Training and Community Education Manager

WELCOME TO YOUR CENTER! Established as a community nonprofit in 1972, The Center provides targeted programs and services to the full diversity of the San Diego LGBTQ community. The mission of The Center is to enhance and sustain the health and well-being of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer, transgender, nonbinary, immigrant, and HIV communities to the betterment of our entire San Diego region.

Our vision is to create a Center and Center culture where every person feels and knows that they are welcomed, valued, and supported. As the beacon for our regional LGBTQ community, we actively recommit to being a more vibrant, bold, innovative, safe, and modern Center each day than the day before. The Center is sex-positive and provides advocacy and critical health and social support services to support our community members through all stages of life, focusing on our deeply held values of Dignity, Inclusion, Compassion, Respect, and Equity & Equality.

The Center currently has over 100 staff working across seven sites in San Diego County.

This is an exciting opportunity to lead the next phase of growth for The Center's well-established Training Institute (TI), expanding its reach and impact across San Diego County in alignment with The Center's mission. The Training and Community Education Manager (TCEM) oversees the TI and supervises the department's 1-3 staff, developing and delivering research-informed training for Center staff and community organizations and, in coordination with the People and Culture department, re-implementing the Leadership Academy for Center staff.

The TCEM is accountable for growing TI revenue to a minimum of $25,000 within the first 12 months, including collaborating with the Development Department to reach corporations and businesses that may not yet know about the TI. The TCEM builds on a strong foundation, including about 30 existing trainings to update and expand and a communications and marketing department that partners on outreach.

• Update and expand the Training Institute's existing library of about 30 trainings, review all curriculum materials annually and drawing on current best practices, research-informed approaches, and staff, community, and client needs

• Create and implement new curriculum for Center staff based on emerging needs, requests, and research-informed best practices
• Design and implement an annual training plan for Center staff
• Deliver training to Center staff
• Collaborate across all departments to co-create training and programming, and co-facilitate training as needed
• Serve as an in-house consultant to staff who are providing training, through coaching, consultation, and content review
• In coordination with the People and Culture department, oversee the re-implementation of The Center's Leadership Academy, a staff development program that offers workshops and learning opportunities to employees at every level and reflects The Center's commitment to being a "center of many leaders," by identifying skills development needs and developing new workshop topics and curriculum through an organizational development lens
• Plan and schedule Leadership Academy workshops, select facilitators from within and outside The Center, and co-facilitate as appropriate
• Collaborate with the People and Culture department and Center leadership to communicate Leadership Academy opportunities to Center staff
• Collaborate with the grants department to ensure that grants for the Training Institute include up-to-date information and innovative practices
• Continually investigate and introduce innovative improvement measures and research-informed best practices based on…