Mamadou Ndiaye Email & Phone Number

Greater Boston Area

Mr. Ndiaye is a Program Director at JFF, a Boston-based organization working to drive economic advancement for all Americans by meeting employer needs preparing Americans for the future of work, and ensuring equity in economic advancement. At JFF Mr. Ndiaye has served technical assistance director of Opportunity Works, a JFF/Aspen Institute Social Innovation Fund (SIF) initiative supporting a group of community collaboratives that are implementing Back on Track programming for opportunity youth and Learn and Earn to Achieve Potential (LEAP), another Social Innovation Fund by the Annie E. Casey Foundation. Mr. Ndiaye currently lead JFF’s technical assistance provision in two key projects. The first one is the newly launched Google IT Support Professional Certificate being piloted by several US-based and international non-profit organizations to open up information technology jobs to low-income underrepresented communities and dislocated workers . The second one is the Youth Workforce Fund launched by Citi Foundation in fifteen communities in the US to prepare youth and young adults for family-sustaining careers. Mr. Ndiaye has more than 15 years of experience in strategy, program design, program management, and systems development in education and workforce development. Mr. Ndiaye is also co-founder and board member of X-Cel Education Services Inc., a Boston-based nonprofit that helps adults enroll and succeed in postsecondary education and of Jeunesse Action, Inc. an international NGO working in Senegal to promote youth leadership and entrepreneurship. Mr. Ndiaye holds a Bachelor’s of Science in management from Northeastern University and a Master’s of Education from the University of Massachusetts, Boston.

As a senior director on JFF’s Back on Track team, Mr. Ndiaye helps design, document, codify, and scale Back on Track Through College programs aimed at increasing the quality and quantity of pathways to postsecondary credential attainment and jobs for older youth who have left school without a credential or who have obtained a diploma or GED but are not "college ready." His work spans districts, states, national youth-serving networks, intermediaries and community colleges—all identified as key scale sectors for Back on Track Through College designs. Mr. Ndiaye has more than 12 years of experience in program design, program management, and systems development in the area of alternative education for out-of-school youth and adults. As a senior program manager at CollegeBound Dorchester, a nonprofit community-based organization in Dorchester, Massachusetts, he helped design a college prep program serving students who have dropped out of the Boston Public Schools. Mr. Ndiaye is also co-founder and board vice chair of X-Cel Adult Education Services Inc., a Boston-based nonprofit that helps youth and adults enroll and succeed in college. Mr. Ndiaye holds a Bachelor’s of Science in management from Northeastern University and a Master’s of Education from the University of Massachusetts.