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Number of Positions: 1
Compensation: $50,000.00 - $51,500.00 Annually Commensurate with Experience and Location
Work Location: 100% On-Site
Position Overview
City Year Miami is seeking an Impact Manager (IM) who will lead and develop a team of AmeriCorps members (ACMs) / Student Success Coaches 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
Responsibilities
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Lead, manage (2) school partnerships, and coach a team of 8 -12 AmeriCorps members through a personally rewarding year of service in Miami Dade County Public Schools where they work toward achieving service requirements and simultaneously undergoing transformational intrapersonal and interpersonal development.
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Facilitate ongoing dialogues that empower AmeriCorps members to relate to our culture and values in personally meaningful ways.
- Leverage Service and Learning team initiatives to support development of ACM through ongoing collaborative processes.
- 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.
- Build and cultivate strong partnerships with teachers, principals, school officials, and other key decision-makers and stakeholders.
- Manage implementation of the partnership agreement between the school and City Year Miami.
- 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.
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Attend and support ACM Appreciation Month, Martin Luther King Day of Service, Opening Day, Graduation, Social Media engagement, Equity Working Group, and other side-wide designated Development events.
- Devote up to 10 days a year to AmeriCorps member recruitment interviews.
Basic Qualifications:
- 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.
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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.
- 2-3 years of relevant experience, work in the education sector preferred.
- National service experience is a plus.
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Familiarity with Miami Dade County Public Schools is a plus.
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.
What We Do
City Year helps students and schools succeed, while preparing the next generation of civically engaged leaders who can work across lines of difference. Diverse teams of City Year AmeriCorps members provide support to students, classrooms and the whole school. Schools that partner with City Year are up to two to three times more likely to improve in English and math assessments, and the more time students spend with AmeriCorps members, the more they improve on social, emotional and academic skills— skills that help students thrive in school and contribute to their community.
A proud member of the AmeriCorps national service network, City Year is supported by AmeriCorps, local school districts and private philanthropy. City Year partners with public schools in 29 communities across the U.S. and through international affiliates in the U.K. and South Africa.
