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Number of Positions: 1
Compensation: $50,000.00 - $50,000.00 Hourly Commensurate with Experience and Location
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.
Primary Responsibilities
Service Delivery & Impact
Implement City Year’s WSWC model with a high degree of quality to the right students, in the right time, at assigned schoolhouse(s). The IM will develop and manage partnerships with school administration and personnel to ensure the necessary conditions and resources are in place for corps members to deliver attendance, behavior, and course performance interventions for students.
Corps Member Program Delivery & Experience
Lead, manage, and coach a team of corps members to achieve service performance and standards requirements and to reach their leadership development potential. Model leadership that is animated by City Year's culture and values, and create spaces that empower corps members to access the power of our culture and values in personally meaningful ways. The IM is also an effective talent developer who will lead corps members to have a successful and rewarding year of service through civic engagement and a citizenship development curriculum. The IM will manage up to 20 City Year corps members.
Service Partner Management
Build and cultivate strong partnerships with teachers, principals, school officials, and other key decision makers and stakeholders. Manage implementation of school partnership agreement and conditions for success.
Basic Qualifications
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 corps member development.
Talent Development: Proven success 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 organization level to corps 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 ensure success of our corps members in service.
Additional Required Experience and Qualities Needed:
Bachelor’s degree strongly preferred; or equivalent work experience.
Candidates with a background in education preferred.
Sets high expectations for self and others s/he is leading and holds self and team accountable for performance goals.
Able to develop diverse talent through performance plans, reviews, and leadership opportunities.
Thrives in diverse, youthful, high energy, entrepreneurial, and fast-changing environment.
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.
Seniority level
Associate
Employment type
Full-time
Job function
Education, Management, and Training
Industries
Non-profit Organizations, Education Administration Programs, and Education
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