Are you looking for a fulfilling and challenging job? If so, apply to be a Recruitment Coordinator for the Digital Ready Summer Studio!
OUR MISSION
Digital Ready activates the creative potential of high school students, especially Black and Latinx youth, to build tangible pathways to economic opportunities in Boston’s innovation economy.
Being Digital Ready means being ready for the complexity of a constantly evolving economy and society and requires students to weave together ethnography, engineering, design, and code to solve incredibly gnarly 21st-century problems. At Digital Ready, we utilize the city as a lab for learning striving to make the boundaries between school and the world less strict and more permeable. Our mission is to create tangible economic pathways for students that are driven by students’ interests, local employer needs, and the community’s unique assets. Our students learn by doing. In our studio, students practice habits of creative problem solving in a safe and supportive environment, where they can take risks to learn, ask difficult questions, and develop themselves as creative leaders.
OUR VALUES
- We actively fight against the status quo that allows injustices to be perpetuated without accountability;
- We use our political power, social capital, and networks to create access to high-quality education opportunities for students;
- We value diverse perspectives, which we believe leads to more identity-affirming and innovative learning experiences for students;
- We are committed to being an anti-racist organization that prioritizes the voices of students and communities of color;
- We intentionally support the redesign of policies and structures or systemic racism that continues to exclude and harm communities of color;
- We actively interrogate schools’ curricula, industries’ hiring practices, and other institutional practices that limit who has access to Boston’s innovation economy
SUMMER STUDIOS 2024
The Digital Ready Summer Studio is a 6-week immersion for young adults aged 16-25 to gain technical skills in architecture, engineering, computer science, and bioTech.
As a Recruitment Coordinator at Digital Ready, you are passionate about racial equity and youth development. At Digital Ready, you will focus on relationship building to cultivate, nurture, and organize relationships with schools, community organizations, and students and their families with the goal of opening equitable and sustainable pathways that allows young people to join Digital Ready and one day obtain a high-wage job in Boston’s growing innovation economy.
This role is a unique opportunity to shape the future of education in Boston, playing a critical part in developing school partnerships and leading the design and implementation of our recruitment and success structures. Some tasks and objectives are to:
- Create and execute a comprehensive recruitment strategy; Represent Digital Ready externally through community engagements, public events, recruitment events, and thought leadership;
- Steward school and community partners along a pipeline of increasing engagement based on their fit with Digital Ready;
- Develop and sustain the pipeline process by sourcing prospects and cultivating relationships with school, district, community, and system leaders;
- Provide important input to the recruitment planning process;
- Collaborate with Digital Ready’s Teaching and Learning teams to integrate programming into recruitment strategies.
Requirements
The position is part-time, up to 12 hours per week starting on April 1, 2024 and running through June 7, 2024. Depending on the schedule of the candidate the schedule can be adjusted. Recruitment events occasionally occur on Saturdays so the coordinator should be available during some weekends.
How can I apply?
Interested applicants can visit www.digitalready.org to learn more about the organization.
Applications including a resume must be submitted online by using the following submission link: https://form.typeform.com/to/AqSTo4ul
Further questions may be directed to Digital Ready’s STEMhub Project Manager, Fatah Adan, via email at fatah@digitalready.org