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Senior Collaboration Manager

Salary: $115,000 - $130,000

Location: Remote (anywhere in the US but must be available core hours of 10am-2pm ET)

Reports to: State Partnership Director

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About State Alignment Lab

The State Alignment Lab (SAL) is dedicated to nurturing stronger state movements and collaborations that have the relationships, trust, and systems in place to build power for reproductive health, rights, and justice. SAL provides technical assistance and backbone support for collaborations and convenings, and connects state groups to valuable resources, expertise, and leadership support through the State Repro Hub. 

 

SAL supports state organizations to thrive by working to:

• Connect state partners with colleagues, experts, and resources to ensure states have access to the best our field has to offer. 

• Make it easier for state partners to collaborate by providing hands-on support, tools, and expertise. 

• Convene advocates to create opportunities for shared learning and coordination within and across states. 

Together, these efforts strengthen state-based reproductive health, rights, and justice movements regardless of geography or environment. The State Alignment Lab is a fiscally-sponsored project of NEO Philanthropy. Find out more about SAL and our Repro Hub here.

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The Opportunity

The Senior Collaboration Manager (SCM) is an essential partner to the success of SAL’s partnership programming. Reporting to the State Partnerships Director, this role will utilize their extensive knowledge of collaboration and the reproductive health, rights, and justice movements to support state partners seeking to collaboratively strengthen their statewide impact. The SCM will provide support for collaboration at varying levels, from deep thought partnership to coordination and administrative support to facilitation and convening design. The SCM may provide specific technical assistance to state groups themselves and/or identify and onboard trusted expert consultants to achieve the best results for the group or coalition in coordination with the State Repro (Technical Assistance) Hub team. The SCM will also support groups with an eye towards capturing shared learning and establishing best practices.

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Who You Are

You are an expert collaborator and space maker. You have proven experience facilitating and managing spaces where diverse organizations can come together to move work forward, particularly in moments of misalignment or tension.  You are someone who can surface the needs of a group, solve sticky problems with grace and clarity, and are willing to wear many hats (from campaign planning to administrative management when necessary). You are comfortable leading with and surfacing equity points, helping groups to create and practice values of diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice in their work. You will support groups to navigate conflict, build shared purpose, and create coherence to meet collective goals.

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Areas of Leadership

The Senior Collaboration Manager will have the opportunity to join a small but growing team. They will have the chance to collaboratively establish new systems and ways of working that allow SAL to creatively develop and test new ways to support the needs of state reproductive health, rights, and justice RHRJ partners and movements. In that spirit, the Senior Collaboration Manager can expect to lead and collaborate in these areas:

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• Lead, execute, and expand collaboration support for state advocacy groups.  The SCM will support the growth of SAL’s collaboration and convening work with state partners, ensuring partners receive high-quality support that strengthens connections, clarifies strategy, and builds alignment. The SCM will play a leadership role in determining what level of support SAL will provide to state-based coalitions through conducting intake calls, assessing the groups’ resources and opportunities, and creating a project plan for providing that assistance. Projects may include - in collaboration with consultants you manage - conducting landscape analysis, surfacing needs of a group, designing and incubating effective coalitions, designing learning objectives, holding coalition communications, and facilitating group processes and events. 

 

• Expand the network of state advocates who know and see SAL as a valuable resource. The SCM will hold deep and authentic relationships with state movement leaders to support connection with and between advocates. They will help SAL build its network among state leaders and national advocates who do state repro work, including identifying coalitions in underinvested states and regions that center Black, Indigenous, immigrant, LGBTQIAA+, youth, rural, and other historically marginalized communities where SAL hopes to work alongside and learn from. They will represent SAL to key stakeholders in state coalitions, key conferences, and retreats.

 

• Gather and share learnings and reflections to inform SAL’s offerings and state strategies. The SCM will co-create collaboration and facilitation tools in partnership with the State Partnerships Director and partner organizations. They will use metrics and evaluation frameworks to assess impact, collect and analyze feedback, and share insights to ensure SAL can strengthen collaboration within the ecosystem.

 

• Contribute to SAL’s ability to support state repro ecosystems as a thought partner, connector, and builder. The SCM will serve as a thought-partner within SAL, participating in planning and organizational development activities and contributing to knowledge, learning, and strategic growth. They will support programming across SAL on an ad hoc basis, including supporting the Hub team in triaging the help desk, vetting consultants, connecting people to the help they need and developing bespoke trainings around strategic communications, campaign planning, engaging policymakers, and other topics as requested by state partners.  They will strive to bring SAL’s values into practice in all interactions.

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What Experience and Expertise You Bring 

• 5-7 years of coalition management and state-level experience in reproductive health, rights, and justice or allied movements

• Track record of bringing groups together to do good work, managing through tension or misalignment and creating a group process for repair and progress. 

• Ability to genuinely center and strategize with state partners; trusted enough to be able to poke holes in their ideas and make them better

• Ability to support the design, execution and facilitation of convenings, resulting in clear outcomes and sustained work. 

• Experience managing/ effectively utilizing outside contractors and consultants

• Experience working remotely and contributing to asynchronous work teams 

• Ability to help move work forward with humor and flexibility, simultaneously holding rigor and ease to support trusting and caring relationships. 

• Ability and willingness to travel approximately 5-7 times a year, to team meetings, key conferences, and to lead or support in-person convenings.

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Core Competencies for all SAL Staff

• Deep commitment to and enthusiasm for a collaborative, equitable, and effective reproductive health, rights, and justice movement led by state advocates.

• Familiarity and comfort with reproductive health, rights, and justice values and those of fellow movement partners.

• Builder with the ability to succeed in a start-up environment and help develop structures; someone who can both dream big and bring that dream into reality.

• Resourceful problem solver who is skilled at utilizing any type of information system. 

• Experience working remotely and building remote teams.

• Willingness to pitch in as needed; SAL is a small nonprofit and everyone contributes to necessary administrative work.

 

Compensation & Benefits 

This is a full-time (40hrs/week), exempt, position. Salary range for this position is $115,000 - $130,000 annualized, depending on experience, qualifications and internal equity.  Through NEO Philanthropy, this position is offered a full benefits package, including 100% medical coverage for the employee and 90% medical coverage for dependents; 100% coverage for vision, dental, life/AD&D, long-term disability. NEO also offers a 401K retirement savings plan, Healthcare Reimbursement Arrangement (HRA), Medical FSA, Dependent Care FSA, commuter benefits, Employee Assistance Program, other supplemental benefits and paid time off.

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Application Process 

SAL is partnering with CLC Endeavors. To apply, please submit a resume to SAL-SCM@clcendeavors.com. In the body of your email, please provide brief (3-4 sentence) answers to the following prompts: 

1. What core experience(s) would guide how you support collaboration between state-based reproductive health, rights, and justice movement advocates?

2. What key values and frameworks guide your work on abortion? 

3. What are the top 3 characteristics you bring into collaborative work? 

 

Applications will be reviewed on an ongoing basis, but we will prioritize those who apply by June 14th.  We hope to have candidates start in September. Candidates can generally expect these stages of the hiring process:

1. Preliminary screening interview with CLC Endeavors. 

2. Narrative in-depth interview with CLC Endeavors following feedback by SAL. 

3. Interview with SAL State Partnerships Director. 

4. Final panel interview with SAL team members (may include a brief exercise). 

5. Reference Checks.

 

SAL at NEO Philanthropy is an equal opportunity employer. We consider applicants for all positions without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, marital or veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other legally protected status. Women, people of color, LGBTQ candidates are strongly encouraged to apply. We committed to attracting, developing and retaining exceptional people in order to create a work environment that is dynamic, rewarding, and enables each of us to realize our potential.