Impact Manager

City Year • San Jose, CA

32d • $28 - $29 • Onsite

About The Position

City Year Bay Area is seeking an Impact Manager (IM) who will lead and develop a team of AmeriCorps members (ACMs) as idealistic, emerging leaders and practitioners focused on strengthening schools and supporting students to improve performance. Reporting to the Managing Director of Impact 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. This may be the job for you if: • You lead through your connections with others, create spaces where individuals can flourish and grow, and support them to find meaning in their work. • You are always learning. You work on your own growth and development and authentically model that work for those you lead. • You are a collaborative worker with a strong sense of ownership over your success, strategy to get there, and organization to execute on your plans.

Requirements

• Experience building and growing complex professional relationships with a diverse group of internal and external stakeholders.
• Experience holding people accountable to performance goals and navigating difficult conversations.
• Experience managing diverse teams, particularly managing teams of early-workforce members.
• Ability to apply creative problem solving when faced with perceived barriers.
• Ability to translate mission and vision from organization level to individual level and draw connections between mission and daily work.
• Ability to navigate complex topics and parse them for specific audiences.

Nice To Haves

• 2-3 years of relevant experience, work in the education sector preferred.
• National service experience is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Manage, coach, and develop up to 20 AmeriCorps members though a personally rewarding year of service in Ravenswood City School District, where they achieve service performance and standards requirements while reaching their leadership development potential.
• Model leadership that is fueled by City Year's values. Facilitate ongoing dialogues that empower AmeriCorps members to relate to our values in personally meaningful ways.
• Build and cultivate strong partnerships with teachers, principals, school officials, and other key decision makers and stakeholders.
• Manage implementation of partnership agreement between the school and City Year Bay Area.
• Ensure the necessary conditions and resources are in place for their team of AmeriCorps members to deliver attendance, behavior, and course performance interventions for students.
• Implement City Year’s WSWC model with a high degree of quality to a targeted group of students at the right time, at assigned schoolhouse(s).
• Make data-informed decisions to ensure tutoring, classroom support, afterschool programs, and school-wide initiatives align with the shared goals of the school/City Year partnership.
• Support with recruitment of new AmeriCorps members and current members to complete a second year of service
• Assist service projects, Opening Day, Annual Gala and other side-wide designated events.

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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees