Position Title: Manager, Programs & Community Growth
Location: Austin, Texas
Company: The Kindness Campaign
Reports to: Founder & CEO
About The Kindness Campaign
The Kindness Campaign is a nationally growing nonprofit focused on emotional health, emotional literacy, and community impact for children, teens, families, schools, and communities.
We create experiences, programs, tools, and partnerships that help people build emotional health skills for life.
We are looking for a highly organized, entrepreneurial, mission-driven leader to help us scale our programs, partnerships, volunteer initiatives, and community impact nationwide.
About the Role
This is not a traditional nonprofit coordinator role.
We are looking for a builder — someone who can help take ideas and turn them into scalable programs, systems, experiences, partnerships, and community initiatives. This role will help support and grow TKC’s programming, community engagement, volunteer experiences, partnerships, and future initiatives as the organization continues to expand nationally. The ideal candidate is highly organized, strategic, creative, emotionally intelligent, and excited to help build the future of TKC.
What You’ll Do
- Help manage and grow TKC programs and community experiences
- Build scalable systems, playbooks, and processes
- Lead and own volunteer and community engagement initiatives
- Coordinate with schools, partners, sponsors, volunteers, and community organizations
- Improve participant experience and program delivery
- Support events, activations, and organizational initiatives
- Help develop and launch new ideas and opportunities for growth
- Identify ways to improve scalability, efficiency, and impact
- Help track outcomes, engagement, and program effectiveness
Who You Are
- Highly organized and execution-focused
- Entrepreneurial and proactive
- Strong communicator with high emotional intelligence
- Comfortable in fast-moving environments
- Able to manage multiple moving pieces simultaneously
- Passionate about helping children, families, and communities thrive
- Excited by innovation, growth, and building new things
- Both strategic and hands-on
Preferred Experience
- 5+ years in program management, community engagement, education, nonprofit leadership, partnerships, events, operations, or related fields
- Experience managing projects or initiatives from concept to execution
- Experience working with schools, volunteers, partners, or community organizations
- Strong operational and organizational skills
- Experience building systems, processes, or scalable programs preferred
- Familiarity with AI tools, automation, or modern operational systems
Bonus Points For:
- Startup or growth-stage experience
- Volunteer management experience
- Experience with experiential programming or community-building
Compensation & Why Join The Kindness Campaign?
Starting salary: Approximately $60,000 annually
This is an opportunity to help shape one of the most innovative emotional health and community-impact organizations in the country.
You’ll have the chance to:
- Create meaningful national impact
- Help shape the future growth of TKC
- Build programs and experiences that change lives
- Work directly with leadership
- Grow alongside a rapidly expanding organization
If you are a builder who wants to create meaningful work at scale, we’d love to hear from you.
Applications being accepted via LinkedIn.
