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Manager Of Employer Partnerships 🔥


The Organization

At Thrive Scholars, our goal is to see talented students of color from low-income communities develop the inter-generational wealth and financial security their more privileged peers take for granted, and become the diverse corporate, civic, and academic leaders our country so desperately needs.


Our comprehensive, data-driven, high-touch program model focuses on the key inflection points that can be the difference between just graduating from any college, and graduating from a top college with the grades, degree, career skills, and network needed to thrive in the career of their choice. Over our six-year program, Scholars benefit from admissions and intensive academic preparation before college and a comprehensive set of academic, personal, social-emotional, financial, and career supports throughout college.


Thrive Scholars originated in Los Angeles as South Central Scholars (“SCS”) and spent the first 13 years refining its integrated high school-through-career program model. The founders replicated this model in Boston in 2014 as Noonan Scholars, and then merged the two programs into SCS Noonan Scholars in 2017. As part of its national expansion strategy, SCS Noonan Scholars recently rebranded as Thrive Scholars, and has begun launching new regions across the country, starting in Chicago and Cleveland, to enhance the organization’s fundraising capabilities and Scholar recruitment efforts, growing the number of students served by more than 300%.


The Opportunity

As our Manager of Employer Partnerships, you will lead our efforts to grow Scholar internship and hiring partnerships with local and national corporations, a key strategy in our program model. At Thrive Scholars, we see corporate hiring partnerships as a critical lever in our ability to ensure that our Scholars secure internships and full-time positions across a wide range of industries and functions. Simultaneously, corporate hiring partners value their relationship with Thrive Scholars, as they recognize the early role our organization plays in preparing highly-talented, underrepresented students to succeed within their companies and industry.


In this role, you will leverage your dynamic partnership-development skills to steward current corporate hiring partners, market Thrive Scholars across sectors, and close hiring deals with top-tier companies in fields aligned with Scholar interests, including technology, consulting, banking, life sciences, entertainment, nonprofit, and the public sector. To ensure success, you will track and exceed our partner engagement and satisfaction goals and employment growth goals.


As the Manager of Employer Partnerships, you will collaborate closely with members of the fundraising and career development teams ensuring that we maximize all opportunities to engage corporate partners.


This role is ideal for a leader with significant experience in partnership management and business development, who enjoys exceeding partner expectations, is entrepreneurial, and is passionate about unlocking opportunities for highly talented, underrepresented young people. The Manager of Employer Partnerships will report to the Senior Director of Corporate Partnerships on the Development team, and will work closely with leaders on the Career Development team who will set goals for aligning employer partner targets with Scholar industry and functional interest.


Key Responsibilities:

Business Development

GOAL: Successfully establish employment partnerships with regional and national corporations

Drive a consultative sales process by:

  • Identifying mission-aligned prospect corporations and developing and leveraging tailored cultivation strategies
  • Building a strong business case for partnering with Thrive and leveraging interest in a stronger, more diverse talent pool to forge new employment partnerships and attract philanthropic
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  • Identifying key decision-makers and supporters within prospective partner organizations
  • Managing relationships through strong communication and project management

Partner Engagement and Management

GOAL: Manage successful engagements that fulfill the needs of a portfolio of corporate hiring partners

  • Identify opportunities and secure commitments to expand current hiring partnerships in alignment with the broader Thrive Scholars corporate partnership strategy
  • Work with Career Development Directors, Program Manager and Career Coaches to support recruitment for partner internship and job opportunities
  • Serve as main point of contact with hiring partners’ leadership and understand partner priorities
  • Manage/track program activation timelines and build processes to ensure efficient execution
  • Develop and implement formal stewardship plans for each corporate hiring partner to ensure a positive experience for all corporate stakeholders, ultimately retaining the relationship for the long-term

Cross-Departmental Hiring Partnership Strategy

GOAL: Collaborate with the corporate partnership and career teams to execute a hiring partnership strategy to effectively build, sustain and maximize engagement from partnerships that allow Thrive to meet or exceed Scholar employment goals.

  • Develop and refine an organizational hiring partnership strategy to meet Thrive Scholars’ and partners’ talent pipeline needs.
  • Ensure attainment of Thrive’s Scholar employment goals and engage in ongoing evaluation and improvement processes informed by data
  • Contribute to a positive overall team culture defined by accountability, innovation, effective collaboration, and an attitude of learning and growth

Data Management/Administration

GOAL: Ensure strong data and communications infrastructure to support the corporate partnership program

  • Manage all data records for hiring partners in Salesforce, including revenue pipeline and forecast
  • Manage/track engagement process /activity for high-priority prospect partners
  • Create customized marketing materials and pitch presentations, as well as proposals for partner prospects
  • Assist in development operations initiatives, including Salesforce data review and analysis, gift processing, and donor acknowledgements
  • Collaborate on development annual planning
  • Contribute to development department and overall organizational team efforts

The Ideal Candidate

  • Minimum of 5 years in business development and strategic partnership management or transferrable skills and experiences in human resources, corporate recruitment and revenue generation
  • Expertise in and passion around issues related to diversity, equity and inclusion in corporate settings
  • Track record of success, meeting and exceeding business targets
  • Ability to work independently while being an integral and collaborative member of a larger team
  • A highly effective and skillful project manager who contributes to the team’s goals by developing and implementing strategy with a focus on results and continuous improvement
  • High level of professionalism and excellent judgment in communication and in handling sensitive information
  • Exceptional written and oral communication skills, with the ability to synthesize complex information into a simple and understandable form; strong ability to develop effective written pitch documents, including presentation decks that frame data in a compelling, audience-centered narrative
  • Ability to navigate complex organizations and to understand key access points, develop strategic relationships and influence stakeholder decision-making
  • A highly-organized individual who can take initiative and prioritize short-term and long-term needs in a fast-paced environment involving multiple projects and stakeholders
  • Excellent research skills and entrepreneurial nature
  • Experience using fundraising or sales databases (knowledge of Salesforce preferred)
  • Commitment to Thrive Scholars mission and a commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion in all aspects of the work

This role may be located anywhere, with a strong preference for a major market. This role may require up to 20-25% national travel when travel is possible again.


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Thrive Scholars provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment based on race, color, religion, gender, gender identity, national origin, sexual orientation, age, disability, or veteran status.


Knowing its importance to the success of our work, Thrive Scholars is committed to diversity and inclusion, and we aspire to build a diverse staff team and community. We strongly encourage people of all backgrounds to apply. We appreciate your time and will review and respond to all applications received.

For more information, please visit thrivescholars.org [1]


  1. http://www.thrivescholars.org/

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