Great! - Job Specialist Jobs for America's Graduates Employee Review

Positive culture, great leadership, wonderful mission.

High stress, big goals, need an entrepreneurial mindset.

The very best thing about this job is the students that you work with. Manchester, NH is often looked down upon, but the students here are incredibly strong, resilient, and smart. They know the difference between an adult who truly cares, and one who doesn't give a crap. Not only this, but the school communities themselves are incredibly supportive, and it's very easy to feel integrated. The school staff I worked with and the students are the number one thing I will miss about this job.

JAG-NH management. They are the biggest con to this job. The Program Manager implied multiple times that Manchester students don't deserve the JAG program, even though the statistics in the state show that Manchester students are the ones who would benefit most from a program that helps achieve high school graduation and work readiness. I went from August to February without any meetings, phone calls, or other extended contact with the Program Manager, which is the longest I've gone in any job. There are no one-on-ones or check ins, the only just emails reminding people to turn in their timesheets. When complaints were brought to the Executive Director, they were often brushed off, and no real change was made to create better supports for the specialists in the schools. They are so entirely wrapped up in focusing on WIOA, keeping the donors happy, and trying to make themselves look good to JAG-National that they fail to realize they have no program without the specialists in the schools. You can make a program work with a tight budget; you can't make a program work without dedicated people.