Program Coordinator, San Mateo County - Youth (.FTE

Overview

Youth Leadership Institute (YLI) builds communities where young people and their adult allies come together to create positive community change that promotes social justice and racial equity. For over 20 years, YLI has sparked the leadership of young people to solve pressing social issues and serve our communities. YLI’s community-based programs are located in San Francisco, Marin, San Mateo, Merced and the Central Valley, Long Beach, and the Eastern Coachella Valley.

In addition to serving 7 California counties, YLI provides customized trainings, consulting, evaluation, and technical assistance services nationally.

YLI is committed to engaging and developing young people of color, low-income youth, and other non-traditional youth as researchers, advocates, and agents of social change. With support from YLI staff and through authentic partnerships with other key adult allies, young people build the skills necessary to research the issues that most affect them and their communities, develop campaigns to advocate for change, and partner with local stakeholders to implement these changes in their respective communities.

The Program Coordinator (PC) works in partnership with youth (ages 12 – 24) to organize, empower and mobilize youth and their communities to win real improvements for San Mateo County young people. The PC will train and support youth leaders to develop and deepen political consciousness, assess and understand issues impacting their health and well being, build relationships and partnerships with youth and community supporters, and drive countywide and local community campaigns that mobilize supporters, create long-term systems and/or policy change, and build power for future victories.

The PC is responsible for managing all of the logistics and functional tasks necessary for meeting the goals and objectives of the assigned campaigns, and for ensuring that the young people are experiencing high quality and culturally relevant leadership opportunities. The PC will work to support overall San Mateo County campaigns, initiatives and staff, prepare appropriate materials, collaborate with community partners, and develop and lead training for youth leaders and other campaign partners.

The Program Coordinator will support the week to week operations of supporting the San Mateo County Youth Commission, including check-ins with youth leaders, building external partnerships, and supporting commissioners in implementing their end of year campaigns/policy initiatives.

The PC is also responsible for coordinating and providing direct educational curriculum delivery, youth prosocial and leadership activity development, youth leadership skill building and training, parent education delivery, community education/awareness outreach, and social norms campaign development and implementation at San Mateo County Youth Commission. They will also serve as the liaison between school and community leaders in San Mateo County and the Youth Leadership Institute.

• Sustain recruitment to ensure diverse youth membership in the campaigns
• Conduct outreach to recruit and attract dynamic and diverse team of youth leaders and adult leaders
• Ensure balanced, demographically diverse groups of youth and adults
• Produce appealing and relevant materials, and outreach materials
• Attend several different coalition meetings and set up a network

• Utilize positive youth development and youth-adult partnership principles to guide the work
• Represent YLI to networks and community in professional way
• Develop relationships with local leaders and decision makers
• Attend local government meetings and events when needed
• Hold 1:1s with youth

• Using YLI curriculum, plan for and deliver developmentally appropriate and engaging workshops and training that build leadership and organizing skills, deepen issue and community knowledge, and strengthen connections among members, as well as spark transformation that leads to impactful advocacy
• Supervise and mentor youth leaders to develop and implement youth-led campaigns that offer multiple youth leadership development opportunities
• Plan and arrange meetings and events, including: preparing sites, agendas, and materials
• Conduct strategic follow-up activities after meetings and events including: preparation and distribution of minutes and other records, carrying out tasks assigned at the meeting
• Align program curriculum with the different and innovative aspects of media

• Manage coordination of media and press coverage for campaigns as necessary
• Employ social media tools as a method to organize youth base
• Develop the capacity of youth and adults to facilitate youth-led community level data gathering and analysis in support of campaign actions
• Manage coordination of key campaign events, like…