Program Director, Menopause Project

About Impact Justice

Impact Justice advances safety, justice, and opportunity through boundary-breaking work that honors and empowers people and is changing expectations about what we can accomplish together. We imagine, build, and scale innovations, leverage research and other knowledge to connect the desire for change with informed action, and work to shift the narrative so that decision-makers and the public understand what’s at stake and what’s possible.

About the Menopause Project

The Menopause Project is a first-of-its-kind effort to identify and implement evidence-based healthcare solutions in women’s prisons, starting in California, and creating awareness among key stakeholders about the need to expand menopause education and care for incarcerated women across the country.

This effort will fill a critical gap: our research has uncovered that no existing programs in California, or anywhere in the United States, explicitly provide comprehensive, up-to-date menopause and perimenopause care to incarcerated women. While some corrections departments may be providing a basic level of care, thousands of incarcerated women across the country don’t have access to the care they need, and this crisis has long been absent from national conversations. Our work to design and pilot the Menopause Project in California could have massive implications for incarcerated women across the nation.

Who You Are

You have a background in public health, women’s health, healthcare, or working with incarcerated populations, with an emphasis on health. You also have an ethos of social justice, racial justice, community, and mutuality. You have a strong commitment to ending the criminalization of Black, Indigenous, Latinx, and other people of color, financially disenfranchised people, and other marginalized groups. You have an orientation and belief that criminal justice involvement should not be an impediment to employment, career, wellness, and personal growth opportunities.

This position is the lead manager for this project. This position is external-facing and you will be skilled in public speaking and facilitation with a high degree of comfort in translating complex information to meet the needs of a myriad of audiences including: impacted populations, policymakers, criminal justice system staff, funders, and community members.

You are a go-getter! You want to join a fast-paced Innovations team that provides the flexibility for ingenuity in the implementation of a program model. You have a background in program design, implementation, and evaluation—ideally in a healthcare or policy environment. You are an innovative thinker that wants to be part of building and expanding programming. You can balance competing priorities and you are simultaneously committed to the details while being able to envision, develop and implement program work that is currently in its development stages. You enjoy working both collaboratively and independently. You have a track record of effective, cross-functional collaboration across disciplines. You have highly-developed interpersonal skills with good relationship-building techniques. You are a leader. You are adept at time management and highly organized with a proven ability to ensure you and a team can meet deadlines, plan, organize, and execute.

That said, we know there are great candidates who may not think they fit into what we’ve described above or who have important skills we haven’t thought of. If that is you, don’t hesitate to apply and tell us about yourself! We know that there are great candidates who may not possess all of the skills that we have described. We would like to hear from you even if you have most (but not all) of the skills listed. We welcome all applicants, including formerly incarcerated individuals, those with family members that have been incarcerated, and persons with direct criminal or juvenile legal system experience.

What You Will Do

The anticipated start date for this position is February 1, 2026. You will report to the Vice President of Innovation Programs. You’ll be the owner of The Menopause Project, and your core responsibilities will be:

• Project Management – Manage various project deliverables, guide best practices and encourage iterative program refinement, manage program budget, effectively navigate challenges in program implementation, assess needs, identify helpful collaborators, and support and make high-stakes decisions.
• Relationship Building – Maintain and expand partnerships with the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR), other Departments of Corrections, policymakers, non-profit and for-profit partners, and healthcare providers.
• External Engagement – Participate in organizational and project-based fundraising efforts. Engage in public speaking opportunities, including media interviews, podcasts, and other events as they arise. Seek out creative fundraising strategies, e.g. public and private healthcare providers.
• Advisory Board Management – Develop and implement the strategy for the program’s Advisory Board, engaging members for feedback and guidance on various aspects of the project. The position will also manage Advisory Board operations, including scheduling biannual meetings, maintaining regular email communications, and ensuring members are kept informed of program progress and impact..
• Project Expansion – Manage, build-out, and implement the Menopause Project expansion efforts.
• Fundraising: Actively engage in fundraising efforts, including cultivating and maintaining relationships with funders, identifying new funding opportunities, and supporting proposal development and reporting.
• Team Leadership – Build out a dynamic, growing team as needed. Plan and implement enrichment, engagement, and camaraderie-building opportunities with the team in an effort to create an environment where each team member can thrive.

Education / Experience Level

Successful candidates typically have at least four years of professional training/education or closely related experience; and at least six years of relevant experience, including at least three years of program leadership experience and at least three years of people management experience.

Required Qualifications

1. Experienced professional within public health, women’s health, healthcare, or work with incarcerated populations with an emphasis on health.
2. An adaptive problem solver with a willingness to learn and grow
3. A flexible self-starter who thrives in changing, dynamic environments
4. Able to juggle and implement simultaneous multiple project elements
5. Comfortable interacting with a wide variety of people, including individuals impacted by the criminal legal system, criminal legal system staff, and officials, and individuals from diverse backgrounds and life experiences
6. Experienced project manager with previous experience collecting programmatic data
7. Able to build and maintain key external relationships
8. An experienced and effective public speaker
9. Grant/fundraising and budget management experience
10. Tech-savvy: comfortable with Google Suite, Microsoft Office, Canva, etc.
11. A critical thinker with a high level of analytical/interpretive thinking and a positive, solutions-oriented approach to challenges
12. Methodical, efficient, and able to synthesize and organize disparate information clearly
13. Advanced oral and written communication skills

Preferred Qualification (but not required)

1. An understanding of women’s health, menopause, and perimenopause care, or related public health topics
2. Experience in program evaluation