Vice President – Collective Action, K12 & Youth Development

🕒 April 20

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America's Promise Alliance

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 1997

🤲 Charity

📚 Education

🌍 Social Impact

Charity • Education • Social Impact

America's Promise Alliance is a national organization that aims to improve the well-being of young people in the United States. The organization focuses on ensuring that all children and youth have the resources needed to succeed academically, socially, and emotionally. America's Promise Alliance brings together organizations, communities, and individuals to collaborate on initiatives that help young people develop the skills and support systems they need to thrive in today's world. Their work involves partnering with educational institutions, youth service organizations, and various other stakeholders to address issues such as education, health, and community engagement.

📋 Description

• The VPCA is responsible for bringing new organizations into our Alliance Community and ensuring strong retention of our current member organizations. • Analyze our current membership and create a strategic recruitment plan to ensure our Alliance community includes a critical mass of the organizations we need to meet our goals in this issue area. • Partner with APA’s VP of Alliance Community to recruit new member organizations into the community and ensure their successful onboarding. • Lead the renewal process for organizations in this issue area, ensuring high rates of member retention, and that our community stays together and gets better over time. • Through regular engagement with our members, deeply understand the evolving needs of these organizations, identifying both which needs are most consistent across the network and which ones have the greatest chance of improving student outcomes. • Use your understanding of member needs to inform new program design in our Alliance community, translating current pain points into concrete programming. • Recruit strategic partners and subject matter experts to drive new Alliance programming. • Analyze member engagement data, identify the least engaged organizations, understand the dynamics that drive this low engagement, and build customized plans to improve engagement for these organizations over time. • APA will begin convening the member organizations in this issue area annually. The VPAC will lead all aspects of planning and execution for that annual convening. • Lead all aspects of logistical and strategic planning for the convening each year. • Ensure strong attendance among members. • Creation customized annual agendas for these convenings that both (1) respond to the most urgent and important needs facing our member organizations and (2) facilitate new collective action ideation. • Lead convening facilitation, along with other APA team members and external experts recruited by the VPCA. • Lead post-convening evaluation and continuous improvement efforts. • The VPCA is responsible for identifying and vetting new ideas for collective action initiatives annually. • Design and implementation of an annual process to engage Alliance member organizations in the identification of ideas for new collective action initiatives. • Testing ideas that come from our membership with external experts to understand relevant field dynamics, the viability of the idea, and key design considerations. • Running a process with both Alliance members and APA leadership to prioritize and select a short list of ideas each year that have the greatest potential for scaled impact. These are the collective action initiatives the VPCA will then attempt to launch. • Once new ideas are identified, the VPCA is responsible for designing these collaborations into actionable initiatives, including strong theory of action, intended outcomes, and defined member and field benefit.

🎯 Requirements

• Field-recognized leader with 10+ years of senior leadership experience in national nonprofit organizations and/or school systems. • Deep knowledge of the field, funders, research, policy landscape, and experts in these issue areas and the ability to utilize that knowledge to inform our work and priorities. • A robust network of experts, operators, and funders in this issue area. The ability to activate this network to meet APA’s strategic priorities. • Deep experience in program design, continuous improvement, and program evaluation. Able to design all aspects of APA’s new collective action initiatives, ensuring both strong design and execution. • Ability to set a compelling vision, to inspire the top leaders in the sector to rally around that vision, to align metrics, and to steer toward results. • Experience raising funds and sustaining funding relationships. • Experience facilitating convenings with senior-level leaders, ensuring effective collaboration, engagement, and consensus-building among diverse stakeholders. • Experienced manager and leader, ability to work cross-functionally, strong action-orientation and accountability for results; effective in rapidly growing and evolving environments. • Effective written and verbal communication, including translating complex issues to multiple audiences internally and externally. • A leader in building and nurturing positive culture, ability to adapt and persist through challenges, and an adaptive learner.

🏖️ Benefits

• Regular travel is required for this role. • America’s Promise Alliance offers a generous benefits package that extends beyond health care coverage to help provide team members with a work-life balance that includes professional development, retirement savings, self-managed vacation, and more.