Vice President, Enrichment

ExpandED is dedicated to ensuring that all young people have access to enriching learning opportunities that affirm their identities, teach them valuable skills, and spark new possibilities. Through program development, capacity-building, research and advocacy, we work toward our vision of a vibrant and stable publicly-funded system of school-community partnership so that all New York City children thrive.

Established in 1998, the organization today works with more than 119,000 children and 900 programs throughout New York City to ensure that students in under-served communities have access to innovative, engaging ways of learning to enable them to reach their full potential. Over the last two decades, ExpandED Schools’ program, research and policy efforts have led to increased recognition of the academic, social, and emotional benefits of enriched learning experiences, increased funding, and new models for school-community partnership.

Purpose of Position

Reporting to the President and CEO, the Vice President, Enrichment, will play a leading role in scaling quality enrichment opportunities through afterschool and summer learning throughout New York City. The Vice President will advance collaboration and coherence among program support, literacy, and STEM enrichment portfolios, nurturing more than 200 school-community partnerships, ensuring impact and sustaining effective policies and practices that increase the quality, availability and sustainability of enriching learning opportunities for New York City’s children. This dynamic and complex portfolio includes grantmaking, model design and scale, capacity-building, and coaching to increase the quality of afterschool and summer experiences. The portfolio includes developing, scaling, and sustaining initiatives simultaneously, and offers an opportunity to unite program areas with common assets, objectives and long-term goals for greater impact for New York City public school students.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Lead ExpandED’s Enrichment pillar, which includes comprehensive afterschool program support, STEM and literacy initiatives.
• Lead a team, which currently includes 13 members and three direct reports, to function effectively together and achieve outcomes and impact.
• Collaborate with and support the two Directors and Senior Director on the team to advance their programmatic work, strategy, and sustainability; strengthen models based on program learning, systematic and high-fidelity implementation, prioritizing the voices and experiences of young people, educators, families and other local stakeholders.
• Working with the ExpandED research team, refine internal data infrastructure to ensure full tracking and evaluation of programmatic outcomes, develop and advance a research agenda to gain lessons about effective citywide implementation, and share findings to broaden impact in the field.
• Working with the Chief Operating Officer, Chief Financial Officer, and team Directors & Senior Director, support the management of the enrichment team budget, analyzing budgets across initiatives to realize economies of scale, opportunities for cost-sharing, and fundraising priorities.
• Work with the Chief Advancement Officer and Institutional Advancement team to develop new concepts, proposals and funding strategies for enrichment in alignment with ExpandED’s mission and vision.
• Work with ExpandED’s Director of External Affairs to strengthen relationships with relevant government staff and officials in New York City and State, including representatives of New York City Public Schools (NYCPS), Department of Youth and Community Development (DYCD), Mayor’s Office, City Council, State Education Department, Office of Children & Family Services, and other offices as appropriate.
• Develop, maintain and build on ExpandED Schools’ external partnerships and coalitions throughout the city with school-based comprehensive afterschool providers, content experts, school and city agency staff, and other intermediaries.
• Collaborate with the Vice Presidents for High-Impact Tutoring and Career-Connected Learning to look for opportunities for meaningful collaboration and greater impact across program areas.
• Engage partners in initiative implementation and engage diverse stakeholders in the New York City education community to iterate and continuously improve the initiative’s strategy.
• Represent ExpandED at coalitions, convenings and other sector conversations, cheerleading our work, mission, values, and priorities.
• Perform other work as assigned.

Desired Qualifications:

• Demonstrated experience and deep knowledge of the afterschool sector, including principles of youth development and informal education
• Readiness to scale education initiatives and experience with research, continuous improvement and driving programmatic strategy and systems change, preferably in New York City or State
• Readiness to build partnerships/coalitions across diverse stakeholders for collective action, including work in and/or with city agencies
• Comfort managing complex and multifaceted budgets at a project and team level, holding multiple scenarios in mind, tracking spending and making projections
• Strong cultural competence with respect for and knowledge of the cultures of stakeholders we work with and communities we serve
• Deep commitment and passion for educational equity and the young people of New York City.
• Flexibility, adaptability, and comfort with complexity and change
• Ability to manage multiple large, complex projects in a fast-paced environment, and work as part of a team.
• Exceptional organization, motivation, and detail-orientation.
• Excellent speaking, writing, and facilitation skills with diverse audiences.
• Willingness and ability to travel, frequently within New York City and occasionally outside the city
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience, with experience in education and youth development.
• Competent computer skills, including knowledge of Word, Excel and PowerPoint.

ExpandED Schools offers competitive salaries commensurate with experience and a comprehensive benefits package. Our benefits package includes:

• Full-time and eligible part-time employees receive medical, dental and vision plans for employees and dependents, largely subsidized by ExpandED Schools
• Health, dependent care and transit pre-tax accounts
• Employer-paid life insurance and supplemental disability coverage
• Paid time off package which includes 24 vacation days, 8 sick days, and 12 paid holidays
• 403b retirement plan with eligibility for employer contribution of 5% of annual compensation after one year of employment (no match requirement)
• Commitment to work-life balance
• Partial tuition reimbursement offered to employees after six months of service
• Professional development opportunities, including funds to participate in training and coaching

ExpandED Schools believes in the importance of being a diverse, equitable and inclusive organization that enables our students and staff to thrive. We are committed to building a talented team that reflects the diverse backgrounds and experiences of our students.

ExpandED Schools is an Equal Opportunity Employer, and as such, we hire without consideration to race, religion, creed, color, national origin, age, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status or disability.

Interested candidates should complete an application here.