Milwaukee Community Partnerships & Recruitment Lead

City Year; Milwaukee (WI); On-site; USD 50,000 - 54,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision benefits

401(k) plan

Paid time off

Life insurance

FSA

Job summary

City Year Milwaukee seeks a Community Partnership Manager to lead local partnership and pipeline development for AmeriCorps recruitment. You will identify and steward relationships with schools, colleges, nonprofits, businesses, alumni, and other community partners across Wisconsin.

The role emphasizes community-facing work, travel across Milwaukee and surrounding areas, and collaboration with City Year’s national Talent Acquisition team to provide warm handoffs into the application process.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or a comparable combination of education and relevant professional experience.
• 2–3 years of relevant experience in community engagement, recruitment, partnership development, youth development, workforce development, outreach, or a related field.
• Demonstrated experience developing and maintaining relationships with schools, community organizations, businesses, prospective candidates, or other external stakeholders.
• Strong written, verbal, presentation, and organizational skills, with the ability to represent City Year professionally in community settings.
• Ability to independently manage multiple priorities, meet deadlines, and follow through on commitments.
• Ability to interpret and use data, reports, and analytics to adjust outreach and partnership strategies.
• Experience planning, coordinating, or supporting events, presentations, workshops, or community engagement activities.
• Authorized documentation to work in the United States of America.
• Ability to successfully complete required background checks.

Responsibilities

• Identify, assess, cultivate, and steward relationships with youth-serving organizations, high schools, community colleges, universities, workforce development organizations, nonprofits, civic partners, businesses, and other community stakeholders.
• Develop and execute a strategic community partnership plan that identifies priority audiences, key partners, outreach strategies, events, and opportunities to generate prospective AmeriCorps member interest.
• Build mutually beneficial partnerships that support City Year Milwaukee’s AmeriCorps member pipeline, strengthen the organization’s local brand, and create value for community partners.
• Develop relationships with district, city, county, and state stakeholders connected to postsecondary pathways, career placement, youth development, and workforce development.
• Represent City Year Milwaukee at career fairs, tabling events, community events, school-based activities, informational sessions, and other prospect‑facing opportunities.
• Create opportunities to bring City Year to prospective AmeriCorps members through presentations, workshops, application support, professional development sessions, open houses, and other value‑add engagement.
• Partner with the national Corps Talent Acquisition team to ensure prospective AmeriCorps members experience a seamless, timely, and warm handoff from local outreach into the national application and admissions process.
• Support recruitment of returning AmeriCorps members and help cultivate interest in an additional year of service when appropriate.
• Maintain accurate records of outreach, partner engagement, events, prospect activity, and recruitment outcomes in City Year’s designated recruitment and relationship‑management systems.

Skills

Relationship management

Community outreach

Partnership development

Public speaking

Organizational skills

Data interpretation

Event coordination

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

CRM

Applicant tracking systems

Job description

City Year Milwaukee seeks a Community Partnership Manager to lead local partnership and pipeline development for AmeriCorps recruitment. You will identify and steward relationships with schools, colleges, nonprofits, businesses, alumni, and other community partners across Wisconsin.

The role emphasizes community-facing work, travel across Milwaukee and surrounding areas, and collaboration with City Year’s national Talent Acquisition team to provide warm handoffs into the application process.