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Civic Engagement and Grass Roots Manager

Houston Food Bank · Houston, TX · 4 wk ago
Business Development$65k–$81k/yrFull-time
We need to output HTML fragment with sections: About the role (maybe from description), Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections where there is real specific content. We need to parse the job posting. Key info: - Position Summary: Civic Engagement Manager leads implementation of HFB's civic participation efforts. Develop, implement, manage robust civic engagement strategy, educate and mobilize individuals to participate in elections and engage government officials and communities. Design outreach and advocacy campaigns, work with internal teams, volunteers, community members, external partners to grow work throughout service area. Adhere to PACT values. - Essential Job Functions (list): Reliable, consistent attendance; punctuality; attending meetings; designs strategies and tactics for executing and scaling civic engagement plan; supervises Civic Engagement Coordinator's implementation of voter and civic engagement plans; manages budget for grant associated with civic engagement initiatives; manages relationships with HFB’s partner network and volunteers to assess capacity for civic engagement, including voter engagement and advocacy for systems change; manages HFB’s involvement in the 2030 Census work; develops and provides training for HFB neighbors, partners, internal staff, volunteers alongside Civic Engagement Coordinator; helps design and implement efforts with HFB partners, neighbors, stakeholders to collect insight on community needs and opportunities related to civic engagement; in collaboration with Government Relations team and Marketing and Communications Department, builds and executes social media and advocacy campaigns to raise awareness about civic engagement; assists in inputting and providing reports on civic engagement metrics utilizing Government Relations’ information management system and ensuring voter engagement metrics are reported to Houston in Action; finalizes interim and yearly written reports to Houston Endowment and helps prepare proposals for future funding. - Supervisory Responsibilities: Manages one (1) director report and indirectly provides guidance/oversight to employees/contractors; carries out responsibilities per policies and laws; develops and maintains roles, responsibilities, expectations; practices performance management; performs administrative duties associated with being a manager; responsibilities include interviewing, planning, assigning, directing work, resolving problems; also includes sponsoring, directing, coordinating, supporting project and process improvement teams, participating in and/or supporting project teams sponsored by other management team members. - Requirements: QUALIFICATIONS: Education/Experience: Bachelor's degree from accredited four-year college or university or 3-5 years of experience. 1-2 years of community organizing experience; 2-3 years of supervisory experience; Experience with facilitation of group discussion; training community members; individual interviews that guide storytelling; and strategic planning; Fluency in Spanish is preferred. - Certificates, Licenses, And Registrations: Must have reliable transportation, a valid driver’s license, and insurance. - Special Knowledge/Skills/Abilities: list many: proficiency in MS Word, Excel, Outlook; ability to work with diverse population; strong customer service skills; excellent communication and presentation skills verbal/written; ability to effectively communicate to and facilitate large groups; able to communicate complex information clearly; excellent interpersonal skills and ability to work with diverse stakeholders; ability to manage multiple tasks and priorities in fast-paced environment; attentive to detail; exceptional organizational and logistical skills; strong problem-solving skills; able to coordinate well with other departments and personnel; ability to operate computer, copier, other business equipment; strong project management skills with ability to plan, organize, manage resources to execute a voter engagement plan within defined timelines and budgets; Public Speaking and Presentation Skills: ability to speak confidently to large groups, lead civic engagement information sessions, represent HFB in civic engagement discussions; Data Analysis and Outcome Evaluation: competent in gathering, analyzing, reporting data on voter engagement efforts to assess impact and identify areas for improvement. - Compliance: Carries out responsibilities in accordance with HFB policies. - Reasoning Ability: Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out detailed but uninvolved written or oral instructions; ability to deal with problems involving a few concrete variables in standardized situations. - Competencies: Business Insight / Instills Trust / Drives Engagement / Optimizes Work Processes / Directs Work / Composure / Manages Ambiguity / Communicates Effectively / Organizational Savvy / Decision Quality / Manages Conflict / Presentation Skills - Physical Requirements: while performing duties, employee required daily to analyze and interpret data, communicate, remain in standing or stationary position for significant amount of workday; often access, input, retrieve information from computer and other office productivity devices; employee must regularly move about facility, use hands, wrists, fingers to grip, type, write; employee must be able to occasionally lift 15 pounds; employee will need to have average ability to hear horns, warnings, alerts associated with a warehouse. - Work Environment: generally performed in office environment; employee occasionally exposed to wet/humid conditions, strong food-related smells, outside weather conditions; noise level typically quiet but occasional loud noise (horns, fans). - Travel Required: Travel required for this position, including up to 30% of the time within the 18-county service area. This role supports hours of operations at HFB facilities, as necessary, and may require flexibility (e.g., times of disaster, community events, company events). Is legally able to work in the United States. - Salary Description: Starting pay: $64,600 - $80,700. We need to produce sections: About the role (maybe from position summary), Responsibilities (essential job functions + supervisory responsibilities?), Requirements (education/experience etc), Qualifications (maybe combine with requirements? The instruction says use headings for About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We need to decide what goes where. We have a lot of content; we need to avoid duplication. We'll map: - About the role: Position Summary paragraph. - Responsibilities: Essential Job Functions list (maybe also supervisory responsibilities). Could combine both essential functions and supervisory responsibilities under Responsibilities. - Requirements: Education/Experience, Certificates/Licenses, maybe also physical requirements? But physical requirements maybe under Requirements or separate? The instruction says use Requirements heading for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. Actually they said: Use
  • for any list of duties/requirements/benefits, and

    for prose. So we can put requirements as list. - Qualifications: maybe the Special Knowledge/Skills/Abilities list? Or the competencies? The posting has "QUALIFICATIONS:" then Education/Experience etc. Then later "Special Knowledge/Skills/Abilities". Then "Competencies". Could treat Qualifications as the Education/Experience etc. And Skills as the Special Knowledge/Skills/Abilities list. Or we could combine. We need to avoid thin sections. We'll produce: - About the role:

    About the role

    ...position summary...

    - Responsibilities:

    Responsibilities

    • ...list each essential function...
    • ... plus supervisory responsibilities maybe as separate items. - Requirements:

      Requirements

      • Education/Experience: Bachelor's degree ... or 3-5 years experience.
      • 1-2 years community organizing experience.
      • 2-3 years supervisory experience.
      • Experience with facilitation of group discussion; training community members; individual interviews that guide storytelling; strategic planning.
      • Fluency in Spanish preferred.
      • Must have reliable transportation, valid driver’s license, and insurance.
      - Skills:

      Skills

      • Proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, and Outlook.
      • Ability to work with a diverse population.
      • Strong customer service skills.
      • Excellent communication and presentation skills, verbal and written.
      • Ability to effectively communicate to and facilitate large groups.
      • Ability to communicate complex information clearly.
      • Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to work with diverse stakeholders.
      • Ability to manage multiple tasks and priorities in a fast-paced environment.
      • Attentive to detail.
      • Exceptional organizational and logistical skills.
      • Strong problem-solving skills.
      • Ability to coordinate well with other departments and personnel.
      • Ability to operate computer, copier, and other business equipment.
      • Strong project management skills with ability to plan, organize, manage resources to execute a voter engagement plan within defined timelines and budgets.
      • Public speaking and presentation skills: ability to speak confidently to large groups, lead civic engagement information sessions, represent HFB in civic engagement discussions.
      • Data analysis and outcome evaluation: competent in gathering, analyzing, reporting data on voter engagement efforts to assess impact and identify areas for improvement.
      - Benefits: Not provided in posting. So we should NOT include Benefits section. - Pay: we have salary description: Starting pay: $64,600 - $80,700. So include Pay section. - Schedule: Not explicitly given; only mention travel up to 30% and flexibility, but no schedule like full-time/part-time hours. The job type is Full-time mentioned at top. Could we include Schedule? The posting says Job Type Full-time. That's schedule info. So we could include Schedule section with "Full-time". However instruction: "never create Pay/Schedule/Benefits sections unless the posting actually states them." The posting states Job Type Full-time, so we can include Schedule with Full-time. Also we have travel requirement but not schedule. We'll include Schedule: Full-time. We must not include boilerplate like EEO etc. Already removed. We must not repeat job title as heading. Already not. We must not put Job ID/requisition numbers as headings. We must preserve all substantive information; do not invent or summarize away detail. We need to ensure we include all substantive info from the posting. Let's check if we missed any: - PACT values mention: we included in About the role? We could add a sentence about adhering to PACT values. We'll include in About the role paragraph. - Essential Job Functions list: we need to include each bullet. Let's capture them precisely: 1. Reliable, consistent, attendance is a requirement. This position requires punctuality and dependable attendance to meet the needs of the business, including attending and taking part in meetings and presentations. 2. Designs the strategies and tactics associated with executing and scaling HFB’s civic engagement plan. 3. Supervises the Civic Engagement Coordinator’s implementation of voter and civic engagement plans to ensure deliverables are met. 4. Manages the budget for the grant associated with civic engagement initiatives. 5. Manages relationships with HFB’s partner network and volunteers to assess capacity for civic engagement, including but not limited to voter engagement and advocacy for systems change. 6. Manages HFB’s involvement in the 2030 Census work. 7. Develops and provides training for HFB neighbors, partners, internal staff, and volunteers, alongside the Civic Engagement Coordinator. 8. Helps design and implement efforts with HFB partners, neighbors, and other stakeholders to collect insight on community needs and opportunities related to civic engagement. 9. In collaboration with the Government Relations team and Marketing and Communications Department, builds and executes social media and advocacy campaigns to raise awareness about civic engagement. 10. Assists in inputting and providing reports on civic engagement metrics utilizing Government Relations’ information management system and ensuring voter engagement metrics are reported to Houston in Action. 11. Finalizes interim and yearly written reports to Houston Endowment and helps prepare proposals for future funding. - Supervisory Responsibilities: list: - Manages one (1) director report and indirectly provides guidance and/or oversight to employees and/or contractors. - Carries out responsibilities in accordance with the organization's policies and applicable laws. - Develops and maintains roles, responsibilities, and expectations. - Practices performance management in support of associate development, and performs administrative duties associated with being a manager of associates. - Responsibilities include interviewing, planning, assigning, and directing work, and resolving problems. - Responsibilities also include sponsoring, directing, coordinating, and supporting project and process improvement teams, and participating in and/or supporting project teams sponsored by other management team members.

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