About Management Leadership For Tomorrow (MLT)
Management Leadership for Tomorrow (MLT) is a national nonprofit that is transforming the most influential organizations in the U.S. by providing them with winning DEI strategies, standards, and tactics while equipping high-achieving Black, Hispanic / Latinx, and Native American talent with skills, coaching, and door-opening relationships to accelerate their paths to leadership.
About Career Prep (CP)
Career Prep is an 18-month leadership development program that equips undergraduates to gain career-accelerating skills not taught in classrooms, cultivate personal clarity and connect with top employers for potential internships and full-time roles. Traditionally, 90%+ of Career Prep fellows secure full-time offers by graduation.
Key Program Goals and Objectives:
-Elevate the career and economic trajectory of college juniors and seniors
-Help students to understand and exceed the bar for obtaining trajectory-enhancing internships and full-time roles upon graduation through skill building and leadership development
-Provide students with tools to navigate a path to senior leadership
The Opportunity
Associate Coaches are key members of the Career Prep team with primary responsibility to support community building, career exploration, internship strategy development and fellow engagement. These responsibilities include hosting office hours to guide fellows with resume reviews, internship recruitment, full-time recruiting strategies, offer reviews, subject matter expert referrals and general program inquiries. Associate coaches will lead students through group and 1:1 coaching as appropriate. An ideal candidate will have a strong understanding of career development strategies, high emotional intelligence, a bias for action, and the ability to build rapport with BIPOC fellows, corporate partners, and MLT Staff. This is a remote role working with one of the industry Directors in the Career Prep program.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead group and individual support sessions with fellows as appropriate
- Monitor fellow engagement of curriculum modules and manage follow-up
- Provide supplemental support for fellows outside of the 12-month coaching period
- Track, manage and record fellow data and behavioral management in our database
- Follow up with fellows to update the status of applications, interviews and offers
- Monitor fellow onboarding progression during the rolling admissions period
- Obtain, record, track and manage Fellow outcomes, updates, and behavioral data in our database when required
- Review and provide feedback on resumes, answer questions regarding sophomore summer internships and help prepare fellows for early identification bootcamps
- Support fellows with full-time recruiting strategy, resume, and offer evaluation
- Refer fellows to industry subject matter experts when necessary during their preparation
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree required; Master’s degree preferred
- 3+ years of experience in a corporate or professional services setting with a strong professional achievement profile (i.e. one or more promotions).
- Career coaching experience is a plus.
- Demonstrated bias for action and ability to remain flexible in a growing organization
- Effective interpersonal and organizational skills
- Effective oral and written communication skills
- Demonstrated the ability to build meaningful, quality relationships
- Experience tracking and reporting data, ideally utilizing Salesforce
- Willingness and ability to travel at least two weekends a year to program seminars and events, hosted in various locations nationally
MLT is committed to providing a safe and healthy workplace, and to modeling the highest degree of health standards for our Fellows, our Partners, and the communities we serve. We expect all MLT employees and contractors to be fully vaccinated - including the booster regimen - against the coronavirus (COVID-19), in accordance with ADA accommodations. Visitors to MLT’s office in the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia (DMV) locations or remote work sites should also expect to comply with this requirement.
Please apply to a position with MLT ONLY if you are willing and able to prove that you are fully vaccinated against the coronavirus, regardless of work location.
