Community Engagement Manager
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Community Engagement Manager
The Jackson Hole Western Wyoming Community Engagement Manager will lead the Alzheimer’s Association’s programs, development, and volunteer engagement strategies that strengthen our capacity to reach and serve more people in Wyoming.
Programs: Develop and implement the Alzheimer’s Association’s program delivery and growth strategy to reach more people with volunteer-delivered programs, especially in new, underrepresented, and rural/frontier communities. Identify, recruit, engage and grow volunteers and community partners while meeting Association best practices to achieve growth goals and benchmarks.
Development: Utilize proven networking and relationship building skills to cultivate key community connections, drive success and achieve revenue goals by strategically identifying and engaging community and corporate leaders and building and empowering sustainable volunteer committees that support the Walk to End Alzheimer’s and The Longest Day.
This position is grant funded.
This position may be eligible for a sign-on bonus!
Responsibilities:
Essential functions and responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
- Create urgency for our cause by promoting a full-mission value proposition to support Alzheimer’s Association campaigns such as quality care, fundraising and advocacy efforts throughout designated communities in the Jackson Hole Western Wyoming Region
- Model and foster behaviors that contribute to a culture that values the staff/volunteer/ community partnership and is consistent with the Association’s goals, best practices, and core values.
PROGRAM DUTIES: 60%
- Conduct outreach and ongoing community assessments through Community Forums to build Community Action Networks to ensure that volunteer-led programs are aligned with community needs and offered where demand is high.
- Coordinate the Jackson Hole Alzheimer’s and Dementia Initiative (JHADI).
- Recruit, train and lead volunteers to deliver and grow programs in the region.
- Manage and maintain a portfolio of high-impact community partners to grow the Association’s program reach in Jackson Hole and Western Wyoming.
- Expand collaborative agreements with current partners in community networks, organizations, service providers, nonprofits, and faith institutions, and establish new community partnerships beyond traditional partners to reach underrepresented communities.
- Represent the Alzheimer’s Association at meetings and events as assigned.
- Ensure timely and accurate reporting of program, community impact and volunteer performance data as well as grant-funded projects (where applicable).
DEVELOPMENT DUTIES: 40%
- Manage multiple peer-to-peer fundraising events annually to generate excitement and enthusiasm in the community for Walk to End Alzheimer’s, The Longest Day, and other local events. Coach and inspire your volunteers to implement and build on proven strategies and best practices that result in event growth year over year.
- Serve as the Functional Lead for the Wyoming Chapter TLD and Walk campaigns. Will attend National and Regional virtual TLD and Walk meetings and disseminate information to staff partners.
- Responsible for engaging with volunteers and community partners in the Jackson Hole Western Wyoming Region.
- Develop and expand the Jackson Hole TLD Peaks, Trails, & Rivers campaign, the Walk with the Doc event, and other TLD activities in the region.
- Coordinate a minimum of two volunteer-driven Walks to End Alzheimer’s in the Jackson Hole Western Wyoming Region.
- Coordinate the Alzheimer’s Association’s Wyoming Chapter participation in Old Bills Fun Run.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
- 3-5 years of proven experience recruiting and mobilizing volunteers and community leaders to achieve goals, preferably in a peer-to-peer environment.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
- Demonstrated management skills, including the ability to set clear goals, organize projects, establish, manage budgets, and establish accountability processes.
- Proven track record of developing and implementing strategies for identifying, recruiting, and engaging high-level and C-Suite volunteer leadership.
- Demonstrated volunteer management skills, including the ability to set clear goals, identify priorities, organize projects, establish, and manage budgets, establish accountability processes.
- Strong ability to build sustainable corporate and community relationships that contribute to achieving organizational and revenue goals.
- Ability to work with diverse communities and build an inclusive environment.
- Ability and willingness to travel up to 40% within the assigned territory by car. Travel in this case is considered time spent away from the office, in the community, to fulfil the job goals.
- While some travel is on the same day, overnight travel or air travel may be required. Must have valid driver’s license, access to reliable vehicle, good driving record and proof of automobile insurance.
- Ability and willingness to work evenings and weekends as required for the job.
- Ability to bend, stoop, lift and transport up to 25 lbs. of materials.
- Strong computer skills, proficient with Microsoft Office products and social media; experience with, or ability to rapidly learn the Alzheimer’s Association content management systems (e.g. Personify, Luminate/Convio)
Title: Community Engagement Manager
Position Location: Jackson, WY
Full time or Part time: Full Time
Position Grade: 105
Reports To: Executive Director
Who We Are:
The Alzheimer’s Association is the leading voluntary health organization in Alzheimer’s care, support and research. Our mission is to lead the way to end Alzheimer's and all other dementia- by accelerating global research, driving risk reduction and early detection, and maximizing quality care and support.
At the Alzheimer’s Association, our employees are at the core of all we do. Our network of more than 1,900 employees across the United States makes a difference each and every day for those impacted by Alzheimer’s and those at risk for the disease.
We warmly invite qualified applicants to consider this opportunity to make a life-changing impact on the millions living with Alzheimer’s, their caregivers and those that may develop the disease in the future. Read on to learn more about the role, then visit our website www.alz.org/jobs to explore who we are and why we've been recognized as a Best Place to Work for the last twelve years in a row.
At the Alzheimer's Association®, we believe that diverse perspectives are critical to achieving health equity - meaning that all communities have a fair and just opportunity for early diagnosis and access to risk reduction and quality care. The Association is committed to engaging underrepresented and underserved communities and responding with resources and education to address the disproportionate impact of Alzheimer’s and dementia.
The Alzheimer’s Association is committed to diversity, equity and inclusion in the workplace and provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
Employees working 24 hours/week or more are eligible for a comprehensive benefits package, including medical, dental, vision, flex accounts, short and long-term disability, life insurance, long term care insurance, tuition reimbursement, generous Paid Time Off, 12 annual holidays and Paid Family Leave, as well as an annual Cultural & Heritage Day and Volunteer Day of their choosing. They are also eligible for our gold standard 401(k) retirement plan.
Full time employees (37.5 hours/week), will enjoy all of the above plus an annual School Visitation Day and an Elder Care Facility Day of their choosing.
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: $47,000.00 - $53,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- 401(k) matching
- Dental insurance
- Employee assistance program
- Flexible schedule
- Flexible spending account
- Health insurance
- Health savings account
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Tuition reimbursement
- Vision insurance
Schedule:
- 8 hour shift
Ability to Relocate:
- Jackson, WY: Relocate before starting work (Required)
Work Location: In person
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