Job description

Why Planned Parenthood?

Working at Planned Parenthood Great Northwest, Hawai’i, Alaska, Indiana, Kentucky is more than a job. It provides the opportunity to contribute to our powerful mission and perform meaningful work.
In healthcare, education, and advocacy, this means a commitment to providing the absolute best in patient care and education. Our exceptional staff drives our mission forward by upholding our acclaimed customer service & confidentiality standards, and working to create a safe, judgement-free space for anyone seeking Planned Parenthood services.
As an organization, we are focused on equity, diversity, and inclusion. Specifically, we recognize that profound racism impacts the education, health, and wellbeing of people in our communities, and we are actively working to address all forms of oppression. We believe our employees should reflect the diversity of the populations we serve, including racial and ethnic diversity. People of color are strongly urged to apply.

About the position: Education Manager-Equity: Responsible for assessing, supporting, and advancing health equity, with a focus on racial equity and reproductive justice, within PPGNHAIK education programs and services. Ensures continuous quality improvement in centering equity for the successful management, operations, communications, execution, and evaluation of education programs. Provides Department-wide support through monitoring and maintaining equity practices, policies, and processes. For PPGNHAIK, the focus on health equity means envisioning a world where every person, family and community have access to the power and resources needed to be their healthiest self.

Estimated Salary: $64K-$126K

This is a remote role, and the position can be filled within any of our six states: Hawaii, Washington, Alaksa, Idaho, Indiana, and Kentucky.
Compensation: PPGNHAIK's compensation philosophy is based on equity and transparency. Starting offers are determined by both the candidate's directly applicable experience and internal equity within the pay grade. The pay range is $64K to $126K, paid (annually or hourly). Pay is also determined by geographic location.
What you’ll be doing: Interfaces with Education Department staff, as well as affiliate and community partners, to develop strategies related to equity in education curriculum, materials, training, support, and program implementation. Assesses, designs, observes delivery of and ensures support for quality regional and national education programming and training, utilizing equity best practices. In partnership with Department staff, ensures curriculum and programmatic fidelity and quality. Leads state Information & Education committees as part of Title X requirements. Provides professional development support to education staff.

Major Responsibilities:
Strategic leadership on centering equity in education programs and services.

Researches and integrates emerging equity best practices with tangible application to education programs and services.

Develops process to assess, design and support utilizing equity lens in education programs and services and ensure they are anti-oppressive, anti-racist and gender-affirming.

Leads with a collaborative approach that supports a just departmental culture that values continuous learning, commitment to excellence, honest communication, and curiosity.

Collaborates with Education department staff in developing and adapting community assessments that center BIPOC and LGBTQ+ youth and the adults that serve them.

Ensures Education Department staff delivering programs are kept informed and current on equity best practices, expectations, and tools by skillfully using multiple communication and training techniques while utilizing a variety of learning platforms, such as virtual, web-based, print, phone, and culturally responsive language.
Facilitates advisory/information and education committees in each state as required by Title X funding to review and approve print and electronic informational and educational materials developed or made available under the project. Provides feedback to Title X internal and external staff to advance equity best practices for communities served.
Develops and maintains relationships with partner organizations and community stakeholders. Uses culturally humble communication techniques to listen, contribute, develop understanding, and build relationships with community stakeholders, prioritizing LGBTQ+ and BIPOC organization leaders/staff and stakeholders.
Partners with Education Leadership to develop and manage departmental racial equity work including race-based caucuses.
Participates in the creation and oversight of budget and fiscal responsibilities. Supports internal and external partners on budgets as needed.
Participate in curriculum and course development for Education programs by drafting curriculum and providing reviews as necessary. Collaborates with Education Leadership to apply continuous quality improvement to curriculum and education materials to meet program needs.

Ensures program fidelity within assigned program(s) and implementation partners.

Provides direction for all program evaluation efforts internal, and external, including randomized control trials, community assessments, data collection and reporting. Collaborates with internal and external evaluators as appropriate.

Maintains knowledge on learning methodologies, best practices, and the latest developments in equity and inclusion, pedagogy, virtual learning, youth engagement, and sexual health by attending workshops, reviewing professional publications, establishing networks, and participating in workgroups.
Understands diverse client needs and offers useful and timely interventions in cases where progress is impeded due to an equity or diversity-related issue.
Recognizes and addresses one’s filters, privileges, biases, and cultural preferences with awareness, knowledge, and skill emphasis.
Seeks and utilizes feedback from diverse sources to increase interpersonal capacity and professional development.
Commits to continuous learning / improvement in diversity, inclusion, and equity work within the Education department.
Collaborates on the Department goals and development of support systems and tools for staff as part of the Education Leadership Team. Participate with other Education Leaders on department committees and projects.

Collaborates with the Development Team in securing funding by providing information about Education programs, data, impact statements, participant testimonials, and photos. Actively assists in grant applications and funder report writing.
Serves as representative of PPGNHAIK’s Education Department to community organizations, schools, other Planned Parenthood affiliates, and external partners.

Affiliate wide expectations:
Adheres to the PPGNHAIK code of conduct and all policies, procedures, and protocols.
Demonstrates and maintains a high degree of professionalism.
Takes action to support the affiliate’s commitment to equity, diversity, and inclusion.
Supports and acts in accordance with the PPGNHAIK customer service standards.
Values continuous learning and seek ongoing training and development.

Supervisory Responsibilities:
None

Education:
Degree in social sciences or related field; or equivalent professional experience.

Experience:
Minimum of 5 years of experience in the Education field, preference in sexuality education or related field.
Minimum of 3 years of experience with project/program management, preference in sexuality education programs.
Experience providing capacity building and training services required.
Experience providing services to LGBTQ+ and/or BIPOC youth or the adults who work with them.
Knowledge of adolescent development and adult learning preferred.
Deep understanding and experience with racial equity and reproductive justice frameworks and inclusive community development.
Demonstrated success building coalitions/partnership with community groups representing a wide range of diverse communities and overall maintaining effective relationships and partnerships with key stakeholders. Diverse communities include racial and ethnic communities, LGBTQ+, BIPOC, under resourced, rural, immigrant, low income, diverse ability levels, cultures, etc.).

Skills:
Sexual and reproductive health knowledge strongly preferred.
Experience writing lessons plans and curricula.
Lived or demonstrated experience leading community or education initiatives.
Comfortable engaging with staff teams virtually across time-zones.
Experience providing virtual/online training programs preferred.
Experience observing and providing coaching and feedback for educational and youth programming preferred.
Bilingual or multilingual a plus.

Next Steps:
Please click apply now below to submit an application and resume. Once your information has been reviewed by our recruitment team, we will reach out by telephone and email to schedule an interview for all qualified applicants. Please continue to check your spam folder for all email communications that may come from our organization.

Equal opportunity employment:
PPGNHAIK is an equal-opportunity employer and seeks to recruit persons of diverse backgrounds -and to support their retention and advancement within the organization. Justice is one of our core values, and we are committed to fostering a workplace culture inclusive of people with respect to their race, ethnicity, national origin, gender/gender identity, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, veteran status, marital status, age, disabilities, political affiliation, religious beliefs, or any other characteristic. Our commitment to justice and diversity also means providing a work environment that is welcoming, respectful and engaging.

Racism deeply impacts the health and wellbeing of our communities, compounding existing disparities' and creating intersectional barriers. We strive to name and address these barriers through community engagement and assessment, relevant and effective policy creation, and organizational accountability methods. We support initiatives that address all forms of oppression, however, maintaining an explicit focus on race is essential to advancing equity across our communities. Improving outcomes for people of color will improve outcomes for everyone.
Proof of completed Flu and Covid-19 vaccination is required for employment with Planned Parenthood

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