Manager, Neighbors Advocacy (Washington, DC/Hybrid)

Feeding America•Washington, DC

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

Work. Serve. Thrive. Imagine a place where your talent can make a meaningful difference in peoples' lives. Working at Feeding America is a uniquely rewarding experience in which our employees work together as vital parts of a much larger mission. We are innovative, mission-focused, diverse, collaborative, values-driven and focused on results. Feeding America is the nation’s largest charity and the leading domestic hunger-relief charity in the United States. Our mission is to feed America's hungry through a nationwide network of member food banks and engage our country in the fight to end hunger. This is a hybrid position based out of Feeding America’s Washington, DC office location. At Feeding America, we believe in offering a flexible work environment. Employees can be in the office an average of 2 days a week (when not travelling for work) and work from home on other days. Employees also have access to a 30-day “work anywhere” program during the course of each calendar year that can be combined with PTO and/or holidays. The Opportunity As Feeding America works to catalyze the movement to end hunger, neighbors with lived experience of food insecurity must not only be at the center but also must be leaders and changemakers within the movement. This position is focused on building, implementing and evaluating neighbor-centered advocacy, community organizing and community engagement programming and capacity, both within Feeding America National Organization as well as with partner food banks and state associations.

Requirements

5+ years’ experience in issue community organizing, advocacy, grassroots mobilization, issue campaigns or community engagement required.
Demonstrated project management experience and strong organizational skills required.
Strong attention to detail is essential in this position.

Nice To Haves

Bilingual in Spanish preferred.

Responsibilities

Manages implementation and evaluation of key programs within Feeding America’s neighbor advocacy and organizing and community engagement strategy: plans and implements organizing trainings, creates shareable resources such as toolkits and provides technical assistance to build network members’, neighbors’ and community partners’ advocacy and organizing capacity.
Administers, tracks and evaluates advocacy, organizing and community engagement grants, providing support in the evaluation and management of grants.
Plans, project manages and coordinates in-person and virtual convenings focused on advocacy, community organizing and community engagement, bringing together network members, neighbors and other stakeholders.
Engages directly with neighbor-advocates, network members and national and local stakeholders, as appropriate, to foster connection, community and power building.
Develops and maintains a database of neighbor advocates, partners and stakeholders who have engaged in Feeding America advocacy, organizing and engagement initiatives.
Tracks and evaluates neighbor advocacy, organizing and community engagement efforts across the network, using data to improve technical assistance and resource creation.
Gathers and shares best practices in neighbor advocacy, organizing and community engagement across the network.
Collaborates with appropriate internal stakeholders enterprise-wide to ensure policy positions and initiatives are integrated into cross-programmatic strategies and projects.
Acts as a liaison for the department during internal and external conference advocacy sessions and cross-enterprise task forces as needed.