Job Title: Community Philanthropy Developer - Collective Action I
Job Homebase: Portland Headquarters - 7900 NE 33rd Dr., Portland OR 97211
Site requirement: Hybrid
Reports To: Community Philanthropy Manager - Collective Action
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Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis until filled, please apply or share interest promptly.
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A cover letter is required for consideration.
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This position is currently hybrid.
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We recognize that people gain skills and experience in many different ways. If you’re excited about this role and believe you could succeed in it, we encourage you to apply — even if you do not meet every qualification listed. We especially welcome applications from people with lived experience related to hunger, poverty, and systemic inequities.
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: You will join 40+ Community Philanthropy colleagues, passionately and collaboratively building relationships to end hunger and hunger’s root causes. Together we mobilize $44M+ in annual support for Oregon Food Bank’s mission while advancing Rooted + Rising: an $80M+ transformational campaign to realize OFB’s 10-Year Vision. We undertake this work while reclaiming philanthropy’s true meaning, a love for humankind. Love manifests as action in many forms, taken for the common good, which we inspire and facilitate through the design of community-centric programs with equity at their core. Learn more from our team members daring to imagine and leading to create a more just experience of philanthropy.
As the Community Philanthropy Developer - Collective Action, you will contribute to the organization’s success through your optimal project management of high-profile campaigns, event experiences, and donor communications that galvanize broad community philanthropic action, shape supporter experiences, and facilitate political journeys. This position reports to the Community Philanthropy Manager - Collective Action. Your work will specialize in project management to produce media assets/publications, proposals and mailings for $25,000+ supporters of all constituencies, and campaigns/events with significant reach and media/corporate sponsorships - with stewardship, education, cultivation, and solicitation objectives.
Primary Responsibilities (Essential Functions):
Support the Collective Action Manager by leading project management (including owning, building, monitoring and updating projects and tasks in Asana) for assigned Collective Action priorities and work plan goals, ensuring documentation and use of standard planning/coordination tools (MOCHAs, briefs, templates, etc) and effective delivery of intended outcomes.
Serve as primary point of contact and coordinate support from colleagues and vendors on assigned projects.
Communicate plans and processes for collaborative work across teams and with partners, including production timelines and goals; content and data development; project asset review and approval from Consultants/Approvers; and other core project management functions.
Monitor, update, and actively improve project and task management systems within Asana for assigned projects as well as at systems levels for Community Philanthropy – and connect resources related to assigned projects.
Collaborate effectively across OFB and Community Philanthropy teams (especially closely with OFB’s Strategic Communications Department) to produce content like:
Printed publications and mailed proposals such as OFB’s Impact Report, End-of-Year Proposal, and Rooted + Rising Year in Review;
BLOOM (OFB’s annual gala and donor stewardship event), virtual and in-person Community Briefings for supporters; and high-profile campaigns that galvanize broad community philanthropic action with significant geographic reach, supported by media and corporate partnerships.
Tailored events, assets, communications, and campaigns to support P2P and emerging strategies (for unique supporter segments) developed by Community Philanthropy teams directly advancing other relationship development and resource mobilization goals.
Transcribe programmatic theory, funder proposal narrative, and impact data/metrics into inspiring and engaging communications for broad and generous donor audiences through print, video, digital, and visual media.
Support the development of storytelling from donors, partners, community leaders, and staff to cultivate and share narratives that demonstrate the evolution and impact of Oregon Food Bank’s work as well as the influence of philanthropy to realize our mission and vision.
Develop visuals and videos to support narrative delivery to effectively engage audiences across a range of learning styles.
Ensure utilization of equity-driven messaging that centers our clients, identifies systemic oppression as hunger’s root cause, and furthers our 10 year vision through an equity lens - making Oregon Food Bank a political home and facilitating donors’ political journey while fostering transformational and regenerative relationship development over time.
Partner with external and internal stakeholders from intake to planning, execution, and evaluation - moving supporter relationships from transactional to transformative.
Support projects that prioritize and optimize community engagement opportunities and outcomes; increase engagement in advocacy, P2P fundraising, and fund drives; and, transition away from small-scale food drives to steward organizational resources, dismantle the charity model, and shift public perception to understand that food alone cannot solve hunger.
Partner with OFB’s President and Director of Community Philanthropy on regular communications to the Executive Portfolio and expand distribution to engage a broader audience of prospects and donors.
Help compile and maintain high-level, department-wide Community Philanthropy supporter communications/engagement annual calendar and compilation of most-used talking-points/communications-content-sources.
Collaborate with colleagues across teams on design and implementation of initiatives that strengthen practices of sustainability, selfcare, and recognition for staff department-wide.
Ensure effective administrative support for Community Philanthropy department meetings, gatherings, etc. and scheduling for the Community Philanthropy Executive Team.
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.
Skills and Experience Required:
Deep passion for eliminating hunger and its root causes.
3 years of experience in philanthropic development, project management, and/or donor communications; and/or, storytelling.
Experience interfacing with public-facing communications work including copy, design and data processes.
Strong analytical skills, high level of accuracy
Knowledge of and experience with Moves Management, Community-Centric Fundraising principles, and/or other philanthropic development concepts and methodology.
Proficiency with office technology and information systems (including GSuite, Microsoft Office), digital donor engagement platforms (preferably EveryAction), CRMs (preferably RE NXT), and/or experience with iWave, LexisNexis, or other prospecting databases. Ability to quickly adapt to new software and online tools is a plus.
Must be available for some weekend and evening responsibilities.
Organizational level skills and experience required for exempt employees include:
Disposition and willingness to maximize multiple perspectives to innovate, problem solve and seek creative solutions.
Experience in modeling intercultural competence and demonstrated commitment to equity and social justice.
Demonstrated ability to think strategically, collaborate, take initiative, and to maintain confidentiality.
Project coordination and organization skills; ability to manage multiple projects with attention to detail; ability to handle interruptions, and produce timely, accurate work.
Ability to both work independently and as part of a team; comfortable working in an office environment and offsite.
Ability to thrive in a diverse, creative, responsive, mission-driven, and fast-paced work culture.
Experience of successful multicultural immersion working and/or living within OFB's Equity Constituencies: BIPoC, Immigrants & Refugees, Single Mothers, Trans and Gender-Non-Conforming folx.
Multicultural Immersion defined as: Actively integrated in one or more communities, interacting with individuals and groups, and seeking to understand the diversities within and between communities by being there and engaging in daily life activities.
Preferred Qualifications:
The Fine Print:
Work environment:
Work is performed in an office environment while sitting in meetings or at a computer screen for extended periods inside and outside of Oregon Food Bank and will use computers and phones extensively.
May work outside of general working hours of 8:00 – 5:00 p.m., such as evenings and weekends, and occasional travel out of town may occur.
Work may require to lift, move and carry objects from 20 to 40 pounds, such as boxes containing office and other supplies. Crouching, bending, kneeling and reaching when filing. Accommodations may be available upon request.
Background Check:
This position doesn’t require a criminal background check.
Inclement Weather, Service Disruptions and Disaster Response expectations:
OFB is part of the regional disaster response network and, as part of our commitment to our community, we all are expected to report to work as soon as it’s safe to do so and to respond to the disaster, emergency, inclement weather or extended service disruption as needed and as possible. Work and paid designations are described in OFB’s Inclement Weather Guidelines. At all times staff is supported to prioritize their safety and those of their dependants, families and loved ones while in communication and coordination with supervisors.
1. Exempt classification refers to employees who earn a salary rather than an hourly rate for the work they do instead of the number of hours they take to complete the task. Exempt employees are not eligible for overtime pay or minimum wage. They; 1) Supervise two or more full-time employees or four part-time employees regularly; 2) Are responsible for managing at least part of a business; 3) Play an important role in the job status of other employees, including hiring and delegating tasks; or 1) Perform office or non-manual work directly related to the business operations or management of an organization and its customers; and 2) Exercise independent judgment and discretion over important business decisions.
