Community Philanthropy Manager - Collective Action

at  Oregon Food Bank Inc

APPLICATION GUIDELINES:

Applications will be accepted until the position is filled.
A cover letter is required for consideration.
This position is currently hybrid.Out-of-state selected candidates will be required to relocate to the Oregon/SW Washington area within 60 days of their start date.

WHO WE ARE:

Oregon Food Bank (OFB) believes that no one should be hungry. Our mission is to eliminate hunger and its root causes. We believe that food and health are basic human rights for all. We know that hunger is not just an individual experience; it is also a community-wide symptom of systemic barriers to employment, education, housing and health care such as systemic racism, sexism, and cissexism. That’s why we work systemically to achieve our mission to end hunger: we foster community connections to help people access nutritious food, and we build community power and strengthen networks of support and the safety net to eliminate the root causes of hunger for good.
We build community power to dismantle systems and policies that drive hunger and poverty.
Oregon Food Bank is an Equal Opportunity Employer, and we strongly encourage applications from candidates who can increase the diversity of our organization and strengthen our capacity to eliminate hunger. We believe strongly in the power of lived experience — and we actively seek individuals who have experienced hunger and its root causes to join our team. Our organization is stronger because of the leadership of people who have faced food insecurity in their own lives and/or hail from historically under-represented communities. Learn more about our commitment at oregonfoodbank.org/equity.

WHO YOU ARE:

You care deeply about community, about people experiencing hunger and hold them in the center of all that you do. You are committed to apply equity as a process and an outcome of your work to disrupt systemic social patterns that promote hunger such as racism, sexism, and cissexism. You have a strong affinity with OFB’s 10 Year Vision and are profoundly excited to achieve this vision for and with our community.
Position Summary: You will join 40+ Community Philanthropy colleagues, passionately and collaboratively building relationships to end hunger and hunger’s root causes. Together we mobilize $44M+ in annual support for Oregon Food Bank’s mission while advancing Rooted + Rising: an $80M+ transformational campaign to realize OFB’s 10-Year Vision. We undertake this work while reclaiming philanthropy’s true meaning, a love for humankind. Love manifests as action in many forms, taken for the common good, which we inspire and facilitate through the design of community-centric programs with equity at their core. Learn more from our team members daring to imagine and leading to create a more just experience of philanthropy.
As the Community Philanthropy Manager - Collective Action, you will contribute to the organization’s success through your leadership of Community Philanthropy’s Collective Action Team - optimizing project management of high-profile campaigns, event experiences, and donor communications that galvanize broad community philanthropic action, shape supporter experiences, and facilitate political journeys. This position reports to the Community Philanthropy Associate Director overseeing corporate relations, donor communications, and project management. The Collective Action Team is supported by an Assistant Manager, several Developers, and at least one Coordinator. Together they serve as a primary liaison for Community Philanthropy with OFB’s Strategic Communications department. They lead project management to produce media assets/publications, proposals and mailings for $25,000+ supporters of all constituencies, and campaigns/events with significant reach and media/corporate sponsorships - with stewardship, education, cultivation, and solicitation objectives.

Primary Responsibilities (Essential Functions):

• Provide direction and managerial oversight to the Collective Action Team in their project management to support resource mobilization and relationship development strategies and tactics aligned to Community Philanthropy’s strategic priorities, annual goals, and Rooted + Rising objectives.
• Coach, guide, and supervise the Community Philanthropy Assistant Manager - Collective Action and other Collective Action staff, including oversight and management of external consultants and vendors:
• Contract, supervise, and maintain positive relationships with vendors and consultants as needed to partner in the execution of Collective Action’s scope of work.
• Ensure Collective Action team members’ project management results in effective production of assets/publications, proposals and mailings for $25,000+ supporters of all constituencies, and campaigns/events - that galvanize broad community philanthropic action, facilitate political journeys, advance a just experience of philanthropy, and mobilizing resources through transformational relationship development.
• Lead Collective Action to engage colleagues across departments and Community Philanthropy teams as they transcribe programmatic theory, funder proposal narrative, and impact data/metrics into inspiring and engaging communications for a broad and generous ($25,000+ capacity) donor audience, with readable copy as well as story-telling opportunities through print, video, digital, and visual media.
• Develop and maintain high-level, department-wide Community Philanthropy supporter communications/engagement annual calendar and compilation of most-used talking-points/communications-content-sources.
• Serve as a primary liaison with OFB’s Strategic Communications Department on Priority Initiatives including (but not limited to) OFB’s Impact Report & End-of-Year Proposal, BLOOM (OFB’s annual gala + donor stewardship event), Rooted + Rising asset production (including events, publications, and communications), and high-profile campaigns that galvanize broad community philanthropic action with significant geographic reach, supported by media and corporate partnerships.
• Provide oversight of OFB Partner Events, coordinated fundraising activities including onsite and offsite activities and support.
• Work cross-departmentally to: prioritize and optimize community engagement opportunities and outcomes;increase supporter engagement in advocacy, P2P campaigns, and fund drives; and, transition from small-scale food drives to steward organizational resources, dismantle the charity model, and shift public perception to understand that food alone cannot solve hunger.
• Ensure effective administrative support for Community Philanthropy department meetings, gatherings, etc..
• Leverage the project management expertise and infrastructure of the Collective Action Team to develop tailored events, assets, communications, and campaigns to support P2P and emerging strategies (for unique supporter segments) developed by Community Philanthropy teams directly advancing relationship development and resource mobilization goals.
• Contribute to Rooted + Rising reporting to organizational leadership, including the OFB Board of Directors and Leadership Team.
• Prepare team budget to ensure the effective and accurate management of financial resources, gift revenue, and progress toward strategic goals and objectives.
• Lead Collective Action’s annual work-planning process and implementation, in alignment with Community Philanthropy’s work planning process and timelines.
• Participate as a member of Oregon Food Bank’s Community Philanthropy Leadership Team.
• Organizational level responsibilities of exempt employees include:
• To be an ambassador and a leader for OFB’s vision and mission, a cross-departmental collaborator, and an active contributor to building a movement to end hunger for good by addressing the root causes of hunger: systemic oppressions such as racism, xenophobia, sexism, and cissexism.
• In consultation and coordination with the supervisor, actively contribute to:
• cross-departmental efforts
• work culture activities and programming
• advisory and consultative groups such as the compensation committee, affinity groups, Equity Ambassadors, Equity Think Tank meetings, among others
• plan and engage in professional development activities that strengthen your capacity for your specific role as well as your capacity to contribute and advance organizational goals, OFB’s vision and mission.
• Identify, share, engage in, and collaboratively adjust and make necessary changes to this description of duties according to the inevitable evolution of the role over time.

Skills and Experience Required:

• Deep passion for eliminating hunger and its root causes.
• 5 years success in nonprofit fundraising with progressive responsibility; and, significant experience in donor communications, events, and creative asset production with philanthropic stewardship, education, and cultivation objectives for high-net-worth prospects/donors (AND/OR marketing objectives with high-net-worth households).
• 3 years of experience managing, leading, and inspiring a team.
• Highest capability in project management - demonstrative skill in managing many concurrent projects on a range of deadlines with many deliverables, aligned to long-term plans, while tracking progress towards multiple goals.
• Ability to unite creative content development to donor relationship and resource mobilization strategies.
• Unwavering commitment to collaboration that yields opportunity for all team members to bring their greatest gifts and expertise to the fore in mission fulfillment.
• Excellent interpersonal, oral, and written communication and presentation skills.
• Knowledge of and experience with Moves Management, Community-Centric Fundraising principles, and/or other philanthropic development concepts and methodology.
• Proficiency with office technology and information systems (including GSuite, Microsoft Office) and donor databases, preferably Raiser’s Edge. Ability to quickly adapt to new software and online tools a plus!
• Organizational level skills and experience required for exempt employees include:
• Disposition and willingness to maximize multiple perspectives to innovate, problem solve and seek creative solutions.
• Experience in modeling intercultural competence and demonstrated commitment to equity and social justice.
• Demonstrated ability to think strategically, collaborate, take initiative, and to maintain confidentiality.
• Project coordination and organization skills; ability to manage multiple projects with attention to detail; ability to handle interruptions, and produce timely, accurate work.
• Ability to both work independently and as part of a team; comfortable working in an office environment and offsite.
• Ability to thrive in a diverse, creative, responsive, mission-driven, and fast-paced work culture.
• Experience of successful multicultural immersion working and/or living within OFB’s Equity Constituencies: BIPoC, Immigrants & Refugees, Single Mothers, Trans and Gender-Non-Conforming folx.
• Multicultural Immersion defined as: Actively integrated in one or more communities, interacting with individuals and groups, and seeking to understand the diversities within and between communities by being there and engaging in daily life activities.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Organizational level preferred qualifications of exempt employees include:
• Multilingual skills at a minimum professional level of proficiency or greater in English and any additional language/s, defined as being able to speak the languages with sufficient structural accuracy and vocabulary to participate effectively in most formal and informal conversations on practical and professional topics.
• Multicultural skills of adaptation and integration are strongly preferred.
• Adaptation is defined as the capacity to communicate and interact with people of multiple cultures, backgrounds, and styles by incorporating and adapting to the world view and perspectives of others.
• Integration is defined as being able to “code-switch” or move in and out of one’s worldview and help others understand different cultures, backgrounds, and styles to promote diversity and inclusion.
• Commitment to continued professional development to strengthen capacity to work through an equity lens for equity and racial justice.
• Strong capacity to consider multiple perspectives, to pivot to respond to emerging needs and lead through organizational changes.
• Years of successful multicultural immersion either working with and/or living within one or more of OFB’s Equity Constituencies at the time of hire. An additional step for at least 10 years above minimum required of successful multicultural immersion working with and/or living within one or more of OFB’s Equity Constituencies at the time of hire.
• Multicultural Immersion defined as: Actively integrated in one or more communities, interacting with individuals and groups, and seeking to understand the diversities within and between communities by being there and engaging in daily life activities.

• Provide direction and managerial oversight to the Collective Action Team in their project management to support resource mobilization and relationship development strategies and tactics aligned to Community Philanthropy’s strategic priorities, annual goals, and Rooted + Rising objectives.
• Coach, guide, and supervise the Community Philanthropy Assistant Manager - Collective Action and other Collective Action staff, including oversight and management of external consultants and vendors:
• Contract, supervise, and maintain positive relationships with vendors and consultants as needed to partner in the execution of Collective Action’s scope of work.
• Ensure Collective Action team members’ project management results in effective production of assets/publications, proposals and mailings for $25,000+ supporters of all constituencies, and campaigns/events - that galvanize broad community philanthropic action, facilitate political journeys, advance a just experience of philanthropy, and mobilizing resources through transformational relationship development.
• Lead Collective Action to engage colleagues across departments and Community Philanthropy teams as they transcribe programmatic theory, funder proposal narrative, and impact data/metrics into inspiring and engaging communications for a broad and generous ($25,000+ capacity) donor audience, with readable copy as well as story-telling opportunities through print, video, digital, and visual media.
• Develop and maintain high-level, department-wide Community Philanthropy supporter communications/engagement annual calendar and compilation of most-used talking-points/communications-content-sources.
• Serve as a primary liaison with OFB’s Strategic Communications Department on Priority Initiatives including (but not limited to) OFB’s Impact Report & End-of-Year Proposal, BLOOM (OFB’s annual gala + donor stewardship event), Rooted + Rising asset production (including events, publications, and communications), and high-profile campaigns that galvanize broad community philanthropic action with significant geographic reach, supported by media and corporate partnerships.
• Provide oversight of OFB Partner Events, coordinated fundraising activities including onsite and offsite activities and support.
• Work cross-departmentally to: prioritize and optimize community engagement opportunities and outcomes;increase supporter engagement in advocacy, P2P campaigns, and fund drives; and, transition from small-scale food drives to steward organizational resources, dismantle the charity model, and shift public perception to understand that food alone cannot solve hunger.
• Ensure effective administrative support for Community Philanthropy department meetings, gatherings, etc..
• Leverage the project management expertise and infrastructure of the Collective Action Team to develop tailored events, assets, communications, and campaigns to support P2P and emerging strategies (for unique supporter segments) developed by Community Philanthropy teams directly advancing relationship development and resource mobilization goals.
• Contribute to Rooted + Rising reporting to organizational leadership, including the OFB Board of Directors and Leadership Team.
• Prepare team budget to ensure the effective and accurate management of financial resources, gift revenue, and progress toward strategic goals and objectives.
• Lead Collective Action’s annual work-planning process and implementation, in alignment with Community Philanthropy’s work planning process and timelines.
• Participate as a member of Oregon Food Bank’s Community Philanthropy Leadership Team.
• Organizational level responsibilities of exempt employees include:
• To be an ambassador and a leader for OFB’s vision and mission, a cross-departmental collaborator, and an active contributor to building a movement to end hunger for good by addressing the root causes of hunger: systemic oppressions such as racism, xenophobia, sexism, and cissexism.
• In consultation and coordination with the supervisor, actively contribute to:
• cross-departmental efforts
• work culture activities and programming
• advisory and consultative groups such as the compensation committee, affinity groups, Equity Ambassadors, Equity Think Tank meetings, among others
• plan and engage in professional development activities that strengthen your capacity for your specific role as well as your capacity to contribute and advance organizational goals, OFB’s vision and mission.
• Identify, share, engage in, and collaboratively adjust and make necessary changes to this description of duties according to the inevitable evolution of the role over time