Manager, Advancement, The HAVI

The Health Alliance for Violence Intervention (HAVI) envisions a world where communities end violence and foster healing. Our mission is to reduce violence, particularly in communities of color, by advancing hospital-based violence intervention programs (HVIPs) and coordinated, community-led systems that heal trauma and promote equity.

HVIPs are rooted in the philosophy that violence is preventable, and that violent injury offers an opportunity to break cycles of violence. HVIPs integrate the expertise of violence prevention professionals (VPPs) with credibility and lived experience of violence. VPPs build rapport with violently injured individuals and offer pathways to safety and transformative healing. They use trauma-informed practices in the hospital emergency department or at the hospital bedside immediately after a violent injury occurs. After individuals are discharged from the hospital, VPPs continue to support them, collaborating closely with medical staff and with community partners to provide comprehensive, wraparound services.

HVIPs embrace a public health approach to violence prevention as they are grounded in data, which indicate that victims of violence are at elevated risk for re-injury and violence perpetration. This model has been the subject of numerous peer-reviewed studies indicating promising impact on injury recidivism, contact with the criminal legal system, and trauma symptoms. The HAVI is implementing Standards and Indicators for HVIPs nationally to ensure sustainability and fidelity to the model. HVIPs are now a recommended practice by the federal government.

The HAVI’s network has grown to hundreds of individuals, including physicians, nurses, social workers, therapists, violence prevention professionals, outreach workers, and researchers who are affiliated with 72 member programs in the U.S., Canada, England, and El Salvador. Our goal is to support the growth of HVIPs throughout the United States. Internally, the HAVI is structured in 4 divisions: Organizational Growth and Equity, Policy and Communications, Communities of Practice, Data, Research and Evaluation. Each division works to operationalize the HAVI’s mission and Strategic Plan to strengthen the community violence intervention (CVI) field.

The HAVI is a fiscally sponsored project of Health Resources in Action, Inc. (HRiA).

Health Resources in Action, Inc. (HRiA) is a non-profit organization working to improve and reimagine public health. We connect, consult, and collaborate to solve complex challenges of access and equity in our health and social systems. Together with our partners, clients, and collaborators, we create actionable solutions so that all people can thrive.

In 1957, The Medical Foundation (TMF) was created to primarily fund biomedical research in Massachusetts. Since then, we’ve been on a journey of evolution. We changed our name to Health Resources in Action (HRiA) to reflect our impact in the field of public health. Today, HRiA works with individuals, organizations, and communities to drive a policy and systems change approach to advance health and racial equity.

HRiA seeks sustainable solutions for complex problems using an anti-racist approach. We aim to be adaptable and flexible in meeting clients and partners where they are, offering our decades of knowledge and resources to collectively realize our dream of equitable, sustainable health for all. The foundation of this work is centered on our values:

• Health and racial equity by identifying and addressing the root causes of health inequities, intentionally working to shift narratives and power imbalances and disrupt all systems of oppression.
• Leading with heart by demonstrating our passionate commitment to our work, continuously challenging ourselves with humility and vulnerability while pursuing and holding ourselves accountable to our mission.
• Collaboration by intentionally and respectfully leading, partnering, and following to strengthen relationships, uplift different voices and build trust.
• Innovation by driving toward new strategies, questioning norms, and continuously learning and evolving to support the needs of our clients and communities.

HRiA offers exciting, engaging, and challenging employment opportunities for facilitators, trainers, researchers, analysts, policy specialists, grant managers, and more. People come to HRiA because of our commitment to advancing health equity and inspiring work; they stay for our wonderful clients, partners, and dedicated and dynamic staff. With our growing portfolio of high-impact work, person-centered policies, and generous benefits, our team continually invests in making HRiA a great place to work. Our diverse staff of over 270 people hail from 30+ states, with a home base in Boston’s Chinatown neighborhood.

Position Description

The Manager will play a critical role in grant management, tracking, and reporting, event sponsorships, individual giving campaigns and CRM development and management. The Manager will be situated in the HAVI’s Organizational Growth and Equity Division that works to align the strategic priorities of the organization among the executive director, board, senior leadership, staff, and fiscal sponsor to achieve the HAVI's racial equity, organizational, programmatic, and fiscal goals.

We are searching for a proven manager and administrator to support the infrastructure of our growing organization. The Manager will monitor grants and contracts, manage proposal teams, processes, and tasks, and engage stakeholders to meet grant and contractual requirements. They will improve the structure and functioning of the CRM, manage the CRM, and produce reports. Together with the Associate Director of Advancement, they will implement and manage an individual giving program and provide support for the major gifts program. We seek a professional with experience in grant management and a passion for violence intervention and equity work. The ideal candidate should be able to manage time-sensitive deliverables while also being able to pivot quickly as new opportunities and circumstances arise.

The Manager will report to the Associate Director of Advancement and This is an exempt, full-time position with a salary range of $65,000 - $75,000, based on experience and internal equity factors. Some occasional national travel may be needed for this position.

Benefits

HRiA offers the following benefits to its employees:

• Health insurance
• Retirement plan
• Flexible summer hours
• Vacation starting at 4 weeks.
• Thirteen paid holidays, plus office closure time during the last week of December.

Duties & Responsibilities

Management

• Manage and support projects, activities and tasks related to development, fundraising, individual giving and grant management.
• Monitor grants and sponsorships to ensure that the HAVI is meeting its contracted deliverables, and manage close-outs, extensions and renewal processes.
• Cultivate relationships with stakeholders to advance HAVI’s development goals, vision, mission, and values.
• Manage a Client Relationship Management (CRM) platform that is specific to development functions. This includes inputting data and maintenance tasks, checking trends, setting up automations and workflows, and generating dashboards and reports.
• Ensure development management systems work together smoothly (CRM, donor landing page, etc.).
• Work with the Associate Director of Advancement, Strategic Planning Director, Managing Directors, and Executive Director to ensure that grant solicitations and sponsorships are aligned with organizational and programmatic priorities.

Project Work

• Use HAVI’s CRM and project management tools (Asana) to create dashboards, reports, set-up automations and workflows, and data tracking for development. Additionally, generate schedules, calendars, reports and other materials to increase effectiveness and efficiency.
• Orient staff to their responsibilities relative to revenue and expense grant contracts.
• Work with project and administrative staff to ensure compliance in the submission of vendor invoices, reporting requirements and project management.
• Coordinate schedules and meeting agendas, take minutes and communicate with staff and external stakeholders.
• Maintain sponsorship lists, requests, and records.
• Communicate and provide relevant resources to all necessary stakeholders promptly. This will include thank you letters and other cultivation mailings.
• Assist the Associate Director of Advancement in supporting the work of the HAVI Advancement Council, and interfacing with the Communications team to develop an individual giving structure, calendar and campaigns.
• Maintain and improve development filing system and be accountable for grant materials and contracts.
• Complete other duties as assigned.

Thought Leadership

• Participate in strategic planning for the growth and direction of the network.
• Participate in regional and national conferences and forums on behalf of HAVI, as necessary.
• Contribute ideas to advance the division and organization’s work, with a focus on systems development and quality improvement.

Business Development

• Use Foundation Search, DonorSearch, and/or other grant search and donor wealth engine software for identifying and building relationships with potential donors and funders.
• Assist the Associate Director of Development and the Communications staff in developing and implementing an individual giving program strategy.

Candidate Qualifications

Expertise

• Demonstrated experience in grant management, grant reporting, donor management, individual giving, and donor prospecting.
• Ability to efficiently manage multiple tasks with accuracy, a high-level of organization, and with attention to detail.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Ability to adapt communication appropriately for purpose and audience.
• Fundraising CRM implementation, maintenance, and reporting skills, including the ability to design a system for best use, develop reporting strategies, and input and clean data.

Organizational Values and Competencies

• Operates with a lens of equity, social justice, and trauma-informed approaches.
• Demonstrated understanding of health and racial equity and the root causes of inequities
• Commitment to advancing racial equity, cultural humility, and respect for diverse perspectives and lived experiences.
• Ability to thrive in a collaborative team environment and to work independently as needed.
• Proactive, solution-oriented work style.
• Growth mindset and ability to adapt to changing needs.
• Flexibility and a sense of humor
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite, including Word, Outlook, Excel, Teams, PowerPoint, and SharePoint
• Experience working successfully in a virtual, fully remote environment strongly preferred.

This description is intended to indicate the kinds of work duties that will be required in this position. It is not intended to limit, or in any way modify, the rights of any supervisor to assign, direct, and contract work of staff under their supervision. The use of a particular illustration describing duties shall not be held to exclude other duties, not mentioned, that are of a similar level or difficulty.