Join the Embarc Team

Hi! I am Lativia, an Embarc Program Manager and your guide to envisioning a typical day as a Program Manager with Embarc. As a PM, you will build potential partnerships, design experiences, and plan the necessary logistics for success.

Your typical day starts with Partner Cultivation: everything from connecting with organizations to build new partnerships, responding to emails, and submitting experience requests. Partner Cultivation goes hand and hand with Experience Architecture, where your creative magic can shine! For example, if a partner is passionate about mental health, you might work with them to collaboratively build an activity around increasing our students’ agency.

In the afternoon, it’s time to meet with your Experiential Coach partner. Working closely together, you will rely on your partner to keep you in sync with schools’ and teachers’ needs. After meeting with your partner, all that’s left is planning which experiences would be most beneficial to specific teachers and students, and all of the logistics from bus arrivals and drop offs and everything in between. What better way to end your day with some smooth music and solo work time?

Embarc’s Data Specialist helps the whole org turn reflection into action and keep our work data-informed. I’m Thomas, the current Data Specialist, here to give an inside look into this role. 

The Data Specialist’s job mixes project-based work that innovates and creates data systems from the ground up, leads teams in reflection around data, and is a stakeholder in data-critical meetings. On our small team, you can expect a lot of focused, solo work time, which easily accommodates flextime and remote work.  

On a typical day, you might spend the morning modifying a data tool, pulling requests for an upcoming grant application, and some data entry. 

As the Data Specialist, you’ll present data in an easily understood format, design analysis protocols, and lead team members through reflection of that data. So, in the afternoon, you might lead a session with our Program Management team to look at feedback data from the most recent Whole School Experience Day. 

To close out the day, you might present data to outside stakeholders, such as a school principal, to discuss feedback data from their school.

Hi! I’m Jackie, an Embarc alum and current Postsecondary Success Intern. As an Embarc Intern, not only will you meet a lot of great people, but you will gain a lot of amazing skills! 

On a typical day, you’ll spend the morning planning class visits. Class visits include everything from alumni panels and community-building exercises to assisting students with FAFSA and the Common App. Once you’ve created your class visit plan, you’ll work with the Alumni Coordinator to build workshops that give seniors a chance to practice using the information they’ve gained.

Next, you’ll spend the afternoon working with the whole Postsecondary Team to plan the annual Alumni Trunk Party. The Trunk Party connects Embarc’s newest graduates with resources, helps them build community, and gives you an opportunity to begin providing one-on-one support. Building relationships with Embarc’s newest alumni will also help you support the Data Team with data collection for postsecondary enrollment and persistence.

As a Postsecondary Intern you’ll have the chance to work with all the Embarc teams, so you’ll finish your day supporting the Programming Team with their additional needs throughout the year, like facilitating and planning experience days. 

Embarc’s Development team believes in the power of philanthropy to propel change. We enjoy building relationships across all sectors, thinking outside the box on how we can engage potential supporters, and working creatively to encourage long-term support. 

Whether you’re bringing donors to a student experience to see our work firsthand, planning a volunteer opportunity with a corporate sponsor, or designing one of our events, you’ll have a front row seat to the work that fuels organizational growth and sustainability. 

Your role may be forward-facing, or you may be behind the scenes creating compelling external communications, analyzing metrics in our database, building systems to steward donors in a meaningful way, and keeping our internal systems moving.

You’ll be encouraged to bring your ideas and experience and apply them throughout the day. We’re constantly growing and improving our systems and work, and your fresh perspective is welcome.