Program Director

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About Impact Justice

Impact Justice advances safety, justice, and opportunity through boundary-breaking work that honors and empowers people and is changing expectations about what we can accomplish together. We imagine, build, and scale innovations, leverage research and other knowledge to connect the desire for change with informed action, and work to shift the narrative so that decision-makers and the public understand what’s at stake and what’s possible.

About the Menopause Project

The Menopause Project is a first-of-its-kind effort to bring comprehensive, evidence-based menopause and perimenopause care into correctional systems. Over two years, Impact Justice designed the program in close partnership with the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, and launched it across California's women's prisons in January 2026. The launch included clinical training for dozens of medical providers, a broad patient awareness campaign, and the creation of a bespoke training curriculum for Peer Support Specialists. We are now seeing positive results from the pilot and thinking about where to take the program from here.

When we began this work, our research found that no program in California — or anywhere in the United States — explicitly provided comprehensive, up-to-date menopause and perimenopause care to incarcerated women. While some corrections departments provide a basic level of care, thousands of incarcerated women across the country still lack access to what they need, and this crisis has long been absent from national conversation.

We are now entering a second and more consequential phase. In California, we are refining the model and using the state as an innovation lab for additional interventions — testing what works, at depth, in a live system. Beyond California, we are in active conversations with corrections departments in a handful of states to adapt and replicate the model. And we are carrying what we've learned well beyond correctional circles, into the clinical, research, and public conversations where this population is routinely left out.

The Program Director will lead this phase.

Who You Are

You likely have a background in public health, women’s health, or general healthcare, or experience working with incarcerated populations or other marginalized groups. You have an ethos of social justice, racial justice, community, and mutuality. You have a strong commitment to ending the criminalization of Black, Indigenous, Latine, and other people of color, financially disenfranchised people, and other marginalized groups. You have an orientation and belief that criminal justice involvement should not be an impediment to employment, career, wellness, and personal growth opportunities.

This position is the lead manager for this project. This position is external-facing and you will be skilled in public speaking and facilitation with a high degree of comfort in translating complex information to meet the needs of
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the candidate's experience and qualifications and our practice of maintaining salary equity within the organization. The benefits that come with working at Impact Justice include medical, dental, and FSA plans, significant vacation and wellness leave, and immediate vesting in our 401K with a generous match.

This is a full-time, salaried position. The candidate should be located in our Oakland, Los Angeles, or DC office and will work under a hybrid schedule. Periodic deviations to the regular hybrid schedule may be required due to program needs.

We are not considering remote staff for this position.

If this all sounds like a good fit for you, please include your resume and a response to the following questions:

• What is your experience working in healthcare/public health and/or with incarcerated/systems-impacted people?
• What is your experience building and/or sustaining a complex program or project?
• Why do you believe addressing women’s health, particularly menopause and perimenopause care, in the justice system is important?
• What makes you the best fit for this particular role at Impact Justice?

We plan on making decisions on a rolling basis, so the earlier you apply, the better.

Hiring Process

Elements of the Impact Justice hiring process may include phone screen interviews, candidate exercises (written or presentations), Zoom interviews, in-person interviews, and reference checks. Candidates are welcome to ask for alternative arrangements in the process if needed (for example, conducting an interview via phone rather than Zoom), Impact Justice will do our best to accommodate reasonable requests. Please communicate any alternative arrangements requested to the hiring manager.

Equal Opportunity Employment

Impact Justice provides equal employment opportunities to all applicants without regard to race/ethnicity, color, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, religion, national origin, age, criminal history, or disability.