Partnership Manager

An Equal Opportunity Employer Committed to a Diverse Workforce

Department: Community Impact Team (CIT) 
Reports to: Director, Regional Learning and Partnerships   
Classification: Union Exempt
Closing Date: Open until filled

Overview: 

Are you passionate about helping people in Bay Area communities move out of poverty?   Do you enjoy working with a team of committed professionals working to create greater opportunities for children, youth and families in low-income communities? Are you passionate about the important work that non-profits perform in the community?  Are you excellent at relationship building and project management?

United Way Bay Area seeks to help more people break the cycle of poverty by helping them to become career ready, to get work experience, and to get connected to further education, training, or employment.  We do that by partnering with community organizations, employers, schools, and the public sector to create accessible, integrated service delivery locations around the Bay Area.  Our goal is to help more children, youth and adults to break the cycle of poverty.

For more information about UWBA, please visit http://uwba.org

The Opportunity:

The Manager, Partnerships position is an excellent opportunity for a highly motivated and organized individual to be a part of UWBA’s Community Impact Team. The Community Impact Team strives to ensure our initiatives and programs support basic needs and promote successful pathways to economic prosperity for individuals and families in our eight Bay Area counties. The team manages the delivery of multiple programs, including SparkPoint, and provides technical assistance and grant funding to community partners for educational enrichment, economic prosperity, and family stability programming.

This individual will manage partnerships with our education, economic prosperity, and family stability organizations, with a focus on post-secondary institutions. This includes developing new partnerships in the region. Through working with post-secondary institutions, the Manager will build out programming to ensure that children and families have pathways to economic prosperity. The Manager will build on his/her existing expertise around partnerships, networks, and programs to engage new partners, present our programming to new and existing partners, as well as broker, convene, fund, and provide technical assistance to partners. The position will also support data/evaluation efforts for our programs and develop regional learning events to connect our community college and education partners and strengthen the network across the Bay Area.
This individual will report to the Director, SparkPoint, and work closely with additional members of the Community Impact Team to deliver effectively on goals.

This is a full-time, 37.5 hours per week exempt union position. 

What you'll do:

Post-secondary partnerships:

• (1) Facilitate and support connections between Bay Area post-secondary institutions and existing and potential SparkPoint partners

• (5) Engage with community colleges and post-secondary institutions to recruit and support target populations to participate in and complete short-term training or re-training that leads to living wage jobs

• Broker relationships with other training providers to ensure that adults with below-basic skills can access contextualized training to build the necessary language and math skills to perform in a specific job

• (6) Lead discussions with nonprofit organizations to identify the strategies and partners needed to provide the wraparound services at community colleges that enable individuals to succeed and stay on course, including financial coaching, career coaching, housing assistance, food programs, benefits enrollment, educational counseling, and more

• (2) Facilitate discussions with SparkPoint Centers to amplify or revolutionize their workforce services in partnerships with local colleges

• (15) Identify and/or support new service delivery locations in alignment with our programming goals

Support the SparkPoint grantee network:

• (4) Oversee grants to Community Colleges, Community College Districts, SparkPoint Centers with programming at Community Colleges, or other organizations with programming at higher education institutions

• (3) Oversee or support the maintenance and development of a regional learning network

• (14) Provide and facilitate the provision of technical assistance