Job Title: Persistence Manager

Role Type: Full Time

Starting Salary: $52,000

Start Date: June 1, 2024 (or upon hiring)

Reporting To: Director of Persistence

Overview

The persistence manager (PM) is an uncommonly hardworking, resourceful individual who’s passionate about helping BRYC’s alumni persist through their postsecondary degree programs at institutions nationwide. Strong candidates have experience navigating the academic, financial, and socioemotional circumstances that make college completion disproportionately challenging for students from low socioeconomic backgrounds. Above all, the PM is the ultimate advocate and mentor, who walks hand-in-hand with BRYC alumni through any challenge they encounter.

Duties

  • Provide individualized support to alumni
    The PM will build excellent rapport with alumni and, through the strength of these relationships and a formal data collection process, diagnose their academic, financial, and socioemotional needs and carry out differentiated interventions. This may include travel to in- and out-of-state campuses.
  • Help high school seniors transition to college
    For a six-week period, three evenings per week (4:30-7:30pm) during the spring semester, the PM will facilitate College 101, a program focused on self-advocacy in higher education. Additionally, the PM will monitor seniors’ progress against BRYC’s College Transition Checklist, ensuring they matriculate to their postsecondary institutions.
  • Manage college partnerships
    The PM will work with campus and community partners to connect alumni with useful resources and opportunities, including but not limited to internships, academic research, study abroad, affinity groups, service projects, campus services, etc.
  • Fuel alumni engagement
    The PM will help foster a vibrant alumni community by implementing creative strategies to keep alumni connected to BRYC. These forms of alumni connection include but are not limited to volunteerism, attendance at events, social media engagement, etc.

Qualifications

  • Education: Bachelor’s minimum
  • Experience helping underserved students navigate higher education

Skills & Qualities

  • Strong fit with BRYC’s culture, as defined by our Trust Statements and Culture Code
  • College and/or career coaching
  • Relationship building
  • Strong written & verbal communication
  • Ethic: whatever it takes
  • Spirit: entrepreneurial
  • Heart: compassionate
  • Mind: creative, strategic

Compensation

Total Compensation Package Annual Value: $62,750
  • Starting Base Salary: $52,000 (commensurate with experience)
  • Insurance: 75% health; 100% vision, dental, life, disability (annual value: $5,000)
  • Vacation: 80 hours paid (annual value: $2,000)
  • 403(b) Retirement Plan w/ Employer Matching (employer match: ~$2,100)
  • Professional Development Stipend (annual value: $500)
  • Sponsored Meals/Snacks (annual value: $900)
  • BRYC Swag (annual value: $250)

In addition to a $3,000 signing bonus, BRYC is willing to reimburse relocation fees and negotiate starting salary, depending on the candidate’s experience.

Additional Workplace Benefits

  • Best workplace culture you’ll ever experience
  • Quarterly performance-driven financial incentives
  • Paid caregiver leave: 12 weeks
  • Relocation assistance
  • Relaxed dress
  • Work-from-home flexibility
  • Intensive professional development
  • Opportunities for advancement

Apply

Please email your cover letter, résumé, and the names/contact information for 3-5 references to [email protected]. Include the position title in the subject line. If you would like to be considered for multiple positions, please note this in your cover letter. Strong candidates will participate in two or three interview rounds.

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