Title: Director, Career Success Initiative (CSI) Business Partnerships
Department: Community-Based Programs
Reports to: Vice President, Vocational Programs
Location: 305 Seventh Avenue, New York, New York 10001; mobile across NYC.
Hours: 35 Hours/Week; Exempt
Salary: $80,000 - $90,000
Job SummaryThe Director of the Career Success Initiative (CSI) Business Partnerships will help launch and lead Good Shepherd Services' (GSS) new agency-wide initiative to support the career development of participants. The CSI will provide a spectrum of work, job, and career readiness training; along with a variety of career pathways for young adult participants across the wide range of GSS programs.
This position will support the implementation of the CSI planning work conducted during the past year. The Director will build external partnerships that provide career-focused opportunities to CSI participants including jobs, apprenticeships, higher education, advanced training, and other such opportunities. They will ensure the quality of these placements, monitoring their efficacy and their appropriateness for participants.
This position will work closely with members of the CSI staff and maintain strong, active relationships with external partners, in addition to seeking new partnerships and placements for CSI participants.
Major DutiesFormalize Partnerships for CSI Career PathwaysThe CSI will identify three industry sectors that will offer career pathways for GSS participants. These sectors will be based on existing research conducted by the GSS CSI Planning Team. During the Pilot Year, the Director of CSI Business Partnerships will design and build these career pathways, cultivating a network of training, employment, and other opportunities within each sector. They will develop and maintain strong formal relationships with individuals and organizations to support the pathways and ensure that they lead participants to economically sustainable futures.
These relationships may include partners that act as "brokers" offering a range of internship, job, and training placements within a sector. The CSI Planning Team identified the potential for partnering with initiatives within the CUNY system that provide placements in a variety of opportunities. This position will work to develop this type of partnership, with the goal of insuring that we can offer a diverse range of options within each sector to match the diverse skills and interests of CSI participants.
- Develop career paths in three sectors during the Pilot Year of the program.
- Build strong, sustainable relationships with organizations and individuals who provide training and placements to CSI participants.
- Identify "broker" partners who may have a range of options within each sector. At least one of these partnerships is already in development.
- Develop memoranda of understanding (MOUs) with each partner, including a scope of work and any deliverables.
- Work together with CSI staff to develop other partnerships outside of the three formal pathways, that are aligned with participants' expressed interests and support their career development.
Manage CSI Career Pathway PartnershipsAfter each partnership is identified, the position will:
- Meet regularly with partners to develop outreach and recruitment plans, monitor placements, etc.
- Maintain and trouble-shoot pathways, ensuring they remain strong and viable
- Support CSI internal-facing staff in presenting pathway opportunities to CSI participants.
General Support to CSI Leadership and Staff- Work closely with the GSS Vice President of Vocational Programs, the CSI Program Director and other CSI staff to support the initiative, with a focus on external placements and partnerships.
Qualifications- BA and five years of relevant experience in developing business/educational partnerships and/or job placements within a youth-participant framework, or eight years of relevant experience.
- Two years' experience in developing, managing, and troubleshooting career pathways for young adults.
- Demonstrated understanding of career development and how to support readiness programs and their participants in attaining jobs, certifications, internships, apprenticeships, vocational degrees, etc.
- Expertise in curriculum and workshop development that engages young people.
- Exceptional organizational skills and strong technological proficiency.
- Collaborative, team-oriented approach to creating impactful youth outcomes.
- Commitment to working from a youth, family, and community development perspective.
- Ability to travel within New York City on a weekly basis.
