Construction Partnerships Manager

About the Organization

With love and respect, Youth Build partners with opportunity youth to build the skillsets and mindsets that lead to lifelong learning, livelihood, and leadership. Youth Build has programs across the United States and around the world, supporting students to reclaim education, gain job skills, and become leaders in their communities. Youth Build has partnered with more than 180,000 young people to dedicate over 50 million hours of service benefiting urban, rural, and tribal communities.

Youth Build strives to create a world where all young people are seen for their potential and power to transform themselves and their communities.

Youth Build Global (YBG), located in Roxbury, MA, is the support center for the Youth Build movement. It strengthens Youth Build programs through technical assistance, leadership development, innovative program enhancements, and advocacy. For more information about the Youth Build movement, visit Youth Build.org.

The Construction Partnerships Manager is an essential part of the Strategic Partnerships team and leads efforts to advance the organization’s mission by integrating workforce development, skilled training, and certification as critical components of Youth Build Global’s programmatic offerings. This administrative and managerial position is on the Strategic Partnerships team and collaborates often with the development team and the program-facing departments. This position reports to the Senior Director of Strategic Partnerships and is expected to travel 25% of the time.

Youth Build Global (YBG) proudly partners with companies and nonprofit organizations to train, educate, mentor, and hire Youth Build students and alumni. Our partners provide students and graduates with essential technical know-how, skills training, access to networks, internship and job opportunities, resources, mentorship, and inspiration. Through these collaborations, our partners often gain access to a pipeline of talent, industry experts and innovations, and positive employee and customer engagement.

In this role, you will have primary accountability to steward new and manage existing construction industry partnerships in the US and internationally. You will lead the relationship with Gray Industries, Building Talent Foundation, Toll Brothers, Pacific Development, The NRP Group, and others.

The Youth Build team operates across tens of countries and multiple initiatives and is dedicated to linking Youth Build graduates to livelihood opportunities in the rapidly changing labor market of the 21st century.

Partnership Management (35%):

• Serve as the primary point of contact for established and emerging domestic and international corporate and employment partners in the construction industry.
• Evaluate new partners and conduct research and outreach for potential new partners. Develop and implement plans to introduce new partners to the YB network in collaboration with other YBG teams.
• Operationalize new partnerships and coordinate with YBG departments to ensure successful launch and implementation, including linking partners with existing training and career development initiatives, setting appropriate expectations with private sector partners, and serving as liaison between affiliates and partners.
• Manage relationships with relevant industry partners, including trade associations, unions, government agencies, educational organizations, advocacy groups, and others.
• Occasional travel to in-person conferences and meetings (as needed) to represent Youth Build Global and/or connect with industry partners.

Pathway Leadership (35%):

• Collaborate with staff at local Youth Build affiliates as they engage with national corporate partners, including hosting meetings, monitoring engagement activities, tracking and reporting data, and providing technical assistance to Youth Build affiliates.
• Engage with Youth Build program staff to compile program data and collaborate with the Impact Team to identify overall trends in success, areas for growth, outcomes, and program progress.
• Research construction industry credentials to strengthen the Youth Build…