Pursuit.org is hiring a Program Manager, Fellow Learning Experience
Angela Mekosh
About Pursuit
At Pursuit, all employees have the opportunity to make a profound, positive social impact. We are building a dynamic, impactful, ambitious, brilliant, hard-working team to achieve our goals and support our national expansion.
Pursuit is a social impact organization that creates transformation where it’s needed most. Through our intensive software developer training program, we teach high-need, high-potential adults the technical skills and industry smarts needed to get their first tech jobs, advance in their careers, and become the next generation of leaders in tech. In addition to training and career support, Pursuit’s innovative operating model combines partnerships with tech companies to retrain their blue-collar workers and social impact investments to re-envision funding for outcomes-based organizations.
Our graduates are hired by leading companies like Pinterest, Kickstarter, LinkedIn, BlackRock, and JPMorgan Chase, and increase their average annual salaries from $18,000 to over $85,000. By connecting talent with opportunity, Pursuit empowers graduates to transform their families, tech companies, and communities across the nation. Read about our work in the New York Times: Income Before: $18,000. After: $85,000. Does Tiny Nonprofit Hold a Key to the Middle Class?
About the Role
Our Core team delivers three threads of curriculum, Technical, Professional, and Personal Development skills, to our Fellows over the course of the twelve-month program with the goal of getting our Fellows job ready for their first jobs in the tech industry. As the Program Manager, you will work with the Program Lead to produce, refine, execute and measure all non-technical learning content during the Core program. You will deliver workshops, assignment feedback, and personal skills development. This role will be instrumental in helping refine scalable and replicable leadership and personal development learning experiences and skill building opportunities, that set up our Fellows to be successful in this journey.
About You
- You love creating and delivering high quality, evidence-informed learning experiences to adults
- You view differences between individuals (race, gender, age, cultural heritage, physical ability, education and lifestyle) as an asset, and demonstrate an appreciation of the diversity within the Pursuit community
- You thrive in fast-paced, scrappy teams and navigate ambiguity with a good sense of humor
- You are excited about our mission
Key Responsibilities
- Ensure Fellows engage in impactful communication, leadership and teamwork building activities, assignments, workshops and coaching through delivery of classroom-based and asynchronous learning experiences.
- Educate fellows & graduates of the Core program on non-technical skills needed to thrive in professional and technical environments.
- Deliver high quality feedback on L&PD assignments based around rubrics and skills maps.
- Model professional skills and behaviors for Fellows
- Co-develop workshops and student-facing resources on a variety of tech fluency and professional skills (communication, teamwork, leadership and cultural humility).
- Own development and refinement of virtual and in-person classroom-based and asynchronous non-technical learning content in LMS
- Document and monitor fellow-facing academic support plans for struggling Fellows, escalating to Program Lead when first-line accommodation benchmarks are not met
- Under the direction of Program Lead, support production and implementation of all Fellow-facing educational and event-specific communications and exercises based on Pursuit playbook/guidelines (Orientation, Launch Week, Hackathon, Tech Showcase, Capstone).
Requirements:
- 2+ Years experience in Learning & Professional Development - ideally coordinating and/or facilitating learning content for early career professionals in a tech, start-up or social impact setting
- Previous experience working in or with the tech industry, ideally in a start-up environment
- Experience with or interest in working directly with adults from underserved communities
- Professional experience developing high quality visual content and messaging aligned with program branding and industry standards
Nice to have:
- Canvas, LMS or other technology listed here
- Ed tech experience
Location: Long Island City, NY (Currently fully remote due to coronavirus - but will return to hybrid office operations soon)