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The New York City Department of Youth and Community Development (DYCD) invests in a network of communitybased organizations (CBOs) to alleviate the effects of poverty and to provide opportunities for New Yorkers and communities to flourish. DYCDs initiatives include COMPASS the Citys comprehensive afterschool system Beacon Community Centers adult and youth literacy programs youth employment programs services for runaway and homeless youth antiviolence initiatives and community development programs. DYCD also collaborates with other City agencies on a range of mayoral initiatives to improve City services and ensure greater opportunities for minority and immigrant youth and families. Workforce Connect (a division of DYCD) is comprised of a portfolio of Youth and Adult Workforce Development programs including those that focus primarily on inschool youth such as the Summer Youth Employment Program (SYEP) and Work Learn and Grow (WLG;) as well as programs for OutofSchool OutofWork (OSOW) adults and young adults such as Advance & Earn and Train & Earn. These programs provide OSOW young adults aged 1624 a career pathway through a continuum of services including academic instruction GED test preparation work readiness training college and career exploration paid work experience advanced occupational training and industry credential attainment. DYCDs newest workforce development initiative CRED NYC (Community Resources for Employment and Development) will offer participants ages 1840 involved in the criminal justice system or impacted by community violence work readiness and occupational training internships job placement support services such as mental health counseling and connections to social services and resources such as housing life coaching academic support legal support access to healthcare. DYCD is seeking to hire a Senior Program Analyst as part of Workforces Policy Integration and Operations team which focuses on policy development project management intra and interagency coordination and strategic planning. This role will be supporting our work with populations including but not limited to those served by our OSOW and CRED programming. This individual will have knowledge and experience in the workforce development field and/or experience working with OSOW populations justiceinvolved individuals and/or organizations serving justiceinvolved individuals or those at risk for being victims of community violence. The role will require stakeholder engagement policy research and writing and project management. Reporting to the Senior Director of Strategy the Senior Program Analyst will:
Responsibilities:
Conduct research and literature reviews to determine best practices design and plan programs;
Liaison with DYCDs Bureau of Planning Program Integration and Evaluation (PPIE) team as a representative from the Workforce team on program indicators for ongoing monitoring and evaluation of performance
Coordinate intraagency meetings related to program design evaluation and fiscal management; support PPIE on policies and encourage consistent implementation practice across DYCD with respect to the Workforce team;
Support concept paper and RFP development for workforce for youth and young adults;
Manage external relationships with other City government agencies and City Hall on workforce development strategies and data coordination
Conduct focus groups and interviews with stakeholders including participants service providers experts and advocates to inform program design;
Obtain and analyze data (e.g. census bureau labor market internal system data);
Summarize findings of analysis research and stakeholder engagement for stakeholders;
Develop Workforces presentations for trainings and preproposal conferences to describe RFPs and answer questions from various stakeholders;
Additional tasks including reviewing and rating proposals grantwriting participating in workgroups with other units and divisions within DYCD and interacting with other City agencies to coordinate joint initiatives.
Qualifications :
1. A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college and two years of experience in community work or community centered activities in an area related to the duties described above; or
2. High school graduation or equivalent and six years of experience in community work or community centered activities in an area related to the duties as described above; or
3. Education and/or experience which is equivalent to 1 or 2 above. However all candidates must have at least one year of experience as described in 1 above.
Additional Information :
The City of New York is an inclusive equal opportunity employer committed to recruiting and retaining a diverse workforce and providing a work environment that is free from discrimination and harassment based upon any legally protected status or protected characteristic including but not limited to an individuals sex race color ethnicity national origin age religion disability sexual orientation veteran status gender identity or pregnancy.
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Employment Type :
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