Workforce Program Coordinator

Title: Workforce Program Coordinator

Position Location: This position is hybrid, is based in our New York City office, and will require occasional travel to other ACT offices in Philadelphia, and DMV.

Reports to: Director of Workforce Programs

FLSA Status: Salaried-Exempt

Employment Type: Full-time

Hours: Monday-Friday from either 9 am-5 pm or 10 am-6 pm.

Salary:  The baseline salary for this position is $65,000; additional compensation is negotiable based on experience.

About Us: African Communities Together (ACT) is an organization of African immigrants fighting for civil rights, opportunity, and a better life for our families here in the U.S. and worldwide. ACT empowers African immigrants to integrate socially, get ahead economically, and engage civically. We develop our members as grassroots leaders who take action to make social change. Since its founding, ACT has supported thousands of African immigrants with direct services, trained hundreds of new leaders, and led successful policy campaigns at the federal, state, and local levels that have impacted hundreds of thousands of immigrants. ACT’s African immigrant membership comes from a diverse range of nationalities, cultures, and languages, is religiously diverse, and is predominantly working-class and low-income. We have offices in New York City and the Washington, D.C. metro area.

Overview: We recently launched our Healthcare Support Career Accelerator (HSCA)  program. Through this initiative, we aim to assist African immigrants in healthcare support roles in overcoming career stagnation and gaining access to more equitable job opportunities within the healthcare industry. This role will be  instrumental in supporting the expansion and scaling of our Healthcare Support Career Accelerator (HSCA) model across our Chapter locations in the  long term.

Position Description:

ACT is seeking a proactive and dynamic Program Coordinator to support the implementation of our workforce program. The Program coordinator is responsible for managing the daily operations of the workforce program, including recruitment, case management, logistics, and supporting program monitoring, evaluation, and reporting. This role will work with programmatic teams to advance the goals of the organization's workforce program. The ideal candidate will have strong project management skills, and a passion for building innovative programs. 

Key responsibilities include:

Recruitment & Logistics

• Screen and enroll eligible participants into the program.
• Ensure training materials and facilities are prepared and available.
• Coordinate logistics for program activities, including training sessions, workshops, scheduling, venue arrangement, and participant communication.

Project management