Americorps Portfolio Manager
YouthBuild USA, United States
Job Description
About the Company
With love and respect, YouthBuild partners with opportunity youth to build the skillsets and mindsets that lead to lifelong learning, livelihood, and leadership. At more than 275 YouthBuild programs across the United States and around the world, students reclaim their education, gain job skills, and become leaders in their communities. To date, YouthBuild has partnered with more than 180,000 young people to dedicate over 50 million hours of service benefitting urban, rural, and tribal communities. YouthBuild strives to create a world where all young people are seen for their potential, and power to transform themselves and their communities. For more information about the YouthBuild movement, YouthBuild USA, and YouthBuild International, visit YouthBuild.org.
YouthBuild USA, located in Roxbury, MA, is the nonprofit support center for YouthBuild programs. It provides technical assistance, innovative program enhancements, quality assurance systems, and advocacy to help ensure that every YouthBuild program can create impact in its community.
AmeriCorps is a program of the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS), an independent federal agency whose mission is to improve lives, strengthen communities, and foster civic engagement through service and volunteering. YouthBuild USA is a recipient of an annual $10.9 million AmeriCorps National Direct grant which brings support to over 60 YouthBuild programs and 2,500 YouthBuild students enrolled as AmeriCorps members providing direct service through the construction of low-income affordable housing. YouthBuild students enrolled in an AmeriCorps position receive additional and increased service and skill development opportunities by their program, deepening the impact within the community and making service a more central part of their YouthBuild experience. In addition, upon successful completion of their service, AmeriCorps members receive a Segal AmeriCorps Education Award that can be used towards post-secondary and career education costs.
Requirements
Job Summary
The AmeriCorps Portfolio Manager Position is a full-time position, reporting to the Director of AmeriCorps Programs. This position works within a team of Portfolio Managers and Financial Grant Managers responsible for offering cohesive and consistent support to all YouthBuild AmeriCorps sub-grantees. The main responsibilities of the AmeriCorps Portfolio Manager are to train, monitor, and support a portfolio of 15-22 YouthBuild AmeriCorps programs, that are sub-grantees of YouthBuild USA, in three general areas:
- Implementation of YouthBuild AmeriCorps program design elements
- Understanding of and implementation of AmeriCorps programmatic grant compliance requirements and systems
- Progress towards and achievement of YouthBuild AmeriCorps program goals and objectives.
SPECIFIC RESPONSIBILITIES:
The statements contained herein describe the scope of the responsibility and essential functions of this position but should not be considered an all-inclusive listing of work requirements. Individuals may perform other duties as assigned.
Technical Assistance
- Establish a positive and supportive relationship with a portfolio of 15-22 YouthBuild USA AmeriCorps programs that allows for the effective delivery of on-site and remote technical assistance.
- Gain familiarity with and become a content expert on Federal Regulations and Provisions to assist programs with implementing their AmeriCorps program and maintaining compliance.
- Utilize existing technical assistance tools and create reports and updates on portfolio of assigned YouthBuild AmeriCorps programs.
- Create and facilitate technical assistance tools, including webinars, conference calls, videos, sample documents, and instructional guides.
- Assist in the planning and implementation of YouthBuild USA AmeriCorps conferences. Develop and co-facilitate the delivery of program related conference content.
- Support the YouthBuild AmeriCorps risk assessment, designed to use data to improve program performance and practice.
- Assist programs with the intentional implementation of AmeriCorps driven service learning and service leadership into the YouthBuild program design to help students understand and identify with National Service.
Monitoring
- Ensure compliance with federal regulations and investigate issues of non-compliance.
- Travel on average, once every two months, to conduct in-person program monitoring and training site visits. Approximately 7 visits a year.
Grant Administration
- Assist in the promotion of the AmeriCorps partnership to interested YouthBuild programs not currently part of the initi