Congress Heights on the Rise

View Original

Urban Alliance seeks Economic Club Summer Program Coordinator - $45k

Urban Alliance (UA), a national youth workforce development nonprofit, is currently seeking a Summer Program Coordinator to facilitate an eight-week college internship program for 35 recipients of the David. M. Rubenstein Scholarship through a partnership between Urban Alliance and the Economic Club of Washington, D.C. The Summer Program Coordinator will support all aspects of the Economic Club summer internship program, including interviewing and selecting applicants and supporting selected participants in their professional development through internships with companies and organizations. This position is located in Washington, DC.

About Urban Alliance 

Urban Alliance provides economically-disadvantaged young people with the exposure, opportunity, support, and training needed to prepare them for lifelong economic self-sufficiency. Urban Alliance’s core program matches underserved high school seniors with paid, professional internships, job skills training, one-on-one mentoring, and ongoing post-program support to expand their ideas of what is possible for their futures. Since its founding in Washington, DC in 1996, Urban Alliance has expanded to Baltimore, Chicago, Northern Virginia, and Detroit. To date, Urban Alliance has placed more than 4,000 students in paid internships and served more than 18,000 youth through job skills training.

Applicants for the Summer Program Coordinator position must be available to work from mid-February 2020 through July 2020 The Program Coordinator will work 35 hours per week.