Director – Community Partnerships
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Community partnerships director scaling Sandy Hook Promise’s youth violence prevention programs through out-of-school-time initiatives. Leading national partnerships, pilots, implementation infrastructure, and cross-functional program delivery.
Responsibilities:
- Lead a portfolio of community-based and out-of-school-time initiatives
- Drive SHP’s out-of-school-time strategy and serve as the internal subject matter expert for this audience and delivery environment
- Oversee pilot initiatives, strengthen and codify promising models, and guide expansion toward national scale
- Ensure the portfolio advances youth violence prevention, systems influence, and national thought leadership priorities
- Lead planning, execution, and ongoing management of programs and community partnerships
- Advise organizational leaders on engaging young people beyond traditional school settings
- Manage contractors and ensure high-quality deliverables
- Lead, coach, and develop managers to achieve partnership and program goals
- Build and sustain relationships with providers, community organizations, national networks, funders, and key partners
- Lead cross-functional initiatives by establishing ownership, roles, decision rights, timelines, and stakeholder strategies
- Provide organizational leaders with concise updates and represent SHP in partner, funder, and field-facing meetings and presentations
- Represent the portfolio on Director-level committees and leadership forums
- Develop scalable tools, processes, and resources for partner selection, readiness, pilots, implementation, communications, documentation, risk management, sustainability, dissemination, and closeout
- Capture and codify lessons learned and best practices for replication and scale
- Use feedback and evaluation findings to improve implementation and inform investment and scaling decisions
- Manage project budgets, contracts, scopes of work, consultants, vendors, and grant deliverables
- Perform other duties as assigned
Requirements:
- Commitment to SHP’s mission and values
- Bachelor's degree required
- 7+ years of progressive experience leading out-of-school-time programs, youth-serving initiatives, community partnerships, or complex cross-sector programs
- Deep knowledge of the out-of-school-time field and community-based organizations and youth-serving networks
- Experience designing, launching, evaluating, and scaling pilot programs and initiatives
- Strong project management skills, including cross-functional work, budgets, timelines, stakeholder relationships, and competing priorities
- Ability to build partnerships and influence outcomes across organizations and stakeholder groups without direct authority
- Experience developing operational processes, systems, and infrastructure to support program implementation and scale
- Excellent judgment, communication, and relationship management skills
- Ability to engage effectively with executive leaders, partners, funders, and community stakeholders
- Ability to use data, evaluation findings, and partner feedback for continuous improvement and decision-making
- Experience managing budgets, contracts, vendors, consultants, and grant deliverables
- Commitment to culturally responsive, equitable, and community-centered practices
- Experience working in a remote or geographically dispersed organization preferred
- Candidates must be based in the U.S.
- Candidates must submit a project plan document or presentation deck from a previous project and discuss contributions, decisions, outcomes, challenges, and lessons learned
Benefits:
- Unlimited PTO
- Flexible schedules
- Paid holidays
- 10 days sick leave
- Paid parental leave
- Health, dental, and vision insurance
- Employer paid life insurance
- Employer paid short- and long-term disability
- 401k match
- Professional development stipend
- Wellness & mental health support
- Employer Paid Employee Assistance Program
- Laptop
- Home office reimbursement
- Monthly Wi-Fi reimbursement up to $40
- Monthly cell phone reimbursement up to $50
- Location flexibility across the country for most positions
- Remote office support for all staff
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