Project Manager Center for Youth Employment

The New York City Department of Youth and Community Development (DYCD) invests in a network of communitybased organizations and programs to alleviate the effects of poverty and to provide opportunities for New Yorkers and communities to flourish. The New York City Department of Youth and Community Development (DYCD) supports youth and community services through contracts with a broad network of CommunityBased Organizations (CBO) throughout New York City. Our central task is administering available city state and federal funds to a wide range of innovative practical and quality programs that positively impact youth and communities.

Mayors Office of Talent & Workforce Development
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NYC Talent is responsible for the Citys talent and workforce development system that benefits city residents employers and the economy. NYC Talent seeks new and effective ways to scale and sustain productive public/private partnerships to develop and match talent to promising careers to align education career preparation and skills training programs across City government and to coordinate program and fiscal data across stakeholders to provide a comprehensive view of the talent system with the goal of making progress towards the citywide employment objectives laid out in Executive Order #22.

The Center for Youth Employment (CYE) is an initiative of NYC Talent and strives to expand improve and align programs that help young New Yorkers build skills gain experience explore potential career paths and prepare for success in the world of work. CYE pursues this mission through three primary functions: developing thoughtful and effective public policies designing and helping to implement highperforming programs that offer strong return on public investment and supporting agency coordination and stakeholder partnerships that serve to enable those policies and programs. The Project Manager of the Center for Youth Employment will play a lead role in supporting with program development and coordination across City agency partners and NYC Talents Team as well as key partners beyond City government.
Job responsibilities include but are not limited to:

Assist the Executive Director in engaging with City agency partners particularly the NYC Department of
Education (DOE) Department of Youth and Community Development (DYCD) and City University of
New York (CUNY) providing support and followup on various requests related to the Young Adult
Career Success Action Plan.

Support with the design and implementation of systemlevel strategies to assist priority youth
subpopulations facing barriers to career readiness including young adults who are
outofschool/outofwork or at risk youth in foster care or receiving preventative services
justiceimpacted youth youth from families on public assistance homeless or housinginsecure youth
and LGBTQI young people.

Liaise with external partners to improve the performance of programs that support educational
attainment career exploration work readiness skill building educational or work transitions or other
aspects of youth development and career readiness

In collaboration with City agencies support nonprofits and other contracted service providers through
technical assistance and advisement

Monitor and advise on internal and external policy at all levels of government that is pertinent to the
work of the Center and NYC Talent.

Coordinate with other NYC Talent teams such as Industry Partnerships the Workforce Development
Council & Board the Center for Workplace Accessibility and Inclusion and the apprenticeship
Accelerator to align youth programming with industry trends and City priorities.

Collaborate with NYC Talents External Affairs team to showcase successes share best practices and
promote key initiatives and event planning.

Support with the supervision of Youth Interns and /or Apprentices as needed.

The Project Manager of the Center for Youth Employment will report to the Executive Director for the
Center for Youth Employment. The role is fulltime and will work primarily from NYC Talents Manhattan
office at 1 Liberty Plaza.

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Qualifications :

1. A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college and two years of experience in community work or community centered activities in an area related to the duties described above; or
2. High school graduation or equivalent and six years of experience in community work or community centered activities in an area related to the duties as described above; or
3. Education and/or experience which is equivalent to 1 or 2 above. However all candidates must have at least one year of experience as described in 1 above.

Additional Information :

The City of New York is an inclusive equal opportunity employer committed to recruiting and retaining a diverse workforce and providing a work environment that is free from discrimination and harassment based upon any legally protected status or protected characteristic including but not limited to an individuals sex race color ethnicity national origin age religion disability sexual orientation veteran status gender identity or pregnancy.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Fulltime