Training Manager

Direct Report
:
Chief of Staff

Status: Full-time;
Exempt with benefits:
Blue Cross Medical/Dental/Vision, 403(b) Retirement Plan, Holidays, 4 weeks Paid Time Off, 10 weeks paid Parental leave, Leadership Pipeline

Salary
: $75,297

Our mission is to inspire young people to create a just future through practices that heal individuals, restore communities, and transform systems. Since 1971, Alternatives has modeled innovative alternatives to the status quo in Chicago's youth services field. Our school and community-based therapy, prevention and leadership development programs support young people to individually and collectively address causes of substance abuse, grief and trauma while building social-emotional, career and social change skills.

In addition to working directly with young people, we train, coach and advocate for youth-serving institutions like Chicago Public Schools to be restorative and trauma-informed.

The Training Manager provides operational and programmatic leadership of training, technical assistance and capacity building programming including staff supervision, program planning, training, providing technical assistance and coordinating relationships with community and system partners to provide grant funding and fee for service capacity building services.

Perform the following from a racial, gender, sexuality, and ability equity lens:

• Serve as expert and provide technical assistance around all things that are tied to program and grant administration including but not limited to: finance, vouchering, logic models, hiring practices, etc. related to government grants.
• Recruit, hire, supervise, train, support, including monitoring and evaluation, team as assigned, along with appropriate in-service training based on their assessed need.
• Collaborate with the Chief of Staff to strategize development and achieve training department’s goals for training and capacity-building services of grant funded work
• Manage and oversee day to day operations
• Oversee training cohorts including recruitment of participating organizations, coordinating cohort training and being a back up facilitator. Oversee Alternatives relationship management with organizations and entities.
• Ensure training of staff to provide external trainings and capacity-building
• Ensure accurate data and performance metric tracking
• Oversee training, curriculum development, implementation and evaluation. Including staying up to date on current research, trends and best practices related to topics including but not limited to:
  Restorative Justice, Trauma Informed Care, Racial Equity, Nonprofit Administration, Organizational Leadership, finance, vouchering, logic models, hiring practices, etc.
• Oversee Alternatives technical assistance services. Serve as primary point person for Technical Assistance, providing in person and virtual services.
• Oversee organizational capacity building efforts including creating and administering needs assessments, analyzing assessments, creating professional development plans and ensuring completion of plans.
• Oversee Grant reporting, collaborating with Alternatives’ data team to ensure compliance and accurate reportings as required by grants Monitor grant spending collaborating with finance team to ensure spend down of contracts.
• Support fee for service efforts by responding to inquiries for trainings and supporting logistics.
• Travel locally, statewide or nationally to provide training or technical assistance as assigned.
• Represent Alternatives at relevant forums and events as assigned.
• Support grant writing and fundraising efforts as assigned.
• Complete in a timely fashion these and all other tasks, including individual annual…