Fast Facts

City Year Washington, DC is seeking a dynamic and innovative leader to fill the role of Senior Vice President, Executive Director, to advocate for public education through national service and lead a team of full-time staff and AmeriCorps members.

Responsibilities: The Executive Director will lead and develop staff, manage partnerships for funding and support, ensure academic impact for students, and increase City Year's visibility and engagement in the community.

Skills: Candidates should have strong leadership and coalition-building abilities, fundraising experience, and a deep commitment to education equity and community resources.

Qualifications: Preferred candidates will possess extensive experience in education, fundraising, and managing diverse teams, and demonstrate competencies in emotional intelligence, collaboration, and local community engagement.

Location: The position is based 100% on-site in Washington, DC.

Compensation: $180000 / Annually

Application Instructions

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Number of Positions: 1Work Location: 100% On-Site

Position Overview

About City Year Washington, DC

City Year was founded in 1988, with a vision to unite young people, ages 17-24, from diverse ethnic, educational, and socio-economic backgrounds to engage in a year of full-time national service. City Year Washington, DC was founded in 1999, with a small start-up team and less than 20 AmeriCorps members. Today, 54 AmeriCorps members are deployed in 8 schools across DC public and charter schools, serving as tutors and mentors and implementing City Year's Whole School, Whole Child program in the city's most under-resourced schools. Our research-based program focuses on the early warning indicators that can predict a student's likelihood of graduating high school.

Position Overview

City Year is seeking an innovative, dynamic, entrepreneurial, and people-focused leader to serve as the Executive Director (ED) at City Year DC. The position provides the right candidate the opportunity to play an integral role in advocating for and advancing public education in DC through national service. The Executive Director is responsible for ensuring City Year DC 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 DC. 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 10 staff and 54 AmeriCorps members serving in 8 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 DC board, comprised of 14 influential leaders representing the public, private, and non-profit sectors. The Executive Director is accountable for an annual revenue budget of approximately $4 million (current make up is approximately 25% school partnership funds, 30% AmeriCorps, and 45% 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 DC 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 10 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 develop human resources structures to ensure excellent hiring, performance support and career advancement practices.

Student Impact: In partnership with senior site staff and regional support staff, ensure high quality and commitment to the nationally developed service delivery model implemented by City Year AmeriCorps members in partner elementary, middle, and high schools. Maintain excellent track record of impact results, including at least 60% of students meeting or exceeding growth goals in math and literacy assessments.

AmeriCorps Member Experience: Ensure the site delivers a transformational experience for all City Year AmeriCorps members, where at least 85% of AmeriCorps members persist from confirmation to completion of service and 80% feel prepared and confident in their service delivery.

Private Sector Fundraising, Cultivation, and Stewardship: Serve as chief fundraiser and lead the site staff, Board, and Associate Board to raise the funds necessary to meet annual and long-term revenue goals. Identify, cultivate, solicit, and manage strategic relationships with corporations, foundations, family foundations and individuals to build a sustainable private revenue mix that results in annual revenue of at least $1 million (current year goal.)

School/District Investments: Sustain partnerships with existing district and school leadership and cultivate new partnerships with leaders of future school partners. Negotiate contracts that result in sustained annual revenue of $12,500-$15,000 per AmeriCorps member.

Financial Management: Ensure City Year DC raises at least three percent more revenue than it spends annually by managing a fiscally sound budget, forecasting, expense management, and cash flow for a current site expense budget of $4.7 million.

Board Member Engagement: Collaborate with board leadership to recruit, develop, and manage a diverse,

dynamic and deeply engaged local advisory board; manage a robust committee structure focused on local fundraising efforts, community engagement and brand awareness. Ensure cultivation and engagement of current and future board leadership.

Government Relations and Public Policy: Engage local elected officials including the Mayor and City Council to support funding and policies for City Year. Maintain effective and collaborative relationship with ServeDC, the local AmeriCorps Commission; oversee the preparation of effective AmeriCorps grant applications and progress reports and meet performance and compliance requirements associated therein.

Marketing and Communications: Lead board and staff efforts to increase City Year's visibility and brand awareness in local and national media, social media, and marketing channels. Help raise the site's profile to become one of the most talked about education organizations in DC.

AmeriCorps Member Recruitment: Collaborate with City Year's national recruitment and admissions team

to ensure successful recruitment and selection of AmeriCorps members, meeting quality, quantity, and inclusivity goals. Partner with site staff to ensure a strong cohort returns annually for leadership opportunities in a second year of service, with at least 15% applying.

Alumni Engagement: Ensure the engagement of the City Year DC Alumni Board to leverage alumni

to support AmeriCorps members in service and continue their lifetime of service.

Qualifications

Successful City Year Executive Directors embody the organization's core values, hold the firm belief that education has the power to help all students reach their full potential, and possess a deep passion for education. In addition, our Executive Directors are expected to:

• Build and forge partnerships and coalitions with stakeholders in the public and private sectors to advance the cause of education
• Mobilize internal and external partners toward a bold vision of how they can impact the lives of young people
• Build, empower and inspire teams to thrive while driving accountability and taking personal responsibility for their success
• Build community and foster a caring and supportive environment that prioritizes collaboration, teamwork, and relationship building
• Demonstrate curiosity, vulnerability and humility as a life-long learner who seeks out broad perspectives and opportunities for self-improvement
• Possess a deep sense of personal accountability to ensure the success of both City Year DC locally and City Year, Inc. nationally

•Connect with and inspire diverse teams of AmeriCorps Members between the ages of 17 and 24

A competitive candidate for the Executive Director position will possess:

• A strong ability and experience in the behaviors listed above
• Competency in collaboration, teamwork and relationship building work
• High level of emotional intelligence
• Integrity, openness, honesty, curiosity, empowerment, and collaboration
• Demonstrated success managing effective and engaged teams, managing multiple layers of leadership
• Proven experience in skillfully influencing and motivating stakeholders; record of accomplishment in fundraising from corporations, foundations, and major gifts and/or sales
• An established cross-sector, local network of stakeholders, funders, and champion
• Ability to connect programs to funding, creatively generating other resources, and building collaborative and strategic partnerships
• Familiarity with the DC educational landscape and K-12 education policy
• Knowledge of and commitment to the DC neighborhoods where City Year serves, especially communities east of the river in Wards 7 and 8
• Calm in times of crisis with sound instincts and impeccable decision-making prowess
• Excellent communication, listening, and public speaking skills; the ability to articulate a compelling and inspiring vision that motivates others
• Demonstrated success in responding quickly to changing situations and ability to adjust organizational plans accordingly
• A desire to learn and a willingness to receive feedback and hold yourself accountable
• Significant local non-profit, volunteer, or multi-sector experience
• Content knowledge of community and national service
• Ability to attend evening and weekend events; ability to travel to in-person meetings in various cities

To Apply

Please submit a cover letter and resume via the online application.

Compensation and Benefits:

The salary range for the Executive Director role begins at $180,000, is commensurate with experience, and is eligible for up to 10% at risk pay.

Full-time employees are entitled to compensation commensurate with experience. Benefits for full-time employees include health insurance with a Flexible Spending Account, paid vacation, holidays, parental leave, 401(k), and more.

City Year is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to a broad workforce. Individuals from all backgrounds are encouraged to apply, including persons with disabilities and veterans.

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. For more information, click here.

Employment at City Year is at-will. 

City Year does not sponsor work authorization visas.