Associate Director, Recruitment and Cultivation

ORGANIZATIONAL OVERVIEW

CityBridge Education’s vision is for the nation’s capital to be the first city-level proof point for an excellent, equitable education system. A Washington, DC-based nonprofit, we incubate the people, ideas, and conversations needed for equity-centered innovation in DC’s public schools and social enterprises. We do this by identifying talented leaders and school designers who can solve the educational needs and challenges of DC families, deploying particular effort to recruiting leaders of color. We then incubate and invest in the best of their ideas and, together, bring to market the next generation of transformational public schools and education ventures.

POSITION SUMMARY

The Program Team is the home for the strategy and programs that support individual leaders and teams in launching equity-centered education ventures. As Associate Director, Recruitment & Cultivation, you will serve as the primary recruiter for CityBridge's incubator, cultivating education innovators interested in scaling their ideas to serve the young people of DC to participate in our programming. In this role, you will be the first face of the organization to prospective program participants. As a member of the Program team, you will work relentlessly to ensure the success of our portfolio of investments, and as a colleague at CityBridge, you will actively steward our brand, our standard of excellence, and commitment to equity in all that you do.

The Associate Director is a key member of the Program Team and reports to the Senior Director, Program Strategy. This is a full-time, DC-based position and requires living in the Metropolitan DC area and working in-person at our office on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Preferred start date is September, 2022, and we expect the Associate Director to commit to at least two years at CityBridge.

YOUR LEGACY

You will play a significant role at CityBridge in the following ways:

1. Recruiter (50%) : You are responsible for executing and owning the strategy for program participant recruitment to CityBridge's incubator. You take an identity-affirming and strengths-based approach in identifying prospective program applicants, and you make strategic and innovative decisions to increase the number and diversity of participants in our programming. Based on organization and annual priorities, you will lead the strategy for identifying segments of participants in alignment with stated goals. You will become an expert in sourcing and attracting participants to our programs throughout multiple annual cycles. You will ensure we have accurate and robust data systems for tracking these recruitment efforts and campaigns.
2. Cultivator (25%): You will actively make new connections, build networks, and cultivate relationships with individuals and organizations (e.g., LEAs, schools, nonprofits, partners) that can benefit from our programming and/or create a future pipeline for entrepreneurs. Through research and conversations, you will try on new strategies and take on organizational leadership with regard to cultivating a diverse pipeline of future talent (i.e., hosting cultivation events like Startup Weekends, attending conferences, etc.).
3. Collaborator and Project Leader(15%): A key leader in ensuring CityBridge implements our recruitment and cultivation strategies, you will be responsible for stewarding our internal processes for incubator program selection. As the project-manager for selection, you will work closely with all program leads to ensure we meet goals for each program (i.e., Design Studio, Design Fellowship, Design Residency, etc.). Alongside the Senior Director of Program Strategy, you will also play a key role on a collaborative, internal working group focused on selection tools and processes. Within this internal community, you will codesign and execute one major project each quarter in service of the larger organization or team.
4. Learning, Innovation & Organizational Health (10%): Centering our organizational values of Abundant Possibility and Rigorous Growth, CityBridge strives to protect the time and space for every team member to learn (to get expert in their field, to grow professionally, to progress on their equity journey), to innovate (ideating and stretching to try out new strategies, approaches, responsibilities), and to actively contribute to internal, organization-wide work that shapes our culture and our systems.

YOU WILL EXCEL IF YOU HAVE:

• 2-4 years of aligned work experience in talent recruitment/cultivation or partnership development required (and 5+ years total professional work experience)
• Strong project management skills and ability to take a project and run it from start to finish
• Excellent critical thinking skills
• Knowledge of K12 urban education (and DC education ecosystem, a plus)
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• A high level of emotional intelligence and understanding of the complexities of identity, power, and systemic racism
• The capacity to toggle between multiple projects and workstreams, as well as between strategic planning and practical execution
• Demonstrated growth mindset
• Comfort with ambiguity and change; desire to work in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment

CityBridge has a mandatory vaccination policy with the requirement that all employees be "up to date" on their COVID-19 vaccines unless they qualify for an exemption based on a medical condition, sincere religious beliefs, or other categories protected by applicable federal, state and local law.

TOTAL REWARDS PACKAGE

The starting salary range for this position is $70,000-90,000, commensurate with experience, and we offer a comprehensive benefits package including health (medical, dental, vision) insurance and 401(k) matching. Our total rewards package strives to meet our team’s intersectional needs around wellness, work-life balance, and flexibility, as well: We offer unlimited vacation days, 30+ annual paid holidays including office-wide Mental Health Days, flexibility to work remotely several days a week, early dismissal Summer Fridays, pre-tax commuter benefits, an annual professional development allocation, free access to the Watergate’s brand-new fitness facility, discounted gym memberships, and more.

APPLY

If you want to (1) increase the effectiveness of a diversity of leaders, (2) grow in your ability to design excellent and equitable programs and content, and (3) gain a greater understanding of the D.C. educational ecosystem, then we hope you will apply by submitting a cover letter and resume. A link to complete a brief one-way video interview to complete your application will be emailed to you immediately after you submit your written application materials via the application portal. The application deadline is Friday, August 12, 2022, 5:00pm Eastern Time.

The hiring process will include an initial phone or Zoom interview; performance task; a final interview day including interviews with the hiring manager and a cross-section of CityBridge team members, as well as a performance task debrief and panel interview with members of the Program team; and reference checks.