Liberation Program Coordinator

About The Brotherhood Sister Sol (Bro Sis):

The Brotherhood Sister Sol (Bro Sis) is a social justice youth development organization that since 1995 has been a place where Black and Latinx youth claim the power of their history, identity, and community to build the future they want to see. By educating, organizing, and training, we challenge inequity and create opportunity for all.

Bro Sis provides holistic and long-term support services to youth between the ages of eight and twenty-two. Bro Sis offers wrap-around evidence-based programming such as four-six year rites of passage programming, thorough five-day-a-week after-school care, school and home counseling, summer camps, job training, college preparation, employment opportunities, community organizing training, and month-long international study programs to Africa and Latin America. Based in Harlem, NY, but with a national reach, we publish assorted curricula and collections of our members' writings;

train educators nationwide on our approach; and organize and advocate for social change. Bro Sis has earned national recognition for our evidence-based model, receiving an array of awards and funding from a host of national funders, including Marlene Nathan Meyerson Foundation, Charles Hayden Foundation, NBA Foundation, Kraft Heinz, New York Community Trust, Comic Relief/Red Nose Day, William Stamps Farish Foundation, and more.

The organization has over 50 full-time staff, serves thousands throughout New York City, and has a $11 million dollar operating budget. In addition, we have moved into our new building - a 22,000 square foot state-of-the-art beacon for youth development. It is an exciting period of organizational growth and increased impact in our community and beyond.

POSITION SUMMARY:

Reporting to the Director of Arts & Organizing and working closely with the Associate Executive Director of Programming, the Liberation Program (LP) Coordinator provides daily hands-on leadership and support for the Liberation Program, members and facilitators. The LP Coordinator is a vital link between Directors and the frontline staff of the organization. The LP Coordinator is responsible for managing and ensuring the success of the Liberation Program, and working collectively with other Coordinators and Directors to support the organization's overall programmatic vision.

The successful candidate possesses strong people management and organizational skills coupled with an extensive youth development and organizing focused program background. They ensure overall program goals are met while taking time to manage, coach and develop program staff. The LP Coordinator proactively builds internal and external relationships and cultivates a positive supportive growth oriented team environment.

The LP Coordinator holds space for youth leaders to emerge as social justice change agents, activists, and community organizers. They guide in training members to co-facilitate workshops, develop and manage organizing campaigns, and coordinate related actions. They coordinate with other staff and partner organizations to support members in advancing member efforts to create a more just world.

Moreover, as an organizer, they coach members and LP staff to facilitate, catalyze, and advance internal campaigns and activism projects while representing Bro Sis in longstanding coalitions and partnerships. Working closely with and alongside both our youth and larger organizing team, they will engage and develop youth and community to achieve the overall success of the program.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

Program Management:

• Collaborate with Director to develop program plans, budgets and programmatic objectives
• Lead staff in the fulfillment of program objectives and ensure program success
• Proactively identify program challenges and facilitate resolutions
• Provide coaching, guidance and daily programmatic support to Liberation staff members
• Working closely with Liberation staff, take the lead to plan programs from start to completion including recruitment, retreats, college trips, parent meetings, and other activities
• Create, enhance, and expand the programming curriculum, guiding and developing team
• Moni…