American Youth Policy Foundation seeks Executive Director

American Youth Policy Forum (AYPF) seeks a visionary executive who is committed toAYPF’s mission of educating, engaging, and informing policymakers and practitioners about education, youth, and workforce policies to improve the lives and outcomes of traditionally underserved youth.

The Organization

Founded in 1993, AYPF is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, professional development organization. AYPF has served thousands of national and state policymakers by conducting events such as Capitol Hill forums, discussion groups, webinars, study tours, and producing research-based reports and social media materials. AYPF makes sense of a complex education, youth, and workforce landscape by providing timely, clear, and concise information and resources.

AYPF seeks to educate and inform policymakers, policy influencers, and other stakeholders so that they can build their capacity and understanding to make better and more equitable decisions on behalf of traditionally underserved youth. The organization does this by sharing best practices, policies, strategies, innovations, and research on positive youth development approaches and effective education, youth, and workforce policies. AYPF focuses on traditionally underserved youth, such as youth in the foster care or juvenile justice systems, youth with disabilities, first-generation college students, immigrants, and those from low-income families and communities. The organization’sgoal is to ensure equity of opportunity and outcomes for them all.

AYPF’s policy expertise runs deep and spans numerous domains, including:

• ●  College and Career Readiness and Success

• ●  Career and Technical Education

• ●  Afterschool and Expanded Learning

• ●  Youth Development

• ●  Systems-involved Youth

• ●  Cross-system Collaboration

• ●  Youth Employment

• ● Workforce Development