Founded in 1999, iMentor builds mentoring relationships that empower students from low-income communities to graduate high school, succeed in college, and achieve their ambitions. iMentor partners with public schools and matches every student in participating grades with a college-educated mentor. Mentors commit a minimum of 3 years to a single student, after which they have the option to extend the relationship through college completion. Mentors and students work together through the iMentor curriculum, which is designed around 4 core outcomes: developing strong personal relationships between mentors and students, nurturing each student’s college aspiration, developing the non-cognitive skills critical to success in college, and successfully navigating the college exploration, application, financial aid, and transition process. By providing a level of personalization that can’t be matched by traditional counseling models, iMentor seeks to reimagine how schools prepare first generation college students for postsecondary success.

Since 1999, iMentor has connected more than 25,000 students with mentors. This year, iMentor is serving 3,800 mentor-mentee pairs in New York City and 3,500 more nationwide. iMentor also partners with 14 Big Brothers Big Sisters agencies across the country who run the iMentor model in their local communities, serving a total of 2,800 additional students. iMentor has been recognized through funding by New Profit Inc., the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation, the Carnegie Corporation, the Robertson Foundation, the Kresge Foundation, and the Robin Hood Foundation, and is a sub-grantee of the federal Social Innovation Fund. iMentor was named one of the Best Nonprofits to Work For by Opportunity Knocks and The Nonprofit Times.

As a team, we are collaborative, bring passion and joy to our work, and deeply believe in human potential. Together with our students, mentors, and school partners, the iMentor team is increasing the number of first-generation college students who go to college and graduate with a degree.

iMentor is seeking a National Director of Program Education and Training (NDPET) to ensure that iMentor program staff receive the necessary training, professional development, resources and coaching support to effectively deliver the iMentor program.

The NDPET casts a vision for how iMentor program implementers become the classroom leaders and mentor-mentee relationship managers needed to achieve iMentor’s program goal of preparing our students for post-secondary success. The NDPET ensures that the program leaders charged with delivering iMentor’s model have the facilitation competencies, proficiency in classroom practice, student-engagement strategies, skill with building mentor-mentee relationships, and appropriate support to catalyze the intended outcomes and outputs of the program. This person ensures that program implementers have the knowledge, skills, mindsets, and resources necessary to execute their roles in their unique school contexts and regions. The NDPET also helps to codify and continually update the national program model and training materials for expansion into new regions across the country.

The ideal candidate will be an expert in training others on program delivery, classroom practice, student engagement, and behavior management. S/he will have ample experience coaching teachers on effective execution of curriculum, and will be focused on student achievement and ongoing evaluation and improvement of training methods to achieve results.

Visit www.imentor.org/jobs to submit a resume and detailed cover letter describing your interest in and qualifications for the position. Applications will be considered on a rolling basis, so it is in candidates’ best interest to apply as soon as possible. No phone, email, mail, or fax inquiries will receive a response.