Adult Education Program Manager

Position: Adult Education Program Manager

Salary: $55,000-$65,000

Schedule: Monday through Friday during business hours, with regular evenings and occasional weekends

Location: In person, St. Paul

For more than 125 years, Neighborhood House has partnered with families in St. Paul to ensure access to essential services, including food, housing, education, and opportunities. Today, we serve more than 30,000 individuals annually across six neighborhoods, striving for a community where everyone can thrive.

Neighborhood House is seeking a full-time Adult Education Manager to lead, strengthen, and grow Adult Education programming. This role centers around three guiding priorities: supporting and developing staff, volunteers, and interns; expanding program reach through intentional outreach and recruitment embedded into team workflows; and strengthening the Adult Education Intake processes through cross-departmental collaboration.

The Adult Education Manager provides day‑to‑day leadership for instructors, volunteers, and interns, fostering a supportive, accountable, and culturally responsive team environment. The role works closely with intake and enrollment staff to ensure smooth learner pathways into programming, shared systems, and consistent communication as organizational intake practices evolve. The Adult Education Manager will also provide direct service in the form of teaching and intake support.

• Lead a team of Adult Education instructors, support staff, and interns, ensuring programs operate effectively and align with Neighborhood House goals.
• Translate Adult Education and organizational goals into clear work plans for instructors, staff, and interns, ensuring each team member understands their role in advancing learner outcomes.
• Oversee the day‑to‑day work of interns and volunteers, providing training, coaching, and task delegation that supports learner needs and meets educational or service‑learning requirements.
• Provide regular, clear work guidance and expectations, along with constructive coaching that includes both guidance and corrective feedback, to support staff for professional growth and accountability.
• Actively coach and support team members in developing cultural competence, trauma‑informed practices, and radical hospitality, in alignment with Neighborhood House expectations.
• Communicate operational plans, instructional changes, scheduling updates, and program decisions clearly and in a timely manner to Adult Education staff and relevant partners.
• Ensure the team adheres to local, state, and federal Adult Education requirements, grant guidelines, data privacy standards, and organizational policies.

• Serve as site or program manager for Adult Education spaces, coordinating staffing schedules, classroom space, supplies, technology, volunteers, and partnerships to ensure effective daily operations.
• Collaborate with internal partners (such as Makerspace Program, Youth Programs, Food Support, Basic Needs, Housing, Volunteer Engagement, In‑Kind, and Social Work/Trauma‑Informed Initiatives teams) to support holistic learner success.
• Work with the In‑Kind Coordinator to coordinate, receive, and distribute donated educational materials, technology, and supplies for Adult Education programming.
• Oversee purchasing and budget reconciliation for Adult Education programs, ensuring responsible and timely financial stewardship within approved budgets and grant requirements.
• Research and maintain up‑to‑date knowledge of community resources that support adult learners (such as workforce training programs, credentialing pathways, digital access resources, and public benefits).
• Support continuous improvement of Adult Education systems and processes to ensure accessibility, inclusion, cultural responsiveness, and sustainability.
• Perform other duties as assigned to support the success of Adult Education programming and Neighborhood House.

• Provide adult education services that are culturally responsive and aligned with Neighborhood House standards for inclusion, accessibility, and radical hospitality, including:
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