Position: Partnerships Program Intern, Data & Evaluation

Reports to: Senior Partnerships Manager

Status: Part-Time (15-20 hours/week)

Duration: July 2023-July 2024

Location: Remote 

The Job

The Opportunity Network (OppNet) seeks a mission-driven, equity- and racial justice-focused individual to join its collaborative OppNet Partnerships team. OppNet’s Career Fluency® Partnerships program provides immersive community-centered, capacity-building partnerships for institutions committed to supporting the post-secondary success and career development of their students. Career Fluency® Partners have included the New York City Department of Education, the “I Have a Dream” Foundation, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, and Facebook.

This position offers the opportunity to contribute to the growth and development of the Partnership program at an exciting time by playing a critical role in the execution of a national initiative focused on modeling justice-driven systems change at the intersection of youth development and postsecondary readiness. 

We are looking for an exceptional Partnerships Program Intern to assist the OppNet Partnerships team in managing and developing components of the Career Fluency® Partnerships Program as it relates to developing our team’s data and evaluation practices. In addition, the Partnerships Program Intern will play a supporting role in project management. This is a year-long opportunity to be part of a team expanding an innovative program model that will impact thousands of students across the country.

The Organization

Since 2003, OppNet has ignited the drive, curiosity, and agency of historically and systematically underrepresented students on their paths to and through college and into thriving careers, powered by our commitment to access and community. This year, OppNet will reach more than 10,000 students of color across the nation to support them in achieving their college and career goals.

• OppNet’s founding Fellows program works with 1,000 students over the course of six years, from 11th grade through to college graduation, to provide college guidance, five summers of paid internships, career exposure and skills-training, and support in growing personal and professional networks.

• OppNet’s Career Fluency® Partnerships Program works with 35 schools, youth-serving nonprofits, and corporations across 20 cities to build their capacity to amplify college and career outcomes for their own students.

• Through Opportunity Ignited, we provide advisory services to corporations seeking to embed values of diversity, equity, and inclusion in their businesses.

All of the work OppNet leads is in service of realizing our vision of a nation connected through vibrant communities and networks actively in pursuit of social justice and educational equity – a nation where all young people can freely create their own path to enduring success that honors their passions, ambitions, and full identities.

Our Core Values

• Galvanize Community While Celebrating The Individual

  • We recognize the critical importance of creating spaces throughout our work where all feel that they belong and the fullness of their identity is affirmed. In doing so, we are able to build a culture of community united by inclusion in service of the personal and professional growth of all.

• Maximize The Power of Storytelling

  • We work with the understanding that storytelling can amplify student and community voices to break through echo chambers and shift field discourse towards real change – informing, inspiring, and moving people to actively create a more equitable world.

• Center Social and Racial Equity Relentlessly

  • We commit to designing all pedagogical practices, engagement activities, and programming in line with our vision for realizing social and racial equity in this nation, recognizing our country’s long history of structural oppression at the intersection of race and class across primary, secondary, and higher education and the professional sector – while also challenging both our role and the nonprofit ecosystem’s in perpetuating it.

• Activate Solutions Through Assets, Not Deficits

  • We guide our work with a commitment to bolstering the strengths, talents, ambitions, and already existing assets of students, partners, and communities – over and above perceived needs – to generate solutions that drive their individual and unique visions of success forward.

• Pursue Impact that Lasts

  • We approach all our work alongside students and communities with the fundamental goal of building success that sustains, understanding the organizational imperative we have to innovate, iterate, and collaborate with all stakeholders – from donors to families to college admissions counselors – in order to do so.

The Person

The ideal candidate will personally connect to the important work we do and value diversity, equity, and inclusion (DE&I) across the organization. The candidate will demonstrate DE&I values by actively participating in all organization-wide learning sessions and self-reflection, as well as working with others to enact changes that contribute to meeting the organization’s DE&I goals. 

Responsibilities

Program Evaluation & Reporting (70%)

• Monitor, analyze, and synthesize Partnerships data, creating outcomes reports that integrate learnings from pre-/post-assessments (knowledge, skills, and competency gains) for each Partner at the conclusion of programming and from program/staff evaluations for Partnerships-led events.

• Support Partnerships Managers in duties related to effective Career Fluency® program evaluation implementation, including:

  • Preparing assessment materials and keeping track of student completion rates.

  • Updating Career Fluency® workshop materials, including worksheets, evaluation databases, and PowerPoint decks.

  • Developing student focus group decks that analyze survey and interview data.

• Collaborate with the Research, Evaluation, and Actionable Insights Team and Partnerships Team to identify and update program evaluation questions on a quarterly basis.

• Coordinate collection of necessary data and deliverable reports for grant reporting in partnership with Partnership Managers. This includes entering Partnerships records on Salesforce to ensure they are most accurate and up-to-date and extrapolating data from Salesforce dashboards.

• Support Senior Partnerships Manager in developing new data and evaluation tactics to enhance Partnership offerings. This includes:

  • Consulting on and developing relevant metrics and other short- and long-term indicators of success for Partnerships offerings.

  • Reviewing and extrapolating trends across all Partnerships data to identify areas of growth for continued program improvement.

  • Identifying new strategies to represent and visualize data in a user-friendly way to Partners and Partner students.
    
    

Business Development (25%)

• Support the Assistant Director of Partnership Development in securing new partners by conducting research on value-aligned schools and community organizations and by sending outreach emails to new prospects.

• Provide administrative support which includes updating records in Salesforce, DropBox and GoogleDrive.

Curriculum Support and Analytics (5%)

• Support the continual development and improvement of in-person and virtual Career Fluency® courses, lesson plans, and advising guides for high school and college students.

• Run biyearly analytics reports tracking usage and feedback through OppNet’s virtual learning platform, UninterruptED.

Requirements

This position requires availability for 15-20 hours during the week and a Bachelor’s degree. It is a fully remote position. 

The ideal candidate will have these key assets and attributes:

• Strong skills using Google Suite and Microsoft Office, particularly Excel;

• Strong research skills and ability to synthesize findings;

• Strong database management and database administration skills;

• Strong data visualization skills;

• Experience with Salesforce and/or Gridbuddy is a plus;

• Experience with data projection design skills (developing research questions, metric, methodology) a plus;

• Experience with learning management systems a plus;

• Classroom or other youth development experience preferred;

• Demonstrated alignment with OppNet’s core values in diversity, equity, and inclusion;

• Strong written and verbal communication skills;

• Exceptional project management skills; 

• Detail-oriented; can be counted on to produce high-quality work;

• Adaptable, solutions-oriented and driven in innovative spaces;

• Ability to take initiatives and work with minimal supervision;

• High degree of effectiveness and efficiency;

• Marketing experience and/or basic design skills are a plus;

• Experience with virtual and in-person content development and facilitation are a plus.

Requirements to Work for OppNet

• OppNet requires that all employees, including new hires, are fully vaccinated against COVID-19 unless an exemption has been approved. 

Compensation: $21/hour

Application Instructions

Please use this link to submit a resume and cover letter, outlining how your professional background and experience relate specifically to the responsibilities and qualifications listed above, salary requirements, and earliest available start date.