Interviews will begin in January 2025.
The Foundation is the trusted partner of the California Community Colleges— facilitating collaboration, accelerating innovation, and increasing system wide resources. The Foundation’s Success Center for California Community Colleges is looking for an individual to join our team who has experience in criminal justice and higher education to lead the Rising Scholars Network (RSN). The Rising Scholars Network is an assembly of California Community Colleges committed to serving incarcerated and formerly incarcerated students by providing degree-granting programs in correctional facilities and on-campus support for students who have experienced the criminal justice system. We partner with every community college to build strong pathways from incarceration to higher education.
What You’ll Do
The Rising Scholars team actively works to incorporate the unique needs of incarcerated and formerly incarcerated students as an equity initiative in the California Community College system by collecting and developing resources to help partners gain deeper understanding of and incorporate the unique needs of incarcerated and formerly incarcerated students into their programs. This includes advocating for the colleges and working with corrections partners to reach solutions, building resources for prospective students, and fostering a shared learning environment and a joint commitment to quality among members of the Rising Scholars Network.
- Execute regional strategies focused on enhancing certificate and degree completion rates, facilitating baccalaureate transfers, and supporting community college baccalaureate degree attainment for justice-involved students.
- Identify, develop, and share challenges and solutions across the assigned regions to meet students’ needs.
- Facilitate the development of materials, resources, and tools for use in colleges, prisons, and jails.
- In coordination with the Assistant Director and RSN leadership, implement targeted outreach campaigns to engage community organizations, advocacy groups, and potential participants in the Rising Scholars Network initiatives by developing and implementing a comprehensive influencer mapping strategy to identify and cultivate relationships with key thought leaders and community advocates.
- Meet regularly either in person or remotely with the Director and/or Assistant Director(s) and other Regional Coordinators to achieve Vision 2030 goals as they apply to currently and formerly incarcerated students.
- Assist the Foundation and Chancellor’s Office in gathering the required information necessary to prepare any needed reports to the Legislature and/or Board of Governors on the Rising Scholars Network Program.
- Align the colleges to statewide and regional initiatives and resources, including Guided Pathways, AB 705 implementation, Dual Enrollment and efforts to meet equity goals.
- Report monthly on the work of students, staff, faculty, and administrators for Rising Scholars students
Attributes for Success
- Familiarity with pathways and/or interventions that support student success including improved transition from incarceration into the workforce, course-sequencing, program and pathway design, industry-aligned competencies and credentials, and acceleration in developmental education.
- Knowledge and substantial experience working with incarcerated populations and rehabilitation, education, and workforce development partners in the assigned region.
- Knowledge of evidence based equity strategies to remediate gaps in access, support, and success.
- Successful experience in managing and leading complex and diverse projects.
- We’re recruiting for mission-driven, passionate, equity-minded individuals with a strong desire to impact and change people’s lives for the better
- Our work holds great weight and responsibility, and the opportunity to impact the lives of millions
- Innovation, creativity, collaboration, and entrepreneurship are encouraged as employees work to achieve organizational goals
- FoundationCCC blends the impact of a non-profit, the culture of an entrepreneurial start-up, and the scale of a state agency
- Team members are hired for their expertise in niche areas across our areas of impact and higher education overall, and for their knowledge of business, philanthropy, technology, communications, and more
- We have a commitment to professional development and an emphasis on shared leadership, to ensure growth for employees and the organization overall
What we Offer
FoundationCCC is fully committed to a “remote-first” philosophy, and recruits and hires talent across the state in fully remote positions, where virtual work is possible. Our headquarters are located in Downtown Sacramento, just blocks from California’s State Capitol.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation, generous PTO, holidays
- Medical, dental, and vision plans, Flexible Spending Accounts, and Health Savings Accounts (HSA), Employee Assistance Program (EAP), and Wellness offerings
- CalPERS retirement program and optional 403(b) and 457 Retirement plans
- Tuition reimbursement
- Public Service Loan Forgiveness certified employer
This posting is a condensed version of the full job description. To request the full job description, please email us at [email protected].
Budgeted Annual Salary Pay Range:
$95,000.00 - $105,000.00
Final salary and rates are based on education, experience, skills relevant to the role, and internal equity.
What We Do
The Foundation for California Community Colleges (FoundationCCC) works to benefit students, colleges, and communities by reducing barriers to opportunities for all Californians and accelerating paths to economic and social mobility. The organization was founded in 1998 and serves as the official statewide nonprofit organization supporting the California Community Colleges, the largest system of higher education in the nation.
FoundationCCC operates just over 70 programs and services that improve educational access and affordability, address basic needs, connect students to work-based learning, and tackle local climate change effects. These programs are organized across six priority Areas of Impact: Student Success, Workforce, Development, Equity, Community Impact, Climate Action, and System Support. The organization’s work is made possible through funding from and partnerships with philanthropy, public agencies, corporations, and donors.
Since inception in 1998, FoundationCCC has grown to be one of the largest operating foundations in higher education, with over 550 full-time employees and annual revenues of over $167 million.
