Job Description
Responsibilities
AmeriCorps Member Program Delivery And Experience
Lead, manage, and coach a team of 8 – 12 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 a leadership development curriculum.
Service Delivery and Impact
Implement City Year’s Whole School, Whole Child Tier 1 (whole class) supports and Tier 2 (one-on-one and small group) interventions, ensuring AmeriCorps members are working with the right students, and achieving proper dosage 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 Impact Coach 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 partnership with the Impact Director and Impact Coach, analyze student-level data to strengthen overall service delivery at partner school.
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 Organizational Initiatives
Devote up to 10 working days a year to AmeriCorps member recruitment interviews.
Assist with Martin Luther King Day, Opening Day, Graduation, and other side-wide designated events.
Attend overnight events including Summer Academy (a conference for all City Year staff held in Boston for 1 week in the summer), and other local and national events.
Requirements
Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in Education, Social Work, Urban Studies, Youth Work, or other related field strongly preferred or 2 – 3 years equivalent work experience.
Candidates with a background in teaching or education preferred; urban education experience ideal.
Knowledge of the Tulsa Public School district is preferred.
Sets high expectations for self and others s/he is leading, and holds self and team accountable for performance goals.
Able to develop diverse talent through performance plans, reviews, and leadership opportunities.
Thrives in 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.
AmeriCorps/City Year alumni are encouraged to apply.
A Candidate Must Demonstrate Proficiency In The Following Areas
Team Leadership and Collaboration
Leverages diverse strengths of team members to achieve desired results.
Coaches and empowers others to lead.
Addresses and resolves team conflict swiftly and effectively.
Problem Solving and Decision-Making
Links problems and symptoms to identify underlying issues and focuses on addressing most critical, high-impact issues.
Organizes appropriate information, expertise, and diverse perspectives for self and others to develop optimal solutions and manage decision-making.
Communication
Excellent written and oral communication skills.
Strong group facilitation and presentation skills.
Ability to break down large concepts into teachable bits that others can internalize easily.
Executes to Results
Strong attention to detail and proven organizational and project management skills.
Ability to manage self and others.
Compensation And Benefits
Full time employees are entitled to compensation commensurate with experience. Benefits for full time employees include health insurance with Flexible Spending Account, paid vacation, holidays, parental leave, 401K, and more.
City Year is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to a diverse workforce. Individuals from all backgrounds are encouraged to apply, including persons with disabilities and veterans.
Posted 2 Days Ago Full time R3800
City Year helps students and schools succeed. Fueled by national service, City Year partners with public schools in high-need communities to prepare students with the skills and mindsets they need to thrive in school and in life . Diverse teams of City Year AmeriCorps members serve full-time as tutors, mentors, and role models, providing research-based student, classroom, and whole school supports to help students stay in school and on track to graduate from high school, ready for college and career success. A 2015 study shows that schools that partnered with City Year were up to two to three times more likely to improve on mathematics and English language arts assessments.
With our partners, City Year is contributing to a bold vision of what public schools can and should be for all children: places of learning, exploration, growth and risk-taking.
City Year is among the nation’s fastest-growing nonprofit social enterprises. The organization’s 900 staff and 3,000 AmeriCorps members work and serve in 29 communities across the country, including Boston–where City Year was founded in 1988 and is headquartered–and 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 South Africa and the United Kingdom.
A proud member of the AmeriCorps national service network, City Year is supported by the Corporation for National and Community Service, local school districts and private philanthropy from corporations, foundations and individuals. City Year has earned Charity Navigator’s highest rating since 2003, certifying our commitment to accountability, transparency, and responsible fiscal management. Less than one percent of rated organizations have received this distinction for more than 15 consecutive years, placing City Year among the most trustworthy nonprofits in America. Learn more at www.cityyear.org , City Year’s Facebook page , on Twitter , and LinkedIn .
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