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The Southern Dallas Thrives Initiative is a multifaceted vehicle of social change and impact for under resourced southern sector communities. The goals of the initiative are to: 

• Improve the quality of education, income, and health in southern Dallas, while strengthening and supporting southern sector philanthropic and collaborative efforts. 

• Southern Dallas Thrives delivers place-based strategies and resources, innovative program design, nonprofit capacity building and collaborative partnerships to the communities of Southern Dallas.  

• Support the targeted model of United Way of Metropolitan Dallas, tailoring programming and investments to address the real-time needs of communities.  

• Expand the capacity of local non-profit organizations through strategic investments, program development, and tactical collective impact.  

The ideal candidate must be a solution focused self-starter who can conceptualize and develop plans for programming execution that yield impactful outcomes.  

United Way of Metropolitan Dallas is committed to leveraging our resources and networks to unite people, ideas, and projects that create lasting change. Together, we believe we can build a future where every North Texan, regardless of race or zip code, has the opportunity and access to reach their full potential. We invite candidates who share this commitment to apply for open positions. 

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES 

Relationship-Building with Key Stakeholders 

• In partnership with the Southern Dallas Thrives team, this role strengthens existing relationships and forge new working partnerships with community leaders, service providers, corporations, funders, public sector, educational institutions, coalitions, and other stakeholders to collectively implement strategy.  

• Represent UWMD in community coalitions, conferences, and other venues related to education, income, capacity building, and/or health in Southern Dallas. 

• Communicate with other United Way departments, agencies, and community representatives, stakeholders, funders, etc. as appropriate (communication of goals, activities, outcomes, etc.) 

• Coordinate efforts for Southern Dallas Thrives as appropriate with Marketing, Finance, Resource Development, and Volunteer Engagement. 

Program and Operations Management 

• Manage current and future operations, processes, procedures, and projects that support the Southern Dallas Thrives team and programs. 

• Work to identify new and additional collaborative and support opportunities across multiple sectors for Southern Dallas Thrives.  

• Develop and maintain a comprehensive impact data & tracking system for Southern Dallas Thrives programs and partner collaboratives in the areas of education, income, health, and capacity building.  

• Identify new opportunities to support impact programming for community members, partners, collaborators, and funders within the southern sector and other UWMD service areas where applicable.  

• Support the efforts of developing and implementing UWMD’s impact goals, programs, collaborations, and methodology.  

Grants and Service Provider Relationship Management 

• Review grant proposals and oversee portfolio of grants funded through United Way’s Southern Dallas Thrives initiative and community impact grants, assisting where necessary with UWMD’s & SDT’s holistic community and social impact investments. 

• Serve as program and event engagement implementation and execution lead for Southern Dallas Thrives and UWMD on relevant community centric activations, committees, and coalitions.  

• Provide on-going support to partner agencies, including monitoring outcomes to ensure programs align with the 10-Year Community Goals. 

To perform the job successfully, competitive applicants should demonstrate the following competencies: 

• Mission-Focused: Create real social change that leads to improving community disparities. 

• Relationship-Oriented: Ability to communicate effectively to develop, grow and sustain aligned relationships. Knows how to capture and record relevant information and how to interpret and utilize the information to forge partnerships, collaborate, cultivate, grow, sustain, and strengthen internal and external relationships. 

• Results-Driven: Dedicated to shared and measurable goals; creating, resourcing, scaling, and leveraging strategies and innovations for comprehensive impact. 

• Champion Stewardship: Our actions, behaviors, and decisions on behalf of our donors must be transparent, meet the highest ethical standards, and align with organizational goals. 

JOB REQUIREMENTS 

EDUCATION: Bachelor’s degree required; degree in urban planning, Public Administration, Business Administration, Communications, or related fields preferred. Masters degree preferred.  

EXPERIENCE: A minimum of 5 years of work experience required. Master’s degree may substitute for two years of experience. Background in program development and management, business administration, and/or non-profit management strongly desired.