Grads of Life Partner, Strategic Growth and Operations (Location Flexible)
YearUp

Boston, Massachusetts

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Year Up has partnered with Koya Partners for the Grads of Life Partner search. Please express interest by submitting your cover letter and resume to Cassie Scarano (cscarano@koyapartners.com) and Ariella Pasackow (apasackow@koyapartners.com).

We are open to candidates living in any of the states in which Year Up operates: https://www.yearup.org/locations.

OVERVIEW:

About Grads of Life

Grads of Life is a consulting firm that partners with companies to change their talent practices in order to build more diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplaces. We also work closely with coalitions such as OneTen and the Business Roundtable in order to advance this work. With services ranging from DEI assessments to skill-based practices implementation to interactive trainings, we help employers hire, retain, and advance historically excluded talent. Our team of subject matter experts provides the research, products, and networks clients need to create a holistic and impactful DEI strategy. Born through an initiative of Year Up, Grads of Life has a long history of helping organizations address their talent needs while advancing economic and racial justice. We are proud to continue to help build the employer movement to create system-level change and close the Opportunity Divide. For more information, please visit our website at gradsoflife.org.

The Opportunity

As Grads of Life continues to grow and increase our impact with employers of influence to create and support inclusive hiring practices, we are seeking a senior leader, strategist, and business builder to partner with our Founder & Managing Director, senior team, and the broader Year Up leadership to scale our work and impact. Specifically, this Partner will build processes and infrastructure to support the growth and operational excellence of the Grads of Life employer consulting practice. We work with clients to help them understand how best to change the way they work and how they ensure that their work environments are designed to attract, develop, and retain a much more diverse workforce. These changes will help drive best-in-class services, processes, and systems. The potential to grow this service offering is extensive but requires the right leader with the ability to effectively structure and enable our client services work, including sales and delivery, bringing a growth mindset to how we broaden our "go to market" approach. Grads of Life has been growing year over year and is ideally positioned to continue to grow and expand our impact due to the unique value proposition we bring to key employers. The person in this position will help us leverage this positioning to ensure continued responsible and strategic growth of our business, as well as achieving impact to close the Opportunity Divide in our country.

We are open to candidates living in any of the states in which Year Up operates https://www.yearup.org/locations

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

  • Operationalize and execute on the Grads of Life advisory services strategy, with a focus on business development, operational excellence, and sustainable growth
  • Lead the business modeling process to ensure appropriate staffing, systems, processes, and tools are in place to drive impact and increase revenue
  • Determine the operational infrastructure and systems necessary to support the initiative's growth and guide their effective and efficient implementation
  • Ensure that capacity and capability stay ahead of rapidly increasing demand
  • Partner with the Founder-Managing Director to ensure that Grads of Life is run like a highly functioning business that thrives on the privilege of meeting its mission in all its markets
  • Model and create conditions for building a team culture of partnership-based customer engagement and high-quality service delivery with all clients, including Employers of Influence
  • Partner with Thought Leadership team to identify opportunities to integrate client services work and advocacy for Opportunity Employment
  • Live the values of Year Up and integrate them into one's work on a daily basis

QUALIFICATIONS:

The ideal candidate will have many, if not all, of the following professional and personal qualities, skills, and characteristics:

  • 15+ years of successful professional experience in management consulting, practice leadership, and/or professional services, ideally in operations, client services, and/or business development
  • Operations and business planning experience with a forward-looking orientation and a commitment to balancing impact and revenue; experience scaling businesses in the face of complexity
  • Experience building a practice team, with an understanding of the key drivers of success and a systems orientation to support scale; related revenue goals and/or P&L accountability a plus
  • Deep commitment to inclusive talent practices and driving systems change to support Opportunity Youth
  • Ability to conceptualize, plan, and manage major complex projects and multiple initiatives simultaneously
  • Outstanding interpersonal skills, with an understanding of the nuances of leading a complex and evolving initiative
  • Self-starter, comfortable shaping priorities and agenda with broadly set parameters
  • Proven ability to influence, develop, manage, support, and empower employees to achieve objectives within a team
  • Demonstrated experience working with diverse teams, embracing and engaging diverse groups of people, and an understanding of the importance of cultural competency in these interactions
  • Documented strengths in meaningful relationship building, management, and growth to scale
  • Strong organizational and time management skills with exceptional attention to detail
  • Ability to collaborate across teams, facilitate difficult conversations, and resolve issues
  • A deep understanding of diversity and inclusion and a commitment to helping Grads Of Life specifically and Year Up generally to become an anti-racist organization
  • A passion for working with young adults, an unshakable belief in their potential and a strong commitment to the mission of Year Up
  • Understanding of the Opportunity Divide and its drivers

Salary Range: $140,000 - $200,000

COMPENSATION & BENEFITS:

  • Year Up has established salary ranges for each of our sites, which allows us to pay employees competitively, equitably and consistently in different geographic markets. For roles in which the location is listed as flexible, the range displayed reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position across all US locations. Salary offers take into account a candidate's skills, experience, and location. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your location during the hiring process.
  • Benefits: Comprehensive healthcare options and dental coverage; 401(k) match for eligible participants.
  • Vacation: Earn three weeks paid vacation in first year of employment; four weeks after initial year.
  • Professional Development: Funds available to support staff in achieving career objectives ($2,500 per year)

** This is an exempt role (paid on a salaried basis). **

ORGANIZATION DESCRIPTION:

Year Up is a national 501(c)3 workforce development organization committed to ensuring equitable access to economic opportunity, education, and justice for all young adults-no matter their background, income, or zip code. Employers face a growing need for talent while millions of talented young adults lack access to meaningful careers. These inequities only further perpetuate the opportunity gap that exists in our country-a gap that Year Up is determined and positioned to close through three interconnected strategies: providing targeted skills training and connections to livable-wage employment for students and alumni; empowering others to serve and support young adults, and changing systems that perpetuate the opportunity gap. Year Up's intensive training program utilizes a high expectations, high support model where students learn in-demand technical and professional skills and apply them during a corporate internship. Year Up has directly served more than 40,000 young adults since its founding in 2000. Year Up's nationwide presence includes Arizona, Austin, Bay Area, Charlotte, Chicago, Dallas/Fort Worth, Greater Atlanta, Greater Boston, Greater Philadelphia, Jacksonville, Los Angeles, the National Capital Region, New York City/Jersey City, Pittsburgh, Puget Sound, Rhode Island, South Florida, Tampa Bay, and Wilmington.

Voted one of the Best Nonprofits to Work For in the country by The NonProfit Times, Year Up is a rewarding and impactful place to work. Our staff is passionate, supportive, mission-driven, and committed to positive change and continuous learning. We set high standards for both ourselves and our students and live by a set of core values that reflect an unshakable belief in the talent and potential of our young people. The work we do is life-changing, and we know that our team is the greatest asset in achieving our mission.

COMMITMENT TO DIVERSITY:

Year Up actively engages individuals from all backgrounds. We are committed to embracing diversity within our organization because we firmly believe that diverse employee teams help us to achieve our best organizational outcomes and provide the most effective support to our young adults as we work to close the Opportunity Divide. We are deeply dedicated to creating and maintaining an inclusive and supportive work environment. Learn more about our commitment to diversity: http://www.yearup.org/about-us/careers/commitment-to-diversity/

As an equal opportunity employer, Year Up is committed to providing employment opportunities to all qualified individuals and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex, gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, age, marital status, veteran status, pregnancy, parental status, genetic information or characteristics, or any other basis prohibited by applicable law.

TO APPLY:

Please submit a thoughtful cover letter and resume through our website.

Note that applications without a cover letter will not be considered. We respectfully request no phone calls.

COVID-19 UPDATE:

To ensure the safety of our young adults, staff, and families as we return to in-person work, Year Up requires that all staff be fully vaccinated against COVID-19, unless someone qualifies for an exception. Subject to reasonable accommodations for individuals with medical conditions or sincerely held religious beliefs that prevent them from being vaccinated. Face masks and physical distancing are also required in Year Up spaces.

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