Director of Volunteer Recruitment and Engagement Chicago
Director of Volunteer Recruitment and Engagement Chicago
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Monthly Salary
$ 85000 - 90000
Vacancy
1 Vacancy
Posted on :
28-04-2025
Job Description
iMentor is seeking a proven leader and volunteer recruitment expert to serve as the Director of Volunteer Recruitment and Engagement (DVRE) of the Chicago region. The DVRE will lead a talented team of mentor engagement professionals in forming and deepening corporate and community partnerships throughout Chicago and curating a dedicated mentor community. Reporting to the Chicago Deputy Director the Director of Volunteer Recruitment and Engagement will develop support and oversee all strategies that will mobilize and engage a pool of highquality wellprepared mentors to drive postsecondary success outcomes for our mentees. The DVRE will be responsible for sourcing and developing leads for potential partners assisting in securing corporate sponsorships managing relationships with corporate and communitybased partners and for meeting ambitious mentor recruitment satisfaction and retention targets.
The ideal candidate will have extensive multisector experience (public private nonprofit and/or philanthropic) with direct experience in volunteer recruitment and management and business development within a highgrowth highimpact organization. They will have a proven ability to think entrepreneurially and engage and persuade senior executives in order to meet ambitious growth and impact targets. The Director of Volunteer Recruitment and Engagement will be results driven with significant relationship management experience excellent executive presence and client building skills with focus on details and followthrough.
The Director of Volunteer Recruitment and Engagement has 23 direct reports: Managers of Volunteer Recruitment. The DVRE will serve as a member of the Chicago leadership team.
Responsibilities
- Develop and execute iMentor Chicagos volunteer recruitment strategy with the goal of recruiting 550725 new mentors annually that are representative of the gender racial/ethnic and professional diversity of our mentee community ensuring a highquality of the iMentor program
- Manage a significant portion of iMentor Chicagos portfolio of corporate partners
- Establish build and maintain relationships with the private public and communitybased organizations and civic groups that will support iMentors Chicagos recruitment efforts
- Identify and steward relationships with key external stakeholders in collaboration with the Executive Director and Chicago Leadership Team (Deputy Director Director of Program Director of Partnerships) of which you will be a member.
- Support relationship management with the Chicago Advisory Board Members including facilitation of the Partnerships SubCommittee
- Codevelop and execute on mentor community strategies in collaboration with the Chicago Program and National Development teams to activate current mentors in service of fundraising recruitment and personal/professional growth
- Manage inspire and encourage a team in the implementation of new strategies and initiatives critical to meeting recruitment goals and building a strong mentor experience
- Identify and pursue potential recruitment opportunities which include attending speaking engagements and networking events
- Oversee info sessions and orientation for new mentors and deliver trainings as needed. Ensure that team members are delivering high quality engaging and accurate trainings to applicants preparing mentors to be effective college success advocates for their mentees
- Coordinate with national safety screening team to ensure volunteers are moving from recruitment to screening to program (readytobematched)
- Manage Mentor Engagement verticals budget to ensure fiscal health and efficiency
- Perform other jobrelated duties or special projects as required by the Chicago Executive Director or Deputy Director
- Some travel required mostly during summer/early fall recruitment high season: 1520 within Chicago; transportation not provided. After hours weekends and inperson as needed. Note: iMentor is operating inperson a minimum of 2days a week.
Qualifications
- Minimum of 7 years of work experience in a highgrowth organization including at least 3 years of staff management experience and expertise in the following areas: partnership development and management business development volunteer recruitment and engagement community organizing and fundraising
- Proven success meeting ambitious performance targets
- Prior experience working with corporations or other forms of external partners
- Strong networker who has the natural ability to connect people with causes and engage them to take action
- Entrepreneurial resourceful and persistent with strong critical thinking skills and the ability to analyze data recognize trends and drive strategic recommendations
- Strong public speaking writing and interpersonal skills with the ability to motivate a variety of people; intuitive empathic communicator who can build rapport trust and credibility
- Willingness and ability to adjust to changing conditions or priorities
- Excellent tech skills; Experience with database management; Salesforce experience strongly preferred
- Able to travel throughout Chicago and to staff events and trainings on some weeknights and weekends
- Places highvalue on customer service and impressive followthrough
- Demonstrated alignment with iMentors mission values and commitment to diversity equity and inclusion.
- Views differences between individuals (race gender age cultural heritage physical ability education beliefs and lifestyle) as an asset and demonstrates an appreciation of the diversity across the iMentor community.
- Bachelors degree or equivalent experience required
- 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 priority to their start date.
Compensation & Benefits
- Salary $85000 $90000 commensurate with experience
- Up to 100 employer funded comprehensive medical and dental coverage
- 18 days paid annual vacation (increasing annually topaid holidays your birthday one floating holiday iMentor closed between Christmas and New Years Day plus 67 sick days annually
- 401K match up to 4
- Flexible Home/Office/School working arrangement
- Pretax commuter benefits
- Dependent care and health care flexible spending plans
- 1 hour of wellness time off per week for wellness activities of your choosing
- Flexible personnel wellness budget for reimbursements or marketplace purchases
- Every staff member is eligible for organizationsponsored professional development annually
- 9 weeks of paid parental leave
$85000 $90000 a year
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