Communications and Program Manager

Please note: We are pausing the acceptance of applications due to a high number of submissions. Please check back for an update. 

About Funders Together to End Homelessness
Our Mission: Funders Together to End Homelessness mobilizes its members to use philanthropy’s voice, influence, and financial capital to end homelessness by creating and advancing lasting solutions that are grounded in racial and housing justice, driven by love and disruption, and centering people with lived expertise.

About Funders Together: Funders Together to End Homelessness is a philanthropic membership organization devoted to ending homelessness in the United States and advancing housing justice. We provide critical resources and learning and networking opportunities to our members to increase their knowledge, capacity, and effectiveness in both the individual and collective work to prevent and end homelessness. Funders Together acts as a vehicle for members to be part of a broader movement and bring greater financial and intellectual resources for housing justice.

COVID-19: Funders Together is an entirely remote organization, and all staff work from home unless travelling for work. Employment with Funders Together is conditional on full COVID-19 vaccination, with exceptions for documented medical exemptions or religious accommodations.

Communications and Program Manager
This position provides a lead role in communications and supports programming activities at Funders Together. This position plays a key leadership role in connecting how we talk about our work, programming and members to the broader Funders Together network.

Communications

• Work with the Chief of External Affairs to lead and execute the communications strategy to articulate Funders Together’s and our members’ impact in preventing and ending homelessness and advancing housing justice
• Develop and manage a proactive communications plan and calendar (emails, blog posts, social media) in alignment with the programming calendar, and create communications to promote Funders Together programming, resources, and other important updates and announcements
• Create or support development of resources for members, including monthly member newsletters, annual reports, marketing emails, blog posts, and other online resources and marketing materials
• Develop and manage Funders Together’s digital presence, including website and social media pages (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn)
• Maintain organization’s listservs to ensure accurate subscriptions and manage content and technical needs
• Represent the organization in the National Coalition for Housing Justice communications working group in partnership with the Chief of External Affairs

Programs
This manager will support general programming for our funder network as well as activities related to our regional and issue-based funder networks and communities of practice.

• Support the execution of annual funder convenings by drafting materials such as program agendas and outlines, writing event and session descriptions, supporting speaker outreach, and coordinating logistics (virtual and in-person formats)
• Support the delivery of general programming by proofing and editing program descriptions, gathering materials such as speaker bios and headshots, creating print materials, creating and updating programming webpages, and providing live support and notetaking during virtual and in-person programming
• Support programming follow up including sending follow-up communications to program participants and speakers and creating webinar recording and resource pages
• Manage the programming and communications calendars to bring cohesion and thoughtful strategy to when and how we plan and communicate our programming

Qualifications and Compensation

Required Qualifications

• Strong commitment to racial justice, housing justice, and the mission, vision, and values of Funders Together to End Homelessness.
• Proven record of strong written communications skills with ability to understand the target audience’s point of reference and key questions
• Exercise strong time and project management skills as well as the ability to work independently in a virtual setting
• Experience with software and systems including Salesforce, NationBuilder, Zoom, and MailChimp
• Personable, relatable, and relationship-oriented; must work well with all types of people and be able to bring out the best in those around them
• Ability to be forward thinking and anticipate potential opportunities and challenges for the communications and programming work
• Ability to adapt to changing or ambiguous circumstances smoothly

Additional Qualifications

• Knowledge of homelessness, philanthropy, human services, or housing systems or interest in establishing a knowledge of these topics
• An eye for and skills related to visual imagery and graphic design
• Experience working in a small, virtual team that spans contiguous US time zones
  

Other Details

• Given the remote nature of this position, staff must be able to maintain their own office and work schedule during core hours, which are currently between 10am – 4pm ET (with flexibility for candidates from other US time zones). Candidates must be based in and able to work in the United States.
• This is a full time, exempt, remote position. This position requires domestic travel roughly 20-30% of the time and the ability and willingness to work occasional nights and weekends.

Reports to: Chief of External Affairs

Compensation: $70,000 - $75,000, plus generous benefits including:

• 3 weeks of paid time off (increases to 4 weeks after 2 years), 12 paid holidays, and 15 paid sick days
• Paid parental leave and short- and long-term disability leave
• Health, dental, and vision insurance (80% employer paid), as well as flexible spending accounts (health, dependent care, and commuter)
• 5% employer contribution to 403b beginning the month following one-year work anniversary (employee can contribute immediately)
• Other benefits include a 4-week restoration and retention time off after 3 years, 3-month sabbatical after 5 years, and 3-month sabbatical after 10 years.
  

How to Apply
We are pausing the acceptance of applications due to a high number of submissions. Please check back for an update.