Community Impact Manager, Food Security

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Your perspective fuels our mission-driven work at United Way of Greater New Haven. Consistent with our organizational values, we are committed to building a team that is inclusive across race, gender, age, religion, identity, and lived experience and believe that diverse perspectives are fundamental to the work we do.

Who We Are Looking For

Are you passionate about improving the lives of our neighbors and ensuring that everyone has access to basic needs? Do you enjoy organizing groups of people and organizations to identify ways to work together and solve community challenges? UWGNH is seeking a Community Impact Manager, Food Security, who will play a critical role in supporting UWGNH's efforts to end hunger in our community. This position is responsible for leading UWGNH’s convening, grantmaking, innovation and advocacy work in the area of food insecurity in Greater New Haven.

KEY AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITY

Project Management of Food Insecurity Initiatives:

Manage multiple programs such as Neighborhood Pop-up Pantries, Pantry Pass, School Break Groceries, municipal food task forces, and others as identified.  

Coordinate and facilitate meetings of local food insecurity task forces and collaboratives such as CFAN (Coordinated Food Assistance Network) and the Hamden Food Task Force. 

Help identify community needs and opportunities to address hunger in our region.

Monitor, evaluate, and work collaboratively and responsively on United Way’s food insecurity work to ensure effective and efficient operations.

Oversee relationships with partners and the delivery of outcomes.  

Advocate on behalf of United Way and its partners to promote initiatives and policies that aim to end hunger in Greater New Haven. Advocacy activities may include providing testimony, writing Op-Eds, and coordinating local events with legislators.

Relationship Building and Partner Engagement:

Effectively promote United Way programs and services to maximize relationships and build strategic partnerships. 

Facilitate nonprofit and workplace volunteer partnerships. 

Participate in community-wide coalitions that are in alignment with United Way’s community impact strategy. 

Navigate complex relationships with multiple stakeholders.  

Support the solicitation of program impact stories from partner organizations for marketing efforts.

Work cross-departmentally to support the identification and development of content for marketing and fundraising collateral. 

Other Job Duties as needed:

Keep abreast and knowledgeable about issues and trends of food insecurity, education, equity issues, and related social services by networking with local, state, and national sector knowledge leaders. 

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

Management Experience: Demonstrated success in project management and relationship management. 

Communication Skills: Strong communication skills; able to interface with all departments internally and ability to represent UW in a variety of settings. Demonstrated ability to synthesize material, both verbally and in written form for a broad audience. Able to present information at meetings.  

Facilitation Skills: Experience with group facilitation, training, and working in a collaborative environment. Ability to facilitate meetings effectively while balancing multiple points of view. 

Partnership Skills: Positive customer-service orientation to both external partners as well as our internal United Way team. Skills to establish and maintain high quality relationships with a variety of stakeholders.   

Planning Skills: Excellent organization skills and a sharp attention to detail. Flexible thinker who can balance systems thinking and on-the-ground implementation. Ability to proactively see what actions are needed, take initiative, and implement projects. 

Technology Skills: Strong proficiency in Microsoft Office applications including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Access, as well as the Google Suite platform.  Experience with other CRM and data management platforms, preferred. 

Project Management Skills: Must be able to take initiative, demonstrate leadership, work collaboratively and produce consistently high-quality work. Ability to analyze and exercise sound judgment. Highly motivated and creative out-of-the-box problem solver.  

Relationship skills: Community minded with high-level active listening skills and the ability to connect with people of different economic and ethnic backgrounds. Ability to balance a variety of perspectives representing all areas of diversity including race, ethnicity, gender, ability, age, sexual orientation, and religious beliefs/faith practices. 

Education: Bachelor’s degree with three to five years of relevant experience in a nonprofit OR the equivalent of lived experience in related fields. 

DESIRED KNOWLEDGE & SKILLS:      

Experience gathering community input and recommending/building programs to address needs.

Understanding of the Greater New Haven landscape of nonprofit partners in the areas of food assistance and health.   

Comfort in summarizing data and creating data visualizations.

Ability to work with diverse staff and volunteers.

Personal qualities of integrity, credibility, and dedication to the mission of UWGNH. 

JOB RELATIONSHIPS WITH: United Way staff, nonprofit partners, statewide agencies, municipal staff, community volunteers

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES: None

WORKING CONDITIONS:       

Normal office environment with little exposure to dust, noise, or temperature.

Hybrid position, expected to work at least 2 days/week in our New Haven office

Ability to lift up to 20 pounds.

Extended viewing of computer monitor.  

Local and statewide travel is required; Out of state travel as needed.

Reliable transportation required.  

Regular evening and some weekend responsibilities.  

SALARY RANGE: $61,000-$65,000 annual salary plus competitive benefits package

In accordance with organizational policies, this position requires a criminal background check as a condition of employment.

About United Way

United Way of Greater New Haven brings people and organizations together to create solutions to Greater New Haven’s most pressing challenges in the areas of Education, Health, and Financial Stability grounded in racial and social justice. We tackle issues that cannot be solved by any one group working alone.

United Way is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Don’t check off every box in the requirements listed above? Please apply anyway! Studies have shown that marginalized communities - such as women, LGBTQ+ and people of color - are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. United Way of Greater New Haven is dedicated to building an inclusive, diverse, equitable, and accessible workplace that fosters a sense of belonging – so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to still consider submitting an application. You may be just the right candidate for this role or another one of our openings!

To Apply: Please submit your cover letter and resume at United Way of Greater New Haven Inc - Job Opportunities