Position Summary
The Manager, Community Partnerships is responsible for managing and implementing outreach efforts, stakeholder engagement, and partnership research + development in service of supporting and strengthening MoPOP’s business operations across the organization. This role will ensure all work aligns with strategic goals, promote effective collaboration within the team, and negotiate terms and agreements with partners. The Manager, CP, will have a specialized focus on executing strategies to increase access for communities. The ideal candidate will combine a passion for relationship-building with a strong commitment to advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Work Schedule: Monday-Friday, at least 3-days onsite. This role requires occasional night and weekend hours to support events, philanthropy, and representing MoPOP.
Salary: $72,009.60 - $82,014.40; Full-time; FLSA status dependent on salary
Essential Job Duties (other duties as assigned)
Program + Strategy Management:
- Identify potential public funding sources and develop strategies for securing public funding for current and future programming; partner with education to help identify and grow new and existing partnerships.
- Evaluate community access programs (CAP) and ticketing for efficiency and effectiveness; track and analyze outreach Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and metrics; provide regular reports on outreach performance to senior management; measure the impact of outreach and engagement strategies on community partnerships.
- Define and execute a community outreach strategy to advance community partnerships and engagement; develop and implement innovative approaches to engage diverse communities and stakeholders.
- Lead the Community Engagement Team committee and program to fortify staff experiences and connect greater Seattle and Arts communities with the institution.
Relationship + Partnership Building:
- Improve and manage community partner relationships of nonprofits, human service providers, and cultural institutions.
- Develop and nurture partnerships with key stakeholders to expand community outreach network.
- Foster relationships with communities that align to our current community focus outlined in our strategic and operation plan: BIPOC, LGBTGIA2S+, and AANHPI.
- Negotiate terms and agreements with community partners that are mutually beneficial and align with MoPOP’s Strategic and Operational Plan.
- Establish partnerships with state agencies, community-based organizations, businesses, and advocacy groups to enhance the reach and impact of MoPOP’s community partnership programs and equity initiatives.
MoPOP Community:
- Support our internal culture which inspires and empowers our staff to live our mission to its highest standards.
- Contribute to a consistent customer service standard across all departments.
- Work to ensure customer service is ingrained at the core of the team and is reflected outward to our guests and other staff.
- Commitment to participating in anti-racism work, learning about the ways institutional racism impacts the workplace, and supporting teammates in operationalizing DEIA strategies in the department.
Preferred/Desired Qualifications
- Degree in business, social work, public administration, or related field with Graduate degree preferred but not required, or equivalent combination of education and experience, or equivalent experience in the field.
- Five (5) or more years of experience managing programs designed to serve under-invited, underrepresented or historically excluded communities.
- Highly engaged self-starter with strong relationship-building skills and an orientation to collaboration and teamwork.
- Strong leadership, management, and strategic thinking skills, with the ability to develop and execute a strategy to achieve desired outcomes.
- Ability to balance multiple projects at once and to creatively address unexpected barriers or setbacks.
- Exceptional verbal, written, and presentation skills.
- Excellent project management skills and ability to meet deadlines.
- Organized and detail-oriented with a strong ability to absorb and process information quickly.
- Ability to adapt to changing priorities and work effectively within a dynamic environment.
- Commitment to equity and improving economic opportunities for targeted communities.
- Proficiency using MS Office 365 applications including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint, and Outlook.
- Experience in renewable energy, energy efficiency, or public works programs preferred.
Benefits
This regular full-time position includes Medical/Vision insurance, Dental insurance, Life/AD&D/LTD insurance, 3.08 hours of accrued Vacation per bi-weekly pay period, Seattle Sick/Safe, 7 Floating Holidays (prorated first year dependent on hire date), 8 Company Holidays paid throughout the year, EAP, 401k plan with vested match schedule once eligible, and subsidized transportation benefits for Orca Pass or parking.
Why MoPOP?
We’re really glad you’re thinking about joining the team at MoPOP! We believe pop culture is a universal language capable of building connections across a range of people, no matter our differences in race, religion, gender, age, sexual orientation, ability, education, socio-economic status, ethnicity, country of origin, or any other characteristic that makes us who we are. For more than twenty years, we have been showcasing how music, film, fashion, video games, sports, and more spark those connections and create a lasting cultural impact.
MoPOP provides both a physical space and an emotional and intellectual opportunity for people from any background to explore, find and build community, and recognize their own creative potential. This applies not only to our guests, but also to our staff — be it in designing an educational program to engage the next generation of creators, trying to reach a new audience with a marketing initiative, preserving an artifact in our collection, or providing excellent customer service to a visitor. If this sounds like something you’d be into, we’d love to hear from you!
MoPOP’s Mission and Commitment to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility
Our mission is to activate the world-shaping power of pop culture through participative experiences, discovery, and play. We believe pop culture connects us, and that it is powerful, complex, alive and who we are. MoPOP is actively committed to ongoing learning in the areas of diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA). In partnership with our community, we hope to also develop safe spaces for their application. This includes taking steps to continue increasing our awareness of institutional “-isms,” as well as uncovering and undoing the ways they show up in museum culture. We recognize this is a process that requires intentionality, energy, and resources, and we are developing a DEIA framework that can cultivate a work environment and museum experience that is truly welcoming for all.
We are committed to creating an inclusive and equitable workplace, and we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We believe that having staff, interns, and volunteers with diverse backgrounds enables us to better meet our mission and encourage BIPOC, women, and LGBTQIA2S+ individuals to apply. We acknowledge that our work to build safe spaces and better systems for traditionally marginalized groups is ongoing and will require constant vigilance and expect all MoPOP employees to be part of our DEIA journey.
Please email jobs@mopop.org if you need reasonable accommodations during the application or hiring process.
