs.
• Participate in planning and budgeting process and steward the program budget.
• Oversee program-related recordkeeping, help ensure other team members are contributing appropriately  (i.e. registration, attendance, payments, completion of funder requirements, fellowship project files, etc.).
• Collaborate with the team to incorporate language justice, disability justice, and access, including logistics (i.e. closed captioning, interpretation) into programming. 
• Help monitor, evaluate, and communicate relevance, effectiveness, and impact — programmatically and organizationally — including helping to design and leading implementation of program evaluation (models, theories, goals, outcomes, tool development, etc.), and working collaboratively with the team to ensure continuous improvement practices that use data to inform strategy.
• Help cultivate a culture of curiosity and empowerment — internally & externally; Help ensure programs are addressing needs & interests of the communities we serve.
• Help align & connect work across the organization to increase efficiency, effectiveness, and impact.
• Participate in weekly staff meetings, program meetings, and ad hoc committee meetings as needed.

Requirements

Required qualities & experience:

• An interest in, passion for, and commitment to Shareable’s values.
• At least 3 years of experience in mission-based program management/coordination. 
• Some experience in community organizing, community development, and/or movement building (advocacy, education, infrastructure creation, cultural organizing, and other forms of change). 
• Rooted in values of anti-oppression and a demonstrated commitment to racial justice, economic justice, gender justice, environmental/climate justice, and grassroots-based movements for change.
• Excellent communication and organizational skills. 
• Experience working closely with high-potential, under-resourced communities.
• Kindness; Integrity.
• Ability to work well independently, remotely, and as part of a collaborative team.
• Relationships-focused connector. 
• Aptitude to work across lines of difference; Adaptability; Comfort during periods of change.
• Willingness to explore, engage in, and help us build a successfully self-governed staff and collectively-managed organization.
• Located in the continental United States with access to internet speeds and working environment needed for daily all-remote work.

Desired qualities & experience:

• Experience with online training, event coordination, and facilitation practices and tools.
• Personal experience with a fellowship program, as a coordinator and/or participant. 
• Project management and/or systems design/management experience.
• Direct experience and networks with organizations that are cooperative, non-hierarchical, and grassroots.

Benefits

Benefits, salary & work environment:  Shareable's full-time staff have a 32-hour workweek (Mon-Thu). Our legal address is in Oakland CA, but our team is all remote. Some travel is to be expected — typically at least 5x per year. As full-time staff, you will also receive generous PTO and medical coverage. Salary is $60,000 annually for a 32-hour workweek (equivalent in traditional 40-hr. position = $75,000), with regular opportunities for cost-of-living adjustments.

Shareable is committed to the principle of Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO). We encourage and welcome applicants of any race, gender identity, sexual orientation, ethnicity, class, religion, ability, or ideology to apply for this position. We actively seek applicants who identify as BIPOC, members of the LGBTQIA+ community, and persons with disabilities. We are committed to making sure that each team member has the resources they need to be successful and will provide any accommodations that are reasonable within our capacity.

Coinciding with Shareable’s programmatic shift, we’re also deepening our democratic practices and leaning into our values through transitioning to a worker self-directed organizational structure. Additional conversations and adjustments are still to come in the months ahead as we strategize and activate these many changes.

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