Overview
Managing Director Jobs in Oakland, California, USA at Reading Partners
Position: Â Managing Director of Partnerships & Growth, Greater Newark
Reading Partnersis changing theeducationlandscape. We are a leader in working to solve the literacy crisis in our country by leveraging community volunteers in under-resourced schools. Ourdiverseand expansive volunteer base provides one-on-one tutoring to students twice weekly, and our program is proven to help children master the reading fundamentals they need to unlock their potential as successful, happy, and confident readers in school and in life.
Our people are our heartbeat and our greatest resource; we are all passionately rallied around our mission to help children become lifelong learners by empowering communities to provide individualized instruction that truly works. Join our stellar, committed team leading the charge to deepen our impact and expand our service.
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The high level:
The Managing Director of Partnerships & Growth (MDPG), Greater Newark will play a key role in Reading Partners’ growth and scale throughout Newark and the surrounding areas in Hudson and Essex County. During this critical moment in our country’s educational landscape, Reading Partners is anchoring itself as part of the educational equity solution by partnering with communities in Greater Newark to ensure equitable access for students to literacy instruction and one-on-one support.
Now more than ever, it is critical for Reading Partners to build community-based partnerships to address literacy gaps in Greater Newark through tutoring and family engagement strategies.
The MDPG will collaborate with a network of community partners, families, charter schools, funders, and Newark Public School District (and other neighboring schools and districts) to implement thePowered by Reading Partnersmodel to address Newark’s literacy crisis through long-term and community-based partnerships. They will build partnerships with organizations to recruit community tutors to provide one-on-one literacy support and family engagement initiatives for Newark students.
The MDPG will create a pathway for Reading Partners to facilitate family and caregiver literacy workshops to help foster and cultivate a love of reading for students. The MDPG will be a key relationship-builder, connector, and revenue generator on behalf of Reading Partners. As part of the partnerships and growth strategy, the MDPG will also help build relationships with corporate and institutional funders and collaborate with Reading Partners’ National Development team on revenue generation strategies to exponentially impact literacy outcomes in Greater Newark.
The MDPG will report directly to the Vice President of Strategic Partnerships & Growth (VPSPG) to sustainably scale student and family engagement in Greater Newark over four years, creating a foundation for long-term literacy impact in the area. They will work toward the following goals over time incollaborationwith internal and external stakeholders:
Provide tutoring to 4,500 students by 2028 (this includes summer and school year tutoring), recruiting over 1,000 volunteers.
Partner with community-based organizations and family groups to recruit and train 3,700 families in our family engagement workshops.
Partner with 50 community-based organizations, schools, and corporations to launch family engagement workshops, launch powered by Reading Partners tutoring, rec…
Title: Managing Director
Company: Reading Partners
Location: Oakland, California, USA
Category: Education / Teaching, Non-Profit
