EmpowerPath Program Manager

Reports Into: Director of Programs
Status: Full-time, Exempt
Location: Hybrid (Santa Barbara or Camarillo-based)
Position is for one-year, renewable subject to funding availability

About WEV

Women’s Economic Ventures (WEV) is a nonprofit dedicated to the economic empowerment of women through entrepreneurship, financial education, and business advising. For more than 35 years, WEV has helped individuals build financial confidence, launch businesses, increase income, and create greater economic opportunity for themselves and their families. Our team is collaborative, innovative, and deeply committed to helping women and families build brighter futures.

About EmpowerPath

EmpowerPath is WEV’s newest initiative designed to help single parents achieve long-term economic mobility through career advancement, financial empowerment, coaching, and access to coordinated support services. EmpowerPath will integrate workforce development, financial education, employer partnerships, and wraparound supports into one holistic participant experience.

The EmpowerPath Program Manager will play a critical leadership role in launching and growing this initiative, prioritizing participants’ programmatic success, while building strong partnerships across Santa Barbara and Ventura counties. EmpowerPath is an exciting opportunity to help shape a new model for economic mobility that can transform lives across our community.

Position Summary

The EmpowerPath Program Manager is responsible for the successful implementation, coordination, and continuous improvement of the EmpowerPath program. This position oversees participant recruitment and success, manages day-to-day program operations, coordinates internal and external partners, supervises staff and contractors, tracks outcomes, and ensures grant compliance.

This is an ideal opportunity for someone who enjoys building new programs, collaborating across sectors, solving complex challenges, and helping people achieve transformational change.

Key Responsibilities

1. Program Leadership
   • Lead implementation and day-to-day operations of EmpowerPath.
   • Develop and refine participant experience, service delivery standards, and
     operational procedures.
   • Coordinate program timelines, milestones, and continuous improvement efforts.
   • Ensure services align with WEV's mission and participant-centered approach.
2. Participant Success
   • Oversee participant recruitment, enrollment, and retention.
   • Monitor participant progress towards career, educational and financial goals.
   • Coordinate individualized progress plans with WEV staff and partner organizations.
   • Foster a welcoming, trauma-informed, culturally responsive environment.
3. Partnership Development
   • Build and maintain strong relationships with employers, workforce agencies,
     educational institutions, childcare providers, and community organizations.
   • Coordinate referrals and integrated service delivery among partner organizations.
   • Represent WEV at community meetings, collaborative initiatives, and networking events.
4. Staff Leadership
   • Supervise program coordinators, coaches, and consultants, including providing coaching and feedback as needed.
   • Foster collaboration across WEV departments and external partners.
5. Data, Evaluation & Grant Management
   • Track participant outcomes and program performance metrics together with WEV’s Impact and Evaluation Manager.
   • Ensure accurate documentation of client outcomes in WEV's data management systems.
   • Prepare reports for leadership and funders.
   • Support grant implementation, compliance, and evaluation activities.
   • Use data to identify opportunities for program improvement.
6. Financial & Operational Management
   • Monitor program budgets in collaboration with leadership.
   • Coordinate contracts, program materials, and vendor relationships.
   • Support sustainability planning and future program expansion.

Qualifications

Required

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent professional experience.

• 5+ years of experience managing complex nonprofit, workforce development, education, or human services programs.
• Proven experience successfully supervising staff or multidisciplinary teams.
• Demonstrated success managing multiple projects simultaneously.
• Strong relationship-building and partnership development skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience using data to monitor outcomes and improve programs.
• Demonstrated commitment to equity, economic mobility, and participant-centered services.

Preferred

• Experience serving single-parent families, or historically underserved communities.
• Knowledge of workforce development systems, career pathways, and/or financial capability programs.
• Experience managing grant-funded programs.
• Bilingual English/Spanish.

Key Competencies

• Strategic thinking and systems perspective
• Program development and continuous improvement
• Relationship building and collaboration
• Project and operational management
• Leadership and team development
• Data-informed decision making
• Strong organizational and communication skills
• Adaptability and problem solving
• Cultural humility and trauma-informed practice

Compensation & Benefits

Salary range $80k-90k, DOE. WEV offers a generous benefits package to full-time employees,
including medical, dental, vision, retirement contribution and paid time off.

WEV is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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