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Number of Positions: 1
Position Overview
Impact Manager (IM) leads and develops a team of AmeriCorps members (ACMs) as idealistic, emerging leaders and practitioners focused on strengthening schools and supporting students to improve performance. Reporting to an Impact Director and working from a partner school(s), the IM plays a critical role in implementing City Year’s school-based Whole School Whole Child (WSWC) service model, mission, and practices. The IM is also an effective talent developer who will support AmeriCorps members through a challenging and rewarding year of service.
Job Description
Service Delivery & Impact
Implement City Year’s Whole School Whole Child model with a high degree of quality to the right students, at the right time, at assigned schoolhouse(s). The Impact Manager will develop and manage partnerships with school administration and personnel to ensure the necessary conditions and resources are in place for AmeriCorps members to deliver attendance, behavior, and course performance interventions for students.
Additional duties include:
Manage AmeriCorps member mobilization
Conduct Progress Monitoring, tracking student performance and intervention data across Early Warning Indicators
Partner with Regional Impact Director to obtain relevant teaching materials and provide professional development to AmeriCorps members to support interventions and ongoing assessments
Oversee AmeriCorps Member-led school climate activities and organizational initiatives
Coach and review scaffolded lesson plans that meet, and address student’s needs based on available data
Review lesson plans regularly, and coaches Team Leaders / AmeriCorps Members effectively in creating scaffolded lesson plans that meet student needs based on data.
Corps Member Program Delivery and Experience
Lead, manage, and coach a team of AmeriCorps members to achieve service performance and standards requirements and to reach their leadership development potential. Model leadership that is grounded in City Year's culture and values. Guide AmeriCorps Members in developing their professional plans once their service experience has concluded.
Build and cultivate professional development opportunities for Team Leaders and AmeriCorps Members
Coach Team Leaders on organizing and leading culture-building activities and training within the schoolhouse.
Service Partner Management
Build and cultivate strong partnerships with teachers, principals, school officials, and other key decision- makers and stakeholders. Manage the implementation of school partnership agreements and conditions for success.
Work with staff to ensure that service teams comply with City Year Headquarters and AmeriCorps
Work with staff and service teams to facilitate Student, Family, and Community Engagement
CORE COMPETENCIES
Relationship Development: Demonstrated ability to develop and manage complex relationships with schools and community partners. Proven ability to have tough conversations and to hold staff accountable towards their performance goals. Manage relationships with a diverse group of internal and external stakeholders to help achieve service goals and AmeriCorps member development.
Talent Development: Proven success in managing diverse teams towards a common goal. History of coaching/leading young people between the ages of 17-24.
Executes to Results: Must have a strong record of achieving transformational results with students from low-income communities, at the classroom, school, or network/multiple-school levels. Ability to problem-solve, trouble-shoot, and show creative problem solving when faced with perceived barriers.
Communication: Ability to translate mission and vision from the organizational level to AmeriCorps members and talk about complex topics and parse them for specific audiences. Able to communicate effectively, efficiently, and with transparency to the right people at the right time to the ensure success of our AmeriCorps members in service.
The Impact Manager is also an effective talent developer who will lead AmeriCorps members to have a successful and rewarding year of service.
Additional duties include:
Setting direction and effectively aligning resources to execute on priorities.
Providing inspirational leadership that mobilizes diverse groups toward achieving ambitious goals.
Coaches and motivates individuals to achieve their maximum potential.
Building successful partnerships to achieve mutually beneficial outcomes.
Prioritizing projects and tasks, measuring progress, and driving results; accepts accountability, takes initiative, and knows when to ask for help.
Analyzing data to identify trends, cause-effect relationships, and opportunities for improvement.
Using creativity and critical thinking to solve challenges and make well-informed ethical decisions.
Clearly articulating thoughts and ideas; demonstrating active listening.
Ability to have frank and difficult conversations with AmeriCorps members around issues such as poor performance, interpersonal and inter-team conflict, race, and diversity.
Authority/Personal Presence/Confidence/Ability to face obstacles.
Benefits
Full time employees will be eligible for all benefits including vacation and sick days and organization holidays. You may participate in all benefit programs that City Year establishes and makes available to eligible employees, under (and subject to all provisions of) the plan documents that govern those programs. Currently, City Year offers medical, dental and vision, life, accidental death and dismemberment and disability coverage, Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA), other benefits including 401(k) plan(s) pursuant to the terms and conditions of company policy and the 401(k) plan document. For more information, click here.
Employment at City Year is at-will.
City Year does not sponsor work authorization visas.
COVID-19 Notice
Our number one priority is the health and safety of our employees and AmeriCorps members and their families; our students and school partners; and the community at large from COVID-19. Proof of COVID-19 vaccination is required for employment and service – all staff members, including remote staff, and AmeriCorps members are required to be fully vaccinated* no later than their start date. If you are unable to be vaccinated for medical reasons or sincerely-held religious beliefs, we will consider requests for reasonable accommodation consistent with our policy, and where we are able to provide such accommodations without undue hardship to the organization pursuant to applicable law. Notwithstanding any language herein, City Year will comply with any state, local, or federal orders, statutes, or regulations that may conflict with the COVID-19 vaccination policy.
Individuals are considered fully vaccinated 14 days after the completion of their primary vaccination series.
Seniority level
Associate
Employment type
Full-time
Job function
Other
Industries
Non-profit Organizations, Education Administration Programs, and Education
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