DOL Restart Project Manager

Job Description Specification Title: DOL RESTART Project Manager Reports To: Regional Administrator of Employment Services Job Number: Department: Employment Services Position Number: Location: LA FLSA Exemption Status: Exempt Supervises: Yes Position Status: Full Time, Accrual Level FT2 Revised: 8/10/26 Job Summary: The Program Manager leads the implementation of the AmityWorks RESTART grant. This is a management role, and it is the position the Department of Labor requires each grantee to staff at 100% full-time — the person ultimately responsible for making the program work. Reporting directly to the Regional Administrator of Employment Services, the Program Manager guides the program from planning through follow-up, meets every performance target the grant sets, keeps the program in compliance with federal rules, manages the partners and subgrantees, and oversees day-to-day services. This includes directly supervising the Case Manager, who serves a caseload of up to 70 participants. Above all, this role turns the grant’s goals into real results: safer communities, lower rates of return to prison, and young adults placed on genuine pathways to stable, well-paying careers. It is a role for a builder who can stand up a new program, hold partners and data to a high standard, and keep participants at the center of every decision Key Responsibilities: Grant Leadership & Implementation • Serve as Amity’s day-to-day leader for the AmityWorks grant, dedicating 100% of work time to the project as the funder requires. • Guide the program through all three phases of the 42-month grant: a three-to-six-month planning and start-up period, roughly two years of full implementation, and twelve months of participant follow-up. • Build and manage the program work plan, timelines, staffing, and milestones so that enrollment, services, and outcomes stay on track. • Make sure the program is delivered as approved — assessments, Individual Development Plans (each participant’s personalized roadmap), career coaching, training toward a credential, paid work experience, mentorship, supportive services, and follow-up. • Ensure each young adult’s needs are reassessed at enrollment and every six months, as the grant requires. Performance, Data & Reporting: • Own the program’s results and put simple, reliable systems in place to track and meet every performance goal: Education & employment — at least 75% of participants in school or working two quarters after they exit, and 70% four quarters after exit Earnings — median earnings of at least $5,000 in the second quarter after exit (tracking part-time versus full-time work) Credentials — at least 80% of participants earning an industry-recognized credential Apprenticeships — at least 10% of participants enrolling in a Registered Apprenticeship Recidivism — a return-to-prison rate below California’s most recent state rate of 39.1% • Oversee accurate participant records, including WIOA co-enrollment and the secure collection and handling of personal information such as Social Security numbers, consistent with the grant’s data requirements and privacy safeguards. • Prepare and submit accurate quarterly financial and performance reports to the Department of Labor (federal report ETA-9173), and combine the data reported by subgrantees into those submissions. • Check data quality across the network and fix any problems before reporting deadlines. Partner, Subgrantee & Employer Management: • Coordinate and support the subgrantee network so every partner delivers services and reports data as agreed in their signed partnership agreements (MOUs/Letters of Commitment). • Maintain strong working relationships with the grant’s required partners: the California Division of Apprenticeship Standards, criminal justice partners (such as county probation and the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation), and state and local workforce development boards. • Recruit and support employer partners in the target in…