Safe and Healthy Schools Manager

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Equality Florida is the state's largest civil rights organization dedicated to securing full equality for Florida’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) community. We're changing Florida through lobbying, grassroots organizing, education, and coalition building — so that no one suffers harassment or discrimination on the basis of their sexual orientation or gender identity or expression.

Since our founding in 1997, we’ve become one of the largest statewide LGBTQ groups in the country with more than 400,000 supporters, more than 15,000 volunteers, and staff located in major Florida cities to organize and support our work.

The Equality Florida Safe and Healthy Schools Program has been implementing systemic change in Florida school districts as a driving force for nearly a decade. Since 2015 the department’s trajectory has been shaping school districts toward taking full ownership of LGBTQ students’ needs and resilience.

The main goal of the Safe and Healthy Schools Program is to counter the bullying, harassment, social isolation and bigotry that dramatically increase risk factors for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Questioning (LGBTQ) youth. The department has opened doors and forged ongoing partnerships and relationships for the benefit of LGBTQ students and their families across the state of Florida, positively impacting the majority of Florida’s K-12 student population.

Our department’s core values are persistence, patience and professionalism, and we are fully inspired to ensure LGBTQ youth have access to safe, fair, and affirming schools.

Under the direction of the Safe and Healthy Schools Director, our Safe and Healthy Schools Manager will deepen the systems presently in place and continue to operationalize LGBTQ policies, programs, procedures and practices across Florida to end LGBTQ bias where it begins, in our schools. The program's power lies in its ability to affect large-scale, systemic change across entire school districts, initiating positive change across Florida and all over the country.

• Applicants must have some or all of the the following professional experiences:
• Knowledge of education-related issues and prior experience within the K-12 school system as a classroom teacher;
• Substantive pedagogy pertaining to LGBTQ youth and building positive and inclusive school or classroom environments; and
• Extensive experience in providing training and professional development.
• The position is full-time, and applicants must live in Florida or be willing to relocate. We are also prioritizing applicants who are based in Central Florida, inclusive but limited to Orange, Osceola, or Seminole county. The role requires significant travel (about 7-10 days a month).
• The salary for this position ranges from $62,000-$68,000 with exact salary depending on experience. We also offer benefits including full medical and dental coverage, generous paid time off, and retirement benefits. The new Safe and Healthy Schools Regional Manager is expected to start no later than March 27th, 2026.

• Collaborating on a regular basis with senior level school district leadership and local community partners in specifically assigned districts. Managing all goals, plans and programming to ensure they successfully create safe and affirming school environments.
• Ensuring that within specific school districts assigned, you are managing cross‑departmental work to promote the well‑being of youth through principles of intersectionality, i.e., providing a consistent, ongoing safety net for students who are targets of multiple, intersecting forms of oppression including anti‑LGBTQ bias and racism.
• Developing and implementing LGBTQ cultural competency training for staff and support personnel in the assigned districts you are supporting. Additionally,…