[Hiring] Program Director of Virtual Mentoring @iMentor

Role Description

The Program Director will serve as iMentor’s internal owner of this virtual mentoring pilot, coordinating the external partnership, corporate partner activation, mentor experience, program learning, and future growth strategy. We have important objectives with this pilot:

• To connect more students with caring adults who can help them build the knowledge, confidence, and support networks needed to successfully navigate postsecondary education and career pathways.
• To activate enough corporate partners and mentors to meet participation goals, delivering a strong mentor experience, establishing effective processes with the external partner, and producing a data-informed recommendation for future scale.

Reporting to iMentor’s Senior Vice President of Impact Programming, this is a role for an entrepreneurial spirit who gets fired up at the junction of innovation, data analysis, strategic outreach and recruitment, and cross-functional partnership.

Qualifications

• Success building or launching a new program, initiative, product, or service, ideally from concept through implementation.
• Proficiency managing corporate partnerships, employee engagement, volunteer recruitment, business development, or another external-facing function; traditional fundraising experience is preferred, but not required.
• Experience with volunteer recruitment, customer/user acquisition, partnership development, or another form of audience growth where success required persuading people to participate.
• Strong project/program management skills, including the ability to coordinate multiple internal and external stakeholders and move complex work from strategy to execution.
• Ability to use quantitative and qualitative data to assess performance, identify problems, test improvements, and make recommendations.
• Comfort operating in ambiguity and building systems and processes where they do not yet exist.
• Strong communication and facilitation skills, including the ability to inspire external partners and translate strategy into clear action.
• Experience with a tech-enabled program and/or working with a technology partner, understanding user experience, and interpreting data.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience required.

Requirements

• Our organization works in partnership with district public schools across the country. In doing so we must meet all compliance requirements of those districts including background checks.
• iMentor is committed to ensuring healthy and safe environments for our staff, mentors, and the students we serve. In order to fully comply with the NYC Vaccine mandate, all iMentor employees (regardless of role or region) are required to be fully vaccinated prior to their start date.

Benefits

• Salary $86,000 - $95,000 commensurate with experience.
• Up to 100% employer-funded comprehensive medical and dental coverage.
• 18 days paid annual vacation (increasing annually to 21, 23, 25), 13 paid holidays + your birthday + one floating holiday, iMentor closed between Christmas and New Year’s Day, plus 6-7 sick days annually.
• 401K match up to 4%.
• Fully remote working arrangement; iMentor will provide a laptop and other standard technology needed for the role. Occasional travel may be required for team meetings, partner engagement, organizational events, or other program-related needs.
• Pre-tax commuter benefits.
• Dependent care and health care flexible spending plans.
• Every staff member is eligible for organization-sponsored professional development annually.
• 1 hour of wellness time off per week for wellness activities of your choosing.
• 9 weeks of paid parental leave.