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# Director of Workforce Development at GLIDE

- **Company:** GLIDE
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Compensation:** $110k–$125k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-08-11
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-09
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/glide/103e606b-f46f-4fb9-90ec-e8adaa04825f

## Job description

## About Glide

GLIDE is a nationally recognized center for social justice, dedicated to fighting systemic injustices, creating pathways out of poverty and crisis, and transforming lives. Through its integrated comprehensive services, advocacy initiatives, and inclusive community, GLIDE empowers individuals, families, and children to achieve stability and to thrive. GLIDE is on the forefront of addressing some of society’s most pressing issues, including poverty, housing and homelessness, and racial and social justice. GLIDE’s mission is to create a radically inclusive, just, and loving community mobilized to alleviate suffering and break the cycles of poverty and marginalization.

Position Summary The Director of Workforce Development leads strategy, implementation, and operational oversight for GLIDE’s workforce development programs. This role is directly responsible for the successful implementation and oversight of pathway development and community training programs that support recruitment, orientation, participation preparation, job readiness, employment placement, career advancement, and long-term economic mobility for participants experiencing poverty, housing instability, prior judicial system involvement, and other structural barriers. The Director leads and coordinates workforce initiatives across GLIDE programs, ensuring effective collaboration and alignment with organizational priorities, funder requirements, and participant needs. The role provides leadership across program design, implementation, performance management, and service quality, while working closely with housing, case management, behavioral health, the Center for Social Justice, and other programs across GLIDE’s life domains to ensure cohesive and effective support for workforce participants. This Director is also charged with building effective wrap-around services to support program participants. GLIDE seeks a proven, collaborative, equity-centered leader who can supervise staff, manage partnerships, coordinate workforce efforts across all departments, meet deliverables and strengthen employer and training relationships.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

- Essential duties and responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned, and responsibilities are subject to change based on program and organizational needs.
- Provide leadership and oversight for GLIDE’s workforce initiatives, including planning, implementation, coordination, and continuous improvement aligned with best practices
- Lead and support workforce service delivery that may include career navigation, job readiness activities, group workshops, employer engagement, and individualized participant support, ensuring services are trauma-informed, equity-driven, and responsive to the needs of component programs geared specifically toward youth, women, formerly incarcerated persons, and other specific groups as the program develops.
- Build strong ties and integration with community partners, funders, employers, potential employers, training providers, and other nonprofits to expand opportunities for participants and funding opportunities for all GLIDE workforce programs.
- Design, implement, and oversee content, case management procedures, and systems for participant recruitment, enrollment, and progression through workforce pathways, including assessment, goal setting, barrier reduction, service planning, and reporting on progress through coordinated care for economic mobility across GLIDE’s 10 life domains, as required by program design and funding requirements.
- Supervise, coach, coordinate, and support workforce staff and partners, setting clear expectations, promoting accountability, and ensuring service deliverables.
- Ensure timely, accurate, and compliant documentation, data entry, and reporting in required systems (e.g., ONE System, Salesforce, Carbon, or other funder-mandated databases), as well as compliance with all applicable contractual, regulatory, and ethical standards, including confidentiality, data privacy, and funder requirements.
- Monitor program budget, performance, outcomes, and deliverables across funding streams, using data to inform decision-making and continuous quality improvement.
- Represent GLIDE in workforce convenings, collaborative meetings, and community events related to workforce, employment, and economic mobility.
- Participate in and coordinate staff meetings, supervision, training, and cross-departmental planning to ensure alignment with organizational priorities and integrated service delivery.
- Engage in ongoing professional development to remain current on workforce development trends, best practices, and equity-centered approaches.

## Minimum Qualifications

- Bachelor’s degree in business, public administration, workforce development, human services, education, or a related field preferred; OR equivalent combination of education, training, and professional experience in workforce development or related services.
- Minimum of 5 years of progressively responsible experience in workforce development, youth employment, or related human services work, including experience serving Transitional Age Youth (TAY), re-entry and/ or similar populations.
- At least 3 years of experience in a leadership or supervisory role, with responsibility for program oversight, staff supervision, or project management.
- Demonstrated experience designing, managing, and coordinating workforce or employment-focused programs, including group facilitation, cohorts, and/or participant support.
- Strong understanding of trauma-informed, healing-centered, and equity-based approaches to workforce and youth development best practices.
- Must have strong project-management skills, works well in a fast pace organization; has the ability to meet deadlines with minimal direct supervision.
- The ability to partner successfully with multiple stakeholders and collaborate across teams whenever needed.
- Exceptionally strong interpersonal, networking and strategic thinking skills across diverse constituencies.
- Ability to synthesize complex material, reports and meet all contract deliverables.

Physical Requirements

- Reasonable accommodations can be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- Ability to work on a computer and see details of objects at a close range.
- Ability to hear within a normal range, and communicate effectively (in person, telephone or zoom).
- Finger dexterity and the ability to use all standard office equipment.
- Sit or stand comfortably; and the ability to navigate throughout office spaces (via elevator or stairs).

Work Environment GLIDE’s buildings are located in the Tenderloin neighborhood.  GLIDE maintains an "open door" policy to the community and its clients, who frequently enter and leave the building.

## About GLIDE

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: GLIDE is a nationally recognized center for social justice in San Francisco that provides integrated comprehensive services, free daily meals, housing assistance, behavioral health support, and advocacy to break cycles of poverty and marginalization.
- **Entity Type**: Non-profit (501(c)(3) foundation) – publicly supported charity
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, USA (330 Ellis St, San Francisco, CA 94102)
- **Founded**: 1963 (GLIDE Memorial Church roots; incorporated as foundation later)
- **Founders**: Rev. Cecil Williams (founder of GLIDE Memorial Church) and Janice Mirikitani (co-founder of GLIDE's social service programs)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Social services, poverty alleviation, hunger relief, housing/homelessness services, behavioral health, domestic violence intervention, child and family services
- **Target customers**: Homeless, low-income, and marginalized populations in San Francisco (Tenderloin neighborhood); B2C (direct service recipients)
- **Mission statement**: “Create a radically inclusive, just, and loving community mobilized to alleviate suffering and break the cycles of poverty and marginalization.”

## Products & Services
- **Daily Free Meals Program**: Three free, nutritious meals served 364 days a year to anyone in need – 533,298 meals served annually
- **Welcome Center**: Immediate basic needs (shelter, hygiene, blankets) and emotional support with case management
- **GLIDE Women’s Center**: Trauma-informed support groups, case management, and counseling for women survivors of violence, homelessness, or isolation
- **Transitional Age Youth (TAY) Health & Wellness Center**: 24/7 center for youth ages 18–27 experiencing homelessness, offering respite, mentoring, and connection to long-term resources
- **Journey Home Program**: Client-centered relocation and reunification support to move people from homelessness toward stability
- **Health Empowerment & Access Team (HEAT)**: Harm reduction, medically assisted treatment, HIV/Hep-C outreach, testing, and health system navigation
- **Community Ambassador Program**: Street-level engagement and placemaking to support San Francisco’s economic revitalization (30×30 plan)
- **Janice Mirikitani Family, Youth and Childcare Center**: Child and infant care, after-school programs, and family counseling for low-income families

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not applicable (non-profit); annual operating budget not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric**: 533,298 meals served per year; 3,937 people connected to social benefits (CalFresh, SSI) in recent period; $24 million secured in state funding for housing subsidies, shelters, and mental health support through coalition
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Works in partnership with City of San Francisco leaders; receives state funding; coalition funding from California state budget
- **Growth Signals**: Expanding integrated mobile services; launching a new TAY Health & Wellness Center; developing a $31M fundraising plan (FY24); facility expansion and behavioral health services under current CEO Dr. Gina Fromer

## Competitive Advantages
- **Deeply rooted community trust**: 60+ years serving the Tenderloin, recognized as a “safe space” and oasis for those most in need
- **Integrated service model**: Combines meals, housing, healthcare, childcare, legal clinic, and advocacy under one roof, creating a holistic pathway out of crisis
- **National leadership in social justice**: Actively shaping policy and public narrative on poverty, homelessness, and racial justice from a faith-grounded but secularly inclusive foundation
- **Scale and reach**: One of the largest hunger relief and social service providers in San Francisco, with over 200 employees and thousands served daily

## Strategic Focus
- **GLIDE Forward plan**: Expand integrated and mobile services to reach more people citywide; raise $31M in FY24 for building repair, expansion, and behavioral health; showcase GLIDE as a national social justice leader through art and storytelling; improve business systems and infrastructure; center work on voices of marginalized people; inspire staff growth
- **30×30 alignment**: Supporting San Francisco’s economic revitalization through the Community Ambassador Program and low-threshold case management
- **Policy advocacy**: Secured $24M in state funding for housing subsidies, shelters, and mental health support through coalition building

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Supportive, diverse, and inclusive team environment rooted in radical inclusivity, justice, and love. “Work is meaningful and the people are great.”
- **Work environment**: Friendly, accepting, and informal (casual dress code noted)
- **Benefits**: Competitive salaries, medical and dental insurance, generous paid time off, retirement savings plans
- **Equal opportunity employer**: Proudly equal opportunity; will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records (San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance)
- **Growth opportunity**: Chance to be part of a transformative expansion under new CEO Dr. Gina Fromer, with a strong emphasis on staff development and “building the capacity to learn and iterate”
- **Hybrid/remote policy**: Not explicitly stated; likely on-site given service delivery nature, but check role-specific postings

## Sources
1. [glide.org – About](https://www.glide.org/about/)
2. [glide.org – Careers](https://www.glide.org/Careers/)
3. [jobs.lever.co/glide](https://jobs.lever.co/glide)
4. [guidestar.org – Glide Foundation Profile](https://www.guidestar.org/profile/94-1156481)

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