Girls Run Chicago: Impact Coordinator

Girls on the Run Chicago:
Impact Coordinator

Final date to receive applications: 3 July 2026

Department:
Programming

Employment Type:

Full Time

Location:

Girls on the Run Chicago

Reporting To:
Quiaria Asiedu, Director of Impact

Compensation: $50,000 - $65,000 / year

Organizational

Summary:

Girls on the Run is a nonprofit after-school program that builds girls and non-binary young people's social-emotional learning skills through running. We work with 4,000+ young people in Chicagoland, focusing on under-resourced areas. Visit our website to learn more: https://(Use the "Apply for this Job" box below)./

This is an exciting time to join the team! We are currently in Year 2 of our equity-centered strategic plan, aiming to improve program quality and increase philanthropic support. To learn more about our plan, visit: https://-

Position Summary:

The mission of the Impact Coordinator is to provide support for the Impact department and organization. Reporting to the Director of Impact, the Impact Coordinator’s role focuses on external program support to successfully help sites launch and deliver programming. This includes leading our volunteer and program engagement, outreach and community engagement, and volunteer communications. As an exemplary relationship builder, this role inspires and grows relationships to attract volunteers well-suited and well-prepared, to host Girls on the Run programming.

As an engaging and relatable communicator, this individual provides excellent customer service to leads and applicants.

• Manage a portfolio of ~75 sites within the Girls on the Run territory. This role will oversee all sites that have a student population of 0%–49% low-income and throughout all GOTRC counties
• Support the team in serving 5,220 participants in 2026, 80% living in under-resourced communities in the spring and 75% in the fall. While also planning to increase the number of participants living in under-resourced communities by 5-10% each year for the next 5 years
• Provide quality support and customer service to assigned program sites and volunteers throughout their recruitment and launch cycle
• Monitor sites, coaches, teams, and participants registering and address barriers that prevent these stakeholders from participating in programming
• Develop meaningful and impactful stewardship opportunities for coaches including but not limited to:
  Thank-you cards for coaches, mid-season coach social, 5K information session
• Collaborate with the Impact staff to continuously improve program delivery
• Serve as the event staff at the Girls on the Run Chicago 5K

• Monitor community coach applications ensuring compliance with volunteer requirements
• Lead on placing community coaches to sites regularly; track progress toward goal
• Develop and refine best practices for community coach recruitment, training and placement

• Seasonally engage portfolio sites by conducting at least four in-person site visits
• Build a community coach program to strategically recruit coaches to be reflective of the communities we serve
• Attend and assist at events including, but not limited to:
  Partner Expos, Girls on the Run Chicago 5K, New Coach Training, community events, and fundraising events in support of our recruitment and outreach goals
• Conduct outreach efforts to engage potential new sites in order to build programming in line with organizational goals and strategy

• Ensure the department database records are updated and maintained: participant records, new and returning site records, volunteer information and notes, day-to-day tracking and processing of sites and volunteers, coach training dates, CPR training dates, background checks, etc.
• Respond to incoming telephone inquiries Monday–Friday, 9 a.m.–5 p.m., act as the first responder for program-specific calls and Spanish line, route other calls accordingly
• Support our Operations Manager as a project manager of the GOTR Chicago spring large-scale 5k planning and execution

• Provide support to the…