Youth Achievement Center; YAC Pre‑Development Project Manager

Seattle, United States | Posted on 05/05/2026

• Salary Approximately
  400 hoursper year. Not to exceed $75,000 annually.
• City Seattle
• State/Province Washington
• Country United States

What We Stand For

We exist to eliminate the need for the criminal legal system for youth and young adults. To do this, we create alternatives to incarceration for youth and young adults based on committed relationships centered on love, compassion, and consistency. We use community to heal community, planting seeds of hope, self-respect and vision to unlock the promise of our youth while fighting to dismantle the systems of oppression that threaten to take that promise away.

Why We Matter

Over the last 20 years, we have seen a sharp decline in the number of young people in detention across King County. But even as the overall number decreased, our juvenile legal system has had an increasingly and disproportionately harmful impact on youth of color, particularly Black youth. While only 10% of King County’s 2 million residents are Black, they now make up almost half of the detention population on any given day and more than half of felony offenses.

Who We Are

We are a family born from the community we serve. The lived experiences of staff prepare them to act as credible messengers and ambassadors. Our ambassadors work with heart, humility, and compassion to lead community and school-based healing circles, individual and family case management, court advocacy, and youth leadership opportunities.

Consultant Opportunity:

Community Passageways (CP) is pleased to invite qualified consultants to submit interest and qualifications to provide Pre‑Development Project Management services for the Youth Achievement Center (YAC).

About the Youth Achievement Center

The Youth Achievement Center (YAC) is a community‑informed real estate development project designed to offer transitional and affordable housing, program space, and supportive services for young adults. Grounded in restorative justice and shaped by youth voice, the YAC will serve as a safe, dignified space for healing, growth, and opportunity.

This is an atypical project — one that combines transitional housing, affordable housing, and direct services under one roof. The consultant will need to navigate that complexity, including researching comparable projects, understanding their funding structures and risks, and helping CP chart a path that fits this unique model.

About the Role

This is not a conventional project management engagement. CP is acting as a development client for the first time, and a significant part of this consultant's value will be guiding CP through an unfamiliar process — explaining decisions, building internal capacity, and ensuring CP can exercise informed judgment at each stage. The ideal candidate is as comfortable teaching and translating as they are managing timelines and budgets.

The consultant will represent CP's interests as client while coordinating closely with Africa town Community Land Trust (ACLT) as the development partner. This dual‑entity structure requires someone skilled at navigating multi‑party relationships, maintaining clear boundaries around decision authority, and ensuring CP's voice and interests are centered throughout.

The YAC project is actively underway. At the time of this posting:

• The Phase I parcel is in the process of transfer from Sound Transit through a surplus land process
• CP is working in close collaboration with King County
• CP has an executed Memorandum of Understanding with Africa town Community Land Trust (ACLT) as development partner
• A building program and basic schematic design are complete
• Pre‑development funding has been secured through the City of Seattle’s Equitable Development Initiative (EDI)

The selected consultant will help advance the project through feasibility, entitlement, funding strategy, and completion of the pre‑development phase so the project is fully positioned for construction.

The YAC Pre‑Development Project Manager will oversee planning, coordination, and project preparation from visioning through feasibility and completion of the…