Director, Youth; SFF

The Schultz Family Foundation, established in 1996 by Howard and Sheri Schultz, creates pathways of opportunity for populations facing barriers to success. By investing in innovative, scalable solutions and partnerships, the Foundation aims to help unlock people's potential and in doing so, strengthen our businesses, our communities, and our nation. The Foundation focuses its efforts on two groups with enormous promise: the 4.9 million youth and young adults aged between 16 and 24 who are out of school and out of work, and the 2.8 million post‑9/11 veterans and the approximately 250,000 service members that will transition from active, National Guard, or Reserve duty back to civilian life each year.

There is a group of young people that are disconnected from the systems that were built to serve them. These individuals are often born into situations that make pathways to opportunity challenging. The Foundation believes that one's potential should not be determined by their zip code and that this generation of young people represent assets that can have a significant impact on the future of our country.

Through its Opportunity Youth portfolio, SFF forges unique partnerships and invests in clear pathways to employment. The portfolio also focuses on innovative initiatives in areas such as mentorship, job readiness, and access to housing – all of which endeavor to empower Opportunity Youth and help to close the opportunity gap for young people.

Post‑9/11 veterans are returning to civilian life with diverse skills and tremendous potential, but many experience difficulties when they leave military service and transition to civilian life. The Foundation's investments focus on ensuring the transition experience is as seamless and successful as possible by supporting service members before they transition and reintegration strategies that help veterans and their families navigate services post‑transition.

These investments enhance and accelerate employment opportunities through innovative training and career placement programs and coordinated access to services. To further these efforts, the Foundation works to ensure that employers and civilians understand the strengths and talents of our veterans, and the contributions they can make when they return home. The Foundation's programs support not only transitioning service members but also military spouses.

The Foundation aims to achieve the following:

• Lifting Populations Out of Risk – Our social contract needs rewriting - there's so much potential that tends to be the overlooked. The Foundation works to identify solutions that move people from crisis to stability, to help them get the fair shot we all deserve.
• Realizing Economic Justice – The transformative power of jobs— for employers, employees, and communities alike— a job with meaningful opportunities for advancement is still the best social program there is.
• Harnessing the Power of Private Sector Engagement – Knowing what's possible when business leaders care as much for their community as they do for their shareholders, the Foundation is galvanizing a movement to compel businesses to do well by doing good.
• Building Solutions at Scale – The opportunity gap is getting larger. We need to move beyond solutions that serve few to ones that impact many.
• Proving Efficacy Is Price of Admission – The Foundation evaluates impact through the lens of both social and business value. Doing good isn't enough. Metrics are used to ensure that investments are leading to real impact and prove that hiring from these talent pools is good for business.
• Changing Hearts and Minds – The Foundation lifts up stories of success and hope vs. dysfunction and despair, harnessing the power of narrative to show what's possible if we work and think out of the box.

The Director, Opportunity Youth (Director) will lead the ongoing development, refinement and implementation of the Foundation's Opportunity Youth initiatives. Building scalable solutions to solve the challenging hurdles that opportunity youth face will require national buy‑in from multiple sectors and the…