Associate Manager, Partnerships
Robin Hood Foundation
Associate Manager, Partnerships
(Corporate and Foundation Giving)
About Robin Hood
Founded in 1988, Robin Hood finds, fuels, and creates the most impactful and scalable solutions lifting families out of poverty in New York City. The largest poverty fighting organization in New York City, Robin Hood partners with top nonprofits in New York City and invests in legal services, housing, meals, workforce development training, education programs, and other vital services that give New Yorkers in need the tools they need to build better lives. The programs it funds are often the first of their kind and serve as demonstration models to identify what works before being replicated in other cities. Because its Board of Directors covers 100% of all administrative, fundraising, and evaluation costs, every dollar donated goes directly to organizations helping New Yorkers in need.
While Robin Hood’s primary focus is on New York, its impact extends far beyond the borders of the city. Its pioneering, metrics-based approach has become the gold standard for charities around the nation as Robin Hood works to understand and evaluate the impact of its partners to ensure that its philanthropic dollars are utilized to maximum impact. Robin Hood also supports its community partners and their leaders with financial and strategic support and management assistance that allows those organizations to maximize their impact.
Building on our 30 years of experience, Robin Hood is expanding our impact with an explicit focus on lifting families sustainably and measurably out of poverty through supporting the most effective community partners; influencing public policy; raising our thought leadership profile; importing and exporting effective ideas and strategies nationally; and building new collaborations with strategic partners. As New York City emerges from the worst of the global pandemic, we are focused on getting families back on their feet; getting kids back on track; and getting New Yorkers back to work.
Robin Hood also understands that if we are to support families living in poverty and find permanent pathways out of poverty and towards financial independence, we must become an effective partner with government, especially at the City and State levels. We do this by leveraging the expertise of those who are closest to the challenges of poverty, including community members, community-based organizations, and others with specialized skills and knowledge. We also aim to collaborate with New York City government to fund program and policy innovations that hold the promise of expanding economic opportunity in New York City – providing nimble “risk capital” for high-potential strategies. In this way, we seek to leverage our philanthropic investments by finding ways to advance the highest-impact strategies at scale.
Given its long-standing reputation among influencers and support of over 200 New York City non-profit organizations, Robin Hood has the unique ability to be a catalyzing force for households experiencing poverty, bringing distinct constituencies together to develop and spread the most effective strategies to advance economic mobility in New York City and beyond.
Reporting Relationship
This position will report to Manager, Partnerships.
Position Overview
The Associate Manager, Partnerships (Corporate and Foundation Giving), plays a pivotal role in the project management and the operations within Partnerships team, including management of a diverse portfolio of institutional donors. This role involves project coordination and management, relationship management to ensure seamless execution of high-quality engagement events, strategic communications, and operations. We seek a proactive, organized individual with strong project management skills, cross-functional collaboration abilities, attention to detail, and effective communication across levels.
Responsibilities
Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
Corporate Event Project Management
- Coordinate and execute all aspects of employee engagement opportunities and other Partner Services programming.
- Lead the organization of outreach activities including but not limited to creating and managing the corporate events calendar, ensuring that all event details, interactions, attendance, and deliverables related to corporate engagement initiatives are accurately captured in Salesforce.
- Manage a system to track all institutional donor deliverables and related timelines.
Proposal Development and Project Management
- Assist in the creation of compelling materials, pitches, and presentations for prospective, new and renewing institutional donors.
- Serve as lead project manager and representative for Robin Hood at corporate engagement events and meetings.
Donor Relationship Management
- Create, manage and track a calendar of donor stewardship events to meet contract deliverables and proactively identify and address any scheduling or capacity constraints.
- Support the Partnerships team in developing bespoke stewardship plans for institutional donors.
- Support in managing and strengthening donor relationships and renewal efforts to maintain a high levels of donor engagement.
Strategic Communications
- Draft and implement communications plan tailored to the institutional community in partnership with Marketing.
- Serve as a cross-functional collaborator within the Development, Marketing and Events (DME) team and across Robin Hood to ensure consistent messaging and donor engagement.
- Draft presentations for external speaking engagement, as needed.
Prospect Research
- Conduct research on prospective institutional partners and provide insights to support the growth of the Partnerships portfolio.
General Administrative Support
- Provide administrative support to the Managing Director, Partnerships , and the broader Partnerships team, including scheduling external meetings, preparing and documenting key meeting notes, and preparing presentation materials.
Qualifications:
- Minimum of 3-4 years relevant experience, particularly in project management, client services and operations.
- Ability to comfortably interact with senior executives and high-profile individuals.
- Proven ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously with ease and efficiency.
- Strong project management skills with demonstrated experience managing complex projects from start to finish.
- Extremely organized and detail-oriented, with excellent follow-up skills.
- Exceptional written and oral communication skills, with proven ability to distill and synthesize complex information into clear and concise formats (i.e., emails, presentations, reports, etc.)
- Ability to work autonomously and in a team environment, balancing multiple priorities effectively.
- Highly effective interpersonal and relational skills, including a demonstrated ability to work successfully across complex, matrixed teams and with roles at multiple levels
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook).
- Experience with Salesforce or other CRMs is strongly preferred.
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, high-profile environment while managing multiple projects and stakeholders
- High degree of self-awareness, integrity, humility, emotional intelligence, and sound judgment
- Genuine interest in philanthropy and the non-profit sector
- Embraces ambiguity and has a willingness to “roll up their sleeves”
- Sense of humor and skillful listener
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Robin Hood is committed to promoting diversity, equity, inclusion, and representation in all aspects of its work. As New York City’s largest poverty-fighting organization, Robin Hood believes that building a diverse team is fundamental to its ability to effectively serve and strengthen organizations serving the most vulnerable communities in the city, and to influence the policies that affect them.
Robin Hood believes in the potential that diversity creates – deep and responsive relationships with its community partners; the ability to solve complex problems efficiently and effectively; and, most importantly, the ability of its diverse staff to work to its full capacity.
Robin Hood builds diversity, inclusion, and equity practices into all aspects of its work. Its practices, values, traditions, and beliefs are embedded in the inclusive culture that it creates. Operationally, its formal and informal structures support a work environment that advances the professional development of staff at all levels, allows for innovation, and grounds its work as poverty fighters.
In its workplace, diversity equals representation. Robin Hood seeks to attract and retain a staff that reflects the communities that it serves. Racial and ethnic diversity matter to it, as does diversity among other cultural identifiers (ability, educational background, generation, gender, gender expression religion, immigration status, military status, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status).
Diversity within Robin Hood's staff is enhanced by its efforts at meaningful inclusion. It ensures that team members are empowered to make decisions, offer actionable feedback, and share credit for team
Robin Hood Guiding Principles
As an organization committed to economic mobility, our work is grounded in the following Guiding Principles:
- Diversity, equity, and inclusion
- Proximity and humanity
- Risk-taking and innovation
Our professional community reflects myriad demographic characteristics, perspectives, and backgrounds, which includes various identities that reflect diversity in gender identity and expression, race, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, ability, and socioeconomic status. Our colleagues have access to opportunity and advancement, as we promote fair and equitable treatment and have encouraged participation by underrepresented groups. As a team, we promote a sense of belonging, high levels of engagement, and shared respect.
- Robin Hood puts people first. Always.
- Robin Hood is unafraid to take action and create solutions.
- Robin Hood is data driven and heart led.
- Robin Hood works the coat check.
Salary and Benefits
Salary commensurate with relevant experience and qualifications. Robin Hood also offers a full and competitive benefits package that includes, medical, dental and vision insurance, generous retirement contributions, eligibility to participate in paid medical, family and parental leave programs, professional development, cell phone reimbursement, and full-time employees start with 20 days of Paid Time Off (prorated). Eligible for a performance bonus.
The salary range for this position is $78,970 - $92,000.
This position is located in New York City.
To Apply
Please visit our website to complete our online application. Cover letters are encouraged.
Robin Hood is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants from diverse backgrounds and identities are encouraged to apply.