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Senior Associate, Community Engagement
Job Description
At the Obama Foundation, we are guided by a core belief: that ordinary people working together can change history. Our mission is to inspire those people to take action, empower them to change their world for the better, and connect them so they can achieve more together than they can alone.
We were founded by community organizers, so when we seek change, we do it by bringing people together.
That approach begins at home, on the South Side of Chicago, where we are building the Obama Presidential Center. The Center represents a historic opportunity for Chicago: a chance to build a world-class museum and public gathering space that celebrates our nation's first African American President and First Lady, steps away from where he began his career, where she was raised, and where—together—they made their home.
But that approach extends to all our work, whether it's holding leadership training sessions in communities throughout the U.S., bringing local leaders together in countries around the world, working to support the global education of girls, or ensuring young men of color have pathways to opportunity.
As President Obama has said, "we cannot solve the challenges of our time unless we solve them together." So join us.
For more information, please visit www.obama.org.
Purpose of the Role
As a member of the Civic Engagement team, the Senior Associate, Community Engagement leads the implementation of the Foundation's theory of change in a region of Chicago by contributing to a human-centered, data driven, and place-based strategy. In this role, you will develop impactful relationships, solicit input from key stakeholders and collaborate cross-departmentally to ensure that input is incorporated into the organization's Chicago impact and Obama Presidential Center strategy. Additionally, you will ensure that goals outlined for the community engagement and government affairs strategies are met by proactively tracking actions, measuring progress, and reporting out metrics.
Core Job Responsibilities
- Develop & Manage Chicago Grassroots Ecosystem: Develop and manage key relationships with stakeholders and grassroots leaders (non-profits, activists, faith leaders, business owners, students, youth) to weave the Foundation into Chicago's civic tapestry and generate the community support necessary to develop the OPC. This role should facilitate an effective dialogue on areas of mutual concern and opportunity. This includes, but is not limited to, advising the needs of the OPC workforce plan and building an effective dialogue on the issues concerning construction.
- Develop & Manage Chicago Neighborhood Initiatives: Develop and execute neighborhood-based strategies for implementing the OPC community engagement program, identifying when and where to engage across geographic areas of Chicago.
- OPC Research: Design and lead community-based research to inform OPC design, programming, and operations, acting as an organizational hub for community feedback; analyze data and share insights cross-departmentally.
- OPC Project Management: Execute on external-facing projects and partnerships related to OPC community activation, including Civic Engagement/OPC Team collaborative initiatives.
- Operationalize Place-Based Strategies: Ensure Chicago neighborhood teams initiative and government affairs strategy are fully operational by designing and maintaining a system for tracking priorities and actions, and working across the vertical to ensure goals are met.
- Chicago Impact Communications: Publicize Chicago impact initiatives and public engagement efforts via regular external and internal communications methods.
- Community Engagement Assets: This role contributes to developing assets that can be leveraged to inform & energize stakeholders and community residents about the OPC, the Foundation's mission, and our commitment to Chicago. This includes creating detailed-oriented presentations, briefings, memos, and other communications.
- Perform other duties as assigned
Key Deliverables / Outcomes
- Surveys, focus groups, and community meetings that solicit feedback from key stakeholder groups and an up-to-date system for sharing that feedback cross-departmentally
- Community engagement plan and activation
- Regular landscape scans of potential OPC programming partners and an up-to-date system for tracking/evaluating those potential partners.
- Project management system/tool for Chicago neighborhood team & government affairs strategies
- Reports tracking milestones and goals for Chicago neighborhood team & government affairs strategies
- Salesforce data management
- Up-to-date communications materials, including decks and one-pagers
Required Qualifications
- Excellence in written and verbal communication (including direct communication with members of the Chicago community).
- Experience building and implementing community-informed research strategies, including writing and designing surveys, focus groups, and questionnaires to solicit feedback on a variety of topics.
- Experience in stakeholder engagement and management.
- Experience leading and providing assistance to support projects around Chicago engagement and program development.
The salary range for this role is between $78,000 and $130,000
Don't check off every box in the requirements listed above? Please apply anyway! Studies have shown that marginalized communities - such as women, LGBTQ+ and people of color - are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. The Obama Foundation is dedicated to building an inclusive, diverse, equitable, and accessible workplace that fosters a sense of belonging – so if you're excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to still consider submitting an application. You may be just the right candidate for this role or another one of our openings!
In the interest of employee health and safety during the pendency of the COVID-19 global pandemic, the Obama Foundation is requiring that all prospective employees present proof that they are fully-vaccinated against COVID-19, or seek a reasonable accommodation for religious or medical reasons, prior to their first day of employment.
Equal Opportunity Employer
The Foundation is committed to creating a diverse work environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. The Foundation does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, gender identity, religion, sexual orientation, age, disability, parental status, veteran status, or any other protected status under applicable laws. We encourage individuals of all backgrounds to apply. If you are a qualified candidate with a disability, please e-mail us at careers@obama.org if you require a reasonable accommodation to complete this application.
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