Program Assistant

Who We Are

At Irreducible Grace Foundation (IGF), our mission is to empower Youth of Color, ages 13 - 26, especially BIPOC youth, who have faced systemic barriers and historical traumas. We provide nurturing and inclusive spaces for healing, skill development, and creating future leaders. Our programs include Youth co-led arts-based programs offering safe spaces for collective healing, Black Cultural Arts, Elders in Arts, and Self-Care Sundays which includes workshops on self-care and well-being. Our work addresses critical gaps including lack of representation, educational disparities, economic and racial injustice, limited access to mental health support, and housing insecurity through culturally responsive and trauma-informed programming rooted in African culture and ancestral traditions.

Why You'll Love Working Here

IGF provides mentoring, life skills, employment, self-care practices, and safe spaces for teens and young adults. Through the use of visual and performing arts and movement techniques, we help young people learn new skills for dealing with stress, trauma, and fostering their voice.

Wages and Benefits

$20.00 per hour; Earned Sick and Safe Time (ESST), agency-sponsored retirement plan with immediate vesting.

A Typical Day in the Life...

A typical day as IGF's Program Assistant provides an opportunity to facilitate programming and support for internal and external programs of IGF. Responsibilities will include the following:

• Receiving training in and being prepared to lead programming through facilitation.
• Working with the programming team to develop program content, implementation, and revisions.
• Greeting program participants and visitors to the Black Youth Healing Arts Center.
• Assisting other program facilitators as needed, which may include setting up and taking down event spaces according to the specifications of the facilitator.
• Maintaining a space that creates opportunities for Black youth to develop and feel safe.

Who You Are

• You have at least six months of experience attending IGF/BYHAC programming or a similar organization.
• You have one year of experience working with youth of color and staff to effectively meet collective goals.
• You have program experience or related life experience in speaking and presenting to groups.
• You have highly effective verbal and written communication skills.

We are passionate about building and sustaining an inclusive and equitable working environment where everyone can belong. Every member of our team enriches our work by exposing us to a broad range of ways to understand and engage with the world, identify challenges, and to discover, design, and deliver solutions. We welcome everyone to apply, especially those individuals who are underrepresented in our sector: individuals who identify as BIPOC, Indigenous or people of culture, LGBTQI+ and gender fluid or gender nonconforming, individuals with disabilities (both seen and unseen), veterans, people of any age or family status. We value the contributions of a diverse workforce, and we welcome and encourage applications from all underrepresented groups. We encourage you to apply even if you feel like you don't fit 100% of the technical requirements. Equal Opportunity Employer: All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, ancestry, religion, national origin, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, familial status, disability, age, marital status, membership or activity in a local human rights commission, status with regard to public assistance, criminal history (justice-impacted status), housing or homelessness status, height, or weight.

Our organization has a partnership with Metropolitan Alliance of Connected Communities (MACC) to provide administrative services including management of the hiring process. If you apply for this position, you may see references to MACC in some online materials.

IGF participates in E-Verify and will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S. See E-Verify's official poster at https://e-verify.uscis.gov/web/media/resourcesContents/E-Verify_Participation_Poster_ES.pdf. See E-Verify's Right to Work poster at https://www.e-verify.gov/sites/default/files/everify/posters/IER_RightToWorkPoster%20Eng_Es.pdf.