Partnership Coordinator

About the role

This role is managed by the Vice President of Partnerships and Programs and sits on United Way’s Community Partnerships and Programs team, which is a team of five. Our team has strengths-based culture and finds value in diverse skills and strengths. Our team is a group of strong, social justice-oriented individuals who believe in high quality work to achieve community-level change. We are interested in continuous growth and improvement, as well as having hard conversations. We know that the best strategies aren’t always the easiest ones. We welcome dissenting views and would like a team member who doesn’t shy away from disagreements.

Responsibilities

• Lead how we tend to partnerships across our community, through our Building Bridges Initiative and other Community Partnerships and Programs work.
• Manage the day-to-day partner-facing operations of our Building Bridges work and other community investment processes as assigned.
• Build and maintain trusting relationships with grantees, prospective grantees, initiative partners, volunteers, and community stakeholders.
• Execute on Building Bridges partnership onboarding, and convenings for first phase of system development, aligning with other program cycles.
• Provide technical support to nonprofit partners within your skill set, capacity, and United Way’s competencies.
• Participate actively as a member of the Community Partnerships and Programs team.
• Facilitate regular partnership convenings.
• Own all partnership communications, project management related to partner-assigned tasks, and oversee smooth work-flows for all partner-focused work.
• Develop human-centered processes that do not create undue burden for community organizations, particularly ones that have limited capacity already.
• Regularly solicit feedback and implement learnings from a variety of stakeholders.
• Utilize an equity lens to understand who is not at the table and what needs to change for full participation to occur.
• Collect, analyze, evaluate, and present data on the results of UWSEMN’s work.
• Stay current on local conditions and issues by reviewing local, state, and national data sources.
• Contribute to organization-wide efforts to translate data into everyday language to tell the story of community experiences and UWSEMN’s work by creating meaningful, easy-to-read reports for internal and external audiences.

Qualifications

Primary Qualifications:

• Possess strong written and verbal communication skills in English.
• Possess the following core competencies: Focus on relationships, Adaptability and Change Management.

Skills

Preferred Skills:

• Experience working with nonprofits and community partners.
• Experience with facilitation and group dynamics.
• Experience with data analysis and evaluation.

Benefits

Health, dental, vision, and life insurance; 403b retirement plan with generous employer match available after one year of employment; 12 weeks paid parental leave; 20 days paid time off plus 15 paid holidays; flexible work schedules; hybrid/remote work options; two floating holidays to be used at the employee’s discretion.