Fast Facts

City Year Bay Area is seeking a Community Partnerships Manager to enhance local recruitment efforts through partnership development, targeting organizations serving youth in Northern California.

Responsibilities: Identify and nurture partnerships with youth-serving organizations, build a strategic recruitment plan, promote City Year opportunities through community engagement, and deepen connections with local educational institutions.

Skills: Strong interpersonal skills, ability to work with diverse groups, problem-solving mindset, and proficiency in Microsoft Office.

Qualifications: 1-3 years in recruitment/youth development, strong communication skills, project management ability, and a passion for City Year’s mission.

Location: San Jose, CA

Compensation: $27 - $28 / Hourly

Application Instructions

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

Position Overview

City Year Bay Area seeks an experienced, collaborative, and innovative Community Partnerships Manager. This role will supplement the efforts of the National Recruitment and Admissions team by identifying and developing local partnerships, as well as adding capacity to local recruiting efforts, to create a strong pipeline of prospective City Year Site AmeriCorps Members.

The manager will be responsible for leveraging new and existing partnerships with a variety of organizations that are serving youth across the Bay Area and the surrounding areas as a means of increasing awareness of the opportunity to serve as a member of the City Year Bay Area team for young adults ages 17-25. This position will require travel in and around the Bay Area community and Northern California. It is an opportunity to branch out into the community and create access to what it looks like to serve as a City Year Bay Area AmeriCorps member. A significant portion of this role’s time will be in the community, building relationships with partners and prospective AmeriCorps members. This position will report to the Chief of Staff.

Job Description

Responsibilities

• Identify and assess youth facing organizations and educational institutions (high schools, community colleges, local organizations) within the Bay Area and Northern California to supplement national recruitment partners
• Build a strategic partnership plan inclusive of goals, strategies and tactics to facilitate recruiting leads for City Year Bay Area.
• Implement cultivation strategies to increase City Year brand awareness among champions within each partner institution and opportunities for them to promote City Year to prospects
• Identify opportunities to promote City Year service directly to prospects through events, community presentations, champion introductions, facilitating professional development workshop, etc.
• Deepen opportunities to source candidates from San José Public Schools, East Palo Alto Public Schools, Redwood City Public Schools, and surrounding areas, by partnering with site staff on a holistic district partnership approach
• Partner closely with members of the national Recruitment & Admissions team to support a successful hand-off from local sourcing to the nationally led application and admissions process
• Partner with the national recruitment and marketing teams to help tell the City Year Bay Area’s story, it’s impact and AmeriCorps member experience
• Support the recruitment of Returning AmeriCorps Members who wish to serve a second year with City Year Bay Area

You are:

• Passionate about recruiting a high quality and diverse corps for our students
• Enjoy meeting and engaging with new people
• Organized and can support multiple candidates and partnerships at varying stages in the recruitment process
• Always seeking to learn, improve and innovate

Qualifications

• 1-3 years of professional experience in recruitment/youth development/community development
• Strong communications, writing, and editing skills to ensure connectivity to mission and appropriate style and usage.
• Ability to manage multiple projects in a fast-paced environment with competing deadlines and take initiative in managing several projects with the utmost attention to detail.
• Demonstrated ability to work with individuals with diverse backgrounds, interests, and skills.
• Proven interpersonal skills with an ability to build capacity in peers.
• Solution-oriented critical thinker with strong problem-solving skills and a positive attitude.
• Ability to work well independently and in a collaborative team environment.
• Passion for and understanding of City Year’s work within the national service movement and education sphere
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office Platforms, including Excel

Benefits:

Full-time employees will be eligible for all benefits including vacation and 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 and vision, life, accidental death and dismemberment and disability coverage, Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA), other benefits including 401(k) plan(s) pursuant to the terms and conditions of company policy and the 401(k) plan document.

As an equal opportunity employer, City Year is committed to providing employment opportunities to all qualified individuals and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex, gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, age, marital status, veteran status, pregnancy, parental status, genetic information or characteristics, or any other basis prohibited by applicable law. 

Employment at City Year is at-will.

City Year does not sponsor work authorization visas.

Compensation

The anticipated start date is fall 2025

This is a non-exempt full-time position with an hourly range of $27.85 to $28.85.

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.