Program Director, City Year

Posted by on June 18, 2012

Program Director, City Year

Posted on: June 5, 2012

Organization’s Mission and Goals

City Year is an education-focused, nonprofit organization that partners with public schools to help keep students in school and on track to graduate. In communities across the United States and through two international affiliates, City Year’s innovative public-private partnership brings together diverse teams of young AmeriCorps members who commit to a year of full-time service in schools. Corps members support students by focusing on attendance, behavior and course performance through in-class tutoring, mentoring and after school programs. This year, more than 2,000 City Year corps members are serving in schools and communities nationwide.

City Year was founded in 1988 with the ideal that young people are an untapped resource to help solve this country’s pressing problems and in the process become more engaged citizens. Since then, City Year has established programs in 23 U.S. cities, including Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Columbia, SC, Columbus, Denver, Detroit, Little Rock/North Little Rock, Los Angeles, Baton Rouge, New Orleans, Miami, Milwaukee, New Hampshire, New York, Orlando, Greater Philadelphia, Rhode Island, Sacramento, San Antonio, San José/Silicon Valley, Seattle/King County, and Washington, D.C., and international affiliates in Johannesburg, South Africa and London, England. City Year is a proud member of AmeriCorps.

City Year Service

As one of the fastest growing nonprofit organizations in the country, City Year is laser-focused on reducing the dropout crisis in America. Corps members provide a continuum of care working in third through ninth grade in America’s highest-need schools. Over the next decade, City Year will focus its growth in the communities with the lowest graduation rates by scaling its impact in the 23 U.S. cities where City Year corps members already serve as well as expanding into carefully selected new markets. By tapping into the thousands of young people who are eager to serve, City Year can provide the extra people power in the classroom to help implement the right interventions for the right students at the right times.

City Year corps members accelerate whole school reform by helping schools implement research-based best practices by strengthening tiered students supports, improving coordination of teaching and learning, increasing teacher effectiveness by allowing more time for differentiated instruction, and expanding and optimizing learning time with before- and after-school tutoring. As near-peers, corps members are uniquely able to help improve student attendance, behavior and coursework – which research confirms are indicators of a student’s likelihood of graduating from high school. This school-based service is at the heart of City Year’s approach to helping students and schools succeed.

City Year Greater Philadelphia is one of the largest sites in the City Year network with 230 AmeriCorps members serving in over 20 schools.

Position Overview

City Year Greater Philadelphia is seeking a Program Director (PD), who is responsible for the overall management of the day-to-day programmatic operations and achievement of service outcomes. The PD supervises Program Managers who directly manage the AmeriCorps members and their service goals. The PD oversees corps member development, leads the achievement of strong service impact results, fosters opportunities for member development and supports the overall efforts of City Year’s mission statement. A PD is responsible for working to promote the long term sustainability of the site, fostering strategic relationships with school and District level leaders, serve on committees/portfolio teams, etc.

The PD is responsible for leading their program along with their fellow Program Directors to meet all goals. They supervise up to 6 Program Managers. PDs also serve on the site’s Program and Service Leadership Team and work closely with the Managing Director for Program and Service, the Service and Education Partnerships Director, the Corps Learning and Development Director, and the Evaluation and Impact Managers.

http://www.idealist.org/view/job/34mPFh2T5KwmD/