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Job title: Impact Manager
Company: City Year
Job description: COVID-19 Notice

Our number one priority is the health and safety of our employees and AmeriCorps members and their families; our students and school partners; and the community at large from COVID-19. Proof of COVID-19 vaccination is required for employment and service ? all staff members, including remote staff, and AmeriCorps members are required to be fully vaccinated* no later than their start date. If you are unable to be vaccinated for medical reasons or sincerely-held religious beliefs, we will consider requests for reasonable accommodation consistent with our policy, and where we are able to provide such accommodations without undue hardship to the organization pursuant to applicable law. Notwithstanding any language herein, City Year will comply with any state, local, or federal orders, statutes, or regulations that may conflict with the COVID-19 vaccination policy.

*Individuals are considered fully vaccinated 14 days after the completion of their primary vaccination series.

Active City Year Corps or Staff members must login to Workday/cyresource to apply internally.

Application Instructions

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Number of Positions: 1

Work Location: 100% On-Site

Position Overview The Impact Manager (IM) is responsible for leading a team of AmeriCorps members through a full-time school-based service year with the goal of keeping students on track to graduate, establishing positive relationships with school partners and providing a leadership development experience for corps members. The Impact Manager will lead, manage and coach a team of 6-15 AmeriCorps members through a ten-month journey of learning, reflection and service to build AmeriCorps members? civic capacity and civic identity. Impact Managers report to an Impact Director and meet regularly with peers and department leadership members to share promising practices, challenges, and resources.

Job Description

Responsibilities:

AmeriCorps Member Experience Deliver:

Lead, manage, and coach a team of AmeriCorps members (between the ages of 18-25) to support students through academic and student engagement supports and develop AmeriCorps members as leaders through their service experience.

Model leadership that reflects City Year?s culture and values, and create spaces that empower AmeriCorps members to access the power of City Year?s culture and values in personally meaningful ways.

Develop talent from within the corps for City Year and the larger education field, and lead AmeriCorps members to have a successful and rewarding year of service through their in-school service and learning and development days.

Support AmeriCorps members in understanding of and compliance of City Year policies and operating structures.

Service Delivery:

Develop and manage partnerships with school administration, teachers, and staff to ensure the necessary conditions and resources are in place for AmeriCorps members to deliver attendance, behavior, and course performance interventions for students.

Lead, manage, and coach a team of AmeriCorps members to implement City Year?s Whole School Whole Child service model, which balances the delivery of whole-school support (Tier-1) and small group and one-on-one tutoring (Tier-2) for students at assigned Boston Public school.

Partner directly with a City Year Instructional Coach to provide observation and coaching to AmeriCorps member to improve their student interventions.

Monitor and analyze student-level data to identify trends and improve whole-school and small-group support, ensuring student impact completion and improvement in targeted area through team level training.

Service Partner Management:

Build and cultivate strong partnerships with teachers, principals, school officials, and other decision makers and stakeholders within the assigned Boston Public School.

Serve as a trusted advisor to principal and school staff by serving as a member of the school?s Instructional Leadership Team, hold regular meetings with administration and teachers, maintain a strong presence in school, work collaboratively with administration and staff to implement the Whole School Whole Child model, and build a bridge between AmeriCorps members and school staff to ensure success.

Participation in Organizational Initiatives:

Support AmeriCorps Member recruitment process by interviewing AmeriCorps Member applicants.

Support the engagement of City Year Greater Boston visitors and corporate sponsors.

Attend, support, and participate in City Year Greater Boston staff meetings, service events, registration days, and other site activities/events.

Qualifications:

Relationship Development:

Demonstrated ability to develop and manage complex relationships between internal and external stakeholders.

Proven ability to hold team members accountable towards their performance goals.

Experience managing relationships between diverse groups of internal and external stakeholders to help achieve service goals and successfully deploy AmeriCorps members.

Team Leadership and Talent Development:

Proven success managing diverse teams towards a common goal.

History of coaching/leading young people between the ages of 17-25.

Demonstrated ability to identify others? strengths and areas for growth to achieve desired results and foster personal and professional development.

Demonstrated ability to address and resolve team conflict effectively and tactfully.

Possesses openness, responsiveness, approachability and understanding of others? perspectives with the demonstrated ability to maintain and build relationships through collaboration; recognize and respond to the needs of others while operating within appropriate boundaries to gain respect and maintain professionalism.

Executes to Results:

Ability to problem solve, trouble shoot, and show creative problem solving when faced with perceived barriers.

Proven success operating in ambiguous and changing environments with the demonstrated ability to manage and prioritize projects; delegate tasks appropriately; manage progress against goals for self and others while addressing barriers.

Demonstrated ability to take initiative and operate in a proactive and solution-oriented manner; identify the information needed to solve a problem; link decisions to potential consequences and know when to escalate or seek guidance.

Communication:

Demonstrated ability to communicate and present ideas with clarity, credibility, humility and tact; lead with ?the why? and incorporate vision into messaging; tailor messaging to audience and maintain professionalism in speaking and writing.

Demonstrated ability to anticipate and plan for questions, listen carefully, provide constructive feedback and remain open and responsive to feedback from others,

Ability to translate mission and vision from organization level to team level

Ability and desire to inspire City Year AmeriCorps members to transform schools and communities through a challenging year of service.

Ability to communicate effectively, efficiently, and with transparency to ensure support and success of corps members in service

Experience working in a school, educational or youth-support setting required with at least one year in a role managing or leading others.

Experience working in areas related to English Language Arts, math, behavior management, overall school climate, afterschool programming, extended learning time or social work preferred.

Strong connection to the values of inspirational leadership, belief in the power of young people, social justice, empathy, inclusivity, teamwork and excellence.

Passion for and understanding of City Year?s work within the national service movement and education sphere.

Location, Compensation and Benefits:

This is a full-time, in-person position working directly in Greater Boston area schools and at the City Year Greater Boston offices in Back Bay.

Salary range: $55,000-$60,000

Compensation commensurate with experience. Excellent benefits including health (medical, vision, dental) insurance, vacation, holidays, parental leave, 401K, a flexible spending account, and more.

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 .

Employment at City Year is at-will.

City Year does not sponsor work authorization visas.
Expected salary: $55000 - 60000 per year
Location: Boston, MA

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