Student Experience and Leadership Manager

Student Experience and Leadership Manager

Full-Time | Remote; U.S.-based preferred but potentially open to locations with similar time zones | Salary range within the U.S.: $60,000 – $65,000; International candidates salary to be determined based on location, experience, and local contracting norms.

About Technovation

Technovation is a global nonprofit empowering girls and women through technology and entrepreneurship. With a community of 52,000+ alumnae across 100+ countries, Technovation develops the next generation of tech leaders through hands-on learning, mentorship, and community connection. The Student Ambassador, Lead Student Ambassador, and Student Club Leader programs are the heartbeat of Technovation's youth leadership pipeline, cultivating confident, globally minded leaders who carry their Technovation identity into adulthood and beyond. Beyond those leaders sits a much larger participant community whose experience, needs, and ideas should shape how Technovation grows.

About the Role

The Student Leadership Development Manager carries two connected mandates.

• Roughly 60% of the role is the full lifecycle of Technovation's student leadership ecosystem the Student Ambassador (SA), Lead Student Ambassador (LSA), and Student Club Leader (SCL) programs from recruitment and selection through onboarding, training, season-long support, performance tracking, and end-of-season recognition. You are the primary architect of the student leader experience.
• The remaining ~40% extends beyond the student leaders to the broader participant community. You are Technovation's primary steward of student voice: gathering feedback intentionally and continuously, understanding what students across 100+ countries are actually experiencing, and carrying their needs into program, curriculum, platform, and planning decisions at the organization. Chapters and Clubs already surface student voice locally; this role does not replace that channel but aggregates, synthesizes, and elevates it so the full student population, not only the most engaged leaders, is represented in how Technovation makes decisions.
• These two halves reinforce each other. Student leaders are among the loudest and most engaged voices in the community, and the relationships you build with them feed directly into the listening work; the broader feedback you gather, in turn, sharpens how the leadership programs are designed. You bring operational rigor, genuine care for young people, and the systems thinking required to support 300+ student leaders across 68+ countries while keeping a much larger participant base heard.

Responsibilities

Student Leadership Programs (approximately 60% of the role)

• Recruitment, Selection, and Onboarding: Own all phases of recruitment and selection across all three programs, in partnership with Chapters and Clubs where applicable. Onboard each cohort with clear expectations, warm communication, and the context they need to lead effectively from day one.
• Season-Long Engagement and Support: Maintain consistent communication throughout the season. Monitor participation across all three programs, flag concerns early, and provide individualized support to leaders who are struggling or disengaged.
• Activity Coordination: Coordinate and facilitate required activities including monthly webinars, skills training sessions, progress report submissions, and LSA-led skill shares and office hours.
• Regional and Cross-Functional Partnership: Partner with Chapter and Club Ambassadors to support locally embedded student leaders.
• Leadership Curriculum: Design and iterate on leadership curriculum and skill-building content that goes beyond program mechanics, equipping student leaders with confidence, self-advocacy, communication skills, and technical literacy.
• End-of-Season Recognition: Close each program with meaningful, equitable recognition and reflection, with attention to geographic and resource context.
• Model Iteration and Systems: Iterate on all three program models season over season, building scalable structures and trackers that reduce single points of failure and grow as the student leader community expands without proportional increases in HQ staff capacity. Develop and track student-leadership outcome KPIs.

Student Experience and Voice (approximately 40% of the role)

• Intentional Feedback and Listening: Design and run ongoing mechanisms such as pulse surveys, listening sessions, focus groups, and advisory input, that capture the experience of the broader participant community. Build a regular feedback rhythm.
• Representing Student Needs in Planning: Serve as the primary channel through which the student population's perspectives reach Technovation leadership. Bring student insight into program, curriculum, platform, and seasonal planning decisions, and advocate for participant needs in cross-functional work.
• Coordination with Chapters and Clubs: Partner with Chapter and Club Ambassadors as primary sources of local student voice. Aggregate and synthesize what they surface rather than duplicating it, ensuring regional, cultural, and resource-context differences are visible in the picture that reaches HQ.
• Synthesis and Insight-to-Action: Turn raw feedback into clear, usable insight for the Leadership Team and program staff. Close the loop back to students so they see how their input shaped decisions.
• Community Transition: Actively manage the pipeline from student to 18+ alumnae community member, warming students before they age out so they arrive engaged and already connected.

Qualifications

• Experience managing programs or communities with a global, multi-stakeholder participant base.
• Experience designing and running feedback, listening, or light research mechanisms (surveys, focus groups, advisory structures) and synthesizing input into clear, actionable insight.
• Ability to represent participant or user needs to organizational leadership and translate qualitative input into recommendations that inform planning.
• Strong written communication skills with the ability to adapt tone for youth audiences, internal teams, and organizational leadership.
• Demonstrated ability to build and maintain systems and trackers that keep programs running smoothly at scale.
• A genuine care for young people and a commitment to equitable, culturally responsive program design.
• Comfort working asynchronously with a distributed team and participant base across time zones.
• Experience facilitating virtual programming including webinars, workshops, or community events.
• Strong organizational skills and the ability to manage multiple workstreams simultaneously across a seasonal program cycle.
• Experience in youth leadership development, mentorship programming, or education nonprofit contexts.

Bonus:

• Fluency in language(s) other than English
• Familiarity with Discord, Zoom, Mailchimp, Salesforce, survey/feedback platforms, or similar tools used for community communication, feedback, and data tracking.
• Background in curriculum design, training development, or qualitative synthesis.

We Offer

This is a full-time position. Our US benefits include:

• 20 vacation days in addition to all federal holidays and sick time
• A paid organization-wide week-long shutdown at the end of the year
• 100% cost coverage of medical, dental, and vision costs for employees and a portion of the cost for partners and dependents
• Life insurance coverage
• 401k program with an organization match after two years
• Option to participate in FSA and DCA pre-tax programs
• Tenure bonus plan
• Remote work with core work hours and flexible scheduling

We are an equal opportunity employer that values diversity among its applicant pool as well as within our staff, Board, and partners. We encourage applicants from all backgrounds to apply.

How to Apply

Please apply at this link. Be ready to upload the following:

• Your resume, including a link to your LinkedIn profile
• A cover letter expressing your interest in and alignment with the opportunity, including why you believe you would be a good fit
• Screening Exercise: Submit slides for a 10-minute segment of Technovation's End-of-Season Student Ambassador Celebration, a virtual ceremony for 300+ student leaders across 68+ countries. If selected for an interview, you'll present your slides live and talk through your choices with the team.