Statewide Partnership Director (Florida)
Job Details
Level: Experienced
Job Location: Position Type: Full Time
Status: Exempt
Education Level: None
Salary Range: $70,000–$78,000
Travel Percentage: up to 25%
Job Shift: Day
Job Category: Nonprofit - Social Services
Job Category: Political
About For Our Future
Founded in 2016, For Our Future Action Fund and For Our Future run the largest, permanent progressive field program across key states. Our vision is to expand the progressive infrastructure and advance economic prosperity for all, strong community schools, climate justice, and civil rights. Along with community partners and volunteers, we consistently engage with people in face-to-face conversations around what issues matter most to them. By organizing people in lasting relationships, we win elections, drive local progress, make a community's collective voice heard, and help build the transformative power needed to improve people's lives.
In 2018, we made over 10 million door knocks and held 1.5 million face-to-face conversations with voters in 7 states. Our turnout operation and innovative program helped restore voting rights to 1.4 million Floridians, expand Medicaid coverage to 400,000 in Virginia, and resulted in sizable electoral progress at the state and federal level, including the pickup of 3 Governor's mansion, 1 Senate seat, 13 Congressional seats, and 22 state legislative seats.
For Our Future will continue to grow and win through 2020, building power across issue fights and elections. Headquartered in Washington, DC, our current state programs include Florida, Michigan, Nevada, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Wisconsin.
Job Summary
The Florida Partnership Director is responsible for designing, building and managing an outreach program, to be executed by state and regional staff as well as a statewide granting program. The Partnership Director will work with the state director and other departmental leadership to craft region-specific outreach plans and programming to foster long-term relationships and long-term partnerships at every level. They will work with specific constituency groups to organize and support their programming to achieve greater field and earned media capacity and should have experience working with diverse constituencies, a commitment to supporting and expanding the progressive base, and strong communications skills. In addition to developing the program, the Partnership Director will ultimately be responsible for developing systems to assess and report out on the success of the program at every level and in every region to ensure we achieve our organizational goals.
For Our Future Florida is a statewide, coalition organization that builds progressive power through voter engagement and organizing within communities around key issues of strengthening public education, advancing social and racial justice, preserving our environment and fighting for working families.
The Partnership Director is a senior staff position based at our Fort Lauderdale headquarters. This is a full-time position with benefits through at least November 6, 2020.
Duties and Responsibilities Include:
● Conducting outreach to progressive organizations and leaders.
● Attending issue and organizing table meetings.
● Working with state leadership to manage granting process and oversee communications with grantees.
● Managing a statewide contact database of political and progressive contacts and interactions.
● Engaging Regional Directors to foster good communications flow between state and regional operations.
● Expanding our network of partner progressive organizations at the state level.
● Aiding the field and communications teams in building capacity and identifying opportunities for earned media by engaging progressive organizations and community leaders.
● Assigning and tracking goals related to Partner Engagement and Volunteer Engagement from partner membership.
● Working with the Field Director to assign and track goals related to Direct Voter Contact and Volunteer Recruitment as it pertains to Partner Engagement.
Qualifications & Experience:
● A firm understanding of Florida's legislative process and political landscape, and the path to power in the state. Ability to work and adapt to a changing political and policy landscape.
● Ability to develop short and long-term statewide plans, set objectives and metrics, track progress toward achieving objectives, and align those strategies with other progressive efforts in the state. Ability to get buy-in and build consensus among a diverse group of stakeholders for that plan.
● Dedication to grassroots, local organizing and to empowering state/local organizations to lead our work. Understanding of local community-based organizations and respect for their leaders and programs.
● Inclination to lead via organizing rather than by decree. Ability to build strong teams to accomplish goals without a need to bottom-line everything. Talented in coalition and team building.
● Three cycles of experience working for a combination of political, progressive, or governmental organizations.
● Experience in engaging diverse communities and organizations required.
● Relationships with 501(c)4 progressive organizations in Florida preferred.
● Experience working for an organization that provides programmatic grants to other organizations preferred.
WORK ENVIRONMENT
Work environments vary, but typically is performed in an office environment, however there may be times when the Partnerships Director may have to travel to turfs to ensure all field programs are operating accordingly.
PHYSICAL DEMANDS
● The physical demands of the job include bending and sitting and walking for extended periods.
EXPECTED HOURS OF WORK
● Normal hours of business are from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM Monday thru Friday, however employees may be required to work outside of normal business hours including weekends, holidays and nights.
● Employees may be required to abide by certain blackout dates during a campaign cycle, and generally not allowed to take more than 2-3 days off consecutively. Emergencies are not affected by this policy.
Benefits
For Our Future offers the following benefits to all full-time employees:
● Health insurance coverage - 95% employer paid, and 5% employee paid.
● Paid Parental Leave.
● Retirement savings plan with matching contributions up to the first 5%.
● $100 monthly cell phone bill reimbursement.
● 13 days paid time off every calendar year, as well as other paid holidays.
This job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee. Other duties, responsibilities and activities may change or be assigned at any time with or without notice.
For Our Future Action Fund is an equal opportunity employer. This application will not be used for limiting or excluding any applicant from consideration for employment on a basis prohibited by local, state, or federal law, including race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital or parental status, creed, national origin, disability, ancestry, military service, or veteran status. Should an applicant need reasonable accommodation in the application process, they should contact a company representative.
AT-WILL EMPLOYMENT
The relationship between you and the For Our Future Action Fund is referred to as "employment at will." This means that your employment can be terminated at any time for any reason, with or without cause, with or without notice, by you or the For Our Future Action Fund/For Our Future. No representative of For Our Future Action Fund has authority to enter into any employment agreement with you that is contrary to the foregoing "employment at will" relationship. By signing below, you hereby affirm your that your employment is "at will", and that you acknowledge that no oral or written statements or representations regarding your employment can alter your "at will" status, except for a written statement signed by you and our Chief Executive Officer or duly authorized representative as determined by a resolution of the Board of Directors of For Our Future Action Fund.
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