Community Partnership Manager

City Year Milwaukee 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 Milwaukee AmeriCorps Members.

The manager will be responsible for leveraging new and existing partnerships with a variety of organizations that are serving youth across Milwaukee and the surrounding areas as a means of increasing awareness of the opportunity to serve as a member of the City Year Milwaukee team for young adults ages 17-25. This position will require travel in and around the Milwaukee community and Wisconsin. It is an opportunity to branch out into the community and create access to what it looks like to serve as a City Year Milwaukee 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 Senior Director of Partnerships.

Responsibilities

• Identify and assess youth facing organizations and educational institutions (high schools, community colleges, local organizations) within Milwaukee and Wisconsin to supplement national recruitment partners
• Build a strategic partnership plan inclusive of goals, strategies and tactics to facilitate recruiting leads for City Year Milwaukee.
• 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 Milwaukee Public Schools, 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 Milwaukee 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 Milwaukee

You are

• Passionate about recruiting a high quality and diverse corps for our students
• Anchored in a commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion
• 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

Note from the hiring manager: Don’t have all the qualifications listed? Don’t worry about it. If you’re interested, I’d love for you to apply so I can learn a bit more about why you might be the perfect addition to our team! 

COVID-19 Notice   

Our number one priority is the health and safety of our employees and AmeriCorps members and their families; our students and school partners; and the community at large from COVID-19. Proof of COVID-19 vaccination is required for employment and service – all staff members, including remote staff, and AmeriCorps members are required to be fully vaccinated* no later than their start date. If you are unable to be vaccinated for medical reasons or sincerely-held religious beliefs, we will consider requests for reasonable accommodation consistent with our policy, and where we are able to provide such accommodations without undue hardship to the organization pursuant to applicable law. Notwithstanding any language herein, City Year will comply with any state, local, or federal orders, statutes, or regulations that may conflict with the COVID-19 vaccination policy.  

*Individuals are considered fully vaccinated 14 days after receiving the second dose of a two-dose vaccine (Pfizer or Moderna) or one dose of a single-dose vaccination (Johnson & Johnson).