Manager, Partner Relationships

The Organization

Community Partners offers expert guidance, essential services, and a strong dose of passion to help foster, launch, and grow creative solutions to community challenges. For 28 years, hundreds of individuals, groups, foundations and other institutions have worked with Community Partners to create new nonprofit projects, establish coalitions, and manage major philanthropic initiatives to benefit the region. Across all program areas, Community Partners works toward our organizational vision: an equitable, thriving, and inclusive civil society.

Our work includes:

Fiscal Sponsorship

We provide the structure, finance and administrative services, expert counsel and connections that help nonprofit leaders succeed.

Intermediary Services

We help foundations, corporations, government agencies and other institutions achieve greater impact.

Knowledge Sharing

We offer workshops, reports, speaking engagements and a range of publications to help strengthen the field. Community Partners today works with upwards of 140 fiscally-sponsored projects and initiatives and manages roughly $70 million in revenues annually. Our work spans the fields of civic engagement, arts and culture, education, social justice, health, public policy, social services, and youth.

To learn more, please visit us at www.CommunityPartners.org

THE POSITION

Community Partners seeks a full time, exempt Manager, Partner Relationships. Reporting to the Senior Director of Fiscal Sponsorship & Capacity Development, this position plays a pivotal role and works in collaboration with Fiscal Sponsorship team members. This position will be responsible for support project partners with capacity-building that enhances the effectiveness and sustainability of our projects. This role requires a strategic thinker with a deep understanding of nonprofit operations, program development and organizational development. Community Partners staff are working remotely but are required to be in-office one day a week (which may increase in the future) and the position is located in Los Angeles County. This role will be required to travel locally (across LA County), occasional evening and/or weekend work and provide on-site event support.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Mentorship and Coaching

• Conduct comprehensive assessments of projects’ needs, identify strengths, and areas for improvement in programmatic and operational capacities.
• Develop customized capacity building plans based on assessment findings.
• Provide ongoing coaching and mentorship to project leaders and staff to support the implementation of capacity building strategies.

Resource Mobilization

• Collaborate with partners to identify and access resources, including grants, technical assistance providers, external capacity building workshops and seminars and networking opportunities.

Relationship Management

• Manage one-on-one consultations with project partners regarding organizational development.
• Coordinate the project satisfaction survey and ensure timely dissemination of findings internally and externally.
• Develop and implement assessment and evaluation tools to assess the impact of capacity building interventions on fiscally sponsored projects.
• Manage the regular communication with project partners through weekly announcements and monthly newsletters.

Collaboration and Networking

• Represent Community Partners publicly and help extend our civic reach through strategic networking and relationship building.
• Support in outreach activities, onboarding and separations from project transitioning out of Community Partners.

Administrative Support

• Maintain accurate records of communications with projects, progress and outcomes. Generate reports for internal stakeholders.
• Provide programmatic, administrative, and events support on fiscal sponsorship initiatives, including thought partnership for content development, documentation of processes and learning, and conducting issue area specific research and synthesizing findings.
• Track project timelines and remind internal and external colleagues about deadlines.
• Contribute to team efforts by accomplishing other duties as needed.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent experience) with at least 5 years of relevant work experience in organizational development is required.
• Must have excellent organizational skills, be highly attentive to detail, and can manage multiple projects simultaneously in a busy, fast-paced, complex and evolving team environment. A passion and proven track record for detail-oriented work is required.
• Demonstrate exceptional interpersonal and communication skills with diverse audiences including staff members in all positions throughout the organization, as well as external stakeholders such as event participants, vendors, and funders.
• Able to understand an issue and take initiative to develop and implement solutions.
• Deep knowledge with the landscape of LA’s nonprofit, philanthropic, and government sectors preferred.
• Comfortably utilize Zoom and other digital platforms to host virtual, interactive convenings and team meetings.
• Proficiency in MS Office and multiple online platforms required.
• Ability to travel throughout Los Angeles County required.
• We welcome applications from people who consider themselves under-represented in the nonprofit sector even if they feel they meet only some of the qualifications.

PHYSICAL

The employee is regularly required to sit for extended periods of time, frequently required to walk and stand. The employee must also use their hands to operate office equipment and reach with hands and arms. Employee may occasionally climb, stoop, kneel or bend. Employee may occasionally lift and/or move up to 20 pounds. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with special needs to perform essential job duties.

COMPENSATION

Salary range: $72,000 - $95,000 depending on experience. Benefits include paid holidays and vacation, a 403(b) plan (with employer match after two years), medical, dental, vision, flex spending, Metro pass, and a range of professional development opportunities.

Community Partners has a 9/80 work week option under which employees may elect to work 80 hours in 9 days and take every other Friday off (after completion of introductory period).

APPLICATION Interested applicants should send a cover letter and resume by clicking here.

https://recruiting.paylocity.com/recruiting/jobs/Apply/2960042/Community-Partners/Partner-Relationships-Manager

Resumes without cover letters will not be considered. Community Partners® is an equal opportunity employer committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce. In addition, the organization will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring.