COMPHY Manager - Corporate Relations - Oregon Food Bank Inc

Application Guidelines:

Applications will be accepted until the position is filled.

A cover letter is required for consideration.

This position is currently hybrid.

Out-of-state selected candidates will be required to relocate to the Oregon/SW Washington area within 60 days of their start date.

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 Visionand are profoundly excited to achieve this vision for and with our community.

Position Summary: Youwill join 40+ Community Philanthropy colleagues, passionately and collaboratively building relationships to end hunger and hunger’s root causes. Together we mobilize $24M+ in annual support for Oregon Food Bank’s mission while advancing Rooted + Rising: A $50M+ transformational campaign to realizeOFB’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 Manager - Corporate & Community Relations, you will contribute to the organization’s success through your leadership of Community Philanthropy’s Corporate & Community Relations Team - designing and facilitating strategies and tactics to fulfill relationship development and resource mobilization goals and objectives with business, corporate, and community partners. This position reports to the Community Philanthropy Associate Director whose responsibilities include oversight of corporate philanthropy. The Corporate & Community Relations Team is supported by an Assistant Manager, up to three Developers, and up to three Coordinators, all employing a range of activities from relationship management to facilitate direct philanthropy and employee giving campaigns from high-profile corporate partners, to regional fund-drives with media partners and local sports teams/celebrities, to cause-related marketing campaigns with statewide grocery retailers, and more.

Primary Responsibilities (Essential Functions):

• Provide direction and strategic oversight to the Corporate & Community Relations team in the design and implementation of resource mobilization and relationship development strategies and tactics aligned to Community Philanthropy’s strategic priorities, annual goals, and Rooted + Rising objectives.

• Coach, guide, and supervise the Community Philanthropy Assistant Manager - Corporate & Community Relations and other Corporate & Community Relations staff, including oversight and management of external consultants and vendors.

• Ensure CCR’s effective cultivation, solicitation, and stewardship of ~400 major to leadership gifts ($25,000-$100,000+) business and corporate donors in managed portfolios and an additional 1,300-1,500 business and community supporters giving annually: engaging them to deepen their relationship with Oregon Food Bank by helping to end hunger and hunger’s root causes (which we define as the drivers of poverty, including racism, sexism, transphobia, xenophobia, etc).

  • Steward historic and acquire new business and corporate supporters, generating $4-6M in annual giving and increasing engagement in OFB’s community organizing, systems-change, and policy advocacy initiatives.

  • Monitor account portfolios for team members, including setting goals and assisting in the development of financial as well as equity- and love-centric performance metrics.

  • Work cross-departmentally to prioritize and optimize corporate and community engagement opportunities and outcomes, increasing engagement in advocacy and fund drives and transitioning small-scale food drives to steward organizational resources, dismantle the charity model, and shift public perception to understand that food alone cannot solve hunger.

  • Manage major corporate giving and community engagement programs such as organization-wide sponsorship opportunities, cause-related marketing, employee-giving and employee-matching, community outreach events, food and fund drives, and more.

  • Innovate and vanguard new traditions in corporate and business stewardship and recognition, elevating love- and equity-centrism in stewardship, including collaboration with the Strategic Communications team to identify corporate and organization recognition needs and opportunities in OFB’s print and online publications.

  • Partner effectively across Community Philanthropy’s Events & Special Projects, Donor Relations, and Database & Systems Teams on segment-specific stewardship initiatives.

  • Incorporate equity-driven messaging that centers the client as hero and reinforces systemic oppression as hunger’s root causes in all donor communications.

  • In coordination with Prospect Research & Management, track prospects and manage progression of supporters through the donation cycle.

• Manage portfolio of complex, high-impact corporate accounts; responsible for all aspects of account management, including: planning, executing, and evaluating relationship development activities while utilizing equity-centric and asset-based storytelling, and articulating systemic oppression as hunger’s root cause.

  • Strategically engage and retain philanthropic partners to make Oregon Food Bank a political home and facilitate donors’ political journey, and help to foster transformational and regenerative relationship development over time.

• Design complex partnerships that increase visibility, maximize brand impressions, and generate resources for Oregon Food Bank and the OFB Network.

• Prepare team budget to ensure the effective and accurate management of financial resources, gift revenue, and progress toward strategic goals and objectives.

• Lead the Corporate & Community Relations Team’s annual work-planning process and implementation, in alignment with Community Philanthropy’s work planning process and timelines.

• Participate as a member of Oregon Food Bank’s Community Philanthropy Leadership 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.

• 5 years success in nonprofit fundraising with progressive responsibility and a proven record of securing visits with prospective donors, and soliciting, closing, and stewarding major gifts (of which 3 years includes corporate engagement experience).

• 3 years of experience leading, coaching, training, and inspiring a team of colleagues (this may include direct supervisory duties of professional staff or interns, oversight of contract vendors and consultants, volunteer supervision, or guiding a team of peers in group projects, etc.).

• Ability to ask for financial support, make persuasive presentations and develop reports that may include technical information.

• Ability to lead, manage and organize fundraising activities effectively, prioritize prospects, and participate in high-level donor discussions.

• Excellent interpersonal, oral, and written communication and presentation skills.

• Strong organizational skills.

• Ability to develop long-term plans, set objectives, and track progress towards achieving objectives.

• 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) and donor databases, preferably Raiser’s Edge. Ability to quickly adapt to new software and online tools a plus!

• 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:

• Organizational level preferred qualifications of exempt employees include:

  • Multilingual skills at a minimum professional level of proficiency or greater in English and any additional language/s, defined as being able to speak the languages with sufficient structural accuracy and vocabulary to participate effectively in most formal and informal conversations on practical and professional topics.

  • Multicultural skills of adaptation and integration are strongly preferred.

    • Adaptation is defined as the capacity to communicate and interact with people of multiple cultures, backgrounds, and styles by incorporating and adapting to the world view and perspectives of others.

    • Integration is defined as being able to “code-switch” or move in and out of one's worldview and help others understand different cultures, backgrounds, and styles to promote diversity and inclusion.

  • Commitment to continued professional development to strengthen capacity to work through an equity lens for equity and racial justice.

  • Strong capacity to consider multiple perspectives, to pivot to respond to emerging needs and lead through organizational changes.

  • Years of successful multicultural immersion either working with and/or living within one or more of OFB’s Equity Constituencies at the time of hire. An additional step for at least 10 years above minimum required of successful multicultural immersion working with and/or living within one or more of OFB’s Equity Constituencies at the time of hire.

    • 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.

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.

This role requires travel/personal vehicle use /work outside normal hours.

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.