Part-Time Program Manager
Role summary
Love to Code Academy seeks a part-time Program Manager (20-25 hours/week) to lead instructors and scale a youth character development program. This role focuses on building character through coding, robotics, and esports, emphasizing leadership, accountability, and system development over traditional operations. Responsibilities include coaching instructors, ensuring program quality and consistency, managing operational tasks like scheduling and hiring, and communicating with parents. The ideal candidate possesses strong leadership, consistency, and the ability to enforce high standards, with experience in team leadership and a passion for youth development. This is a unique opportunity to shape an early-stage program.
Program Manager (Part-Time, 20–25 Hours/Week)
*This is not a role where you manage a program. This is a role where you help build what the program becomes.*
Love to Code Academy is not a coding school.
We are a youth character development academy that uses coding, robotics, and esports as environments where students build relationships, responsibility, purpose, and leadership.
We grow kids, not just coders.
This Program Manager role is not a traditional operations position. You are not here to manage schedules or oversee curriculum delivery. Your responsibility is to protect and scale a system that develops character through structured environments.
This is a part-time leadership role, averaging 20–25 hours per week, primarily during after-school hours, evenings, and some weekends.
This role requires strong leadership, high standards, and the ability to hold both instructors and students accountable. If you are looking for a relaxed or administrative role, this is not the right fit.
If you are driven to lead people, build systems, and create meaningful impact in how students grow, this is a unique opportunity to do that.
Compensation:
$32 - $36 per hour
Responsibilities:
As a Program Manager at Love to Code Academy, you are responsible for ensuring that every class consistently delivers on our core mission: developing character through structured, high-quality program experiences. You will lead instructors, maintain program standards, and ensure consistency across all classes, staff, and student experiences.
This role requires both leadership of people and ownership of operations within a part-time structure. You are accountable for protecting the system, maintaining quality, and ensuring that both instructors and students meet expectations.
Core Responsibilities (Program Quality & Leadership)
- Lead, coach, and develop instructors as coaches of character, not just content delivery
- Observe classes and provide direct, real-time feedback to ensure the coaching model is applied consistently
- Ensure every session follows the structured format: Engage - Build - Challenge - Reflect
- Maintain non-negotiables: student engagement, appropriate challenge, completed work, and immediate behavior correction
- Hold instructors accountable to consistent standards and expectations
- Oversee student development and ensure key traits such as teamwork, persistence, responsibility, and leadership are being reinforced
- Review and approve belt promotions, ensuring character standards are visible and consistent
Operational Responsibilities (Execution & Support Systems)
- Manage class schedules, student enrollment, waitlists, and program capacity
- Recruit, hire, and onboard instructors, ensuring completion of training before leading classes
- Communicate with parents, provide updates, and proactively address concerns
- Manage escalated student behavior situations and maintain a safe, structured environment
- Plan and execute events such as belt ceremonies, capstones, camps, and workshops
- Oversee facility readiness, equipment functionality, and supply management
- Track and analyze key metrics, including enrollment, retention, belt advancement, and instructor performance
- Identify operational or performance gaps and take immediate action to resolve them
Qualifications:
This role requires strong leadership, consistency, and the ability to hold high standards. Experience matters, but how you lead, communicate, and enforce expectations matters more.
Required:
- Experience leading teams (education, coaching, youth programs, or similar)
- Strong leadership presence and ability to manage group environments
- Comfortable giving direct feedback and addressing behavior in real time
- Ability to hold consistent standards and expectations
- Strong organizational and operational skills
- Availability to consistently work evenings and weekends, aligned with after-school program hours
Preferred:
- Experience working with youth programs or classroom environments
- Experience in training or developing instructors or staff
- Background in coaching, education, or structured programs (sports, martial arts, camps, etc.)
This role is NOT a fit if you:
- Avoid difficult conversations or accountability
- Prefer being liked over being respected
- Focus only on the curriculum or activities instead of behavior and outcomes
- Struggle to maintain consistent expectations
About Company
Love to Code Academy is a youth character development academy built on a single belief: the most important thing students build here is not a program or a robot — it is character.
Through coding, robotics, and esports, students develop the traits that matter most in life — teamwork, persistence, integrity, confidence, and leadership. Technology is the environment. Character development is the outcome.
We are an early-stage program with a strong foundation and a clear mission. What we need now is the right people to help protect and scale it the right way.
If that sounds like the kind of work you want to do, this is the place to do it.
Why This Role. Why Now.
The foundation is built. What is needed now is strong leadership to execute, protect, and scale it the right way. This is an early-stage opportunity where your decisions shape how the program grows.
You are not maintaining something established. You are helping build what this becomes.