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Bring your experience to work that connects Baltimore
Baltimore’s Promise brings people, data, resources, and institutions together so more young people can succeed in school, career, and life. Our team works across education, workforce, health, public investment, and community leadership to strengthen coordination and move shared priorities forward.
Join a team working to move from good intentions to coordinated action across Baltimore.
Why Baltimore’s Promise
Young people move through many different systems on their way toward adulthood, and those systems do not always move together. Our kids feel that gap firsthand. Baltimore's Promise connects partners, shares information honestly, aligns resources, and clarifies responsibility, working alongside public agencies, schools, employers, funders, community leaders, and young people themselves. We don’t replace the work already underway across Maryland. We help make that work coordinated, effective, and built to last.
Open positions
Each listing includes clear information about responsibilities, salary, work arrangement, and application requirements.
Current openings include:
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Senior Manager, Employer Engagement will hold full ownership of the organization's employer engagement strategy in support of CareerBound and broader workforce initiatives. Reporting to the Senior Director of CareerBound, this position holds authority for a portfolio of employer, industry, and workforce partnerships that expand career-connected learning, work-based learning, youth apprenticeship, internship, and employment opportunities for Baltimore City young people.
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We are hiring three individuals for the Actionable Data Lead listing.
Behind every one of the additional 42,000 young people we're working to reach is a story the data needs to tell. This role tells it.
You'll track how Baltimore's cradle-to-career ecosystem is performing, uncover where equity gaps and disparities are showing up, and turn findings into decisions that change what happens next for young people and the partners who serve them. From dashboards to data stories, you'll be the person who makes sure numbers lead to action, not just reports.
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The Senior Director oversees communications, content development, events, stewardship communications, and organizational positioning efforts that support Baltimore's Promise's mission and growth, with a strong advancement-facing focus.
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Baltimore’s Promise is seeking a Development Manager. The Development Manager drives the funding pipeline that makes Baltimore's Promise's work possible — from identifying new grant opportunities through project-managing submissions to ensuring a clean handoff once funding is secured. This is an early-career role for someone who is proactive, organized, and comfortable managing multiple deadlines and relationships at once. The Manager will work closely with the Chief of Staff Office and will partner regularly with backbone and program staff across the organization — including CareerBound, the Center for Excellence, and the Summer Funding Collaborative — to keep proposals moving and to set new awards up for successful implementation.
We are reviewing application submissions and scheduling interviews on a rolling basis. Application materials submitted through online job platforms or by email will not be considered.
Benefits + Commitment to our people
Baltimore’s Promise is committed to clear compensation practices, meaningful benefits, flexibility, professional growth, and time to rest.
Transparent compensation
Starting salaries are published in our job descriptions and are based on the responsibilities and authority of each position.
Salaries are not determined by prior pay, negotiation, pedigree, or professional networks. This approach is intended to reduce inequities tied to systemic racism, gender bias, and unequal access to career opportunities.
Health and financial benefits
Eligible employees receive:
Health, dental, and vision insurance
Paid parental leave
A retirement plan with an employer contribution of up to 4 percent after one year of employment
Eligibility for a cost-of-living adjustment when included in the approved organizational budget
Eligibility for an end-of-year staff bonus when included in the approved organizational budget
Paid time off
New full-time employees may accrue and use up to four weeks, or 160 hours, of paid time off.
Baltimore’s Promise also schedules paid organization-wide closures, including a Summer Pause, Thanksgiving Break, Winter Pause, and additional holidays during the year.
Hybrid work and professional support
Unless a position states otherwise, employees may use a hybrid schedule for work that does not require in-person participation.
Employees also receive a work laptop, a cell phone and internet stipend of up to $50 per month, and professional development opportunities.
Our Secret Sauce
Our team works across organizations with different goals, timelines, and responsibilities. That calls for good judgment, strong relationships, clear communication, and respect for the people closest to the work.
We value colleagues who can:
Work across differences
Listen closely and communicate clearly
Use data with context
Treat lived experience as expertise
Share responsibility
Follow through on commitments
Know when to lead and when to support others
We're building work meant to last beyond any one initiative, funding cycle, or leader, connecting the people, decisions, and resources that shape what's possible for young people in Baltimore and across Maryland.
All voices help shape the work
Young people are part of the decisions that affect them. Their experience and leadership inform strategy, funding, program design, and accountability, shaping how Baltimore's Promise listens, plans, and works with partners. Read Our Race Equity and Inclusion Statement.
Bring your experience to the work of building stronger systems for Baltimore’s young people.
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