Employment Opportunities

Join our team in tackling the academic opportunity gap and building confident learners prepared to succeed in school, career, and community! Read on to learn more about our current openings, and if you or someone you know would be a great fit, apply today!

Program Manager

Program Managers will be responsible for supervising 3 to 6 program coordinators and providing programmatic support to ensure the successful implementation of our organization's initiatives. Effective communication skills are crucial for this role for articulating visions, strategies, and feedback to both internal teams and external stakeholders. Program Managers must also be adept at project management, ensuring that programs are implemented efficiently and align with the organization’s mission. The ideal candidate will have strong leadership skills, a passion for social impact, and experience in program management within the nonprofit sector.

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Program Coordinator

Program Coordinators are responsible for coordinating and overseeing all ACES program operations. They ensure the effective implementation of high-quality ACES programming, including supervising up to 5 part-time Academic Coaches. ACES’s model operates in classroom settings of 10-15 students, before- or after-school for up to five days per week. Program Coordinators are ACES model experts and are expected to step into classrooms, whether teaching a class or providing instructional or behavioral support. They model the ACES culture at their site and lead daily staff meetings as they supervise and provide feedback to Academic Coaches. As supervisors, they become their Academic Coaches’ biggest advocates for growth and coach their supervisees toward ongoing programmatic and personal success.

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Academic Coach

Academic Coaches are ACES’s most powerful agents of change, engaging directly with students to advance education equity and prepare young learners for success in school, career, and community. Academic Coaches use ACES’s unique, hands-on curriculum to cultivate math skill and social-emotional development for a classroom of 10-15 middle school age students. Building relationships with students and families is key to success in this role — an outstanding opportunity for rising teachers and youth workers. Benefits include professional development and leadership opportunities, participation in Minnesota sports events and games, a hiring bonus, and more! Learn about the Academic Coach Cohort Model.

Academic Year 2025-2026

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ACES strives to build leadership, staff, and volunteer teams that reflect our values of equity and inclusion with regard to race, ethnicity, class, culture, religion, physical ability, age, gender, gender identity, and sexual orientation. We respect the value that diverse life experiences bring to our leadership, and are committed to being nondiscriminatory and providing equal opportunities in all areas of our work. People of color and those from other marginalized communities are strongly encouraged to apply.

Do you have questions about open positions at ACES? Contact us at jobs@aces4kids.org or 612-331-3454.