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Position: Senior Trainer

Type: Exempt, Full Time

Location: Oakland Area (local, but virtual)

Compensation: $80,000 to $85,000 annual salary

Are you an experienced, innovative, and flexible trainer and facilitator with curriculum development experience who can facilitate trainings and workshops in the ecosystem that surrounds youth of color with a talented team of educators and thought leaders in a cool work environment? Then keep on reading! We are seeking a Senior Trainer to help drive our next phase of growth.

Who We Are

Flourish Agenda is an innovative social justice non-profit organization that works with schools, youth serving organizations, foundations, and local governments to build and implement strategies that allow young people of color to flourish. We are the providers of the Healing Centered Engagement approach, tools, and research. We build the strategies that are necessary to reimagine how systems shift the way they support young people of color and the adults who serve them.

At Flourish Agenda we believe that our community’s collective passion, dedication, and shared vision of healing is what transcends our work into a lifestyle. We have a saying amongst our team, “Together We Flourish,” a joyous affirmation that our collective healing cultivates the transformation that people, and institutions are longing for.

We are grounded in the following values as we discover new ways to flourish.

Our Values

• Accountability & Grace – Accepting responsibility for one’s actions and compassion for people when they make mistakes.
• Self-reflection – taking responsibility, honesty, integrity, and the ability to engage in on going self-reflection.
• Possibility thinking – Bold creativity and innovative problem solving for our organization and clients.
• Well-Being – Flexibility, fun and work life balance that supports the whole person.
• Transformative relationships – Cultivating ways to work collaboratively together. We are team, and teamwork makes a difference for clients and communities.
• Justice – Fairness, and belonging that recognizes, diverse ideas, culture, ethnicity, gender expression.

Position Summary

Reporting to the Director of Client Engagement, the Senior Trainer will design, plan, and facilitate trainings and workshops on the agency’s Healing Centered Engagement approach.

This is an opportunity for a seasoned trainer who has content knowledge in healing justice and transformational leadership development as well as curriculum development experience to lead a growing body of work. The Flourish Trainer must be innovative, driven, flexible, and able to thrive in a fast-paced, growing, and collaborative nonprofit environment. The Flourish Trainer will deliver our curriculum and approach to clients in a manner that is engaging and allows for individual and institutional application.

Ideal candidates may also have, experience in one or more of the following systems: Education, Juvenile Justice, Social Services and/or Non-profit community-based organizations.

The Senior Trainer will work collaboratively with other Flourish Agenda Project Managers and team members to achieve goals and objectives.

Essential Functions

• Plan, co-design, manage and implement in-person and virtual trainings for clients and program participants.
• Foster transformative relationships for in person and online workshops and trainings.
• Coordinate logistics and facilitate online meetings, webinars, and trainings.
• Design, produce and direct webinar presentations.
• Training and facilitation
• Develop agendas, slide decks, videos, and materials for in person/virtual trainings and workshops.
• Design innovative ways for online participant engagement through zoom and other virtual platforms and tools.
• Create and hold space for healing circles and wellbeing work.

Curriculum and content development

• Identify and connect lessons learned and findings from programming to increase overall staff knowledge, develop best practices, and inform the ongoing development of new tools, services, and resources that advance healing and well-being for youth of color and supporting adults.
• Design new curriculum and content as needed to build upon existing curricula and tools.
• Design or modify content as needed to meet client needs.
• Help to create evaluation processes and tools and use findings to continually improve practice and impact.

Project management support

• Build and maintain strong relationships with Flourish team members, clients, consultants, and extended Flourish community.
• Work collaboratively with project team to achieve outcomes and objectives.
• Co-design strategies to implement the agency’s Healing Centered Engagement approach into systems.

We Are Looking For Someone Who Has…

• Content. Knowledge in eCamm, Miro, White Board or other online platforms/integrations is a plus.
• Seasoned trainer/facilitator with at least 3 years of training experience.
• Flexible and self-motivated with the ability to design engaging workshops and presentations.
• Experience facilitating content with providers from education, juvenile justice, and/or youth develop and social service institutions.
• Committed to and intentionality in engaging in one’s own healing, personal empowerment, and transformational leadership development.
• Self-directed and excited to work in a start-up like environment.
• Ideal candidate will have lived experience as an educator, and/or experience with social service or juvenile detention systems.
• Proficient skills in using Zoom, PowerPoint and social media platforms to deliver
• Ability to quickly build rapport and develop relationships with various constituents and partners, including youth, teachers, caregivers, systems leaders and community-based organizations
• Excellent interpersonal and written and verbal communication skills
• Strong values and beliefs in healing justice, equity and belonging principles and practices.
• Passion for and commitment to Flourish Agenda’s mission, vision, and philosophy.
• Ability to produce and direct innovation online and in person workshops.
• Excellent problem-solving skills, ability to think creatively and independently resolve conflicts and challenges

JOB TYPE

This position is flexible, up to full-time, exempt and benefited.

WORK HOURS/SCHEDULE

The Senior Trainer works during traditional business hours, Monday-Friday, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. The position requires occasional early morning, evening and weekend hours and some travel. This is a hybrid position with time spent working remote, and in the office and broadcast studio. Senior Trainers should expect to conduct and facilitate workshops on the majority of workdays.

If primary residence is outside of the Bay Area, expectation will be travel once a month to headquarters in Oakland.

BENEFITS:

This position at 30 or more hours per week, is eligible for Flourish Agenda’s benefits program, which includes in part:

• Home office and telecommuting reimbursements and more…
• Life and Disability Insurance,
• Fully paid Health, Dental and Vision coverage for you,
• Vacation and sick paid time off,
• Wellness expense reimbursement,
• Dependent care and Health FSA, and HSA plans,
• 401k plan with 4% dollar for dollar matching,
• Professional development opportunities,

How To Apply

Candidates should upload resume and cover at Join Our Crew | Flourish Agenda (https://flourishagenda.com/join-our-crew/). Applications will be reviewed as received.

DEADLINE

We are accepting applications until the position is filled as we prepare for a series of upcoming contracts.

Flourish Agenda is an equal opportunity employer and highly values diversity. People of color are strongly encouraged to apply. Employment decisions are based on merit, qualifications, and skills.

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