Lost Angels Career Center - Chief Operating Officer

The role

Lead the day-to-day operations of Lost Angels Career Center across all its sites and functions. Translate strategic priorities into operational plans, manage functional leaders, and oversee finance and audit readiness in partnership with the CFO.

What you will do

• Own organizational execution across all sites and functions.
• Translate strategic priorities into operational plans and performance management rhythms.
• Directly manage and develop the Senior Case Manager, Senior Job Developer and CFO Interim.
• Partner with the CEO on hiring planning, leadership development and organizational design.
• Provide financial oversight with the CFO, including budgeting, forecasting, grant fund use and audit readiness.
• Build operational infrastructure: SOPs, decision rights, dashboards and a review cadence.
• Coordinate intake, case management and job placement to improve participant persistence and completion.
• Strengthen employer partnership pipelines that make job placement possible.

Required qualifications

• 10 or more years of progressive leadership experience in operations, nonprofit management, program administration or a closely related field.
• Demonstrated experience building organizational systems in growth-stage environments, including performance frameworks, SOPs and cross-functional coordination.
• Track record of financial oversight, including budget management, grant compliance and financial reporting in a nonprofit or government-funded context.
• Proven ability to manage and develop senior leaders and hold teams accountable to measurable outcomes across sites or functions.
• Strong analytical and systems thinking, with the ability to find bottlenecks and turn performance data into improvements.

Nice to have

• Experience in workforce development, vocational training or youth-serving nonprofit environments.
• Familiarity with nonprofit financial structures, grant compliance, and social enterprise or earned revenue models.
• Experience with multi-site program management and geographic expansion.
• Bilingual English/Spanish.

Benefits

• Medical insurance with 100% of the employee premium covered for the company-sponsored health plan.
• Paid sick leave, 40 hours annually, front-loaded.
• Paid holidays as designated in the organizational calendar.
• Participation in California State Disability Insurance and other state-mandated programs.

Before you apply

• Position may be subject to a background check; the employer follows the Fair Chance Act and considers qualified applicants with criminal histories.
• The employer participates in E-Verify and requires Form I-9 work authorization information from new employees; E-Verify is not used to pre-screen applicants.
• Any offer is contingent on completing all pre-employment requirements.

About the company

Lost Angels Career Center is a California nonprofit serving transitional age youth in the Antelope Valley and Los Angeles through vocational training, employment pathways and wraparound support. It combines social enterprise, workforce development and direct services across multiple sites.