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About the Role
Pursuit is hiring a Senior Manager, Strategic Partnerships to join our External Affairs team. This role will manage a multi-year, state-funded initiative to deliver AI-native training across New York, collaborating with community colleges, workforce nonprofits, and economic development organizations. The ideal candidate is a strong operator and relationship-builder adept at managing complex, multi-stakeholder environments and driving mission-driven scale.
Responsibilities
- Serve as the day-to-day owner of a portfolio of workforce, higher education, employer, and economic development partners.
- Manage the partnership operating rhythm, including recurring check-ins, convenings, and maintaining a shared view of status, owners, and next steps.
- Oversee agreements from term sheet to execution in collaboration with internal stakeholders.
- Negotiate and enforce deliverables, timelines, and shared definitions for recruitment, instruction, reporting, and success metrics.
- Proactively identify and resolve partner risks.
- Onboard new partners and develop templates, briefing materials, and playbooks to streamline future partnerships.
- Manage public grants and contracts from post-award through closeout, including workplans, milestones, reporting, and modifications.
- Oversee reporting, compliance, documentation, and audit readiness, including subrecipient monitoring and pass-through requirements.
- Act as the primary operational point of contact for government partners.
- Collaborate with Finance on budgets, invoicing, reimbursement, disbursement schedules, and partner payments.
- Translate external commitments into internal project plans with defined scope, timelines, owners, and deliverables.
- Manage the internal cadence to keep delivery on track, including workstream check-ins and milestone reviews.
- Partner with Program, Instruction, Admissions, Recruitment, and Finance teams to align on staffing, curriculum, enrollment, and financial matters.
- Facilitate cross-team decision-making and escalate issues with clear options and recommendations.
- Drive internal knowledge sharing and continuous improvement based on partner insights and project learnings.
- Utilize AI tools daily to reduce operational overhead in tracking, drafting, synthesis, and reporting, and share best practices.
- Represent Pursuit in external meetings, working groups, site visits, and industry convenings.
- Contribute to partnership strategy, thought leadership, and convening efforts.
- Gather and share insights from the field regarding peer organizations, agencies, and employers to inform Pursuit's strategy.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in partnerships, grants or contract management, policy, and program operations.
- Direct experience managing government funding (state, federal, or city grants or contracts), including reporting and compliance obligations.
- Demonstrated project management ability in environments with multiple external organizations and no direct authority.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Comfort operating across teams and managing multiple priorities against hard external deadlines.
- Detail-oriented executor with systemic thinking capabilities.
- Genuine interest in AI, workforce development, and economic mobility.
Skills
- AI tools fluency
Location
- Long Island City, NY
Work Type
- Hybrid
- 3 days/week in office
- Periodic travel within New York State
Experience Level
- Senior Manager
Salary/Compensations
- $140,000–$160,000 base
Benefits
- Opportunity to work at the intersection of tech and social impact
- Competitive compensation
- Bonus
- Full benefits package
- 401k match
- Unlimited PTO
- All-Pursuit summer break
- Week-long holiday break
- Monday and Friday work-from-anywhere policy
- Catered lunches once a week
- Delicious snacks
- Dedicated time to build in AI and hone AI skills
About the Company
- Pursuit is a social impact organization building the future of economic mobility in the age of AI.
- For over a decade, Pursuit has transformed lives through immersive training programs that propel adults from low-income backgrounds into high-growth tech careers.
- Pursuit's graduates have generated nearly $1 billion in lifetime wage gains.
- Pursuit is becoming an AI-native organization, training AI-native talent, embedding AI into operations, and building scalable systems to extend impact.
- Pursuit is rethinking how opportunity works at scale through local partnerships and national policy.
Equal Opportunity
- Pursuit Values Diversity.
- Our team has a wide range of backgrounds and experiences, and we value the richness that diversity brings to our organization.
- We welcome new perspectives and affirm that all employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, ancestry, religion, national origin, age, familial or marital status, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy, gender identity or expression, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other classification protected by federal, state, or local law.
- Pursuit is an equal opportunity employer.