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Programs Coordinator, LAUNCH

Role overview

Qualifications

  • Relevant AA/AS, equivalent work experience, or a combination of both.
  • Minimum of two (2) + years of related work experience in a fast-paced administrative role managing multiple projects.
  • Outstanding written and verbal communication skills; experience proofreading.
  • Any experience in an education or non-profit environment preferred.

Responsibilities

  • Promote smooth and efficient registered apprenticeship program implementation and development by collaborating cross-functionally across departments.
  • Maintain proper documentation of participants, manage participant data, track progress, and provide reports.
  • Provide meeting and conference logistical support, including scheduling and proofreading minutes and other documents.
  • Support efforts to bring relevancy and real-world experience to students through work-based learning.

Key facts

Other skills

  • Detail Oriented
  • Communication
  • Collaboration
  • Creativity
  • Innovation

About the company

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Foundation for California Community Colleges

Non-profit Organizations

As the official foundation for the California Community Colleges Board of Governors and System Office, the Foundation develops programs and services that save millions of dollars for colleges and students, promotes excellence in education, and provides valuable learning opportunities for students throughout the state. We also support the system through special initiatives, statewide awards, and direct donations to the colleges and the Network of California Community College Foundations. Our services and areas of expertise include program and grant management, career training programs, systemwide purchasing contracts, information technology solutions, financial services, and resource development. Our programs reach all 115 California Community Colleges and 73 districts, and several of these programs are expanding nationwide. Since its inception in 1998, our organization has grown to be one of the largest operating foundations in higher education, with over 100 full-time employees and annual revenues of over $30 million. Today, the Foundation has the capacity and expertise to respond quickly to the needs of our colleges and communities. We have secured over $150 million in grants, contracts, and gifts, and provided over $100 million in direct grants, support, and cost savings to colleges. As we enter our second decade as an organization, we remain committed to making California’s Community Colleges the best they can be. We are anticipating the new challenges they may face, imagining the aspirations of the next generation of students, and envisioning the solutions that will change our world for the better.

Company details

Company typeSME
IndustryNon-profit Organizations
Company size201 - 500

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Job description

Programs Coordinator, LAUNCH 

Remote within California, Must reside in California. Inland Empire preferred.

We are seeking a Programs Coordinator to join FoundationCCC in its mission of benefiting, supporting, and enhancing the California Community Colleges—the largest and most diverse system of higher education in the nation. Together, we are building stronger communities by getting students and colleges the resources they need to succeed and expanding pathways to economic and social mobility across California. Join us as we continue this important work to uphold the value of community colleges in building a brighter future. 

What You’ll Do

The LAUNCH Apprenticeship Network is a member of the Collaborative Impact team of the Foundation for California Community Colleges and supports meaningful connections between students and employers in California through work-based learning and support services. Our role is to support efforts to bring relevancy and real-world experience to students in California through growing the quantity and quality of work-based learning, with an emphasis on registered apprenticeship, but also includes job shadowing, classroom presentations, internships, and other job training opportunities. 

The Foundation's Collaborative Impact Department, through the LAUNCH Apprenticeship Network, seeks a Coordinator to play a critical role in the department's success by applying deep project management skills with a thorough attention to detail to ensure high-quality design and delivery of specific registered apprenticeship and work-based learning programs.

This position represents an exciting opportunity to help to provide a wide range of administrative and operational support working with multiple educational institutions, industry employers, government agencies, funders, and more. 

  • Promote smooth and efficient registered apprenticeship program implementation and development by collaborating cross-functionally across departments to execute projects, ensuring clear communication among associations, industry partners, and other external stakeholders

  • Maintain proper documentation of participants with the highest regard for confidentiality, enroll participants into programs, manage participant data and databases, track progress, and provide reports

  • Provide meeting and conference logistical support, including scheduling, agenda, contact distribution lists, and the recording, distribution and proofreading of minutes and other documents

Attributes for Success 

  • Strong attention to detail, ensuring that all deliverables and projects are accurate, professional, and up to date.

  • Some working experience with calendaring and scheduling meetings and coordinating events

  • Outstanding written and verbal communication skills; experience proofreading.

  • Relevant AA/AS, equivalent work experience, or a combination of both. 

  • Minimum of two (2) + years of related work experience in a fast-paced administrative role managing multiple projects.

  • Any experience in an education or non-profit environment preferred.

  • Familiarity with the Community College system and registered apprenticeship a plus. 

  • We’re recruiting for mission-driven, passionate, equity-minded individuals with a strong desire to impact and change people’s lives for the better

  • Innovation, creativity, collaboration, and entrepreneurship are encouraged as employees work to achieve organizational goals

  • FoundationCCC blends the impact of a non-profit, the culture of an entrepreneurial start-up, and the scale of a state agency

  • We are committed to professional development with an emphasis on shared leadership, to ensure growth for employees and the organization overall

What we Offer

FoundationCCC is fully committed to a “remote-first” philosophy, and recruits and hires talent across the state in fully remote positions, where virtual work is possible. Our headquarters are located in Downtown Sacramento, just blocks from California’s State Capitol. 

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation, generous PTO, and paid holidays 

  • Medical, dental, and vision plans, Flexible Spending Accounts, Health Savings Accounts (HSA), Employee Assistance Program (EAP), and Wellness offerings

  • CalPERS retirement program and optional 403(b) and 457 Retirement plans

  • Carrot reproductive health and fertility support 

  • Tuition reimbursement

  • Public Service Loan Forgiveness certified employer 

To see the full job description, please email jobs@foundationccc.org

Budgeted Hourly Pay Range:

$25.00 - $27.00

Final salary and rates are based on education, experience, skills relevant to the role, and internal equity.

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