Impact Manager - City Year : Job Details

time left to apply End Date: August 15, 2025 (6 days left to apply)

job requisition id R8184

Application Instructions

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Number of Positions: 1

Work Location: 100% On-Site

Position Overview

The Impact Manager (IM) leads a team of AmeriCorps members (ACMs), within a school environment in implementing the Whole School, Whole Child service model - to drive student and school achievement. The IM facilitates the ACM experience, skill-building, knowledge, and leadership development of AmeriCorps Members and ensures that all service requirements are met. In addition, the IM leads a department-wide initiative, to be determined by the Managing Director of Impact.

The starting salary for this position is $51,000-$53,000. This is a primarily in-person role.

Job DescriptionRESPONSIBILITIESAmericorps Member Program Delivery and Experience

• Lead, manage, and coach a team of AmeriCorps members (between the ages of 18 - 25) to achieve service impact with students and to reach their leadership development potential.
• 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.
• Effectively 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 leadership development curriculum.

Service Delivery and Impact

• Implement City Year's Whole School, Whole Child whole class (tier 1) supports and one-on-one / small group (tier 2) interventions, ensuring AmeriCorps members are working with the right students, and achieving proper intervention and tutoring time with those students.
• 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 coaching, student success skills coaching, and course performance interventions for students.
• Partner directly with the Managing Director of Impact to provide observation and coaching to AmeriCorps members to improve their student interventions.
• Conduct Student Progress Monitoring:
• Oversee collection and input of intervention and outcome data into City Year's internal database.
• Track data of all students enrolled in City Year's interventions to ensure dosage and student progress requirements are met.
• In collaboration with the Managing Director of Impact, Analytics point, and Impact Director, analyze student-level data to strengthen overall service delivery at partner schools.
• Oversee AmeriCorps member-led school climate activities and organizational initiatives, including after-school programming.
• Operate student data systems and lead data analysis spaces to drive student achievement and AmeriCorps member performance growth.

Service Partner Management

• Build and cultivate strong partnerships with teachers, principals, school officials, and other key decision makers and stakeholders within the partner school.
• Partner closely with the school's leadership team, including the school's City Year liaison.
• Manage the implementation of a school partnership agreement.
• Facilitate collaboration between school partners and internal City Year teams.

Participation in Department & Organizational Initiatives

• Participate in both individual and site-wide learning opportunities centered on community care and belonging, and the Whole School, Whole Child service model.
• Contribute to AmeriCorps member learning by facilitating training sessions, as assigned by the Managing Director of Impact.
• Contribute to Impact Department operations by leading out on at least one department level initiative and two to three committee supports that include delegating tasks, communicating across departments, attending planning meetings, and building external connections as needed.
• Lead out on multiple site-wide initiatives or projects that include supporting cross-department teams.
• Devote up to 10 days a year to AmeriCorps member recruitment interviews.
• Assist with major site-wide events including but not limited to: Martin Luther King Day, Red Jacket Day, Annual Gala, Graduation, and other site-wide designated events.
• Attend overnight professional events and other local and national events, as applicable.

EXPERIENCE REQUIRED

• Demonstrated commitment to community care work, including desire to continue learning and building practices at City Year.
• 2-4 years' experience in Education, Youth Development, Social Work, Youth Work, or another related field
• City Year/AmeriCorps experience a plus. City Year and AmeriCorps alums are encouraged to apply!
• Candidates with a background in teaching or education preferred urban education experience ideal.
• Knowledge of Kansas City Public Schools is a plus.
• Skills in basic data analysis and input
• Sets high expectations for self and others they are leading and holds self and team accountable for performance goals.
• Able to develop diverse talent through performance plans, reviews, and leadership opportunities.
• Ability to thrive in a diverse, youthful, high energy, entrepreneurial, and fast-changing environment.
• Able to execute goals within flexible and changing environments.
• Willingness to powerfully represent City Year, including wearing the City Year uniform, and upholding all City Year professional standards.

To Apply

Submit your cover letter and resume via the application link.

Compensation and Benefits:

The starting salary range for this position is $51,000 - $53,000. This is a primarily in-person role.

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.

As an equal opportunity employer, City Year is committed to providing employment opportunities to all qualified individuals and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex, gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, age, marital status, veteran status, pregnancy, parental status, genetic information or characteristics, or any other basis prohibited by applicable law.

City Year encourages people from underrepresented backgrounds to apply, particularly Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC); those who are first in their family to attend college; adults without a college degree; LGBTQIA+ community; and people from low-income backgrounds.

Employment at City Year is at-will.

City Year does not sponsor work authorization visas.

Why City Year?

City Year's dual mission is to expand educational opportunity for all students and develop the next generation of leaders through national service. Trained 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 academic, cognitive and interpersonal skills—skills that help students thrive in school, college and career.

City Year's 900 staff and 2,000+ AmeriCorps members work and serve in 29 communities across the U.S., including Boston (where City Year was founded in 1988 and is headquartered), Baton Rouge, Buffalo, Chicago, Cleveland, Columbia, Columbus, Dallas, Denver, Detroit, Jacksonville, Kansas City, Little Rock, Los Angeles, Memphis, Miami, Milwaukee, New Hampshire, New Orleans, New York, Orlando, Philadelphia, Providence, Sacramento, San Antonio, San José/Silicon Valley, Seattle/King County, Tulsa and Washington, D.C. City Year also has international affiliates in the U.K. and South Africa.

A proud member of the AmeriCorps national service network, City Year is supported by AmeriCorps, local school districts and private philanthropy. City Year has been designated a 4-star charity by Charity Navigator since 2003, putting City Year in the top 1% of non-profits nationwide for accountability, transparency and responsible fiscal management, and among the most trustworthy nonprofits in America.

City Year offers a comprehensive benefits package that helps our employees live their best lives and grow personally and professionally.

Building a welcoming, supportive, human-centered culture

At City Year, we sometimes say we work not only “at” City Year, but also “on” City Year, recognizing that the organization, like our world, is constantly evolving and changing.

Two things that have never changed: our steadfast belief in the power of young people to change our world for the better; and our aspiration to create positive school and work environments where everyone feels a sense of connection, is supported to do their best work, and is able to learn, contribute, lead and create to their fullest potential.

As an equal opportunity employer, City Year is committed to providing employment opportunities to all qualified individuals and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex, gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, age, marital status, veteran status, pregnancy, parental status, genetic information or characteristics, or any other basis prohibited by applicable law.

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