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Number of Positions: 1Work Location: 100% On-SitePosition Overview
Impact 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 Impact Manager is also an effective talent developer who will support AmeriCorps members through a challenging and rewarding year of service.
Job Description
AmeriCorps Member Experience
Manage, coach, and develop up to 20 AmeriCorps members though a personally rewarding year of service in Miami 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 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 . 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(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.
What does a typical day look like?
- Start of day centering meeting with team
- Observe and share feedback with AmeriCorps members providing 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
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.
- 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.
Additional Qualifications:
- 2-3 years of relevant experience, work in the education sector preferred.
- National service experience is a plus.
- Familiarity with City Year Miami school system a plus.
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.
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.
Skills Required
- 2-3 years of relevant experience, preferably in education
- Experience managing diverse teams
- Experience building complex professional relationships
- Ability to navigate complex topics
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.
