Application Guidelines:
Applications will be accepted from internal candidates only from April 25th - May 2nd. Applications will be accepted from both internal and external candidates from May 2nd - May 9th.
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 before their date of hire and within 60 days of signing an offer letter.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 Vision and are profoundly excited to achieve this vision for and with our community.
Position Summary: You will join 45+ Community Philanthropy colleagues, passionately and collaboratively building relationships to end hunger and hunger’s root causes. Together we mobilize $40M+ in annual support for Oregon Food Bank’s mission while advancing Rooted + Rising: A $50M+ transformational campaign to realize OFB’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 Coordinator - Collective Action, you will contribute to the organization’s success through coordination of activities that galvanize broad community philanthropic action with significant geographic reach through high-profile campaigns supported by media and corporate partners. This position reports to the Community Philanthropy Assistant Manager - Collective Action. Your work will engage significant media sponsors and corporate partners to generate resources for OFB and our network of partners, transition food drives to fund drives, and design innovative peer-to-peer fundraising initiatives that inspire supporters to fundraise digitally for OFB.
Primary Responsibilities (Essential Functions):
Support the Community Philanthropy Assistant Manager - Collective Action 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.
Help plan and implement Collective Action projects, partner events, digital fund drives, integrated marketing campaigns, and other onsite and offsite fundraising activities. Examples may include and are not limited to: the Great KGW Food Drive, Oregon Lawyers Against Hunger, Governor's State Employees Drive, and the National Letter Carriers Drive.
Optimize community engagement opportunities and outcomes, increasing engagement in advocacy and fund drives and transitioning community or organization-initiated small-scale food drives to steward organizational resources, dismantle the charity model, and shift public perception to understand that food alone cannot solve hunger.
Implement high-profile campaigns that galvanize broad community philanthropic action with significant geographic reach, supported by significant media and corporate partnerships.
Activate and sustain corporate and media sponsor relationships through cross-departmental collaboration.
Engage corporate and/or community partners, and facilitate efforts that generate philanthropic support for Oregon Food Bank.
Partner with external and internal stakeholders from intake to planning, execution, and evaluation - moving supporter relationships from transactional to transformative.
Strategically engage, cultivate, solicit, and steward corporate and community partners with a focus on deepening relationships and advancing OFB’s mission while utilizing equity-driven messaging that centers our clients, identifies systemic oppression as hunger’s root cause, and furthers our 10 year vision through an equity lens.
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.
Efficiently manage direct interaction with donors and volunteers through speaking engagements, in-person meetings, volunteer events, and attending outside events with the network, and by soliciting financial and in-kind contributions.
Collaborate with OFB’s Strategic Communications department on donor facing materials, including media plans, social media tiles, messaging, brochures, posters, and toolkits aligned with OFB’s values and vision.
Coordinate team and cross-departmental projects and implement projects with excellence; document, track, and report on donor activity using departmentally approved tools and guidelines; and, support the Collective ActionTeam with meeting scheduling and agenda creation.
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.
2 years of demonstrated success in non-profit fundraising, development, corporate relations, marketing communication, sales, project management, social services or similar work experience and skills.
Excellent interpersonal, oral, and written communication skills.
Strong organizational skills.
Ability to contribute in developing long-term plans, set objectives, and track progress towards achieving objectives.
Available for some weekend and evening responsibilities.
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 NXT. Ability to quickly adapt to new software and online tools a plus!
Must be available for some weekend and evening responsibilities.
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 are 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.
