Director of Minority Community Organizing and Partnerships

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The National Education Association (NEA) is America’s oldest and
largest organization committed to advancing the cause of public
education. Headquartered in Washington, DC, NEA proudly claims more
than 3 million members devoted to the following mission: to advocate
for education professionals and to unite our members and the nation to
fulfill the promise of public education by preparing every student to
succeed in a diverse and interdependent world. Our vision is a great
public school for every student. We strive to improve the quality of
teaching, increase student achievement, and make schools safer and
better places to learn.
The NEA has created a new department of Minority Community Organizing
and Partnerships, which will be housed within NEA’s Center for
Advocacy and Outreach. NEA is seeking applications from highly
skilled and motivated executives to direct this department. The
Director will lead the Association’s efforts in developing and
implementing a comprehensive strategy to build and sustain existing
and new relationships with community organizations and allies, with
primary emphasis on ethnic minority communities. These efforts will
include building relationships between NEA and its affiliates and
outside organizations, entities, and individuals at the federal, state
and local levels. The Director will advance NEA’s advocacy efforts by
assisting the organization and its affiliates in identifying, focusing
on and engaging ethnic minority communities to partner with NEA in
fulfilling NEA’s mission and vision, and collaborating on shared
priorities. The Director will be responsible for developing and
implementing an annual strategic plan for the Association’s outreach
to, and relational development with, all external entities. The
Director will help integrate partnerships into NEA campaign plans and
programs, which will involve significant cross-departmental
collaboration with other department directors. The Director of this
department will report to the Senior Director of the NEA Center for
Advocacy and Outreach, will oversee staff, and will be responsible for
building strong relationships between NEA leaders and external
organizations and individuals.
Responsibilities:
• Identifies and builds effective organizational relationships with
partners who can assist in the efforts to transform public education,
with a particular focus on students and schools most in need. Helps
support our own members’ engagement, leadership, and organizing of
parents and ethnic minority communities and organizations (with a
specific focus on those low performing schools that have been selected
as NEA’s Priority Schools).
• Holds extensive relationships with organizations, entities, and
individuals, particularly within or serving ethnic minority (emerging
majority) communities.
• Builds the outreach efforts of NEA state and local affiliates both
by using NEA’s organizational resources to extend outreach efforts to
the state and local level, and by assisting state and local affiliates
in assessing gaps in affiliates’ partnerships and outreach efforts and
building their own organizational relationships.
• Supports, in collaboration with other departments, NEA members and
leaders pursuing activism, advocacy, leadership, and organizing in
ethnic minority communities and organizations.
• Tracks the activities of and assesses the capacity of outside
organizations to advocate on behalf of public education and social and
economic justice issues, consistent with NEA’s core values.
• Identifies new and potentially powerful organizations and entities,
as well as trends in outside organizations’ advocacy, organizing,
civic engagement, communications, or research strategies that may
impact NEA’s work.
• Aligns and coordinates across multiple NEA departments’ various
forms of outreach and engagement, measuring the impact of such
outreach, and ensuring the overall alignment of our external relations
to the NEA strategic priorities.
• Develops and implements detailed processes and procedures for
making, monitoring and evaluating annual financial and in-kind
contributions to partner organizations to ensure that sufficient
returns on investment.
• Collaborates with the Office of the Executive Director to align our
outreach work with our ongoing work to build and maintain
relationships with individual and corporate donors and foundations, as
well as other philanthropic partners.
• Frequent travel required.
Qualifications:
• Bachelor’s degree required.
• Relevant graduate degree and/or certification preferred.
• A minimum of seven years of NEA state association or equivalent
experience required; with at least three years of executive level
experience preferred.
• Demonstrated knowledge of organizational legal and business
structures (especially 501(c)(3), 501(c)(4), 501(c)(5), and 527
organizations) and their capacities and functions.
• Skills in evaluating and assessing the organizational capacity of
potential partners.
• Demonstrated issue, organizing, or electoral campaign experience.
• Political savvy with ability to navigate sensitive and complex
internal and external issues and to manage high level relationships
successfully.
• Demonstrated record of effective coalition and advocacy abilities.
• Knowledge of and experience with the philanthropic community, grant
writing, and policy analysis.
• Proven ability to effectively manage staff, programs and budgets,
including creating successful work teams and developing and
implementing team action plans.
• Effective skills in supervision, decision-making, oral/written
communications, interpersonal relations, team building, and
collaboration.
• Proven ability to measure and evaluate the success of outreach efforts.

Applications are now being accepted. Internal applicants must apply
by May 29, 2012. External applicants may apply until the position is
filled. Interested candidates should apply online at www.nea.org/jobs.
A résumé, writing sample, references and writing test are required
from all applicants.

The National Education Association is an equal opportunity/affirmative
action employer and encourages women, minorities and persons with
disabilities to apply.


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