Vice President - Postsecondary to Workforce Pathways

January 18

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America's Promise Alliance

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America's Promise Alliance is a national organization that aims to improve the well-being of young people in the United States. The organization focuses on ensuring that all children and youth have the resources needed to succeed academically, socially, and emotionally. America's Promise Alliance brings together organizations, communities, and individuals to collaborate on initiatives that help young people develop the skills and support systems they need to thrive in today's world. Their work involves partnering with educational institutions, youth service organizations, and various other stakeholders to address issues such as education, health, and community engagement.

11 - 50 employees

Founded 1997

🤲 Charity

📚 Education

🌍 Social Impact

📋 Description

• The Vice President of Postsecondary to Workforce Pathways (VP Pathways) is responsible for setting the strategy and leading the execution of America’s Promise Alliance’s (APA) collective action work in our Postsecondary to Workforce Pathways issue area. • The VP Pathways role works in partnership with the CEO and executive leaders of 35+ of the leading national postsecondary and workforce nonprofits. • The VP Pathways is responsible for leading community-wide ideation to identify new collective action ideas annually, testing promising ideas with leading experts in the field, crafting broad concepts into actionable initiatives with discrete outcomes. • Candidates will also need strong design instincts, the capacity to manage multiple initiatives simultaneously, and the leadership to work effectively with a broad range of both internal and external stakeholders. • This position reports to APA’s CEO and is a member of the organization’s leadership team. • Once new ideas are crafted into compelling initiatives and we have reached a critical mass of member organizations who would participate in the initiative when launched, the VP Pathways is responsible for securing the funding needed to launch the work.

🎯 Requirements

• Field-recognized leader with 10+ years senior leadership in postsecondary success and/or workforce development organizations. • Deep knowledge of the field, funders, research, policy landscape, and experts in these issue areas and the ability to utilize that knowledge to inform our work and priorities. Deep knowledge of the operating realities of national nonprofits working in these issue areas. • Experience in program design, continuous improvement, and program evaluation. • Established network of partners, funders, and issue areas experts; experience raising funds and sustaining funding relationships. • Experience facilitating convenings with senior-level leaders, ensuring effective collaboration, engagement, and consensus-building among diverse stakeholders. • Experience leading collective action and systemic change coalitions. • Experienced manager and leader, ability to work cross-functionally, strong action-orientation and accountability for results; effective in rapidly growing and evolving environments. • Effective written and verbal communication, including translating complex issues to multiple audiences internally and externally. • A leader in building and nurturing positive culture, leading with an equity lens, ability to adapt and persist through challenges, and adaptive learner.

🏖️ Benefits

• professional development • retirement savings • self-managed vacation • generous benefits package that extends beyond healthcare coverage • work-life balance