To further our mission of leveraging all available community, corporate, human, organization, private and public resources to implement systemic solutions to bring out-of-school and out-of-work young adults into the economic life of New York City, we are seeking a Director of Post-Secondary Innovation. This person will serve an instrumental role in leading the Transfer2Careers (T2C) collaborative. T2C is an innovative partnership with New Visions for Public Schools to create a pilot demonstration project which will re-imagine the transition from school to career for over-age, under-credited students in New York City Transfer High Schools by embedding workforce development organizations in schools to improve student outcomes. 

The Director will be responsible for: 

• Project Management: Serve as co-project manager for the organization’s T2C emerging partnership with New Visions for Public Schools.
• T2C Partnership Development Support: Lead the development and execution of Learning Communities, provide and facilitate in-school/on-site technical assistance to develop partnerships, manage partner communication strategies.
• Transformative Learning: Develop and execute a system to capture and document progress and lessons learned from the development/implementation of T2C.
• Support the development and execution of JobsFirstNYC’s broader in-school work as part of a strategy to reduce the number of out of school, out of work young adults by intervening while students are still in school.

This role is a good fit for someone with in-depth knowledge of young adult workforce development, k-12 education, and higher education. Applicants should also possess excellent verbal and written communications skills, work well in a fast-paced professional environment, and display passion and optimism to work in a team based environment. 

Qualified candidates will have a minimum of a bachelor’s degree and 7-10 years progressive experience in the nonprofit/public sector or a master’s degree and 5 years of progressive work experience. 

Please forward this opportunity to people in your network who you think would be a good fit for this role. More information can be found here.

Interested applicants should send a letter of interest, resume, and salary expectations in PDF format to jobs@jobsfirstnyc.org. 

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