Editorial Director (Volunteer)
About the role
Mentor A Promise is a New York City–based nonprofit serving children and youth (ages 5–18) experiencing housing instability, grounded in the belief that every child is a Promise—full of potential, dignity, and possibility. We deliver consistent, high-quality programming across mentorship, literacy, social-emotional learning, and creative expression in shelters, schools, and community spaces, creating structured environments where students can grow, be seen, and build lasting skills. Through signature experiences like The Imagination Studio, The Kitchen Table, The Sound Lab, and The Story Space, we nurture academic development, emotional well-being, and creative voice, all within a trauma-informed, culturally responsive, and accessibility-centered framework. Our work prioritizes dignity-protective storytelling, consent-driven engagement, and deep community partnership, ensuring that how we serve is as intentional as whom we serve. We are not only addressing immediate needs - we are building pathways to confidence, belonging, and long-term opportunity, so every child has the support and foundation to carry their promise forward.
The Editorial Director is the steward of MAP’s written voice. This role exists to ensure that all editorial content—across children’s books, blogs, newsletters, educational materials, and storytelling projects—is coherent, ethical, trauma-informed, culturally responsive, and of the highest quality. This is a senior leadership role focused on vision, mentorship, and editorial integrity, not content volume or speed. MAP values editorial labor as intellectual, emotional, and ethical work. In this role, you can expect clear leadership scope and editorial authority, thoughtful collaboration and trust-based leadership, respect for time, capacity, and creative boundaries, transparency around goals and expectations, and recognition of editorial leadership as stewardship, not extraction. MAP prioritizes sustainability, clarity, and care over urgency or burnout.