Senior Manager, Community Relations

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Communications & Public Affairs Full Time Newton Center, MA, US

2 days ago Requisition

Salary Range: $80,000.00 To $98,000.00 Annually

Spoonfuls keeps good food from going to waste. Through food recovery and distribution, education, and advocacy, we work to address the health, environmental, and economic impacts that wasted food has on people and the planet. To learn more about our work, visit spoonfuls.org.

This position is advertised externally as Senior Manager, Community Relations. The internal job title is Senior Manager, Public Affairs and this position sits in our Communication and Public Affairs team.

This position manages Spoonfuls' outreach, education, advocacy, and general community engagement work, including informing and executing Spoonfuls' Public Affairs Strategy. It's a great opportunity for a strategic thinker who excels at relationship-building and enjoys being a public "face" of the organization. Reporting to the Chief of Communications & Public Affairs, the Senior Manager will work closely with Spoonfuls' Senior Leadership Team (SLT) to forge and deepen connections and drive community conversations about wasted food, food insecurity, the climate emergency, Spoonfuls' impact, and the benefits of food recovery.

The Senior Manager will funnel individuals to a range of opportunities to support our work. Familiarity with the communities in which we operate is a plus.

• Community & Stakeholder Engagement
• Positions Spoonfuls to be a known and trusted thought leader in the fields of food loss and waste prevention and food recovery
• Develops and refines strategies for building awareness of Spoonfuls' work and opportunities to become involved in it
• Identifies engagement opportunities and, with the Public Affairs Coordinator, manages our Public Affairs calendar, ensuring Spoonfuls is represented in community meetings, conversations, and events that have the potential to grow our reach and impact
• Frequently represents Spoonfuls in the community including at meetings, on panels, before school and civic groups, media, etc.
• Elevates community conversations, trends, opportunities, and concerns
• Routinely leads conversations with food retailers, brands, elected officials and more and makes strategic introductions for other members of the team in order to advance programming and funding partnerships
• Routinely pitches and provides presentations to community groups, organizations, businesses, and others interested in learning more about the issue of wasted food, Spoonfuls' work, and ways to get involved

• Working with Spoonfuls' SLT and colleagues across verticals, informs and advances Spoonfuls' Advocacy Priorities
• Routinely evaluates advocacy priorities and identifies advocacy opportunities
• Interfaces with outside policy/advocacy stakeholders including community partners, elected officials, donors, organizers, and others who help set local, regional, and national food and environmental policy agendas; works to elevate important calls to action
• Outreaches to elected officials and their staff to keep policymakers informed of Spoonfuls' initiatives in their districts; builds and deepens relationships with elected officials
• May organize or participate in public actions and awareness campaigns

• Works closely with the Communications team to inform strategies and ensure our online and offline engagement and advocacy strategies are well-aligned
• With Communications staff, informs Advocacy Updates and as-needed Advocacy Action Alerts
• Identifies and shares opportunities to engage media around our community engagement and education/advocacy priorities
• Supporting fact-checking around advocacy-centric communications

• Supervises junior engagement staff and/or interns (currently one FT Coordinator)
• With teammates, works to ensure that Spoonfuls' Public Affairs strategies and Advocacy Priorities represent the organization’s core values
• Sets, reports out on, and analyzes Public Affairs performance metrics metrics
• Attends and participates actively in 1:1s and team and company meetings
• Routinely interfaces with Senior Leadership Team, raises new ideas, asks questions, and offers perspective

• 5+ years' relevant experience at a Manager level or higher (if you haven’t worked at a…