Post-Secondary Success Coordinator

Position Title:

Post-Secondary Success Coordinator

FLSA:
Exempt, Full-Time

Compensation Range: $75,000 to $ 80,000

Schedule:

40 hours/week | Monday - Friday, with some nights and weekends

Location:

100% In-Person, on-site in San Francisco, CA

Start Date:

Until Filled

Booker T. Washington Community Service Center (BTWCSC) is one of the Bay Area’s oldest Black-led, Black-serving nonprofit organizations, with 106 years of service to San Francisco. A beacon of Black joy and self-determination, we have nurtured over five generations of Black San Franciscans. We stand embedded as an anchor institution, fostering intergenerational bonds and working in solidarity with allied communities to reform and reimagine a more inclusive San Francisco.

We prioritize serving the Black community, and we welcome all individuals from all cultures and ages, from 0 to 99, who walk through our door. We are one of the few urban spaces where anyone in the community can access comprehensive services, ranging from a hot meal to childcare, academic support, and senior services.

The youth department is informed by the Children’s Defense Fund (CDF) Freedom School® model. Our youth programming centers identity development, critical consciousness, leadership, and collective responsibility. The Post-Secondary Success Coordinator approaches college and career readiness through a strengths-based, healing-centered, and liberation-focused lens, recognizing the historical and systemic barriers many Black, low-income, and first-generation students face. BTWCSC seeks a reliable, collaborative, and results driven professional Post-Secondary Success Coordinator to help our dynamic, multi-service organization meet its ambitious short-term and long-term operational targets while sustaining its growth, as it expands its youth programming to better support TAY.

The Post-Secondary Success Coordinator plays a critical role in supporting high school, post-secondary, and Transitional Age Youth (TAY) participants
-some of whom may have experienced homelessness
-as they prepare for and successfully transition into college, career training programs, employment, or independent living. BTWCSC's youth department serves young people who are both system-impacted and college-bound.

Reporting to the BTWCSC Teen/TAY Manager, this position is responsible for shaping and carrying out BTWCSC's post-secondary vision by designing and delivering programming that supports young people navigating life after high school. The Coordinator partners closely with teachers, youth coordinators, case managers, families, and external organizations to ensure students receive consistent, culturally affirming, high-quality guidance throughout their post-secondary journey. This role is not only about access to post-secondary opportunities, but about belonging, persistence, and long-term success.

The Coordinator ensures students and families have trusted relationships, culturally relevant resources, and sustained support as they navigate complex education and workforce systems, while remaining deeply connected to community, culture, and self-determination.

• Support TAY in pursuing post-secondary pathways: college enrollment or re-enrollment, workforce entry, vocational training, credential programs, paid internships, and independent living readiness.
• Provide individualized planning for non-matriculated TAY emphasizing employment readiness, career exploration, life skills, and stabilization supports, while keeping pathways back into education or training open.
• Assess participants' strengths, interests, academic or work history, and barriers to build realistic, strengths-based action plans.
• Cond…