Strategic Partnerships Coordinator

Application Guidelines:


Applications will be accepted until the position is filled.

A cover letter is required for consideration.

This position is currently hybrid.
Out-of-state selected candidates will be required to relocate to the Oregon/SW Washington area within 60 days of their start date.

Who We Are:


Oregon Food Bank (OFB) believes that no one should be hungry. Our mission is to eliminate hunger and its root causes. We believe that food and health are basic human rights for all. We know that hunger is not just an individual experience; it is also a community-wide symptom of systemic barriers to employment, education, housing and health care such as systemic racism, sexism, and cissexism. That's why we work systemically to achieve our mission to end hunger:
we foster community connections to help people access nutritious food, and we build community power and strengthen networks of support and the safety net to eliminate the root causes of hunger for good.

We build community power to dismantle systems and policies that drive hunger and poverty.

Oregon Food Bank is an Equal Opportunity Employer, and we strongly encourage applications from candidates who can increase the diversity of our organization and strengthen our capacity to eliminate hunger. We believe strongly in the power of lived experience - and we actively seek individuals who have experienced hunger and its root causes to join our team. Our organization is stronger because of the leadership of people who have faced food insecurity in their own lives and/or hail from historically under-represented communities. Learn more about our commitment at oregonfoodbank.org/equity.

Who You Are:


You care deeply about community, about people experiencing hunger and hold them in the center of all that you do. You are committed to apply equity as a process and an outcome of your work to disrupt systemic social patterns that promote hunger such as racism, sexism, and cissexism. You have a strong affinity with OFB's 10 Year Vision and are profoundly excited to achieve this vision for and with our community.

Position Summary:


As the Strategic Partnerships Coordinator, you will contribute to the organization's success through developing and cultivating long-term, values-based relationships with community organizations and other partners aligned with Oregon Food Bank's systems change work. Led by the Strategic Partnerships Manager, and in collaboration with other key OFB staff, this individual works with external organizational partners to co-develop strategies and engage in multifaceted collaborations that support Oregon's food justice movement. This coordinator also implements a range of strategies to expand and strengthens Oregon Food Bank's systems change work - including supporting the Policy Leadership Council and Food For all Oregonians.

Primary Responsibilities (Essential Functions):

• Develops and cultivates long-term, interdependent relationships with community-based organizations and leaders who serve those most impacted by hunger with a clear emphasis on shared values of race, gender, and economic justice.
• Builds engagement plans with strategic partners for the Food for All Oregonians campaign.
• Creates a systematic, process-driven approach to partner outreach and relationship management
• Implement tactics to build and strengthen strategic partnerships. Develops email, calls and SMS scripts for strategic partnerships outreach. Schedules one to ones and coordinates partner site visits.
• Builds collaborations - with an emphasis on capacity building - with community organizations led by Black, Indigenous and all People of Color, immigrants and refugees, trans and gender non-conforming individuals, and single mothers and caregivers.
• Participates in supporting the Policy Leadership Council as part of expanding leadership and political power in our systems change platform.
• Represents Oregon Food Bank at various coalition spaces and tables aligned with our food justice priorities to advance knowledge and strategies for policy change.
• Plans, coordinates, and conducts partner training activities, plans partner events, and develops training and workshop materials for partner capacity building
• Compiles data and create monthly reports on strategic partnerships efforts
• Based on capacity, it provides on the ground support to local organizing campaigns aligned with OFB priorities to increase coalitions for the food justice movement.
• Participates fully in cross-department teams as determined as critical to position responsibilities.
• Identifies opportunities to amplify the leadership and stories of leaders as experts through lived-experience to inspire community action.
• Organizational level responsibilities of exempt employees include:
  
  
  • To be an ambassador and a leader for OFB's vision and mission, a cross-departmental collaborator, and an active contributor to building a movement to end hunger for good by addressing the root causes of hunger:
    systemic oppressions such as racism, xenophobia, sexism, and cisexism.
  • In consultation and coordination with the supervisor, actively contribute to:
    
    
    • cross-departmental efforts
    • work culture activities and programming
    • advisory and consultative groups such as the compensation committee, affinity groups, Equity Ambassadors, Equity Think Tank meetings, among others
    • plan and engage in professional development activities that strengthen your capacity for your specific role as well as your capacity to contribute and advance organizational goals, OFB's vision and mission.
• Identify, share, engage in, and collaboratively adjust and make necessary changes to this description of duties according to the inevitable evolution of the role over time.

• Deep passion for eliminating hunger and its root causes.
• Excellent relationship-building skills. Demonstrated ability to develop and maintain values-based relationships with a variety of multicultural and multi-sector partners.
• Experience working in formal and/or informal coalition spaces.
• 2-3 years experience in community engagement.
• Ability to communicate effectively verbally and in writing with a range of audiences.
• Fluency in community organizing skills and ability to apply skills in a range of contexts. Demonstrated ability to use these skills to center and elevate the leadership of BIPOC community members.
• Strong public speaking and facilitation skills, including presentations and trainings to a wide range of audiences.
• Self-directed; able to take initiative and maintain a high level of accountability
• Process-minded; excels at managing and improving processes.
• Demonstrated ability to handle sensitive information effectively and confidentially.
• Exceptional interpersonal skills with high degree of emotional intelligence; possess cultural agility skills to work effectively with diverse groups of individuals and communities.
• An unwavering commitment to racial justice.
• Organizational level skills and experience required for exempt employees include:
  
  
  • Disposition and .