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About the Role

NYC Kids RISE seeks a visionary, entrepreneurial, and highly operational leader to build, launch, and grow the Community Leadership + Training Institute. This role operationalizes the Institute’s strategy, offerings, operating model, team, and measures of success, creating a consistent standard of excellence while enabling local adaptation and centering community ownership.

Responsibilities

Develop and launch the Institute as the umbrella for NYC Kids RISE’s training, capacity-building, technical-assistance, convening, and leadership-development work.
Inform and execute the Institute’s vision into a clear multi-year strategy, operating model, roadmap, budget, staffing plan, and measurable outcomes.
Advance a collective-impact approach aligning families, schools, government, philanthropy, businesses, civic and faith-based organizations, and community institutions.
Establish frameworks and standards for consistent, high-quality support citywide while enabling local adaptation.
Monitor reach, quality, effectiveness, and growth, using data and feedback to strengthen offerings and strategy.
Cultivate funding and revenue opportunities, contribute to grant and contract reporting, and represent the Institute with funders and partners.
Own the Institute’s budget, including forecasting and resource allocation.
Work closely with leaders responsible for other key areas to strengthen and reinforce existing and future strategies.
Assess, codify, and strengthen existing training, technical-assistance, capacity-building, and implementation resources; develop new offerings.
Co-design offerings with families, students, educators, community leaders, and organizational partners.
Set and uphold a high standard for interactive, accessible, and culturally responsive learning across various formats.
Oversee technical assistance and capacity building on core Program elements with consistent quality and equitable reach.
Lead or assist in the design, support, and execution of flagship convenings and leadership-development experiences.
Develop place-based and stakeholder-specific communities of practice.
Build a continuous learning and knowledge-sharing system that turns implementation lessons into case studies, playbooks, and tools.
Develop and oversee the Institute’s digital learning infrastructure.
Serve as a facilitator for flagship sessions and build the capacity of staff and partners to deliver excellent learning experiences.
Stay current on emerging practice in community-based learning, leadership development, capacity building, collective impact, and place-based economic mobility.
Create feedback loops enabling stakeholders to inform policy, advocacy, and programmatic design.
Build, lead, and develop a multidisciplinary team responsible for training, technical assistance, leadership development, and implementation support.
Select and manage consultants with specialized expertise.
Oversee a coordinated, accessible citywide calendar and catalog of offerings.
Develop and approve policies, procedures, and operating standards for the Institute’s programming, partnerships, and operations.
Serve as an active member of NYC Kids RISE’s senior leadership team.
Model and reinforce strict adherence to data-security and privacy policies.
Advance racial equity and anti-oppression across the Institute and the organization.

Requirements

At least 10 years of progressively responsible experience in training and capacity building, leadership development, collective impact, community organizing, adult education, or a related field.
A track record of building and launching a new initiative, organization, program line, or function from concept through implementation and scale.
At least five years of experience leading and developing high-performing teams, ideally including building a team or function from the ground up.
Significant experience designing and facilitating culturally responsive learning experiences, leadership-development programs, communities of practice, and stakeholder convenings for diverse audiences.
Strong operational and project-management skills, including the ability to turn complex strategy into clear priorities, workplans, systems, and high-quality execution.
Demonstrated success working across cultures, identities, roles, and neighborhoods and using co-design, relationship building, and inclusive facilitation to advance equity and foster meaningful community ownership.
Experience developing frameworks or systems that maintain quality and consistency at scale while supporting meaningful local adaptation.
Experience defining success measures and using qualitative and quantitative data and feedback loops to evaluate and improve programs.
Experience representing an organization with government, philanthropic, and cross-sector partners and translating those relationships into resources, partnerships, or influence.
Excellent strategic judgment, organizational ability, and comfort navigating complexity, ambiguity, and competing priorities.
Exceptional written, verbal, facilitation, and interpersonal communication skills across audiences.
Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and relevant professional experience.
Ability to spend approximately 80% of working time in the Long Island City office and/or at locations across New York City, with occasional evening and weekend work.

Skills

Training and capacity building
Leadership development
Collective impact
Community organizing
Adult education
Strategy development
Operations management
Project management
Cross-sector partnership
Facilitation
Relationship building
Co-design
Data analysis
Budget management
Team leadership
Digital learning platforms
Learning management systems

Location

New York City

Work Type

Hybrid

Experience Level

10+ years of experience
5+ years of management experience

Education Level

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Salary/Compensations

$170,000 - $225,000

Benefits

30 days of paid time off (15 vacation days, 5 personal days, 2 annual office closures)
Sick time and holidays
Medical, dental, vision, life, and short- and long-term disability insurance
Healthcare FSA with employer contribution
Dependent-care FSA
401(k) with a 4% employer match after one year of service

About the Company

NYC Kids RISE has created the NYC Kids RISE Save for College Program, a universal wealth-building platform for New York City neighborhoods.
Over 380,000 children have NYC Scholarship Accounts with over $85M accumulated.
The Program is leveraged by ~1000 elementary schools for college & career readiness, strengthening school & community ties, and financial education & empowerment.
The organization is at an inflection point, with nearly every child in a New York City public elementary school having an account, and new opportunities from state and federal initiatives.
The infrastructure aims to reach nearly one million students across the five boroughs over the next decade.
The Community Leadership & Training Institute is being launched to embed the Program further into the fabric of New York City and empower others to use it as a tool for social and financial capital building.
The Institute will equip partners, enable institutions to use the platform as a shared tool, help communities build assets, create infrastructure for learning and capacity building, and identify/share effective practices nationally.

Equal Opportunity

NYC Kids RISE is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate in employment on the basis of gender, religion, race, creed, color, national origin, citizenship status, age, disability, marital status, caregiver status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, military status, unemployment status, or any other characteristic protected by law.