Senior Vice President, Executive Director

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Number of Positions: 1

Work Location: 100% On-Site

Position Overview

ABOUT CITY YEAR MEMPHIS
City Year was founded in 1988, with the idea to unite young people, ages 17-24, from broad backgrounds to engage in a year of full-time service in under-resourced schools. City Year Memphis (CYMem) was established in 2016, with a start-up corps of 16 strong. Today, 40 AmeriCorps members serve nearly 700 students across 6 charter public schools. CYMem AmeriCorps members are serving as student success coaches (SSCs). SSCs are tutors, mentors and role models who partner with teachers in low-income schools to provide students with academic interventions, interpersonal skills coaching, and ongoing support and mentoring. SSCs also run after-school programs and plan school-wide events designed to enhance school culture and climate and strengthen the teaching and learning environment for everyone in the schoolhouse—students and the adults who work with them.

Our research-based Whole School, Whole Child® program focuses on supporting students as they transition between elementary middle and high schools and early warning indicators that can have the biggest impact on student success in school and career readiness: attendance, cognitive and interpersonal development, and academic achievement in ELA and math.

AmeriCorps receive more than 300 hours of professional training to support teachers and staff in delivering instruction and intervention services and are supported by their school-based team and impact managers who help them be more effective with students. Because student success coaches are near peers, they are mature enough to offer students’ guidance, yet young enough to relate to students’ perspectives. This makes them uniquely positioned to form positive relationships with students and help them succeed.


POSITION OVERVIEW

City Year is seeking an innovative, dynamic, entrepreneurial, and people-focused leader to serve as the Executive Director (ED) at City Year Memphis. The position provides the right candidate the opportunity to play an integral role in advocating for and advancing public education in Memphis through national service. The Executive Director is responsible for ensuring City Year Memphis meets its impact, revenue, district partnership, and external relations goals and will lead the effort to increase City Year's visibility and brand awareness across the Mid-South. Key to the site's success is a leader and collaborator who is a natural coalition-builder, people developer, and influencer who leads with tenacity and humility.

Reporting to the Market President, this visionary change agent will lead up to 10 staff and 40 AmeriCorps members serving in 6 partner schools. Serving as the primary champion of City Year's impact locally, the Executive Director leads the organization's efforts to keep students in school and on track to graduate college and career ready. Additionally, the Executive Director works in partnership with the City Year Memphis advisory board, comprised of influential leaders representing the public, private, and non-profit sectors. The Executive Director is accountable for an annual revenue budget of approximately $2.2 million (current make up is approximately 13% school partnership funds, 33% AmeriCorps, and 54% private sector revenue), while simultaneously securing the resources necessary to ensure sustainability and growth. The Executive Director will be expected to mobilize powerful coalitions including board members, district leadership and school partners, City Year alumni, private and public sector investors, and local elected officials to accelerate greater educational opportunity for underserved students.

Additionally, the Executive Director is a Senior Vice President for City Year lnc.'s national organization and as such strengthens the connection between City Year's national initiatives and the local work in Memphis by managing relationships at City Year's national headquarters and contributing to the national strategy through network-wide project teams.

Job Description

Responsibilities

The Executive Director will focus on the following primary areas of responsibility:

People and Culture: Lead, coach, and develop up to10 full-time staff members, increase staff engagement and retention of staff year over year. Establish a dynamic organizational culture that embodies our core values of collaboration, teamwork and relationship building. Further deve