Community-Based Program Manager

Position Details

Position:
Community-Based Program Manager

Program:
Youth Outdoors

Location:

St. Paul, MN

Date Posted:
January 21, 2025

Reports To:

Youth Programs Director

Salary: $62,

Schedule:

Full-time, exempt;
Monday through Friday, 8:00 AM - 4:30 PM (typical); some overnight travel required, especially in summer months

Benefits:
Health and dental insurance, paid time off, 401(k) Safe Harbor retirement saving plan

The Community-Based Program Manager is a new position that will collaborate on the redesign of Youth Outdoors (2025) into the new, community-based expansion to our Summer Youth Corps (SYC) Program (2026 and beyond). SYC is a conservation workforce development program for youth, ages 15-18, led by Ameri Corps members, ages 19-30. SYC has historically been a residential program based in northern Minnesota and operated across greater Minnesota and neighboring states.

The community-based expansion will be a non-residential, day program based in St. Paul and operate across the Twin Cities metro. Community-based SYC members will connect to the natural environment while they work together for six weeks in small groups called crews. Individuals will gain natural resource fieldwork experience and develop workforce readiness skills (e.g. leadership) while completing conservation and community improvement projects throughout the Twin Cities metro area.

SYC is dedicated to accessibility for the Deaf/Hard of Hearing community and runs American Sign Language (ASL) programming.

The Community-Based Program Manager is integral to the development and implementation of the community-based expansion to our Summer Youth Corps (SYC) Program. This position requires creativity and energy to overcome the challenges inherent to new program design and implementation as well as supervisory, customer/client services, project management, and administrative skills. In 2025, this position will not supervise direct reports or program participants to focus on new program design for implementation in 2026 (approx.

80% effort). Remaining effort (approx. 20%) will support this year’s residential Summer Youth Corps program staff team and program participants as an on-the-job training and development opportunity. For 2026 and beyond, this position will manage all aspects of the community-based program, including partner and project management, Ameri Corps member recruitment and development, youth programming, day-to-day operations, and administrative tasks. This position will also continue to work collaboratively with other Summer Youth Corps program staff to ensure a cohesive program culture across the community-based and residential programs, including collaborating on shared experiences among program participants (e.g. training and special events).

This position will eventually supervise and delegate responsibilities of various duties to future new hires.

• Lead the collaborative development and implementation of program design, including establishing and documenting standard operating procedures.
• Maintain program outcomes data and assist the organization in reporting program results to stakeholders.
• Evaluate and improve the program to ensure sustainability of a high-quality program that meets the needs of communities, project partners, and participants for years to come.
• Contribute to continuous organization improvement efforts, such as committee work.
• Pursue professional development opportunities and contribute relevant learnings to the workplace.

• Solicit, negotiate and manage service projects from existing and new partners for a variety of field work in cooperation with appropriate state, county, city, non-profit and federal field personnel.
• Analyze situations and take appropriate effective action, including problem solving, conflict resolution, and disciplinary measures.

• Administer or delegate and supervise multi-site program operations ensuring that all personnel and activities comply with current policies and procedures, ensuring accountability for all required administrative requirements to be completed on time.…