Director, Talent Pathways
City Year
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Job summary
City Year New York seeks a Director of Talent Pathways to launch and lead career support programming for AmeriCorps members, guiding pathways from service to post-service opportunities. You will build partnerships with colleges, universities, corporations, and community organizations, while coordinating resources and expanding alumni engagement.
The role collaborates across teams to align durable skills with experiences, and to create a year-round professional development calendar.
Qualifications
- Partnership Development: Demonstrated ability to build and maintain strategic partnerships with colleges, universities, companies and community organizations.
- Youth Development: Demonstrated ability to coach and develop young adults.
- Project/Event Management: Demonstrated ability to manage complex projects and events that involve many internal and external stakeholders.
Responsibilities
- Build Strategic Partnerships alongside Senior Manager of Talent Pathways to identify degree and certification opportunities and expand access to Federal Work Study.
- Expand external partners participating in professional development experiences; include skill-building workshops, panels, and lunch-and-learns.
- Develop partnerships that increase the pipeline of math and science applicants to programs.
- Secure corporate pathway partnerships within life sciences, technology, and business sectors.
- Lead Talent Pathways Committee to advance career pathways identified by Corps.
- Establish a social-emotional development or youth mental health certification partnership by FY2027.
- Launch social work/mental health counseling pathways with established partnerships by FY2027.
- Expand business & professional services pathway with more partnerships and at least one certification by 2028.
- Support expansion of alternative education pathways.
Skills
Job description
City Year New York (CYNY) is seeking a strategic, organized, and collaborative Director of Talent Pathways. Guided by the organization’s strategic plan, this individual will launch and lead the next generation of career support programming for AmeriCorps members.
- Identify career pathways for AmeriCorps members post service term
- Develop relationships with organizations, corporations, ed institutions to coordinate resources/pathways for ACMs
- Support local alumni relations
City Year AmeriCorps Members serve in schools full-time, helping students build academic habits and mindsets necessary to succeed in school and in life. During their year of service, ACMs are entrusted with a high level of responsibility and leadership opportunities that have lasting impact - on students, schools, and on their own personal and professional development.
The Talent Pathways Director is a newly created role that will work collaboratively across the organization to develop a year-round calendar of programming and experiences that ensure structured career pathways for City Year AmeriCorps members. In a challenging and evolving job market, this role is critical to strengthening the value proposition of a year of service and creating clear, accessible pathways to economic mobility for those who choose to serve.
Internally, the Director will collaborate across teams to align on the durable skills and key experiences that drive professional opportunity, and will co-create a comprehensive, year-round professional development calendar that ensures consistent access, exposure, and skill-building for currently serving AmeriCorps members.
Externally, the Director will build strategic partnerships with colleges, universities, companies and community organizations to expand existing pathways and create new opportunities, including but not limited to increased access to City Year service through Federal Work Study, targeted credit for prior learning for existing ACMs, and new pathways connected to mental health, life sciences, healthcare, public service, business, and technology.
The role will also contribute to the site’s alumni engagement, leveraging the strong City Year alumni network to identify pathway opportunities for AmeriCorps members. In the future, alumni engagement may also include career focused programming for recent alumni.
The Career Pathways Director will report to the Managing Director of Impact and manage the Senior Manager of Talent Pathways.
- Build Strategic Partnerships Alongside Senior Manager of Talent Pathways, establish partnerships with colleges and universities to identify degree and certification opportunities, as well as expanded access to Federal Work Study students.
- In collaboration with the Impact team, expand the network of external partners participating in AmeriCorps member professional development experiences, including skill-building workshops, panels, and lunch-and-learns.
- In collaboration with the Learning & Development Director, develop partnerships that increase the pipeline of math and science applicants to the Graduate Teaching Fellowship program.
- In collaboration with the Development team, secure corporate pathway partnerships within the life sciences, technology, and business sectors.
- Lead and further develop the Talent Pathways Committee (a cross-departmental team of Cit Year New York staff members) to prioritize and advance career pathways in industries identified by the current and incoming Corps as areas of interest.
- Establish one social-emotional development or youth mental health certification partnership by Fiscal Year 2027.
- Launch social work / mental health counseling pathways with established educational and career partnerships in Fiscal Year 2027.
- Expand the business & professional services pathway through additional career partnerships and at least one business certification partnership by 2028.
- In collaboration with the Learning & Development Director, support expansion of alternative education pathways.
Collaborate across the site to develop and manage an annual calendar of professional development and career support opportunities.
Lead the AmeriCorps Member mentorship programs, maintaining existing corporate partnerships with the goal of future expansion.
Design and implement a career-based learning series aligned to key career pathways to take place one L&D Friday per month.
With the support of the Senior Manager of Talent Pathways, lead the site’s career cohort initiative, plan facilitate CYNY’s annual ACM Career Day, and take point on leading and implementing the annual Get Hired event with King’s Trust.
Activate the alumni community to support professional development and career connections for currently serving AmeriCorps members through networking events, session facilitation, and systemized informational interviews.
Beginning with the most recent City Year New York graduates (class of ‘25-26), work to engage them and continue learning about their career moves.
Use this cohort to help build systems and processes for the future.
Collaborate with City Year Headquarters to continue to identify opportunities to engage alumni, keep track of their career moves, and provide ongoing career guidance and support for recently graduated members.
In alignment with long-term outcomes, set annual goals for the AmeriCorps Member Mentorship programs, career cohorts, Career Day, and new career development initiatives.
Partner with the Senior Director of Analytics to design and implement evaluation systems that measure career preparedness and placement outcomes for AmeriCorps members, while strengthening tracking of recent alumni.
Regularly review and apply data insights to inform decision-making, continuous improvement, and strategic planning.
Support sitewide initiatives, including fundraising events, Learning & Development Days (LDDs), AmeriCorps member appreciation events, and team days.
Organize, lead, and/or assist in executing special projects that may fall outside the scope of regular duties. The specific responsibilities and purpose of special projects may vary.
Assume other tasks as delegated by supervisor.
- Partnership Development: Demonstrated ability to build and maintain strategic partnerships with colleges, universities, companies and community organizations.
- Youth Development: Demonstrated ability to coach and develop young adults.
- Project/Event Management: Demonstrated ability to manage complex projects and events that involve many internal and external stakeholders.
- Organizational Skills: Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously and meet deadlines.
- Data Analysis: Proficiency in collecting and analyzing data to measure program impact and inform decision-making.
- Communication: Excellent written and verbal communication skills for reporting and relationship-building.
- Problem-Solving: Strong problem-solving skills to develop creative solutions for program challenges.
- Collaborative Mindset: Ability to work collaboratively with various stakeholders, including students, schools, companies and community organizations.
- Adaptability: Flexibility to adapt to changing circumstances and the needs of the program.
The salary range for this position is $90,000–$92,000, commensurate with experience and qualifications.
Benefits include health (medical, vision, dental) insurance, vacation, holidays, parental leave, 401K, a flexible spending account, and more.
- health (medical, vision, dental) insurance
- vacation
- holidays
- parental leave
- 401K
- a flexible spending account
- and more
Benefits Full-time employees will be eligible for all benefits including vacation, 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, vision, life, accidental death and dismemberment and disability coverage, Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA), and other benefits including 401(k) plan(s) pursuant to the terms and conditions of company policy and the 401(k) plan document.
Employment at City Year is at-will.
City Year does not sponsor work authorization visas.
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.
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.
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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Learn more at www.cityyear.org, City Year’s Facebook page, on X (formerly Twitter), and LinkedIn.
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