Careers

Are you interested in a rewarding career with ACEing Autism?

We have a great story to tell, serving wonderful families and children coast to coast, and we are continually expanding both our programs and team. We would love you to be a part of our success story, and be an important part of supporting children on and off the court. Consider joining the ACEing Autism team!

Current Openings

Administrative Program Director

Start a new ACEing Autism program in your city!

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We would love to work with you to start a new program in your area! The Administrative Program Director (Volunteer) is responsible for planning and running a successful weekly tennis program using the ACEing Autism curriculum. They are also responsible for communication, recruitment of volunteers & participants, and logistical planning at each clinic.

Position: Administrative Program Director

Role Type: Volunteer

Location: Hybrid

ACEing Autism is a successful, fast-growing, inspiring national non-profit organization seeking to add talent to its wonderful team. ACEing Autism is on a mission for children on the autism spectrum to grow, develop and benefit from social connections and fitness through affordable tennis programming, serving individual needs while filling a national void for this worthy population. ACEing’s unique curriculum and program environment benefits not only children and young adults, but their families and the thousands of volunteers that partner one-on-one with participants. If you have strong nonprofit experience, like to be associated with measured impact and can envision yourself supporting its leaders raise funds and market its offerings, please apply today to this opportunity today!

Employment Type: Volunteer

Reports to: Director of Program Operations

Position Overview:  We would love to start a new program in your area! The Project Management Program Director is responsible for planning and running a successful weekly tennis program using the ACEing Autism curriculum. They are also responsible for communication, recruitment, and logistical planning, as well as volunteering at each clinic.

Requirements: Background Check (if 18 years+), CPR Certification, and Safe Play Certification

Job Duties include, but are not limited to:

Administrative

  • Plan and schedule at minimum of two (2) six or eight-week sessions per year with the Tennis Program Director and tennis facility.
  • Communicate with the National Office for session planning, including location, dates, equipment and supplies, pre- and post-session meetings, and any problems or safety issues. 
  • Attend initial and follow-up platforms training with Programs Coordinator (RegFox, Galaxy).
  • Communicate with participant parents and volunteers about upcoming and ongoing sessions. 
  • Ensure all participants and volunteers are registered and screened (if 18 years or older).
  • Schedule and conduct volunteer training for each session.
  • Communicate participant registration information to volunteers.
  • Schedule and pair the volunteers with participants based on needs and volunteer schedules. 
  • Ongoing check-ins with volunteers and parents both during session and off-season to maintain relationships and encourage retention. 
Marketing and Communications
  • Attend social media training and engage in ongoing communications with the Marketing Manager.
  • Recruit volunteers and participants through local schools and organizations.
  • Ensure that the program is on-brand based on ACEing Autism specifications.

Programming

  • Work with the Tennis Program Director to ensure the integrity of the program, following the curriculum.
  • Supervise programs on-court, help with court set-up/clean-up, check-ins, court monitoring, etc. 
  • Create relationships with volunteers and parents to help facilitate return rates.

 

Hours of Work:

  • During sessions: 15-25 hours a session
  • Off-season: 5 hours per month

On Court Support

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As an expert in providing support to children with autism, the On Court Support specialist’s goal is to teach the assigned program’s volunteers and Program Director(s) on how to best work with, communicate with, and relate to the children in our program. The goal is not to work directly with participants, but to consult on strategies and basic principles of behavior to our volunteers who work directly with the participants.

Role Type: Part time, seasonal

Location: On-site, location varies

Reports to: Director of Program Operations & Quality Control Manager

Requirements:
Formal education and experience working with children with autism and other developmental disabilities in a professional or adaptive recreation setting

Understanding of basic principles of behavior and ability to communicate them to laymen in a clear and concise manner

Tennis experience is a plus, but not required

Job Duties (including but not limited to):
Work directly with, and provide feedback to, Program Directors and volunteers on best practices for working with children on the autism spectrum.

Focus on the following primary goals during clinics:

  • Have fun (task analysis to meet them where they’re at so they can be engaged)
  • Socialization (ideally with other participants, but volunteers too)
  • Exercise (keep them moving, minimal standing around)

School Contact Project (Contractor)

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Supporting the integration of ACEing Autism programs into schools across the country.

 

Role Type: Contract

Location: Remote

Employment Type: Part Time, Contract

Reports to: The Executive Director/Founder

Project Overview:

The individual in charge of this project, within their assigned geographic territory and/or prospect list, is expected to take full ownership of the following tasks:

  • Connect with parents who submitted school leads to ACEing and encourage a warm introduction to school administrators by the parent.
  • Research and identify new leads to appropriate contacts at possible new schools.
  • Reach out to school contacts via email and phone to introduce ACEing Autism.
  • Describe the ACEing Autism mission and program curriculum, success stories, and School First Serve Manual to school decision makers.
  • Continue following up with school leads and keep Monday.com records up to date.
  • Scheduling final meetings as needed with the Executive Director or Director of Programs with school administration.
  • Support in ensuring each official school partner signs a MOU.
  • Support in ensuring that each partner has an official launch scheduled and executed.
  • Provide an overview to ACEing management of best practices identified through this project, including best contact role/title, best contact methods, best time of year/month, number of touch points, sales cycle.

The ACEing Autism national staff is available and happy to support you with this project.

  • The Operations Manager is available to support with mass email communications.
  • The Executive Director is available to contact school administrators at any point in the process to support in moving the project forwards.

Productivity Expectation: To be successful, we estimate that this project would require a minimum of 5 initial outreach calls and/or emails per week, and at least 3 follow-ups on each initial outreach. Conversation for schools requires tenaciousness and repetition. 

Compensation: This project is expected to take about 5 hours per week. ACEing will pay the agreed hourly rate upon delivery of progress report of number of contacts identified, parents/schools contacted, conversions, for a maximum of 5 hours per week unless otherwise approved. 

Term:  Six months initially, with the potential to extend the term.