Impact Manager

POSITION OVERVIEW 
The Impact Manager (IM) leads two teams of AmeriCorps members (ACMs), across two school campuses, 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 the Career Development Department Initiative. 

The starting salary for this position is $51,000-$54,000. This is a primarily in-person role, with intermittent options to work remotely.

RESPONSIBILITIES 
AMERICORPS MEMBER PROGRAM DELIVERY AND EXPERIENCE

• Lead, manage, and coach two teams 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, behavior, and course performance interventions for students. 
• Partner directly with the City Year Director of Learning & Coaching and Impact Director 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. 

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. 

PARTICIPATION IN DEPARTMENT & ORGANIZATIONAL INITIATIVES

• Participate in both individual and site-wide learning opportunities centered on Diversity, Belonging, Equity, and Inclusion (DBIE) practices. 
• Contribute to Impact Department operations by leading on the AmeriCorps member Career Development Department Initiative. This entails working with the Director of Learning & Coaching to communicate City Year resources and supports for ACM Career Development, facilitating learning and informational sessions relating to career development and advancement, participating in organization-wide calls related to Career Development, and operating as point of contact for City Year and external resources.
• 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 Diversity, Belonging, Inclusion, and Equity (DBIE) work, including desire to continue equity-based and anti-racist learning and 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 a plus. 
• 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. 
• Thrives in a diverse, youthful, high energy, entrepreneurial, and fast-changing environment. 
• Able to execute on 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 - $54,000. This is a primarily in-person role, with intermittent options to work remotely. 

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.  

TO APPLY 

Qualified applicants should apply at the online application link and submit a resume, cover letter, and references.