Community Development Project Manager

About the role

The City of Rochester and ROC the Future will partner with FUSE to establish a Children’s Cabinet that further strengthens coordination across systems and advances shared outcomes for children and families. The FUSE Executive Fellow will design and operationalize this governance structure to align city agencies, community partners, and data systems.

Responsibilities

• Conduct an in-depth discovery phase to develop a comprehensive understanding of Rochester’s current landscape of cross-sector coordination.
  • Lead a structured listening tour with key stakeholders, including city leadership, ROC the Future partners, school district representatives, community-based organizations, philanthropy, and business leaders.
  • Engage both existing conveners and stakeholders not currently at the table to identify gaps in representation and coordination.
  • Review existing strategies, governance structures, and data systems, including the cradle-to-career dashboard and related initiatives, and assess how decision-making currently occurs across sectors.
  • Research best practices from peer cities that have successfully implemented Children’s Cabinets or similar governance models.
• Design and support the implementation of the Children’s Cabinet.
  • Define the Cabinet’s governance structure, membership, and roles.
  • Establish clear decision-making processes and accountability mechanisms.
  • Align the Cabinet’s priorities with existing initiatives such as ROC the Future’s outcome goals and the City’s youth-focused strategies.
  • Facilitate coordination among stakeholders to ensure representation from key sectors, including education, housing, public safety, health, workforce, philanthropy, and business.
  • Help translate the Cabinet’s strategic priorities into actionable workflows by aligning existing initiatives, such as literacy efforts, community schools strategies, and out-of-school time programming, under a more coordinated framework.
• Work closely with ROC the Future and city partners to ensure alignment with racial equity principles and community-informed approaches.

Requirements

• 15+ years of progressively responsible experience in organizational transformation and change management, from practitioner to enterprise-level leadership.
• Synthesizes complex information into clear and concise recommendations and action-oriented implementation plans.
• Develops and effectively implements both strategic and operational project management plans.
• Generates innovative, data-driven, and result-oriented solutions to complex challenges.
• Responds quickly to changing ideas, responsibilities, expectations, trends, strategies, and other processes.
• Communicates effectively verbally and in writing and excels in active listening and conversing.
• Fosters collaboration across multiple constituencies to support more effective decision-making.
• Establishes and maintains strong relationships with diverse stakeholders, both inside and outside of government, particularly community-based relationships.
• Embraces differing viewpoints and implements strategies to find common ground.
• Demonstrates confidence and professional diplomacy while effectively interacting with individuals at all levels of various organizations.

Qualifications

• Experience in organizational transformation and change management, from practitioner to enterprise-level leadership.
• Ability to synthesize complex information into clear and concise recommendations and action-oriented implementation plans.
• Experience in developing and implementing both strategic and operational project management plans.
• Experience in generating innovative, data-driven, and result-oriented solutions to complex challenges.
• Ability to respond quickly to changing ideas, responsibilities, expectations, trends, strategies, and other processes.
• Effective communication skills, both verbal and written, with a focus on active listening and conversing.
• Strong collaboration skills, fostering effective decision-making across multiple constituencies.
• Strong stakeholder relationships, particularly with community-based relationships.
• Ability to embrace differing viewpoints and implement strategies to find common ground.
• Confidence and professional diplomacy in interacting with individuals at all levels of various organizations.

Skills

• Organizational Transformation and Change Management
• Data-Driven Problem Solving
• Strategic Planning and Implementation
• Stakeholder Engagement and Collaboration
• Racial Equity and Community-Informed Approaches

Benefits

This opportunity offers a competitive salary of $95,000 annually, along with various health, dental, and vision insurance benefits.

Pay

$95,000 annually

Schedule

October 26, 2026 – October 22, 2027