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:

June 2026

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.

plays a critical role in supporting high school, post-secondary, and Transitional Age Youth (TAY) participants, some of which may have been formerly homeless, as they prepare for and successfully transition into college, career training programs, employment, or independent living. BTWCSC’s youth department serves youth who are both system impacted and college bound.

Under the direction of BTWCSC Teen/TAY Manager, this position will be responsible for shaping and carrying out BTWCSC’s post‑secondary vision by planning, and implementing programming that supports young people navigating life after high school. The Coordinator works closely with teachers, youth coordinators, case managers, families, and external partners to ensure students experience consistent, culturally affirming, and high-quality guidance throughout their post‑secondary journey.

This position 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.

Post-Secondary Planning & Student Support:

• Support transitional age youth (TAY) in pursuing post-secondary pathways, including college enrollment or re-enrollment, workforce entry, vocational training, credential programs, paid internships, and independent living readiness.
• Provide individualized planning for non-matriculated TAY that emphasizes employment readiness, career exploration, life skills development, and stabilization supports, while maintaining pathways back into education or training when appropriate.
• Assess participants’ strengths, interests, academic or work history, and barriers to develop realistic, strengths-based action plans aligned with short- and long-term goals.
• Conduct regular check-ins (in person, phone, and virtual) to track progress toward milestones such as GED completion, job placement, credential attainment, or re-engagement in education or training.
• Coordinate crisis response and ongoing support with families, Property Management, and community…