Program Coordinator

About This Role

Working directly with young adults, the Program Coordinator provides personalized career development guidance and socio-emotional support, connecting them with work-based learning and internship opportunities. This role involves close collaboration with school staff, employers, and community organizations to help students identify interests, build career-readiness skills, and access necessary resources. The coordinator also supports employer engagement, internship placement, and data analysis for continuous program improvement.

Responsibilities

• Work with students to identify individual needs and career interests, collaboratively set goals, address challenges and barriers, and provide socio-emotional support
• Provide career readiness support to students, including helping build effective resumes, explore diverse career opportunities, develop professional communication skills, and excel in interview preparation
• Collaborate strategically with community resources and organizations to build and maintain a network of contacts for referring students to additional supports and services as needed
• Help design and maintain a database to track student information, keep data accurate, current, and secure
• Design and facilitate student workshops and orientations that build career readiness skills and introduce participants and their parents/guardians to program services, expectations, and opportunities
• Coordinate a system to sustain relationships with program participants to support their transition to post-secondary or career
• Co-design programs and tools with school and employer partners so work-based learning can expand to more students across Sonoma County
• Build and share resources, such as handbooks, training guides, MOUs, and goal-tracking tools, so programs run consistently across schools
• Help build strategies and opportunities for students to engage in professional development opportunities
• Identify, recruit, and onboard internship hosts across industries in Sonoma County, matching opportunities to student interests and program goals
• Train host-site supervisors so they’re ready to run a strong internship experience
• Communicate directly with employers and student interns before, during, and after placements, and resolve issues as they come up
• Share student, educator, and employer feedback in program design meetings, and propose ideas that improve the experience for students, educators, and employers
• Elevate student voice by gathering feedback and identifying and amplifying student stories
• Build and sustain collaborative relationships with school staff, including counselors, work-based learning coordinators, career specialists, teachers, and administrators
• Co-develop and implement marketing and outreach strategies targeting students to raise awareness of and increase participation in program services