Director, Youth Exploration & Career Navigation Hub
$100,000–$110,000 year
On-siteNew York City, New York, United States
Job Summary
Lead day-to-day operations of NYC's first Youth Exploration & Career Navigation Hub, overseeing 1:1 Citywide Career Navigation, the Career Exploration & Readiness Continuum, job placement services, and college advisement. Supervise the Assistant Director, Senior Citywide Career Navigators, and the Employment & Partnership Manager while fostering a trauma-informed, relationship-based team culture. Build and sustain cross-sector partnerships with workforce providers, intermediaries, school networks, CUNY, public agencies, and employers across the city. Manage the paid Youth Advisory Council, ensuring young people actively shape design, implementation, and staff hiring panels. Support fundraising, grant reporting, and budget management in partnership with finance to drive outcomes and continuous improvement. Represent The Door in citywide collaboratives and strategic planning efforts to influence how NYC supports career pathways for disconnected youth.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree
- Master's degree preferred
- Minimum 7 years of progressively responsible leadership experience in workforce development, youth development, education, postsecondary success, social services, or related field
- Demonstrated success supervising staff, implementing new initiatives and managing programs
- Demonstrated success in grant management and reaching performance metrics
- Demonstrated success building and sustaining cross-sector partnerships
- Strong written, verbal, and presentation skills
- Commitment to authentic youth voice as a core accountability mechanism, not a one-time input
Desired Qualifications
- Experience launching or scaling new initiatives in a startup or pilot environment
- Experience engaging employers and workforce partners
- Familiarity with NYC workforce, education, and youth-serving systems, including programs offered by DYCD, SBS, CUNY, and NYCPS
- Experience with public funding
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