Internship Coordinator - exalt youth : Job Details

Reports to: Director of Workforce Development & Career AdvancementABOUT THE POSITIONexalt is looking for a mission-focused, driven, strategic, and process-minded individual for the position of Internship Coordinator. The individual in this role is highly collaborative, passionate about relationship building, and enjoys working in a dynamic environment that is focused on providing the highest quality internship and external opportunities for court-involved youth. This individual is passionate about utilizingexalt's unique, humanizing, critical pedagogical and culturally relevant curriculum and methods of youth development to empower court-involved students to thrive in their internships, re-engage in education and avoid further criminal justice system involvement. They will strategically seek out and build new partnerships to help advance the mission ofexaltand work closely with various members of the program team to place core and post-graduateexaltstudents at their internship sites. The Internship Coordinator acts as a point person for exalt's internship partners in the corporate, government, and non-profit sectors. The Internship Coordinator will work to sustain and strengthen pre-existing partner relationships and will be supported by the Director of Workforce Development & Career Development to meet and exceed annual goals around cultivation of new internships. RESPONSIBILITIES

• Strategically prospect and develop new external partnerships to helpexalt's core and alumni participants advance in terms of their education, employability and criminal justice avoidance.

• Leverage current and internal relationships among staff, board and friends ofexaltto cultivate new and additional internship opportunities.

• Sustain and strengthen current internship relationships to strengthen exalt's historical internship partner pool.

• Conduct frequent outreach via phone, email, and in-person visits to NYC businesses, NYC government agencies, and NYC nonprofits to develop exciting, innovative and enriching internships that provide meaningful and transformative experiences forexaltstudents that help them meet their interests and goals.

• Provide teachers and program coordinators with a list of active/eligible sites and assist Program Coordinators and Teachers with placement of 15-20 core program participants (per cycle/cohort) to internships sites.

• Collaborate with Teachers and Program Coordinators to secure placement and schedule interviews.

• Collaborate with exalt's Alumni Department for the placement of 2-3 graduate interns at extended 3-month graduate internship sites and provide support during their internship experience to circumvent attrition.

• Ensure that all data related to internship development, cultivation and placement as well as interviews and intake, is captured in Salesforce.

• Support Director of Workforce Development and Career Advancement with special events, outreach and recruitment, and other business engagement tasks as needed.

• Organize and facilitate internship match meetings to help teachers and program coordinators determine program participants' career interests and best fit.

• Assist with organization and outreach for special events such as our annual cultivation event, annual gala and internship cultivation mixers.

• Vet new internship sites toensure that burgeoning partnerships align withexalt'smission, four tenets and development of participants' four Core skills.

• Work withexalt'sprogram leaders to develop innovative and effective communication strategies to attract and sustain new internship and community partners that will ultimately create pathways to higher levels of engagement (i.e. new donors, in-kind donations, workshop providers).

QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent level of experience in internship placement, partnership building, matching with system-involved youth required.

• 5-7 years experience in youth development, youth justice, internship, partnership and/or network development fields.

• Familiarity working with court-involved youth or similar population of system-involved youth who have not had exposure to a professional environment or in the workforce.

• A deep and nuanced understanding of the business, political, non-profit criminal justice/human services relationships and landscape in the New York City area.

• Bilingual (Spanish speaking) a plus.

COMPENSATIONexaltis prepared to offer a competitive base salary in the range of approximately $60,000 to $65,000 per year, commensurate with experience, plus benefits including health, dental, vision, and life insurance; HRA account; 401k matching; commuter and parking flexible spending, paid time off; and more.exalt is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status, or any other protected class under Federal, State and Local law. People of color and formerly system-involved individuals are strongly encouraged to apply.