Overview

Reports to: Community Partnership Director

Type: Part-Time (25 Hours Weekly)

Location: Midwest (Chicago, IL/ Detroit, MI)

Positions Available: One (1)

To Apply: For consideration, provide a resume, a compelling cover letter and answer the application questions on our Careers page.

Who We Are

buildOn is a not-for-profit organization working to break the cycle of poverty, illiteracy, and low expectations through service and education. buildOn runs intensive community service and service-learning programs in 40 high schools across the U.S. and empowers youth to contribute direct service to their communities – working with senior citizens, people experiencing homelessness, and younger children. Through buildOn, students learn that they can be the solution to the challenges facing our world.. 98% of buildOn students in the U.S. not only graduate from high school, but they also go on to college! These same students help build schools in some of the economically poorest countries in the world, bringing access to education to those who need it most. buildOn students have contributed more than 2.3 million hours of service in the U.S. and have helped build more than 2,079 schools in Burkina Faso, Haiti, Nepal, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Malawi, Mali, and Senegal.

We hope you’ll consider joining our team!

Overview of the Role

The U.S. Partnership Coordinator organizes and leads compelling and immersive service experiences that connect our funding partners and buildOn students to the buildOn mission and create a genuine cultural exchange.

Individuals in this role must have a dynamic and welcoming presence to recruit, energize, and lead buildOn students, staff, and partners simultaneously. This role is integral in helping our funding partners understand the impact of buildOn, leading them to become powerful advocates for the cause. In this role, the Partnership Coordinator will also be responsible for encouraging adult participants to invest in buildOn fully. This role will require travel up to 25% of the time.

In all responsibilities, the U.S. Partnership Coordinator works across boundaries to collaborate closely with various departments, particularly buildOn U.S., Development, and Marketing. This position touches all aspects of the organization and is a great stepping stone to developing Marketing, Development, and Programming skills for future advancement.

The U.S. Partnership Manager will lead the following initiatives and more:

  • All In: a student-led immersive two-day service-learning experience that allows business and community leaders to travel to a buildOn neighborhood to collaborate and work together to do service and build leadership.
  • buildOn Service Day: a four-hour service experience where students teach participants the service-learning model IPARD (Investigation, Preparation, Action, Reflection, and Demonstration), and they serve their communities. 
  • Virtual Service Projects: Virtual Service Projects are student or alumni facilitated calls that typically center around the current ONE buildOn project in which partners complete an IPARD service project led by students/alum to learn about the target issue over Zoom.

The Partnership Coordinator will be the primary point of support within their home region.

What We Value

  • QUALITY OBSESSION: An intense focus on creating and launching only the highest quality, most compelling, and visually dynamic creative work possible.
  • BUILDING COLLABORATIVE RELATIONSHIPS: Develops, maintains and strengthens partnerships with others inside and outside the organization.
  • STAKEHOLDER FOCUS: Strives to provide consistently high internal and external stakeholder satisfaction.
  • PERSUASIVE COMMUNICATION: Plans and delivers oral, written, and visual communications and stories that impact and persuade their intended audiences.

Key Responsibilities

  • Plan service experience logistics and coordinate student, school, and community integration.
  • Facilitate service-learning experiences for students and donors.
  • Collaborate with other departments to schedule and adjust experiences to meet student and donor needs.
  • Communicate with donors in partnership with development team members.
  • Lead student and partner preparation for activities related to service-learning events
  • Identify and assess youth-facing and serving organizations within the region to support students’ needs.
  • Service partner identification and relationship management
  • Adult volunteer coordination
  • Support regional service events
  • Maintain consistent, excellent communication with Partnership Director, Partnership Manager, Program Director, and applicable buildOn U.S., Development, and Marketing team members.
  • Coordinate alumni interns as it relates to service experiences.
  • Support regional programming remotely and in person when scheduled.
  • Perform other duties as assigned by the US Partnership Director.

Characteristics of Excellent Candidates

  • Personal commitment to buildOn’s mission – the power of service to change lives, communities, and the world.
  • Committed to buildOn’s core values of empowerment, responsibility, and compassion.
  • Is resourceful – tries really hard and never gives up on the mission and getting results (a passion for the possible).
  • Invested in continual growth and learning through ongoing discovery, execution, and reflection.
  • Exceptionally skilled at considering and incorporating a variety of perspectives in events and activities.
  • An intense focus on creating and launching only the highest quality, most compelling, and dynamic work possible.
  • Ability to develop, maintain, and strengthen partnerships with others inside and outside the organization.
  • Strives to provide consistently high internal and external stakeholder satisfaction. 
  • Skilled at planning and delivering oral, written, and visual communications and stories that impact and persuade their intended audiences.
  • Superb organization skills
  • Strong facilitation and public speaking skills.
  • Budget management skills preferred.
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