Manager, Neighbors Advocacy (Washington, DC/Hybrid)
Description
Work. Serve. Thrive.
Imagine a place where your talent can make a meaningful difference in peoples' lives. Working at Feeding America is a uniquely rewarding experience in which our employees work together as vital parts of a much larger mission. We are innovative, mission-focused, diverse, collaborative, values-driven and focused on results.
Feeding America is the nation’s largest charity and the leading domestic hunger-relief charity in the United States. Our mission is to feed America's hungry through a nationwide network of member food banks and engage our country in the fight to end hunger.
This is a hybrid position based out of Feeding America’s Washington, DC office location. At Feeding America, we believe in offering a flexible work environment. Employees can be in the office an average of 2 days a week (when not travelling for work) and work from home on other days. Employees also have access to a 30-day “work anywhere” program during the course of each calendar year that can be combined with PTO and/or holidays.
Learn more about Feeding America here.
The Opportunity
As Feeding America works to catalyze the movement to end hunger, neighbors with lived experience of food insecurity must not only be at the center but also must be leaders and changemakers within the movement. This position is focused on building, implementing and evaluating neighbor-centered advocacy, community organizing and community engagement programming and capacity, both within Feeding America National Organization as well as with partner food banks and state associations.
Compensation
Here at Feeding America national organization, equality is central to our mission and is an integral part of our compensation policies and structures. As such, we maintain transparent salary ranges and clearly defined practices for how our team, including new hire salary offers, moves through these ranges. You can expect us to offer the best salary up front based on these clearly defined pay practices with little room for negotiation. We make exceptions for highly experienced (multiple years of at-level experience) new hires in accordance with our pay practices. Once hired, employees have the opportunity to progress through salary ranges via regular merit increases and step promotions.
Salary Range: $93,544 - $99,000 Based on Experience.
Salary Range: $93,544 - $99,000 Based on Experience.
Benefits: A comprehensive list of benefits available to full-time employees can be found here.
Responsibilities:
- Manages implementation and evaluation of key programs within Feeding America’s neighbor advocacy and organizing and community engagement strategy: plans and implements organizing trainings, creates shareable resources such as toolkits and provides technical assistance to build network members’, neighbors’ and community partners’ advocacy and organizing capacity.
- Administers, tracks and evaluates advocacy, organizing and community engagement grants, providing support in the evaluation and management of grants.
- Plans, project manages and coordinates in-person and virtual convenings focused on advocacy, community organizing and community engagement, bringing together network members, neighbors and other stakeholders.
- Engages directly with neighbor-advocates, network members and national and local stakeholders, as appropriate, to foster connection, community and power building.
- Develops and maintains a database of neighbor advocates, partners and stakeholders who have engaged in Feeding America advocacy, organizing and engagement initiatives.
- Tracks and evaluates neighbor advocacy, organizing and community engagement efforts across the network, using data to improve technical assistance and resource creation.
- Gathers and shares best practices in neighbor advocacy, organizing and community engagement across the network.
- Collaborates with appropriate internal stakeholders enterprise-wide to ensure policy positions and initiatives are integrated into cross-programmatic strategies and projects.
- Acts as a liaison for the department during internal and external conference advocacy sessions and cross-enterprise task forces as needed.
Required Competencies, Experience and Certifications:
- 5+ years’ experience in issue community organizing, advocacy, grassroots mobilization, issue campaigns or community engagement required.
- Demonstrated project management experience and strong organizational skills required. Strong attention to detail is essential in this position.
Preferred Competencies, Experience, and Certifications:
- Bilingual in Spanish preferred.
- Fosters an Enterprise Mindset
- Fosters an Open and Supportive Environment
- Leads with Accountability
- Collaborates Internally and Externally
- Focuses on People and Teams
- Manages Organization and Business Complexity
- Communicates with Impact and Influence
Feeding America’s goal is to attract, develop, retain, and promote a talented diverse workforce where all employees feel a sense of belonging and contribute to a culture that values differences, ideas, and experiences. We intentionally seek out diverse perspectives and skills on our teams, knowing that it makes us stronger as an organization and better equipped to serve our neighbors in need. We encourage all individuals, including those from historically under-represented communities and individuals with lived experience of hunger, to apply.
Feeding America participates in E-Verify and will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S. If E-Verify cannot confirm that you are authorized to work, this employer is required to give you written instructions and an opportunity to contact Department of Homeland Security (DHS) or Social Security Administration (SSA) so you can begin to resolve the issue before the employer can take any action against you, including terminating your employment. Employers can only use E-Verify once you have accepted a job offer and completed the Form I-9.