Manager, Community Impact & Innovation

Position Title: Manager, Community Impact & Innovation

Status: Full-time, Exempt

Pay Range: $60,000-$76,000

ElevateDD is a platform dedicated to statewide advocacy work created to represent the entire scope of services and programming offered through each of our communities: the Down Syndrome Association of Central Ohio (DSACO), Adult Literacy Ohio, and Learning Aid Ohio. The ElevateDD name represents what drives our advocacy, education, and innovation: elevating the voices of people with developmental disabilities, elevating the needs of families, and elevating advocacy issues to leaders and decision makers.

Our roots began with DSACO, which was created to support families, promote community involvement, and encourage opportunities for people with Down syndrome. As we continued to innovate and identify additional needs of those who we serve, we expanded programming to offer statewide developmental disability services. This growth resulted in the formation of two additional communities:
Learning Aid Ohio and Adult Literacy Ohio. ElevateDD, through its various communities, now serves people with developmental disabilities and their families throughout every county in Ohio.

The Manager, Community Impact & Innovation leads the development, growth, and continuous improvement of DSACO’s community-facing initiatives across the lifespan. The role is responsible for strengthening and scaling existing programs, identifying opportunities for new initiatives, and translating community needs, member and self-advocate feedback, participation data, and strategic priorities into responsive, sustainable approaches that expand DSACO’s reach and impact. The Manager also helps move promising ideas from concept to implementation, build partnerships, and develop models that can grow over time.

This position also leads volunteer engagement as a key part of DSACO’s community impact strategy. The Manager identifies meaningful volunteer roles, supports recruitment and onboarding, develops volunteer leaders, and creates clear systems that allow volunteers to strengthen programs and extend organizational capacity. Working across teams and with families, self-advocates, volunteers, and community partners, the Manager helps ensure initiatives are accessible, inclusive, coordinated, sustainable, and aligned with ElevateDD’s broader mission and strategic direction.

• Lead the development, growth, coordination, and continuous improvement of DSACO community-facing initiatives across the lifespan.
• Strengthen and scale existing programs and identify opportunities for new initiatives, partnerships, and service models that expand reach, participation, and community impact.
• Move promising ideas from concept to implementation by developing pilot initiatives, testing new approaches, evaluating results, and building sustainable models for growth.

• Lead DSACO’s volunteer engagement strategy as a core component of community impact, program growth, and organizational capacity.
• Identify meaningful volunteer roles across programs and initiatives and support volunteer recruitment, onboarding, training, communication, recognition, and ongoing engagement.
• Develop volunteer leaders and create clear systems that enable volunteers to take meaningful ownership of activities, events, peer connections, and other community initiatives.
• Partner with staff to ensure volunteers are appropriately prepared, supported, and integrated into programs in ways that strengthen quality, sustainability, and the experience of families and self-advocates.

• Create consistent feedback loops that elevate the perspectives of people with Down syndrome, families, caregivers, volunteers, and community partners.
• Strengthen accessible, family-centered, inclusive, and culturally responsive practices across community-facing programs, initiatives, volunteer opportunities, and resources.
• Identify opportunities to deepen engagement with current members while reaching new families, self-advocates, volunteers,…