Community Partnership Manager

City Year Memphis seeks an experienced, collaborative, and innovative Community Partnerships Manager. This role will supplement the efforts of the National Recruitment and Admissions team by curating and expanding brand awareness, identifying and developing local partnerships, and leading local recruiting efforts, to create a strong pipeline of prospective City Year Site AmeriCorps Members.

The manager will be responsible for leveraging new and existing partnerships with a variety of organizations that are serving youth across Memphis and the Mid-south Region as a means of increasing awareness of the opportunity to serve as a member of the City Year Memphis team for young adults ages 17-25. This position will require travel in Memphis and throughout select parts of Tennessee. It is an opportunity to branch out into the community and create access to what it looks like to serve as a City Year Memphis AmeriCorps member. A significant portion of this role’s time will be in the community, building relationships with partners and prospective AmeriCorps members. This position will report directly to the Executive Director.

• Identify and assess youth facing organizations and educational institutions (high schools, community colleges, local organizations) within Memphis and Tennessee to supplement national recruitment partners
• Build a strategic partnership plan inclusive of goals, strategies and tactics to facilitate recruiting leads for City Year Memphis.
• Implement cultivation strategies to increase City Year brand awareness among champions within each partner institution and opportunities for them to promote City Year to prospects.
• Deepen opportunities to source candidates from local schools (incl. MSCS and Charters) by partnering with site staff on a holistic partnership approach
• Partner closely with members of the national Recruitment & Admissions team to support a successful hand-off from local sourcing to the nationally led application and admissions process.
• Support the recruitment of Returning AmeriCorps Members who wish to serve a second or third year with City Year Memphis

• Identify opportunities to promote City Year service directly to prospects through events, community presentations, champion introductions, facilitating professional development workshop, etc.
• Partner with the national recruitment and marketing teams to help tell the City Year Memphis story, its impact and AmeriCorps member experience.
• Develop and implement multi-channel digital marketing strategies to grow and diversify online engagement.
• Develop multimedia content for distribution through various City Year channels, proactively adapting to evolving trends and innovations.

• A talented storyteller who is skilled at connecting with a diverse set of audiences
• Passionate about recruiting a high quality and impactful corps for our students
• Anchored in a commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion
• Enjoy meeting and engaging with new people
• Organized and can support multiple candidates and partnerships at varying stages in the recruitment process
• Always seeking to learn, improve and innovate