Chief, Community Leadership & Training Institute

NYC KIDS RISE•New York, NY

3d•$170,000 - $225,000•Hybrid

About The Position

NYC Kids RISE is seeking a visionary, entrepreneurial, and highly operational leader to build, launch, and grow the Community Leadership + Training Institute. This role is responsible for operationalizing the Institute’s strategy, offerings, operating model, team, and measures of success. The ideal candidate combines expertise in training and capacity building, collective impact, community organizing, and cross-sector partnership with the discipline to turn an ambitious vision into a durable citywide function. This is a builder role for someone excited to grow and fortify a nascent civic and financial infrastructure across the five boroughs, willing to move fluidly between strategy, relationship building, facilitation, team leadership, and hands-on execution. The Chief will center community ownership, co-designing with families, educators, young people, and community leaders, and treating lived experience and local knowledge as essential expertise. The Institute aims to equip partners to introduce and connect families to the platform, enable institutions and stakeholders to use the platform as a shared tool for collaboration, help communities collectively build assets and reinforce expectations of success for every child, create infrastructure for stakeholders to convene and learn from one another, and identify, codify, and share effective practices nationally.

Requirements

At least 10 years of progressively responsible experience in training and capacity building, leadership development, collective impact, community organizing, adult education, or a related field.
A track record of building and launching a new initiative, organization, program line, or function from concept through implementation and scale, with accountability for strategy, operations, outcomes, and continuous improvement.
At least five years of experience leading and developing high-performing teams, ideally including building a team or function from the ground up and leading through growth or change.
Significant experience designing and facilitating culturally responsive learning experiences, leadership-development programs, communities of practice, and stakeholder convenings for diverse audiences.
Strong operational and project-management skills, including the ability to turn complex strategy into clear priorities, workplans, systems, and high-quality execution across multiple workstreams.
Demonstrated success working across cultures, identities, roles, and neighborhoods and using co-design, relationship building, and inclusive facilitation to advance equity and foster meaningful community ownership.
Experience developing frameworks or systems that maintain quality and consistency at scale while supporting meaningful local adaptation.
Experience defining success measures and using qualitative and quantitative data and feedback loops to evaluate and improve programs.
Experience representing an organization with government, philanthropic, and cross-sector partners and translating those relationships into resources, partnerships, or influence.
Excellent strategic judgment, organizational ability, and comfort navigating complexity, ambiguity, and competing priorities.
Exceptional written, verbal, facilitation, and interpersonal communication skills across audiences including families, community leaders, staff, executives, board members, funders, and government partners.
Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and relevant professional experience.
Ability to spend approximately 80% of working time in the Long Island City office and/or at locations across New York City, with occasional evening and weekend work.

Nice To Haves

Experience with New York City public schools, college access and career readiness, economic empowerment, community organizing, or place-based initiatives.
Experience with digital learning and virtual-engagement platforms; experience selecting or implementing a learning management system is strongly preferred.
Experience in an entrepreneurial, evolving, or rapidly scaling organization.

Responsibilities

Develop and launch the Institute as the umbrella for NYC Kids RISE’s training, capacity-building, technical-assistance, convening, and leadership-development work.
Inform and execute the Institute’s vision into a clear multi-year strategy, operating model, roadmap, budget, staffing plan, and measurable outcomes.
Advance a collective-impact approach that aligns families, schools, government, philanthropy, businesses, civic and faith-based organizations, and community institutions around shared goals and mutually reinforcing strategies.
Establish frameworks and standards that ensure consistent, high-quality support citywide while enabling partners to adapt implementation to local assets, relationships, needs, and priorities.
Monitor reach, quality, effectiveness, and growth; use data, stakeholder feedback, and implementation learning to strengthen the Institute’s offerings and strategy.
Cultivate funding and revenue opportunities; contribute to grant and contract reporting; and represent the Institute with funders, government, and cross-sector partners.
Own the Institute’s budget, including forecasting and allocation of resources.
Work closely with leaders responsible for School Networks, Community Scholarships, Parent and Family Engagement, and place-based initiatives so the Institute strengthens and reinforces existing and future strategies.
Assess, codify, and strengthen existing training, technical-assistance, capacity-building, and implementation resources; develop new offerings aligned with stakeholder needs and Institute goals.
Co-design offerings with families, students, educators, community leaders, and organizational partners, creating joyful and relational learning environments.
Set and uphold a high standard for interactive, accessible, and culturally responsive learning across various formats.
Oversee technical assistance and capacity building on core Program elements with consistent quality and equitable reach across the city.
Lead or assist in the design, support, and execution of flagship convenings and leadership-development experiences.
Develop place-based and stakeholder-specific communities of practice.
Build a continuous learning and knowledge-sharing system that turns lessons from stakeholders and neighborhood implementation into case studies, playbooks, implementation guides, curricula, and tools.
Develop and oversee the Institute’s digital learning infrastructure, including its web presence, learning management system, course catalog, virtual offerings, and participation and engagement tracking.
Serve as a facilitator for flagship sessions, and build the capacity of Institute staff and partners to deliver excellent learning and co-creation experiences.
Stay current on emerging practice in community-based learning, leadership development, capacity building, collective impact, and place-based economic mobility.
Create feedback loops that enable stakeholders to inform policy and advocacy and programmatic design.
Build, lead, and develop a multidisciplinary team responsible for training, technical assistance, leadership development, implementation support, communities of practice, convenings, and knowledge sharing.
Select and manage consultants with specialized expertise.
Oversee a coordinated, accessible citywide calendar and catalog of offerings organized by stakeholder and place.
Develop and approve policies, procedures, and operating standards for the Institute’s programming, partnerships, and operations.
Serve as an active member of NYC Kids RISE’s senior leadership team, contributing to organization-wide strategy, planning, decision-making, cross-functional coordination, and culture.
Model and reinforce strict adherence to data-security and privacy policies.
Advance racial equity and anti-oppression across the Institute and the organization.

Benefits

30 days of paid time off (15 vacation days for new employees, increasing with tenure; five personal days; and two annual one-week office closures, in early July and late December), plus sick time and holidays.
Medical insurance
Dental insurance
Vision insurance
Life insurance
Short-term disability insurance
Long-term disability insurance
Healthcare FSA with an employer contribution
Dependent-care FSA
401(k) with a 4% employer match after one year of service.