Director, Community Partnerships

Sandy Hook Promise•, (Multiple States)

3d•$100,000 - $110,000•Remote

About The Position

Sandy Hook Promise (SHP) is a national nonprofit organization dedicated to preventing school shootings and other acts of violence. They achieve this by educating and empowering youth and adults through their Know the Signs prevention programs, which teach individuals to recognize warning signs of someone in crisis and how to seek help. SHP also advocates for school safety, youth mental health, and responsible gun ownership through policy and partnerships. The organization was founded by family members of victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. SHP values belonging, community, engagement, and respect, actively seeking to create an inclusive culture that embraces diverse perspectives. Most staff work remotely across the U.S., with this role requiring approximately 25% travel, necessitating proximity to a major airport.

Requirements

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 the needs of community-based organizations and youth-serving networks.
Experience designing, launching, evaluating, and scaling pilot programs and initiatives.
Strong project management skills, including managing cross-functional work, budgets, timelines, stakeholder relationships, and competing priorities.
Demonstrated 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, with the ability to engage effectively with executive leaders, partners, funders, and community stakeholders.
Ability to leverage data, evaluation findings, and partner feedback to drive continuous improvement and inform decision-making.
Experience managing budgets, contracts, vendors, consultants, and grant deliverables.
Commitment to culturally responsive, equitable, and community-centered practices.
Must be based in the U.S.

Nice To Haves

Advanced degree or relevant certification preferred.
Experience working in a remote or geographically dispersed organization preferred.

Responsibilities

Lead a portfolio of community-based and out-of-school time initiatives.
Drive the organization's out-of-school time strategy and serve as the internal subject matter expert.
Oversee pilot initiatives, strengthen promising models, and guide their expansion.
Build and maintain trusted partner relationships.
Establish the infrastructure for consistent implementation.
Translate lessons learned into scalable practices and models.
Influence across teams, build alignment, clarify ownership, and address challenges proactively.
Ensure the portfolio advances SHP's strategic priorities related to youth violence prevention, systems influence, and national thought leadership.
Lead the planning, execution, and ongoing management of out-of-school time programs and community partnerships.
Advise organizational leaders on engaging young people beyond traditional school settings.
Manage contractors to ensure high-quality deliverables and alignment with strategic priorities.
Lead, coach, and develop managers to achieve partnership and program goals.
Build and sustain strong relationships with out-of-school time providers, community organizations, national networks, funders, and other key partners.
Understand partners' goals and operating environments while maintaining clarity around SHP's expectations, standards, resources, and decision-making authority.
Lead cross-functional initiatives by establishing clear ownership, roles, decision rights, timelines, and stakeholder engagement strategies.
Provide organizational leaders with concise, action-oriented updates and represent SHP in partner, funder, and field-facing meetings.
Represent the portfolio on Director-level committees and leadership forums.
Develop and implement scalable tools, processes, and resources to support partner selection, readiness assessments, pilot launches, implementation support, communications, documentation, risk management, sustainability, dissemination, and project closeout.
Capture and codify lessons learned and best practices to support replication and scale.
Leverage feedback and evaluation findings to strengthen implementation, inform investment and scaling decisions, and enhance organizational storytelling.
Manage project budgets, contracts, scopes of work, consultants, vendors, and grant deliverables.
Perform other duties as assigned to support organizational priorities.