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Position OverviewImpact 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.
Job Description
Job Description
City Year San Antonio (CYSA) is seeking Impact Manager (IM) candidates who will manage and mentor a team of full-time AmeriCorps members, overseeing the implementation of our service model in the partner schools we serve in San Antonio Independent School District.
Impact Managers are responsible for three main areas: program implementation, corps member program delivery and experience, and service partner management. The Impact Manager must be effective in relationship development and team management, coaching AmeriCorps members (ACMs) per team to deliver attendance, behavior, and course performance supports to students, as well as enabling a rewarding, productive, professional and successful year of service. In this way, the IM is responsible for managing the daily programmatic operations of their team and leading them to ensure that all goals and service outcomes are met.
Additionally, the Impact Manager serves as the primary City Year liaison in schools, building strong relationships with school administrators and personnel to successfully fulfill the services in the Statement of Partnership. Reporting to an Impact Director, the Impact Manager plays a critical role in implementing City Year San Antonio’s school-based service model. Impact Managers are expected to serve in person at their school site, except on days when there are in-person meetings or trainings.
This role is expected to work a 40-hour workweek, with daily work hours will vary throughout the week and may include mornings as early as 7:00am and evenings as late as 6:00pm.
Start Date:
We are hiring for the 2025-2026 school year and the anticipated start for this position is July/August 2025.
Job Responsibilities
AmeriCorps Member Experience
Manage, coach, and develop up to 15 AmeriCorps members though a personally rewarding year of service in the San Antonio Independent School District (SAISD) where they:
- Achieve service performance and standards requirements while reaching their leadership development potential
- Model leadership that is fueled by City Year's culture and values
- Facilitate ongoing dialogues that empower AmeriCorps members to relate to our culture and values in personally meaningful ways.
Build Conditions for Success in our Schools
- 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 San Antonio
- 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
Service Delivery & Impact
- 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
- 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.
- Identify trends and specific needs on campus and provide or seek relevant professional development.
- Observe, collect data and provide actionable steps that improve ACM impact on their service.
Local and National Organizational Initiatives
- Serve as the “host” in assigned school to support City Year’s Visitor Program (Field Trips) with visits from current and potential City Year supporters.
- Work with the development team to support meetings, visits, and service for
development/fundraising events within assigned schools.
- Ensure needed number of team representatives attend CYSA events.
- Devote up to 10 days a year to AmeriCorps and/or staff member recruitment process.
- Attend and help mobilize team for site-wide events like Opening Day, Power of Women Luncheon, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, Annual Ripples of Hope Celebration Dinner, Graduation, and other site-wide events.
- Attend overnight events and national events as needed.
- Take lead on at least one extracurricular ACM/staff service experience (e.g. Idealist’s Journey, Second Year ACM and/or Team Leader Experience, Corps Council, Playground Build, Spring Break, MLK Service, ACM Appreciation Month, etc.)
- Participate in relevant network-wide meetings and calls providing insight, feedback, and collective problem solving.
- Start of day centering meeting with team
- Observe and share feedback with AmeriCorps members providing academic and social emotional interventions for students
- Review Student Achievement data
- Review AmeriCorps Member event plans, student engagement data and offer feedback
- Individual Meetings with AmeriCorps Members
- Coach AmeriCorps Members through communication challenges and conflict resolution
- Connect with school administration to review upcoming initiatives and mutual expectations
- Meet with Impact Director for your own support
- Host City Year's potential and current funding partners on a school tour and roundtable
- Attend and support After School Programs
- End of day centering meeting with team
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 people accountable towards performance goals. Manage relationships with a diverse group of internal and external stakeholders to 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: Experience achieving transformational results with students from low-income communities, at the classroom, school, or network/multiple-school levels. Ability to problem solve, troubleshoot and show creative problem solving when faced with barriers.
- Communication: Ability to translate mission and vision from organization level 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.
- Drive Vision: Experience creating a climate in which others feel connected to an organizations’ strategy and proven ability to effectively lead through change. Proven success setting goals and direction with a keen understanding of how they fit into the context of broader strategies to connect mission to day-to-day work.
Additional Qualifications
- 2-3 years of relevant experience, work in the education sector preferred.
- National and International service experience is a plus.
- Familiarity with San Antonio Independent School District school system a plus.
- Thrives in a diverse, youthful, high energy, entrepreneurial, and fast-changing environment.
Compensation commensurate with experience salary range for this position is $51,000 - $53,000. Great benefits including health insurance with Flexible Spending Account, paid vacation, holidays, parental leave, 401K, and more.
Benefits
Full-time employees will be eligible for all benefits including vacation, 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, vision, life, accidental death and dismemberment and disability coverage, Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA), and 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.
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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.
