Lead implementation of the AmityWorks RESTART DOL grant: manage planning through follow-up, meet performance targets, ensure compliance, oversee partners and subgrantees, supervise a Case Manager (caseload up to 70), manage budgets/reports, recruit employers, and ensure trauma-informed, participant-centered services for justice-involved young adults.
Job Description Specification Title:DOL RESTART Project ManagerReports To:Regional Administrator of Employment ServicesJob Number: Department:Employment ServicesPosition Number: Location:LAFLSA Exemption Status: ExemptSupervises:YesPosition Status: Full Time, Accrual Level FT2Revised: 8/10/26 Job Summary:The Program Manager leads the implementation of the AmityWorks RESTART grant. This is a management role, and it is the position the Department of Labor requires each grantee to staff at 100% full-time — the person ultimately responsible for making the program work.Reporting directly to the Regional Administrator of Employment Services, the Program Manager guides the program from planning through follow-up, meets every performance target the grant sets, keeps the program in compliance with federal rules, manages the partners and subgrantees, and oversees day-to-day services. This includes directly supervising the Case Manager, who serves a caseload of up to 70 participants.Above all, this role turns the grant’s goals into real results: safer communities, lower rates of return to prison, and young adults placed on genuine pathways to stable, well-paying careers. It is a role for a builder who can stand up a new program, hold partners and data to a high standard, and keep participants at the center of every decision Key Responsibilities:Grant Leadership & Implementation• Serve as Amity’s day-to-day leader for the AmityWorks grant, dedicating 100% of work time to the project as the funder requires.• Guide the program through all three phases of the 42-month grant: a three-to-six-month planning and start-up period, roughly two years of full implementation, and twelve months of participant follow-up.• Build and manage the program work plan, timelines, staffing, and milestones so that enrollment, services, and outcomes stay on track.• Make sure the program is delivered as approved — assessments, Individual Development Plans (each participant’s personalized roadmap), career coaching, training toward a credential, paid work experience, mentorship, supportive services, and follow-up.• Ensure each young adult’s needs are reassessed at enrollment and every six months, as the grant requires. Performance, Data & Reporting:• Own the program’s results and put simple, reliable systems in place to track and meet every performance goal:
- Education & employment — at least 75% of participants in school or working two quarters after they exit, and 70% four quarters after exit
- Earnings — median earnings of at least $5,000 in the second quarter after exit (tracking part-time versus full-time work)
- Credentials — at least 80% of participants earning an industry-recognized credential
- Apprenticeships — at least 10% of participants enrolling in a Registered Apprenticeship
- Recidivism — a return-to-prison rate below California’s most recent state rate of 39.1%
- Working knowledge of WIOA and of workforce or reentry services delivered against measurable outcomes.
- Strong data-management skills and the ability to build systems that produce accurate, on-time reporting.
- Excellent partnership-building, communication, and organizational skills, with the ability to juggle multiple partners and priorities.
- A genuine commitment to serving justice-involved young adults with dignity, and the ability to work effectively across diverse communities.
- Within six weeks of hire, obtain First Aid and CPR certification AND pass a physical examination and tuberculosis test from a health professional.
- Must have a valid California driver's license and be eligible for Amity vehicle insurance.
- Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail.
- Ability to maintain confidential information.
- Ability to operate general office equipment.
- Ability to exercise an amount of empathy and understand the importance of role-reversal.
- Demonstrates skill in patience, active listening, and interest in diverse life stories.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills with a genuine enthusiasm for helping people.
- Demonstrates proper attitudes and techniques and techniques to residential students.
- As a condition of employment with Amity, a job offer will not be binding upon Amity until and unless Amity and the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (“CDCR”) obtain satisfactory results from its investigation into your background
- Faculty must frequently lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.
- Frequently required to sit and/or stand for extended periods of time.
- Frequently sitting and typing for extended periods of time.
- Occasionally required to reach, walk, climb, pull, push, grasp, stretch, stoop.
- Frequently required talk, hear, see, and use repetitive motions.
- Frequently able to communicate verbally and in written form.
- Frequently able to use all types of vision, such as close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, and depth perception, to complete daily tasks
- Required to wear comfortable and office appropriate clothes.
- Ability to change direction as priorities shift.
- Ability to thrive in an environment that requires one to adapt to changing circumstances.
- Ability to professionally work under pressure with difficult or temperamental students & faculty.
- Ability to handle mental and emotional stress related to the position.
- Generally, in an indoor office setting.
- The noise level in the work environment is moderate but can be loud.
- The temperature in the work environment is usually moderate to cool but can be cold or hot.
- May travel as needed.
Amity Foundation Los Angeles, California, USA Office
Los Angeles, United States, 90043
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