Career Placement Coordinator

Job description

Harlem Children’s Zone (HCZ) — a world-renowned education and poverty-fighting organization based in New York — seeks an enthusiastic, dedicated, and mission-aligned Career Placement Coordinator to join our Wealth Builds team.

The Career Placement Coordinator will bring a passion for Harlem Children's Zone's mission: breaking the cycle of intergenerational poverty through comprehensive, on-the-ground programming that builds opportunities for children and families to thrive in school, work, and life.

Wealth Builds is an innovative effort to eliminate the wealth gap through nine evidence-based pillars beginning in Harlem and ultimately expanding to up to 10 cities nationwide. Our theory of action is that cradle-to-career services plus capital lead to social and economic mobility. Through Wealth Builds, we are providing financial education and capital infusions to increase social, financial, and human capital, ultimately generating wealth for our youth.

We are seeking a highly structured and detail-oriented Career Placement Coordinator to support the operational execution of our career readiness and placement pipeline. This role will sit on the Wealth Builds team, a high-priority strategic initiative at HCZ focused on creating pathways to social and economic mobility. This role is critical to connecting college-aged participants with career-launching professional opportunities.

The Career Placement Coordinator serves as the operational engine of our placement pipeline. This role is responsible for the full lifecycle of our college internship programs—from managing timelines and matching students to sites, to curating our job database and maintaining open lines of communication with internship supervisors.

The ideal candidate will be an exceptional project manager and systems-thinker who can coordinate multiple moving parts, analyze program outcome data, and build collaborative structures that bridge student needs with professional opportunities.

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Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree
• 1+ years of experience in managing internship programs, student job placements, or career services operations
• 1+ years of experience maintaining databases, resource libraries, or utilizing platform software (e.g., Salesforce, Simplicity, or CRM tools)
• 1+ years of project management experience, specifically tracking milestones and communicating across multiple stakeholder groups (such as interns, supervisors, and internal teams)

• services operations
• 1+ years of experience maintaining databases, resource libraries, or utilizing platform software (e.g., Salesforce, Simplicity, or CRM tools)
• 1+ years of project management experience, specifically tracking milestones and communicating across multiple stakeholder groups (such as interns, supervisors, and internal teams)

Who you are

• Bachelor’s degree, preferably in Education, Counseling, Business Administration, human resources, or a related field
• Exceptionally organized planner with strong attention to detail and a proven ability to manage project trackers, monitor complex timelines, and complete tasks accurately in a fast-paced environment
• Clear, professional communicator who is comfortable leading communications with internship site supervisors, external partners, and college-aged interns
• Resourceful and analytical problem-solver who can leverage data to identify program bottlenecks and drive continuous improvement
• A collaborative team player who takes initiative, manages multiple priorities simultaneously, and maintains a self-disciplined, proactive approach
• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, Word, PowerPoint); experience managing job databases or CRM platform software is highly preferred
• A deep commitment to the mission and programs of Harlem Children’s Zone (HCZ)

What you'll do

• Support the smooth and efficient execution of daily career program operations under the management of the Director and Assistant Director
• Manage college-aged internship programs, including mapping out program timelines, matching interns to strategic site placements, and leading communications with both supervisors and interns
• Maintain and curate a comprehensive job database and career resource library to ensure participants have easy access to active listings and tools
• Support the event planning and coordination of career workshops, readiness seminars, and professional exposure events for college-aged participants
• Manage internal project trackers and monitor programmatic timelines, providing executive summary updates for HCZ leadership and staff
• Create and maintain strong collaboration structures with College Success counselors and coordinators across multiple HCZ teams to ensure seamless student support
• Track, compile, and analyze key outcomes and metrics for career programming, utilizing data to inform continuous process improvement
• Research, support, and execute outreach to professional vendors, employers, and providers of career development resources (such as software platforms or specialized training tools)
• Perform other duties and projects as assigned

Schedule

• Maintain a full-time schedule (Monday–Friday, 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM), including occasional evenings
• Work primarily on-site in our Harlem office, with flexibility based on program and team needs
• Demonstrate flexibility to support scholars and program needs

Benefits

As a member of the Harlem Children's Zone team, you will join a supportive and inclusive community dedicated to helping children, families — and our staff — thrive. We offer highly competitive salaries, a comprehensive benefits package, and opportunities for growth.

Our exceptional full-time benefits include: 

• Highly competitive base salaries
• Paid time off
• Employee referral bonus
• Career Advancement
• No-cost health insurance
• Life Insurance
• Short-and long-term disability
• Additional voluntary benefits
• Wellness discounts
• Commuter benefits
• Financial wellness perks
• Additional Benefits (Discounts on flights, hotels, theme parks, concert tickets, and more.)

The salary range for this position is $60,000-$75,000 per year. To be considered, interested applicants should apply directly through the posting. No telephone inquiries or recruiters, please. Replies will only be sent to qualified applicants. Harlem Children's Zone and Promise Academy Charter Schools will not provide work visas for candidates who require employer sponsorship to ensure work authorization in the United States. Harlem Children’s Zone is an EOE.