Division Manager, The Petey Greene Program, New Jersey

About Us

The Petey Greene Program supports the academic goals of incarcerated and formerly incarcerated people through high-quality volunteer tutoring programs, while educating volunteers on the injustice manifest in our carceral system.

We envision a world in which all incarcerated people have access to high-quality academic programs and we strive to inspire our alumni - both students and tutors - to become advocates, and to take on leadership roles that reimagine the criminal legal system. 

The PGP operates the largest multi-state volunteer tutoring program for currently and formerly incarcerated people. Since its founding, the PGP has tutored more than 16,000 students at over 120 tutoring sites, including both correctional facilities and reentry programs. We've trained and placed more than 3,500 unique volunteers and recruited from more than 40 partner universities in seven states and the District of Columbia.

The PGP is headquartered in Princeton, New Jersey, but the majority of our 30 employees work in a hybrid arrangement in their respective regions. 

The Role 

The Division Manager will be responsible for ensuring the provision of high-quality tutoring services for incarcerated and formerly incarcerated students in New Jersey.  This includes managing several programmatic and university partnerships as well as potentially supervising an intern. The Division Manager reports to PGP’s Regional Manager, New Jersey.

In the programmatic aspects of the role, the Division Manager will collaborate and coordinate with multiple types of partners, including higher education programs, and reentry providers, as well as prisons and jails. The Division Manager is responsible for determining the tutoring needs of program partners and participating students, developing semester program plans and collaboration agreements, and managing volunteer tutors. The position is also tasked with monitoring the quality and evaluation of the tutoring services provided, and troubleshooting issues of attendance, engagement, and academic progress in collaboration with program partners, PGP staff, tutors, or students. 

The Division Manager is responsible for maintaining relationships with university partners where many volunteers are enrolled, in order to recruit volunteers and grow the PGP’s presence across the New Jersey region.  This includes building campus-based student groups, supporting and collaborating with campus leaders, and establishing connections with professors and university departments at various universities in New Jersey. 

The role is hybrid, with a combination of work-from-home days, meeting days in the community or at partner sites, and in-office days. Candidates must be based in the state of New Jersey with the ability and willingness to travel to Princeton, NJ 1-2 times weekly. 

Position Title

Division Manager, The Petey Greene Program in New Jersey

Position Type

Full-time staff (40 hours/week)

 Major Duties and Responsibilities

• Oversees the week-to-week operations in a portion of PGP’s New Jersey tutoring programs, leading the logistics of educational operations, monitoring high-level trends, and troubleshooting challenges
• Builds and maintains relationships with community partners, university professors and offices, correctional facilities across the state from the Southern region to the Northern region
• Manages relationships with programmatic partners, which includes meeting regularly, managing student referrals, ensuring tutor-student fit, collecting academic data, and coordinating partner-specific onboarding and clearance requirements
• Works with the New Jersey Regional Manager to track and collect programmatic data and provide reports to partners and funders
• Collaborates to screen, interview and select volunteers, ensuring that PGP is providing high-quality tutors and programming
• Communicates with tutors about onboarding, clearances, programmatic challenges, session cancellations,  etc
• As needed , conducts student intake meetings, clarify student goals, and regularly check in with students to provide support, collect feedback, and assess their progress
• Builds and supports PGP’s campus-based student groups, cultivating university relationships, growing PGP’s campus presence, and hosting campus events in collaboration with campus leadership teams and/or interns
• Participates and prepares for weekly meetings with the New Jersey team and all PGP staff
• May supervise 1 part-time Volunteer Coordinator, typically work-study students or interns from partner universities

Competencies

• Proficiency with Microsoft Office including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
• Proficiency in Gmail, Google Drive, Google Docs, and Google Calendar  
• Ability to communicate effectively and professionally in person and via email, text, and phone.  
• Attention to detail and extremely organized.  
• Ability to develop and maintain relationships with a diverse group partners
• Ability to problem solve independently and with a team
• Experience working with student or community-based organizations, 
• Experience building relationships on campuses and/or in the community
• Experience or skills in group facilitation
• Ability to work independently and with a team
• Awareness of issues related to mass incarceration and broader social justice concerns.
• A commitment to racial equity, and the rights of currently and formerly incarcerated people.

Preferred Qualifications:  

• Bachelor’s degree and 2-4 years of work experience or Associated degree and 3-5 years of work experience
• Experience working with or knowledge of the NJ Department of Correction as an employee, partner, or a formerly incarcerated person.
• Experience working with community organizations and local governments in New Jersey
• Experience working in education
• Experience working with volunteers, particularly university student volunteers.
• An understanding of the US criminal justice system and local policies. 
• A commitment to education in confined settings. 

Diversity, equity and inclusion are foundational to the Petey Greene Program's work. We also believe that this work should be led by system-impacted people, whose perspectives and direct knowledge of the problems are necessary to achieving freedom and educational justice.

The PGP defines system-impacted as a person who by their own experience, family experience, school experiences, and/or communal experiences has previous interaction or involvement with and who is legally, economically, familially, or psychologically affected by the criminal legal system. Interaction or involvement with the criminal legal system includes arrest and/or detainment, appearance in criminal courts, incarceration, immigrant detention, juvenile detention, parole, and/or probation.

We strongly encourage system-impacted people, people of color, LGBTQIA+ people, and women to apply. The Petey Greene Program is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate in its personnel decisions based on race, ancestry, national origin, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital/domestic partner status, religion, age, disability status, veteran status, or former incarceration status.