Youth Leadership & Advocacy Program Coordinator

Youth Leadership & Advocacy Program Coordinator

Boston, MA | Full Time Non-Exempt

BAGLY

Founded in 1980, BAGLY (the Boston Alliance of LGBTQ+ Youth) is a youth-led, adult-supported social support organization, committed to social justice and creating, sustaining, and advocating for programs, policies, and services for the LGBTQ+ youth community in Massachusetts. BAGLY’s vision for 2030 is to be the beacon of light that transforms the lives and landscapes of LGBTQ+ youth in Boston – and beyond! Learn more at https://www.bagly.org/.

Programs Team

BAGLY’s Programs Team includes staff, youth and young adult Peer Leaders, and volunteers. BAGLY’s three core programs are:

1. Health & Wellness
2. Stabilization & Success
3. Youth Leadership & Advocacy

All three programs are supported by BAGLY’s 10,000-square-foot Downtown Boston Community Center. The Center includes activities, events, peer-led social support meetings, parties, and more in addition to programming and services related to each program. BAGLY also supports the AGLY Network, a consortium of 15 community-based LGBTQ+ youth groups throughout Massachusetts.

Youth Leadership & Advocacy Program

BAGLY’s Youth Leadership & Advocacy (YLA) Program builds the power of LGBTQ+ youth and young adults to effect positive and systemic change in their communities and the world through three core strategies:

1. Training: Dialogue- and skills-based trainings that utilize popular education and experiential learning pedagogies to foster leadership skills, critical thinking, and sociopolitical development.
2. Opportunities: Provide participants with opportunities to make meaningful contributions, gain professional experience, and ensure the presence of youth voice and decision-making at BAGLY and the wider community.
3. Action & Advocacy: Supporting young people in taking action to affect social change in their communities and the world.

Position Overview

The YLA Program Coordinator (“Coordinator”), reporting directly to the YLA Program Manager (“Manager”), will be responsible for implementing YLA Program activities and providing programmatic administrative support. The Coordinator is also responsible for staffing drop-in hours at the Community Center and on- and off-site events.

The Coordinator works closely with other Programs staff, colleagues throughout the organization, and youth leaders to ensure the success of BAGLY events (e.g., Halloween Party, MA Youth Pride, Trans Youth Summit) and community partnerships.

This position will operate on-site at BAGLY’s Downtown Boston Community Center. Evenings are required to staff drop-in hours (currently Monday through Friday, with plans to extend to Saturdays). Occasional weekends are also required. This position includes travel inside the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and requires a current MA driver’s license.

Duties & Responsibilities

YLA Program Implementation

• Provide programmatic and administrative support for YLA activities, including Speakers Bureau, the Queer Activist College (QuAC), and the Youth Leadership Committee (YLC).
• Co-facilitate YLA trainings, including the Leadership Training Institute.
• Facilitate the MA Youth Pride and/or Trans Youth Summit event planning committees.
• Support hiring, onboarding, training, and supervising YLA youth Peer Leader interns.
• Support Peer Leaders in providing additional leadership opportunities for youth.
• Facilitate trainings for and supervise Adult Advisor volunteers working with YLA and/or providing general drop-in support.
• Collect, input, clean, and monitor qualitative and quantitative program data, and provide regular reports to Manager.

Community Center & Drop-In Support

• With other Program Coordinators, staff the Community Center during drop-in hours and staff off-site events.
• Build supportive relationships with youth.
• Support youth in navigating BAGLY resources, services, and activities (e.g., helping youth access the supportive supplies closet or BAGLY Boutique).
• Support youth and staff in upholding rules and community agreements, including providing support for weekly community meetings.
• With other Program Coordinators and Peer Leaders, project manage, oversee, and help implement Community Center events.

AGLY Network

• With the Manager and Director of Program Development & Impact, provide administrative support to the AGLY Network, including scheduling meetings and trainings, and sending spending updates.

General Program Coordinator Responsibilities

• Submit marketing, communications, and purchase requests.
• Disseminate opportunities to BAGLY and AGLY Network youth and staff.
• Collaborate with Development & Marketing staff and youth Peer Leaders to plan outreach and marketing strategies for activities and events.
• Communicate, collaborate, and help build community partnerships.
• Maintain strong communication and collaboration amongst all BAGLY Coordinators.
• Other duties as assigned.

Ideal candidates will demonstrate capabilities that meet the basic qualifications. Advanced qualifications are a plus, but not required.

Education

Relevant academic and/or professional experience required. Bachelor’s degree preferred.

Basic Qualifications

• Strong understanding of and commitment to BAGLY’s mission and values, including demonstrated understanding of youth development, social justice, and anti-oppression.
• Strong understanding of the current and emerging needs of LGBTQ+ youth.
• Demonstrated experience implementing programs, activities, or events.
• Demonstrated ability to build supportive relationships and establish and maintain appropriate boundaries with youth and/or young adults.
• Demonstrated experience facilitating trainings or workshops.
• Demonstrated experience implementing a work plan, meeting goals and deliverables, and completing detail-oriented tasks.
• Demonstrated experience with data collection and analysis.
• Demonstrated ability to professionally represent an organization or program, including through verbal and written communication.

Advanced Qualifications

• Highly relevant content knowledge, such as youth leadership development, popular education, or youth-led advocacy or community organizing.
• Demonstrated success working in a community center or drop-in space.
• Demonstrated experience hiring, onboarding, training, and supervising youth Peer Leaders and adult volunteers.
• Demonstrated experience supporting youth experiencing complex challenges, including providing supportive referrals.
• Demonstrated experience supporting marketing and outreach to engage youth.
• Demonstrated success utilizing a wide variety of facilitation approaches, including interactive activities, ideally with youth or young adults.
• Demonstrated experience developing curriculum or workshops.
• Demonstrated experience with event planning and management.
• Fluency in one or more languages other than English.

Equal Opportunity Statement

BAGLY is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We consider applications for all positions, without regard to age, race, color, ethnicity, national origin, ancestry, creed, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, citizenship, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, veteran status, military status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

Frequently cited statistics show that women, LGBTQ+, BIPOC, and members of other structurally marginalized groups apply to jobs only if they meet 100% of the qualifications. BAGLY encourages you to break that statistic and to apply. No one ever meets 100% of the qualifications. We look forward to your application.