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Job Opportunities with Prison + Neighborhood Arts/Education Project
PNAP is currently accepting applications for the following positions: Executive Director and Program Manager. For more information, see below.
Program Manager (updated 2/8/2023)
Position Overview
Serve as the Prison + Neighborhood Arts/Education Project’s Program Manager (PM) to provide faculty/class coordination for all PNAP initiatives taking place at Stateville Correctional Center. The Program Manager also provides administrative support to the organization and each area of PNAP’s work including arts/exhibitions, University Without Walls, and the Think Tank as well as other community-building initiatives, as it pertains to coordination with Stateville.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Schedule classes, think tanks, lecture series, UWW advisor visits, and mid-semester faculty meetings;
- Recruit, onboard, and support faculty in conjunction with BoD teaching committee and director of university curriculum
- Coordinate faculty placement and selection
- Meet with prison staff / chaplains as needed to coordinate and secure security clearances for faculty and guests;
- Coordinate and secure gate passes with prison chaplains;
- Correspond with students around classwork at Stateville regarding student questions and requests;
- Purchase materials and printing course books for classes; allocate course materials to classrooms at Stateville
- Maintain and keep an updated a student database, faculty folder and other digital folders/ documents related to class coordination (e.g. scanning student letters/agreements and organizing in PNAP digital folders);
- Maintain and regularly update our faculty handbook and student forms such as student agreements, evaluations, release forms, etc
- Coordinate curricular planning initiatives in conjunction with BoD teaching committee and director of university curriculum;
- Schedule and provide support for PNAP faculty meetings and orientations, in conjunction with designated PNAP Board members and staff;
- Participate in organizational and strategic planning;
- Maintain relationships with chaplains, wardens, and prison administration as needed to ensure efficient class program operations;
- Establish yearly academic schedule of classes in conjunction with teaching committee and Director of University Curriculum and coordinate annual PNAP faculty/course planning process
- Develop new organizational structures and processes as needed to ensure efficient and effective programming
As time permits, the Project Manager will work with PNAP Board members and staff to support PNAP events and fundraising initiatives.
Work Environment
- Based in Chicago with co-working office space in Edgewater
- Position requires regular in-person engagement with prison staff and incarcerated students at Stateville Correctional Center in Joliet, IL
- Regular travel to Stateville is required as conditions allow
Pay + Benefits
This is a full-time position. $55,000-$65,000. Compensation commensurate with experience. In addition, the position includes a benefits package that includes health, dental, and vision.
Preferred Qualifications
- At least five years experience in program management for community-based organizations or higher-education administration
- Excellent strategic and comprehensive program management skills
- Experience and familiarity with prison-industrial-complex-abolition, mass-incarceration, and criminal-justice-impacted movements for social change
- Understanding of higher education, community or popular education and curricular goals
- Strong critical thinking skills
- Demonstrated ability to work effectively in politically sensitive and high-pressure environments
- Experience with trauma-informed practices for social change movement-building
- Demonstrated commitment and experience working with Black, Indigenous and people of color communities
- Demonstrated understanding of how issues such as poverty, immigration status, ability, queerness, and gender intersect with the prison-industrial-complex
- Demonstrated ability to work independently as well as in close relation to a small team working on closely connected projects
- Owns a car with ability to travel to Stateville on a weekly basis
- Willingness to work remotely and in person
- Effective time management skills, including prioritizing and managing multiple tasks, with light supervision
- Excellent communication and writing skills
- Excellent team player
The Prison + Neighborhood Arts/Education Project is an equal-opportunity employer. Black, Indigenous, people of color, LGBTQIA+, and people formerly-incarcerated strongly encouraged to apply.
HOW TO APPLY: For consideration, send a resume, and cover letter to hr@p-nap.org. Please add “Program Manager” in the subject of your email. No calls, please. Position open until filled.
Position Start Date: March 1 or when position is filled
Length of Contract: 12 Months with ability for renewal
Executive Director (updated 2/3/2023)
Position Overview:
Serves as The Prison + Neighborhood Arts/Education Project Executive Director to develop and oversee its current and emerging organizational programming, infrastructure, and development.
Primary Responsibilities:
Organizational Administration 30%
- Develop Annual budgets with PNAP Program Directors and Board of Directors
- Track annual expenditures and annual audit in coordination with PNAP accountants and PNAP Finance Committee; facilitate quarterly budget meetings with PNAP Finance Committee
- Sign off on paychecks, major expenses or other budget related work
- Ensure fiscal and legal compliance in coordination with PNAP accountants and consultants
- Chair and participate in Board Committees, including Board Finance Committee and Board Human Resources Committee
Management 30%
- Maintain clear organizational directives, political values and vision of PNAP alongside
- staff and Board of Directors
- Coordinate Board of Directors formation and governing procedures
- Coordinate BoD meetings, communications and onboarding
- Coordinate BoD meetings, communications and onboarding new staff and BoD members
- Oversee hiring of staff positions alongside Program Directors in alignment with organizational needs
- Supervise and support all staff with regular meeting-times, role assessments, and programming implementation in alignment with organizational vision and values
- Supervise and oversee all volunteer and part-time PNAP positions, including interns
- Facilitate all necessary communications between staff, Program Directors, and/or Board of Directors
- Hold regular meetings with PNAP staff, Co-Directors, and BoD to maintain open communications, group processes, healthy work boundaries
- Maintain and Update PNAP Operational materials including Operating procedures, Staff
- Handbook, Mission and Principles, and other guiding documents for the organization; oversee updates of handbooks and necessary documents by PNAP staff
Development 30%
- Identify grant opportunities
- Develop and submit grant applications
- Build and maintain relationships with funders and foundations
- Develop and submit grant reporting requirements
- Maintain and update individual Donor Base
Organizational Stewardship 10%
- Maintain relationships and represent PNAP in institutional and grassroots partnerships, including (but not limited to) IDOC, as well as university-based, IL governmental, and community-based organizations
- Represent PNAP at relevant local and national events and coalitions in alignment with PNAP vision and values
- Liaise with Program Directors to ensure and implement all programming
- Support PNAP cultural and thematic events alongside Program Directors and staff
Pay + Benefits
This is a full-time position. Salary range: $70,000-$80,000, commensurate with experience. In addition, the position includes a benefits package that includes health, dental, and vision.
Preferred Qualifications
- At least five years experience as a lead organizer or program manager for grassroots,
community-based organizations - Excellent strategic and comprehensive program management skills
- Experience and familiarity with prison-industrial-complex-abolition, mass-incarceration, and criminal-justice-impacted movements for social change
- Strong critical thinking skills
- Demonstrated ability to work effectively in politically sensitive and high-pressure
environments - Experience with trauma-informed practices for social change movement-building
- Demonstrated commitment and experience working with Black, Indigenous and people
of color communities - Demonstrated ability to work independently
- Willingness to limited travel when it is safe to do so
- Willingness to work remotely and in person
- Effective time management skills, including prioritizing and managing multiple tasks, with
light supervision - Excellent communication and writing skills
- Excellent team player
Work Environment
- Position is based in Chicago
- COVID Considerations: PNAP recognizes that we need to make shifts to address the ongoing challenges of the pandemic on our emotional and physical health. We are working remotely until it is safe to work in-person.
- Limited travel in the Chicago metro area is required when conditions allow The Prison + Neighborhood Arts/Education Project is an equal-opportunity employer. Black, Indigenous, people of color, LGBTQIA+, and people formerly-incarcerated strongly encouraged to apply.
HOW TO APPLY: For consideration, send a resume, and cover letter to hr@p-nap.org. Please add “Executive Director” in the subject of your email. No calls, please. Position open until filled.
Application Deadline Date: Feb 20 or when position is filled
Length of Contract: 12 Months with ability for renewal