Manager, Youth Experiences

*How You'll Contribute *
The National Geographic Society is an impact-driven global nonprofit organization that uses the power of science, exploration, education, and storytelling to illuminate and protect the wonders of our world. The division serves this mission by amplifying and extending the work of NGS explorers into classrooms and communities, helping educators and young people develop an explorer mindset and inspiring them to learn about, care for, and protect our world. The division seeks to help the world understand the importance of geography - seeing the connections, interdependencies, and patterns that shape human and natural systems on our planet.

To accomplish its goals and to extend reach and impact, the Education and Community Engagement team cultivates strategic partnerships; manages education-focused endowments, fellowships and grants; creates and disseminates education content and programs for Explorers and a K-16 audience domestically and internationally; connects Explorers to classrooms and communities; and engages youth in the mission by building Explorer-focused innovative, co-curricular opportunities. Building upon the Society's commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion these educational resources and experiences will elevate missing voices, bring a multiplicity of perspectives, and be accessible on a continuum of no-low-high tech capacities at scale across the globe.

The Manager, Youth Experiences serves on the Education and Community Engagement Division's Impact Partnership and Youth Initiatives Team and supports the build and implementation of Explorer-focused high-impact experiences that engage youth of all backgrounds in our mission and lead them to care and act on behalf of our planet and its people.

Reporting to the Senior Director of Youth Experiences and working alongside team members and with colleagues across the Society, the Manager will be charged with managing key youth experiences including, but not limited to, the Slingshot Challenge, a global educational youth challenge which aims to inspire changemakers ages 13-18 to use their voice and ingenuity to tackle the planet's most pressing environmental topics. The ideal candidate has strong project management experience building opportunities for young people, experience managing external relationships and running youth programming, and a demonstrated ability to manage grant reporting and develop evaluation methods.

Your Impact
*Responsibilities *
Include*
Program Management (85%): ***

• Outreach and Recruitment Management: Manage outreach and recruitment processes, in collaboration with other team members, to support youth participants and bring new participants to the program. Research, identify, reach out and build relationships with potential collaborators. Support and track implementation of deliverables associated with new collaborators globally. Assist with constituent communications for youth programs, answer questions, point youth to relevant resources and coordinate email sends with internal partners.
• Programming Management and Execution: Manage the execution and implementation of youth, educator, and alumni virtual and in-person programming and events, in coordination with team members, including workshop programming for Slingshot Challenge participants and program alumni ages This includes working with team members, identifying and onboarding presenters, tech setup, calendar invites, run of show documents, and slide deck preparation, as well as in-person event logistics such as arranging travel, meals and local transportation in global settings.
• Measurement and Evaluation: Manage the continuous learning and improvement of Slingshot in collaboration with evaluation and youth team members by conducting research, performing data analysis tasks and supporting impact tracking and content development related to program impact, including funder reports and slides. Actively build relationships with program participants and alumni to surface "impact stories" that demonstrate programmatic outcomes have been achieved.
• Agreement and Contract Management: Develop and administer contracts and payments across the program in coordination with the legal and finance teams, including funding