Program Specialist, Public Education Campaigns & Programs

Futures Without Violence (FUTURES) advances healthier, safer, and more prosperous communities. Through innovative programs, award-winning public campaigns, and lasting policy change, FUTURES prevents violence against women and children, expands access to economic opportunity and quality healthcare, creates positive pathways for men and boys, and prepares the next generation of leaders –focused on communities where it’s needed most. With partners across the U.S. and around the world, we are building the future we believe in, together.

The Program Specialist will provide programmatic support for the Public Education Campaigns & Programs Department of FUTURES. The Department is a global leader in developing solutions for broad-based social norm change with extensive efforts engaging men and boys to end gender-based violence, preventing teen dating abuse, and pioneering strategies to end relationship and sexual abuse on college campuses to name few.

Specifically, the Program Specialist will work on a variety of programs in the Department’s portfolio including Team: Changing Minds, Coaching Boys Into Men, LinkUp Lab and Engaging Campus Men. In addition, the Public Education Campaign & Programs Department works extensively with the Communications and Development/Public Engagement teams in message building, curriculum development, and production (e.g., PSAs, public relations, social media outreach, visual/copy design, filming/photography/editing), reaching diverse audiences from athletic coaches and school counselors, to teens and parents.

Core competencies include:

• Community organizing and relationship management
• Administrative and program operations skills
• Training on youth healthy relationships and gender-based violence prevention skills
• Experience/Study on gender norms, masculinity, and/or mental health
• Media and marketing campaign development (e.g., target/audience insight and segmentation, media outreach and strategy, message/concept design)
• Social media, design, podcasts) knowledge
• Measurement & Evaluation (e.g., mixed methods: qualitative/quantitative testing knowledge

RESPONSIBILITIES

Constituency Building & Outreach:

• Build and maintain relationships collaborating with partner organizations for effective project design and implementation.
• Respond to requests for assistance from the public and work with local advocates to provide strategic aid to communities, organizations, and institutions on related program issues.
• Conduct surveys, interviews and other forms of communication with program participants.
• Aid Development and Policy teams with action alerts, database management, and maintenance.
• Manage occasional mailings to constituents, funders, community advocates, and other supporters.

Administrative Coordination:

• Lead daily administrative work that supports program decision-making and operations.
• Prepare agendas, meeting notes, written draft and final versions of correspondence, data reports, advocacy updates, announcements, contracts, and other written materials.
• Coordinate and attend meetings, education/training conferences, and other events.
• Assist with timely grantee reporting and delivery of other reports requested by funder.

Program Implementation:

• Implement comprehensive initiatives that include public awareness building, social marketing, training (delivery), community organizing, and policy/advocacy work.
• Develop/compile written content and present on behalf of departmental campaigns and programs.
• Generate program content for website, social media, and other platforms across departments as needed.
• Support website strategy implementation and management of multiple FUTURES’ sites.
• Research new engagement strategies and emerging issues/trends uncovering opportunities for the organization and the field at large.
• Strong use of technology and social media to engage the public on issues of social justice.

ADDITIONAL JOB REQUIREMENTS

• Located in San Francisco Bay Area, with a Hybrid schedule (1-2 days in office) expectation.
• Some local and long-distance travel to attend meetings, presentations, and events required.
• Some long-distance travel required.
• Essential functions of the position require use of a cell phone, a standard computer, and the ability to follow reasonable ergonomic recommendations.

DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS

We’re seeking a well-organized, detail-oriented and flexible professional who thrives in a dynamic, fast-paced environment and enjoys working with a collaborative team coupled with independent work.

Our ideal candidate has:

• Experience working with:
  • Youth or college-age populations and/or boys/men
  • Community-based organizations, preferably organizations serving survivors of domestic and sexual violence, harassment, and/or human trafficking
  • Communications, media, marketing, or public relationships firms
• Superior written and verbal communication skills
• Experience utilizing various social media platforms to engage the public on social justice issues
• Highly creative, entrepreneurial, and detail-oriented professional who works as successfully independently as well as part of a diverse team of dedicated professionals;
• Strong interpersonal skills, and the ability to exercise effective judgment in a highly visible role.
• Demonstrated skills in building cross-sector community partnerships or community organizing;
• Researching and synthesizing best practices to create accessible resources/tools;
• Flexibility, and the ability to multi-task and prioritize competing deadlines;
• Commitment to social justice with an emphasis on preventing and ending domestic and sexual violence and harassment, and promoting anti-discrimination;
• Superior attention to detail and command of contemporary computer skills including Microsoft Office suite, Canva, Zoom meeting and other web-based meeting platforms and/or customer-relationship management (CRM) and learning management systems;
• Bachelor’s degree and at least 3 years related work experience or equivalent combination of education/training and work experience (7 years combined)

FUTURES maintains a diverse and dynamic workforce and is committed to providing equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment and promotions without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, veteran status, age, national origin, disability, or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law. FUTURES is committed to strong child safeguarding principles, policies, and actions in response to any violation of its Child Safeguarding Policy.

FUTURES offers excellent medical, dental, and vision coverage, plus tax-advantaged Flexible Spending Arrangements for Health Care and Dependent Care. FUTURES employees can take advantage of generous sick and vacation benefits including 13 paid holidays, 3 weeks of vacation to start, 12 days of sick and safe leave per year, and an employer-contributed 401k retirement plan.