Partnerships Manager - Resilient Strategies LLC

Resilient Strategies•Oakland, CA

62d•$75,000 - $90,000•Remote

About The Position

Resilient Strategies is an organization that provides a robust and values-aligned infrastructure that is nimble, agile, and responsive to program, political, and campaign demands while maintaining compliance and efficiency for its partner organizations working for social justice. Within the Resilient Strategies Network, partner organizations can tap into the benefits of easily sharing staff and resources across multiple political projects with a consolidated back office to handle financial and legal services, cost allocation, human resources and payroll/benefits management, grants and contract management, technology infrastructure and support, and other core services. As a movement operations organization, we believe in building thoughtful systems that support a people-powered movement. We are providing back office support to our partner organizations, increasing their ability to build power and fight for justice in working-class communities of color. Resilient Strategies partners with key grassroots organizations led by working class people of color. Current RS Network Partner Organizations include: Seed the Vote, San Francisco Rising, the Chinese Progressive Association, Trabajadores Unidos - Workers United, Seeding Change, Bay Resistance, and AAPIs for Civic Empowerment.

Requirements

Believes in the core values of Resilient Strategies and is driven by the mission.
Demonstrates a passion for breaking new ground to lead social change.
Organized and detail-oriented: Has strong project management skills; takes initiative and pays attention to detail; builds and maintains systems that help them and others stay organized; understands the need for and is meticulous about documentation.
Demonstrated experience in: managing projects that include multiple stakeholders, coordinating meetings or events, managing varied tasks on different projects simultaneously.
Comfortable managing varied work that changes day to day, excited to work on projects that change.
Relationship-oriented: Establishes and maintains effective working relationships with all stakeholders in the course of the work; effective, thoughtful and compassionate written and verbal communication skills; with demonstrated ability to build trust and positive working relationships.
Demonstrated experience communicating verbally and by email: can communicate complex information in a way that many people can understand.
Strong track record of responsiveness by email and ability to track and follow up on small and large tasks across multiple projects.
Confidence to plan and lead group meetings.
Problem-solver: Able to act and react as necessary in a dynamic and changing environment, even if limited information is available; courageously takes charge and leadership in challenging and difficult situations; adapts to changing conditions and needs; uses initiative and sound independent judgment; knows when to ask for help and offers creative solutions.

Nice To Haves

Experience working in an administrative role in a nonprofit organization, especially in one of these areas: finance, human resources, business functions, information systems, marketing, executive assistance.
Experience with movement organizations or organizing groups, knowledge of the functions of organizing and campaigning.

Responsibilities

Build strong relationships and trust with assigned partners through consistent, supportive communication and management of their requests, as well as building an understanding of their organizational priorities and programs and attending partner organization events.
Manage your assigned partners’ requests to varied RS departments through email, chat, and our ticket management system. Some examples include: Receiving and directing requests to the appropriate RS departments, providing frequent status updates to partners, and developing an understanding of RS processes to be able to respond to basic questions and provide troubleshooting support to partners.
Managing RS staff to ensure partners’ requests are met on time. Requests cover a wide range of areas including: payroll, hiring and terminations, employee benefits, financial reporting, reimbursements and credit card management, and contract invoicing, among others.
Developing a basic understanding of RS policies, including policies that differ among organizations, and communicating information from these policies to partners accurately.
Manage canvass programs for multiple organizations, including your assigned partners and ensuring team members’ canvasses are on track. This may include: Train team members, Coordination of meetings with partner staff, RS staff, and canvass employees, processing forms, hosting hiring events, and managing paychecks and stipends for canvass employees.
Developing an understanding of the basics of campaign finance and compliance for 501c3, 501c4, and PACs.
Coordinate Assigned Partners’ Grants and Contracts, this may include: Track and share templates and commonly used documents, Understand and support partners’ use of our income tracker, Collect grant agreements for signature, Maintain a database of information on grants made by your assigned partners.
Track supplemental services requested by and provided to your assigned organization and ensure that requests are met and that services are consistently billed.
Routine review of Partnerships Department Freshdesk tickets and lift delays to teammates.
Assign Freshdesk tickets as needed.
Participate in team meetings and support facilitation.
Engage in team culture building activities and team retreats.
Champion new processes and tools used at RS, especially those that we require partner organizations to use.
Identifies needs, proposes projects and solutions, roll outs and evaluates department system improvements for efficiency and clarity of work.
Communicates administrative changes, notifications, updates and reminders to RS Network.
Oversees department use of technology to ensure efficient work of the team.
Plans, leads, develops, coordinates, and implements policies, processes, training, initiatives, and surveys to support the RS network’s partnerships compliance and strategy needs.
Tracks regulatory changes per local, state, and federal regulations, and liaises with MSO and fiscal sponsor peers for implementation consultation.
Supervision of others within the department, setting annual performance goals and managing staff development plans and opportunities.
Support and participate in other RS and Network Partner campaigns, programs and organization-wide activities as needed.