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# Women’s Center & Economic Mobility Manager at GLIDE

- **Company:** GLIDE
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Compensation:** $80k–$85k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-08-24
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-16
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/glide/1f965120-3cf9-4aa9-886f-fcbcaf54eff3

## 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 Women’s Center & Economic Mobility Manager provides day-to-day leadership and management of the Women’s Center, overseeing program operations, staff, participant services, workforce and economic mobility initiatives, partnerships, and program outcomes. The Manager leads the development and delivery of programming that connects women to immediate resources, trauma informed and healing centered case management, skill building and supportive services while creating pathways to employment, education, training, career advancement, and greater economic stability. This position provides staff supervision and direct participant services as needed and works closely with the FRC/Women’s Center Director to ensure high-quality, coordinated, participant-centered services.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities Program Management & Operations

- Manage day-to-day Women’s Center programs, services, activities, workshops, cohorts, and events.
- Develop and implement programming that supports participant engagement, stabilization, skill development, community connection, and economic mobility.
- Ensure services are participant-centered, trauma-informed, culturally responsive, and strengths-based, to promote healing and resilience for personal empowerment and independent living.
- Establish and maintain effective workflows for participant engagement, referrals, service coordination, and follow-up.
- Coordinate Women’s Center services across basic needs, case management, workforce development, wellness, education, and other supportive services.
- Monitor program participation, service utilization, participant feedback, and outcomes to identify opportunities for improvement. Support the development and implementation of new programming in response to participant needs and available resources.
- Monitor program goals, deliverables, participation, and outcomes.
- Ensure timely and accurate program documentation and data collection.
- Use program data and participant feedback to identify trends, service gaps, and opportunities for continuous improvement.
- Support preparation of funder reports, program narratives, performance updates, and other required documentation.
- Support budget monitoring and responsible use of program resources.
- Ensure program activities align with contractual requirements, organizational policies, and established procedures.
- Work with the FRC/Women’s Center Director to support program planning, quality improvement, and continued development of Women’s Center services.

Workforce Development & Economic Mobility

- Lead the development and implementation of workforce and economic mobility programming for Women’s Center participants.
- Provide direct workforce development and career-navigation services as needed, including career assessment, employment planning, job-readiness coaching, resume and interview support, and connection to employment and training opportunities.
- Develop pathways connecting participants to employment, vocational training, education, credentialing, career advancement, and other economic opportunities. Build and maintain relationships with employers, workforce organizations, educational institutions, training providers, and community partners.
- Coordinate career-readiness workshops, hiring opportunities, employer engagement activities, training connections, and other workforce programming.
- Identify and address barriers to employment and economic stability through coordinated referrals and supportive services.
- Monitor workforce participation and outcomes, including training, employment connections, placement, and retention.

Participant Services & Service Coordination

- Provide direct participant support and service navigation as needed.
- Support participants in identifying goals, resources, and appropriate internal and external services.
- Coordinate with case management and other service providers to address barriers related to housing, benefits, healthcare, behavioral health, childcare, transportation, safety, and other stabilization needs.
- Promote coordinated service planning that connects immediate needs with longer-term employment, education, and economic mobility goals.
- Maintain appropriate professional boundaries, confidentiality, documentation, and participant-centered practices.

Partnerships & Community Engagement

- Develop and maintain partnerships that expand resources, services, employment opportunities, and economic mobility pathways for participants.
- Coordinate employers, training providers, educational partners, community organizations, and external facilitators.
- Represent the Women’s Center in relevant community meetings, collaboratives, workforce networks, and partnership activities.
- Identify new partnerships and resources based on participant needs and emerging opportunities.
- Collaborate with internal programs to strengthen referrals and coordinated service delivery.

## Minimum Qualifications

- Bachelor’s degree in social work, human services, public administration, nonprofit management, or a related field preferred; equivalent relevant experience considered.
- Minimum of 3–5 years of progressively responsible experience in human services, workforce development, community-based programming, or related services.
- Experience managing or coordinating programs serving women and/or individuals experiencing economic insecurity, housing instability, or other barriers to stability.
- Experience developing or delivering workforce development, employment, education, training, career-readiness, or economic mobility services.
- Demonstrated experience supervising high functioning teams.
- Experience developing community, employer, workforce, or educational partnerships.
- Strong program planning, facilitation, organizational, and project-management skills.
- Ability to provide direct participant services while managing broader program responsibilities.
- Strong written, verbal, interpersonal, and relationship-building skills.
- Experience using program data and performance measures to monitor and strengthen services.
- Commitment to trauma-informed, culturally responsive, strengths-based, and participant-centered practices.

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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