Senior Program Associate & Facilitator

Impact Justice advances safety, justice, and opportunity through boundary-breaking work that honors and empowers people, changing expectations about what we can accomplish together. We imagine, build, and scale innovations, leverage research to connect the desire for change with informed action, and shift narratives to help decision-makers and the public understand what’s at stake and what’s possible.

About the Growing Justice Program

Growing Justice is a first-of-its-kind reentry and workforce development program blending vertical farming and classroom instruction with intensive reentry and job readiness support. Through partnerships with AmplifiedAg, Skout Strategy, and Agritecture, women at Camille G. Graham Correctional Institution (CGGCI) gain hands-on training, employment preparation, and wraparound support for success post-release. Inspired by Impact Justice’s 2020 series Eating Behind Bars, which documented the unhealthy and degrading quality of prison food nationwide, Growing Justice also reimagines food justice inside correctional facilities.

Beginning in Fall 2025, AmplifiedAg established a vertical farm at CGGCI producing an estimated 48,000 pounds of nutrient-rich leafy greens annually for residents, while serving as a living classroom where participants build marketable skills and pathways to sustainable careers. In addition to the South Carolina site, Growing Justice launched two more sites in 2025: one at the Central California Women’s Facility in Chowchilla, CA, and another in downtown Oakland, CA, expanding food justice, workforce readiness, and reentry pathways nationwide.

About the Role

This is a part-time, hybrid position based in or near Columbia, South Carolina, requiring regular onsite presence (typically 3–5 partial days per week) at Camille G. Graham Correctional Institution. The role combines remote work with onsite program delivery, including facilitating programming, providing on-the-job training, supporting participants, and maintaining relationships with facility staff.

You will report to the Senior Program Manager and serve as the primary onsite representative for Growing Justice, ensuring strong learning experiences, effective program operations, and successful participant outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate Participant Learning and Development: Lead engaging classroom and experiential learning opportunities to build technical, workforce, and professional development skills. Facilitate instruction, reinforce skills, prepare materials, foster engagement, monitor progress, and support program completion.
• Lead Day-to-Day Program Delivery: Serve as the primary onsite representative, ensuring smooth operations and a positive participant experience. Coordinate cohort recruitment, support orientation, communicate with facility staff, address challenges, and support participant success throughout the program lifecycle.
• Build and Maintain Strong Relationships: Cultivate productive relationships with facility staff, participants, community partners, volunteers, and stakeholders to strengthen program delivery and outcomes. Act as a trusted point of contact and ambassador for Growing Justice and Impact Justice.
• Coordinate Program Operations and Accountability: Support systems and processes for effective program delivery, including tracking documentation, participant accountability, guest speakers, special events, and compliance with program requirements.
• Support Program Growth and Continuous Improvement: Identify opportunities to enhance participant experiences, improve operations, and increase program effectiveness. Contribute ideas, share lessons learned, and participate in planning efforts.

Qualifications

• Four years of professional training, education, and/or closely related experience, plus at least four years of experience independently managing program activities, training delivery, facilitation, or participant-centered programming.
• Demonstrated experience facilitating training, workshops, educational programs, or group learning experiences.
• Strong relationship-building and communication skills, with experience collaborating with participants, colleagues, community partners, and external stakeholders.
• Ability to independently manage multiple priorities, coordinate complex activities, solve problems, and execute projects with limited supervision.
• Ability to obtain and maintain clearance to work within a correctional facility and commitment to advancing opportunities for individuals impacted by the justice system.

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with agriculture, controlled environment agriculture (CEA), urban farming, community gardening, food systems, sustainability, food access, food justice, or related fields.
• Experience working in correctional, nonprofit, educational, workforce development, or community-based settings.
• Experience coordinating community partnerships, participant recruitment, interviews, volunteers, guest speakers, or stakeholder engagement activities.

Skills

• Engaging facilitator who creates meaningful learning experiences for adult learners.
• Comfortable working in correctional settings and building trusted relationships with participants, facility staff, and community partners.
• Highly organized, adaptable, and solutions-oriented, with the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Collaborative and resourceful, proactively building relationships and coordinating volunteers, guest speakers, and engagement opportunities.

Pay

$34.68 per hour, with annual increases defined by the current collective bargaining agreement.

Schedule

Part-time, 30 hours per week. Hybrid schedule combining remote work with regular onsite presence at Camille G. Graham Correctional Institution (typically 3–5 partial days per week). Anticipated start date: late July or early August 2026.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and FSA plans.
• Significant vacation and wellness leave.
• Immediate vesting in a 401K with a generous employer match.