Senior Vice President, Executive Director

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Number of Positions: 1

Work Location: 100% On-Site

Position Overview

• THE OPPORTUNITY
• City Year New Hampshire (CYNH) is entering one of the most important chapters in its 27-year history. The next Executive Director (ED) will build on a strong foundation of student impact, deep community credibility, and a bold vision for what comes next: expanding proven student impact while building CYNH’s emerging initiative, the 7-Year Promise, into a long-term model of relationships, opportunity, and economic mobility for young people.

We are seeking an exceptional leader, who inspires trust, brings people together, and creates a shared sense of purpose, someone who thinks strategically, turns ambitious vision into excellent execution, builds strong teams and partnerships, and inspires others to invest, collaborate, and contribute to a future in which young people and communities can thrive.

The 7-Year Promise builds on City Year’s proven school-based model by extending relationships and support beyond a single year of service. Through an alumni-powered Student Success Network, CYNH aims to connect students with sustained mentorship, social capital, and opportunity from elementary school through high school, post-secondary pathways, and early career. The next ED will have the opportunity to bring this vision fully to life, building an excellent, evidence-informed, sustainable model that others within City Year and beyond can learn from and build upon.

The role also offers an exciting combination of local leadership and national influence. As both Executive Director of CYNH and a Senior Vice President of City Year Inc., the next leader can shape the future of City Year in New Hampshire, while bringing CYNH’s learning and experience into City Year’s broader national strategy. The work sits at the intersection of education, national service, philanthropy, workforce development, and New Hampshire’s innovation economy, creating opportunities to build partnerships, connect sectors, and expand what is possible for young people.

This is an opportunity to lead from a position of strength, advance an ambitious vision, and help build a model for what long-term investment in young people can look like, locally and nationally.

• ABOUT CITY YEAR NEW HAMPSHIRE
• City Year believes in the power of young people to change the world. Fueled by national service, we help students furthest from opportunity build the relationships, skills, and support they need to thrive in school, work, and life while developing the next generation of leaders committed to strengthening our communities.

City Year brings together young people, ages 17–25, from diverse backgrounds for a year of full-time national service in public schools. As Student Success Coaches, AmeriCorps members build developmental relationships with students and work alongside teachers to provide integrated academic and social development support through City Year’s research-based Whole School, Whole Child® model. The service year also prepares AmeriCorps members for future education, careers, and civic leadership.

City Year New Hampshire was launched in 2000 and, since 2010, has focused its service in Manchester, New Hampshire’s largest city and home to its most diverse school community, where many students and families face significant economic and educational barriers. At the same time, Manchester is emerging as a center of innovation and economic opportunity, including the Manchester–Nashua ReGen Valley Tech Hub and its focus on biofabrication and new workforce and career pathways. This intersection of need and opportunity creates an important role for CYNH: helping ensure Manchester’s young people are prepared to thrive and participate in the region’s future.

CYNH enters this next chapter from a position of strength, with a strong record of program quality and student impact, deep community partnerships, a culture of idealism, and more than 700 alumni. In the 2024–2025 academic year, Student Success Coaches served more than 3,000 students and provided nearly 3,700 hours of targeted math and literacy support.

Job Description

THE LEADER WE SEEK

City Year Executive Directors embody the organization’s core values, believe deeply in the potential of all young people, and lead with integrity, humility, resilience, sound judgment, and a commitment to learning.

The successful candidate will be a leader who:

• •Builds trust and brings people together. Leads with integrity, authenticity, empathy, and deep listening; creates a strong sense of community and belonging; and builds bridges across different backgrounds, perspectives, sectors, and interests.
• •Builds strong teams and develops leaders. Develops and empowers high-performing teams and leaders, creates clarity and accountability, and fosters a culture in which people feel valued, supported, and collectively responsible for results.
• •Turns vision into excellent execution. Translates ambitious strategy into clear priorities, strong systems, effective partnerships, measurable outcomes, and disciplined implementation, while building the organizational capacity for quality and sustainability.
• •Thinks strategically and navigates complexity. Anticipates challenges and opportunities, makes sound decisions, adapts effectively, and maintains focus on long-term goals.
• •Inspires investment and action. Communicates with authenticity and conviction, builds meaningful relationships, and inspires others to contribute resources, relationships, influence, and leadership toward shared goals.
• •Leads for long-term impact. Uses data and learning to improve results; values diverse experiences and perspectives; and is motivated to steward CYNH through an important multi-year chapter of growth and impact.

WHAT THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR WILL LEAD

The Executive Director is responsible for CYNH’s overall leadership, strategy, performance, sustainability, and growth, leading with and through a strong team across the following areas:

• Organizational Leadership, People, and Culture
• Lead a growing organization currently including approximately 14 staff and 40 AmeriCorps members. Build and develop a high-performing staff team and strong leaders, while fostering a culture grounded in City Year’s values: trust, equity, accountability, collaboration, learning, belonging, and excellence.

• Student Impact and the 7-Year Promise
• Ensure high-quality implementation of City Year’s Whole School, Whole Child® model and strong student outcomes, while bringing the 7-Year Promise from vision into an excellent, sustainable model of practice. Build the people, systems, partnerships, measures, and learning processes necessary for effective implementation; strengthen the alumni-powered Student Success Network and Manchester School District partnership; and use evidence and learning to continuously improve the model and share what is learned.

• AmeriCorps Member Experience and Leadership Development
• Ensure CYNH attracts, develops, supports, and retains a strong and inclusive corps of AmeriCorps members. Strengthen the member journey from recruitment through successful completion of service and beyond, creating the conditions for members to thrive, grow as leaders, and pursue future education, careers, and civic leadership. Guide responsible corps growth from approximately 40 members in FY27 toward 60 by FY31.

• Revenue Generation and Financial Stewardship
• Serve as CYNH’s chief fundraiser, mobilizing staff and board leaders to secure resources for annual operations, the 7-Year Promise, and future growth. Build and steward a diversified mix of public and private revenue and personally cultivate corporations, foundations, major donors, and other partners.