Citywide Employment & Partnership Manager

Location: Wyandanch

Citywide Employment & Partnership Manager The Door | The Hub Salary: $70,000 - $80,000

Reports To:

Director, Youth Exploration & Career Navigation Hub

Hours:

Monday through Friday, 35 hours per week, occasional evening and weekend hours as needed.

About The Door The Door has served as one of New York City's most trusted places for teens and young adults for more than 50 years. The Door's mission is to empower young people to reach their potential by providing comprehensive youth development services in a diverse and caring environment.

A nationally recognized model for holistic youth support, The Door reaches up to 10,000 young people annually through a wide range of free, co-located services. Youth ages 12 to 24 can access health care and health education, mental health counseling and crisis intervention, legal services, career and education programming, housing supports, services for runaway and homeless youth, arts and recreational programming, and nutritious daily meals, all under one roof.

The majority of youth served are navigating systemic barriers, including disconnection from school or work, housing instability, and involvement in foster care or the justice system.

Within this model, The Door operates a robust Career and Education Services Department (CareerED), including general work-readiness training and 14 sector-based workforce programs aligned with high-demand industries such as construction, green jobs, healthcare, information technology, retail, culinary arts, theater production, and commercial driving. These programs combine technical training, industry-recognized credentials, paid internships, and job placement support, in partnership with institutions such as CUNY and leading employers.

About the Youth Exploration & Career Navigation Hub In Fall 2026, The Door will launch NYC's first Youth Exploration & Career Navigation Hub (the Hub). The Hub addresses a longstanding citywide gap: while NYC has invested heavily in education, workforce, and youth services, the broader system remains fragmented, difficult to navigate, and not designed around how young people actually explore options, make decisions, and move forward over time.

Over 106,000 young people ages 16 to 24 are disconnected from school and work in NYC, and there is currently no place where a young person can walk in and receive personalized exploration, navigation, and warm connections to best-fit opportunities citywide.

The Hub is a welcoming, youth-centered space where young people walk in, get paired with a dedicated Citywide Career Navigator, explore their interests and goals through trust-based coaching, and receive warm referrals to best-fit education, training, and employment opportunities across NYC. Onsite, the Hub also offers a Career Exploration & Readiness Continuum: four immediate-entry, stackable pathways (immersive Virtual Reality career exploration with Transfr, a 9-session Career Readiness Certificate Program, the 6-week Transfr Trek cohort, and the 7-week Mesa Alumni Lab cohort) that allow young people to build skills, confidence, and clarity at their own pace.

A defining feature of the Hub is its commitment to ongoing support and returnability: young people are never exited from the program, never rejected, and always welcomed back without stigma when a pathway does not work out. The Hub operates on a "No Eject, No Reject" philosophy.

The Hub is youth-informed and co-designed. Its model was shaped by a comprehensive research and design process that included 8 youth focus groups engaging approximately 75 young adults across diverse NYC populations (foster care-involved youth, runaway and homeless youth, young people in GED programs, CTE seniors, and Eagle Academy alumni), nearly 50 interviews with cross-sector leaders, assessment of 9 national Youth Engagement Centers, and a literature review of 50+ reports.

Youth voice is not a one-time planning input; it is a core accountability mechanism. The Hub will operate a paid Youth Advisory Council that plays an active, ongoing role in shaping the Hub's design, implementation, and continuous improvement, including naming programs, co-designing curricula, participating in staff hiring panels, and providing ongoing feedback on participant experience.

The Hub is explicitly external-facing and citywide. Unlike traditional onsite programs, the Hub's mission is to connect young people to best-fit opportunities anywhere in NYC, not just inside The Door. This requires strong cross-sector partnership building with workforce providers, community-based organizations, intermediaries, school networks, postsecondary institutions, public agencies, and employers across the city. The Hub is also closely aligned with the Pathway Gap Collaborative, a 75+ organization cross-sector effort building shared infrastructure and tools to strengthen youth pathway navigation citywide, and the broader emerging collective impact effort to improve youth economic mobility across NYC.

Every Hub team member is…