Jobs at City Year

Leads City Year’s Central Market portfolio across nine sites, coaching Executive Directors and driving operational performance, revenue growth, financial discipline, stakeholder engagement, and program quality. The role translates enterprise strategy into market plans, oversees budgets and performance metrics, develops senior leaders, strengthens school and district partnerships, and coordinates cross-functional support. It is a remote, full-time executive position requiring regular travel to market sites, headquarters, schools, donor meetings, and organizational events.

Leads City Year Bay Area’s school-based service strategy, education partnerships, and student impact measurement. Oversees implementation of the Whole School Whole Child model, data collection and analysis, district relationships, department budgeting, staff performance, and AmeriCorps member experience. Coaches Impact Department employees, collaborates with senior leadership and external partners, evaluates program quality, and drives service improvements aligned with organizational, district, and AmeriCorps goals.

Leads City Year New York’s Civic Engagement program and manages a team of AmeriCorps members. Plans and executes approximately four corporate service events monthly, overseeing budgets, logistics, vendors, speakers, food, technology, follow-up, and partner relationships. Manages team hiring, onboarding, training, coaching, workflow, and compliance. Supports donor-focused events, fundraising strategy, communications content, and cross-functional collaboration with development, communications, schools, and corporate partners.

Leads the operating system for a complex fundraising campaign, establishing governance, meeting cadences, dashboards, forecasts, reporting, accountability, and stakeholder engagement processes. Coordinates executives, board members, volunteers, donors, and cross-functional teams; tracks milestones, risks, dependencies, and action items; translates campaign data into actionable insights; and escalates barriers to support timely decision-making and campaign execution.

The Impact Manager oversees City Year’s partnership with two Dallas schools, ensuring effective implementation of the Whole School, Whole Child service model. Responsibilities include managing and coaching 10–15 AmeriCorps Volunteers, monitoring service delivery and student outcomes, coordinating schedules and reporting, maintaining school relationships, conducting observations, providing feedback, and supporting continuous improvement, recruitment, training, and organizational initiatives. The role is fully on-site across the City Year office and partner campuses.

Manage prospective candidate portfolios from initial inquiry through application submission. Conduct high-volume outreach, build candidate relationships, provide application coaching, track pipeline activity and conversion metrics, and maintain accurate CRM and applicant tracking records. Collaborate with recruitment, partnership, admissions, onboarding, and marketing teams to improve candidate engagement and persistence. Represent City Year’s mission to prospective AmeriCorps applicants and stakeholders.

Leads City Year Chicago’s external affairs, communications, marketing, media relations, government and community affairs, strategic partnerships, and signature events. Builds relationships with civic, business, philanthropic, government, media, and community stakeholders; serves as spokesperson and ambassador; manages brand strategy and external messaging; advises leadership on policy and engagement; and leads high-profile events to advance visibility, influence, fundraising, and organizational priorities.

Leads and coaches up to two teams of AmeriCorps members serving Boston-area schools. Oversees program implementation, student academic, attendance, and behavior supports, team performance, professional development, and service outcomes. Builds partnerships with school administrators, teachers, and community stakeholders; uses student and service data to improve interventions; manages daily program operations; and ensures alignment with City Year’s Whole School Whole Child model and organizational values.

Leads City Year Buffalo’s fundraising and development strategy, including donor cultivation, major gifts, corporate and foundation partnerships, board engagement, campaigns, and fundraising events. Works with the Executive Director and senior leadership to secure multi-year monetary and in-kind support, expand individual giving, manage donor relationships, strengthen community engagement, and support organizational strategy. Represents City Year externally and maintains accurate donor records in Salesforce.

Leads City Year’s philanthropic growth strategy across New York and New England, focusing on major gifts, donor acquisition, portfolio management, stewardship, and regional visibility. Builds relationships with high-capacity individuals, corporations, and foundations; partners with executives and boards on multi-year fundraising plans; coaches development staff; optimizes Salesforce-based donor systems; and represents the organization at donor events and regional convenings.

Leads City Year New York’s career pathways strategy for AmeriCorps members. Builds partnerships with colleges, universities, employers, and community organizations; develops professional development programming, mentorships, career cohorts, and events; engages alumni; and evaluates career preparedness and placement outcomes. Manages the Senior Manager of Talent Pathways and coordinates cross-functional initiatives supporting economic mobility, certifications, education access, and employment pathways.

Leads and develops teams of AmeriCorps student success coaches supporting students and schools. Responsibilities include team supervision, performance coaching, service delivery oversight, data-informed decision-making, school partner relationships, training, and ensuring compliance with AmeriCorps requirements. The role is primarily on-site at partner schools and supports City Year’s whole-child service model.

Leads City Year’s Midwest fundraising strategy, major-gift portfolio, donor acquisition, philanthropic partnerships, and regional revenue growth. Builds a multi-year development plan, cultivates six- to eight-figure investments, strengthens donor pipelines, coaches local teams, optimizes Salesforce and fundraising systems, and expands regional visibility through events, storytelling, stewardship, and strategic partnerships. The role manages a $2 million annual fundraising goal and requires approximately 60% travel across the Midwest and to national convenings.

Manages individual and family foundation donor portfolios through cultivation, solicitation, and stewardship. Leads the Associate Board, mid-level giving program, donor engagement initiatives, prospect generation, and fundraising events. The role is responsible for raising $190,000 or more through individual giving and supporting broader private revenue goals. It develops donor strategies, engagement materials, stewardship plans, and volunteer accountability systems while collaborating with development, events, communications, and marketing teams.

Leads City Year Chicago’s individual giving program, targeting approximately $900,000 in annual revenue. Builds donor pipelines, cultivates and solicits leadership-level and multi-year gifts, oversees Red Jacket Society fundraising, manages alumni and volunteer relationships, and partners with organizational leadership and development operations. The role also coordinates donor events, tracks activity in Salesforce, forecasts revenue, and represents the organization at community functions. It is primarily in person with local travel required.

Leads City Year Milwaukee’s site operations, including facilities, office transitions, talent acquisition workflows, budgeting, billing, purchasing, audits, vendor management, technology platforms, compliance, AmeriCorps member operations, and cross-functional projects. Oversees operational systems, develops policies and tools, manages risks and workflows, supports events and relocations, and advises senior leadership on financial stewardship, staffing, facilities, and organizational effectiveness.

Manage City Year Chicago’s corporate and foundation donor portfolio, cultivating relationships, securing grants and sponsorships, renewing corporate partnerships, and coordinating stewardship, impact reporting, and engagement opportunities. Use Salesforce to track donor activity and projections, collaborate with development and site teams, support fundraising events, and help achieve annual revenue goals. The role requires frequent stakeholder communication, project management, local travel, and mostly in-person work.

Leads and develops teams of 6–10 student success coaches serving students and schools. Manages performance, AmeriCorps requirements, team culture, tutoring and classroom support, student and service data, school partnerships, and training. Acts as the primary liaison with school leaders, aligns services to school priorities, and supports corps member learning and career development. The role is primarily on-site at partner schools and may involve local travel between sites.

The Senior Development Manager executes fundraising strategy, manages major donor and institutional portfolios, develops grant proposals, and supports annual revenue goals. Responsibilities include donor cultivation and stewardship, Salesforce record management, board engagement, event leadership, partnership development, marketing communications, and community representation. The role collaborates with executive, national, program, and AmeriCorps teams and requires regular local travel, occasional evening or weekend commitments, and a valid driver’s license.

The Events Director designs, plans, and executes major fundraising, donor, corporate, community, milestone, and staff events. Responsibilities include managing event strategy, creative direction, budgets, sponsorship activations, vendors, venues, staffing, logistics, timelines, and live production. The role partners across development, marketing, corporate partnerships, and program teams to increase revenue, strengthen donor relationships, and deliver engaging experiences. It also provides broader site support and requires occasional evening, weekend, and local travel commitments.