Reading Partners is seeking a Managing Director of Partnerships & Growth for Greater Newark to lead the expansion of literacy support through community partnerships and engagement initiatives.
Responsibilities: The MDPG will establish and grow partnerships, recruit and train community tutors, generate revenue, and build family engagement initiatives to address literacy gaps in Greater Newark.
Skills: Candidates should have strong relationship-building and collaboration skills, experience in partnership development within education, and familiarity with community engagement strategies.
Qualifications: Preferred qualifications include 7+ years in business or partnership development in education and familiarity with the Greater Newark educational landscape.
Location: This position is remote but requires candidates to reside within Northern New Jersey, with regular in-person activities in Greater Newark.
Compensation: $151668 - $151668 / Annually
Job Location: Reading Partners New Jersey (Remote) - New Jersey, NJ
Position Type: Full-Time
Salary Range: Undisclosed
Job Category: Innovation & Partnerships
Reading Partners is changing the education landscape. We are a leader in working to solve the literacy crisis in our country by leveraging community volunteers in under-resourced schools. Our diverse and expansive volunteer base provides one-on-one tutoring to students twice weekly, and our program is proven to help children master the reading fundamentals they need to unlock their potential as successful, happy, and confident readers in school and in life. Our people are our heartbeat and our greatest resource; we are all passionately rallied around our mission to help children become lifelong learners by empowering communities to provide individualized instruction that truly works. Join our stellar, committed team leading the charge to deepen our impact and expand our service. Watch this video to learn more about the mission and core tutoring work of Reading Partners.
The high level:
The Managing Director of Partnerships & Growth (MDPG), Greater Newark will play a key role in Reading Partners’ growth and scale throughout Newark and the surrounding areas in Hudson and Essex County. During this critical moment in our country’s educational landscape, Reading Partners is anchoring itself as part of the educational equity solution by partnering with communities in Greater Newark to ensure equitable access for students to literacy instruction and one-on-one support. Now more than ever, it is critical for Reading Partners to build community-based partnerships to address literacy gaps in Greater Newark through tutoring and family engagement strategies.
The MDPG will collaborate with a network of community partners, families, charter schools, funders, and Newark Public School District (and other neighboring schools and districts) to implement the Powered by Reading Partners model to address Newark’s literacy crisis through long-term and community-based partnerships. They will build partnerships with organizations to recruit community tutors to provide one-on-one literacy support and family engagement initiatives for Newark students. The MDPG will create a pathway for Reading Partners to facilitate family and caregiver literacy workshops to help foster and cultivate a love of reading for students. The MDPG will be a key relationship-builder, connector, and revenue generator on behalf of Reading Partners. As part of the partnerships and growth strategy, the MDPG will also help build relationships with corporate and institutional funders and collaborate with Reading Partners’ National Development team on revenue generation strategies to exponentially impact literacy outcomes in Greater Newark.
The MDPG will report directly to the Vice President of Strategic Partnerships & Growth (VPSPG) to sustainably scale student and family engagement in Greater Newark over four years, creating a foundation for long-term literacy impact in the area. They will work toward the following goals over time in collaboration with internal and external stakeholders:
Location: This remote position requires candidates to reside within Northern New Jersey (Essex, Hudson, Union Counties, and Newark preferred).
What you’ll do:
Establish, grow, and scale partnerships and family engagement initiatives in the Greater Newark area:
Generate $2 - 3 million dollars in revenue to fund the Greater Newark expansion work over the next 3 years:
Build Reading Partners’ presence as a literacy industry expert and thought leader in Greater Newark:
How you’ll do it:
Collaborate:
Inspire:
Deliver:
About you!
You’ll be successful in this role if you:
Bonus Points if you:
What we offer:
Reading Partners’ compensation and benefits programs are designed to attract, motivate, engage, and retain top talent to propel our mission forward. We aim to set salaries based on objective, external, high-quality market data. Our salaries are adjusted for candidates in different geographic regions. We do our very best to ensure that we’re bringing our best offer - therefore we do not engage in salary negotiations.
The other things you need to know:
What’s Next?
If you’re interested in joining our Reading Partners team, please submit the following application materials to our online job posting:
At Reading Partners we respect and honor the diversity in our workforce, and we are an Equal Opportunity Employer.
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