Human Resources
Statewide Partnership Director (Florida)
Job Details
Level: Experienced
Job Location: Position Type: Full Time
Status: Exempt
Education Level: None
Salary Range: $70,000–$78,000
Travel Percentage: up to 25%
Job Shift: Day
Job Category: Nonprofit - Social Services
Job Category: Political
About For Our Future
Founded in 2016, For Our Future Action Fund and For Our Future run the largest, permanent progressive field program across key states. Our vision is to expand the progressive infrastructure and advance economic prosperity for all, strong community schools, climate justice, and civil rights. Along with community partners and volunteers, we consistently engage with people in face-to-face conversations around what issues matter most to them. By organizing people in lasting relationships, we win elections, drive local progress, make a community’s collective voice heard, and help build the transformative power needed to improve people’s lives.
In 2018, we made over 10 million door knocks and held 1.5 million face-to-face conversations with voters in 7 states. Our turnout operation and innovative program helped restore voting rights to 1.4 million Floridians, expand Medicaid coverage to 400,000 in Virginia, and resulted in sizable electoral progress at the state and federal level, including the pickup of 3 Governor’s mansion, 1 Senate seat, 13 Congressional seats, and 22 state legislative seats.
For Our Future will continue to grow and win through 2020, building power across issue fights and elections. Headquartered in Washington, DC, our current state programs include Florida, Michigan, Nevada, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Wisconsin.
Job Summary
The Florida Partnership Director is responsible for designing, building and managing an outreach program, to be executed by state and regional staff as well as a statewide granting program. The Partnership Director will work with the state director and other departmental leadership to craft region-specific outreach plans and programming to foster long-term relationships and long-term partnerships at every level. They will work with specific constituency groups to organize and support their programming to achieve greater field and earned media capacity and should have experience working with diverse constituencies, a commitment to supporting and expanding the progressive base, and strong communications skills. In addition to developing the program, the Partnership Director will ultimately be responsible for developing systems to assess and report out on the success of the program at every level and in every region to ensure we achieve our organizational goals.
For Our Future Florida is a statewide, coalition organization that builds progressive power through voter engagement and organizing within communities around key issues of strengthening public education, advancing social and racial justice, preserving our environment and fighting for working families.
The Partnership Director is a senior staff position based at our Fort Lauderdale headquarters. This is a full-time position with benefits through at least November 6, 2020.
Duties and Responsibilities Include:
● Conducting outreach to progressive organizations and leaders.
● Attending issue and organizing table meetings.
● Working with state leadership to manage granting process and oversee communications with grantees.
● Managing a statewide contact database of political and progressive contacts and interactions.
● Engaging Regional Directors to foster good communications flow between state and regional operations.
● Expanding our network of partner progressive organizations at the state level.
● Aiding the field and communications teams in building capacity and identifying opportunities for earned media by engaging progressive organizations and community leaders.
● Assigning and tracking goals related to Partner Engagement and Volunteer Engagement from partner membership.
● Working with the Field Director to assign and track goals related to Direct Voter Contact and Volunteer Recruitment as it pertains to Partner Engagement.
Qualifications & Experience:
● A firm understanding of Florida’s legislative process and political landscape, and the path to power in the state. Ability to work and adapt to a changing political and policy landscape.
● Ability to develop short and long-term statewide plans, set objectives and metrics, track progress toward achieving objectives, and align those strategies with other progressive efforts in the state. Ability to get buy-in and build consensus among a diverse group of stakeholders for that plan.
● Dedication to grassroots, local organizing and to empowering state/local organizations to lead our work. Understanding of local community-based organizations and respect for their leaders and programs.
● Inclination to lead via organizing rather than by decree. Ability to build strong teams to accomplish goals without a need to bottom-line everything. Talented in coalition and team building.
● Three cycles of experience working for a combination of political, progressive, or governmental organizations.
● Experience in engaging diverse communities and organizations required.
● Relationships with 501(c)4 progressive organizations in Florida preferred.
● Experience working for an organization that provides programmatic grants to other organizations preferred.
WORK ENVIRONMENT
Work environments vary, but typically is performed in an office environment, however there may be times when the Partnerships Director may have to travel to turfs to ensure all field programs are operating accordingly.