Market President

Market President, Central Market

City Year seeks a Market President, Central Market to lead a portfolio of sites across Chicago, Detroit, Milwaukee, Kansas City, Memphis, Little Rock, Tulsa, Baton Rouge, and New Orleans. City Year is one 501(c)(3), and each site is a business unit with an Executive Director and team of staff and AmeriCorps members. The Market President manages, advises, and coaches Executive Directors to advance strong site performance, operational discipline, revenue growth, school and district partnerships, the experiences of staff and AmeriCorps members, and local board engagement. Reporting to the Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Business Officer, the Market President serves as a senior executive and a member of City Year's Management Executive Committee and is accountable for the Central Market's annual operating and long-term goals. This role connects the work of local sites with national strategy and shared services, ensuring that site needs are understood, priorities are translated into practical operating plans, and cross-functional support reaches sites in ways that improve performance and impact. The ideal candidate is a seasoned, people-centered operator who can lead through complexity, coach senior leaders, use data to make decisions, manage financial and revenue performance across a portfolio, collaborate effectively across multiple functions, and build trust with school districts, donors, boards, staff, AmeriCorps members, and national colleagues.

Minimum Qualifications

• 10 or more years of progressive senior leadership experience in a large, complex, multi-site, networked, or distributed organization.
• Demonstrated experience managing senior leaders, including coaching, performance management, talent development, and succession planning.
• Experience managing or overseeing complex budgets, revenue targets, operating plans, and performance metrics.
• Experience building relationships with external stakeholders, such as school districts, public agencies, funders, community leaders, or board members.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to communicate with senior internal and external audiences.
• Authorization to work in the United States.
• Ability to obtain and maintain required criminal background clearances for work involving school-age children.

Responsibilities

The Market President, Central Market will perform the following responsibilities:

• Lead site management, operations, and portfolio performance
• Drive revenue, district, and stakeholder strategy
• Strengthen financial discipline and annual planning
• Develop Executive Directors and market leadership capacity
• Advance learning, continuous improvement, and cross-market collaboration

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience leading within an education, youth development, national service, nonprofit, government, or other mission-driven organization.
• Experience working with school districts, public-sector partners, or complex public/private funding models.
• Track record in fundraising, revenue generation, external relationship management, or sales, especially across corporations, foundations, major donors, or public partners.
• Experience working with boards or volunteer leadership bodies, including preparing leaders for board conversations and strengthening board/staff alignment.
• Experience leading through financial pressure, organizational change, leadership transitions, or complex stakeholder dynamics.
• Experience working in a complex, growing, multi-site organization.
• City Year, AmeriCorps, or national service experience is a plus.

Competencies

• Strategic Thinking: Identifies multiple pathways to address complex and ambiguous challenges; anticipates barriers and opportunities and develops practical plans to address them.
• Operational Leadership: Converts strategy into clear plans, routines, decisions, and accountability systems that improve execution across multiple sites.
• Financial Acumen: Uses budget, revenue, expense, and performance data to make sound decisions and communicate tradeoffs clearly.
• Developing and Empowering Others: Coaches senior leaders, builds talent, supports succession planning, and creates conditions for others to lead well.
• Collaboration: Works across functions and geographies, incorporates different perspectives, and aligns diverse stakeholders around shared goals.
• Understanding and Building Connection: Builds trust with colleagues, Executive Directors, boards, funders, school partners, and community stakeholders.
• Decision-Making: Makes timely decisions with incomplete information, balances local and enterprise needs, and adjusts as new information emerges.
• Learning: Seeks feedback, studies results, and uses evidence and reflection to improve self, teams, systems, and outcomes.

Physical Requirements

• Ability to sit for extended periods and occasionally stand or walk.
• Manual dexterity for typing, writing, and using standard office equipment.
• Ability to communicate clearly in person, by phone, video conference, and in writing.
• Ability to travel and move through office, school, event, and community settings as needed.
• Occasional lifting or carrying of materials weighing up to 20 pounds.

Working Conditions

• This is a full-time, exempt, remote role that may be based in Boston or in one of the Central Market sites: Chicago, Detroit, Milwaukee, Kansas City, Memphis, Little Rock, Tulsa, Baton Rouge, or New Orleans. Operates in a professional office, virtual, school-based, and community environment using standard office equipment. Requires regular travel to Central Market sites, City Year headquarters, schools, board or donor meetings, convenings, and other organizational events. Typical schedule includes weekdays, with occasional evening or weekend commitments based on site, board, donor, school, or organizational needs. Must have reliable internet access when participating in required virtual meetings or work.

Compensation

• The starting salary for this role is $215,000 annually, with final compensation based on experience, location, and internal equity.

Benefits

• Full-time employees will be eligible for all benefits including vacation, sick days and organization holidays. You may participate in all benefit programs that City Year establishes and makes available to eligible employees, under (and subject to all provisions of) the plan documents that govern those programs. Currently, City Year offers medical, dental, vision, life, accidental death and dismemberment and disability coverage, Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA), and other benefits including 401(k) plan(s) pursuant to the terms and conditions of company policy and the 401(k) plan document. For more information, click here.
• Employment at City Year is at-will.
• City Year does not sponsor work authorization visas.