Director, Community Impact & Partnerships

Houston Dynamo Football Club; Houston (TX); Sur place; USD 90 000 - 140 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Houston Dynamo Football Club is seeking a Director of Community Impact to lead and evaluate community engagement, education, food security, and partnerships across Greater Houston. This role shapes philanthropy strategy, oversees grantmaking, and collaborates with internal teams and external nonprofits to maximize social impact.

The ideal candidate has 7–10 years in community relations or CSR, strong leadership, budgeting, and grant administration skills, and fluency in English, with capacity

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in nonprofit management, business, public administration, communications, sports management or a related field preferred.
• 7–10 years of progressive experience in community relations, nonprofit management, corporate social responsibility, foundation management, or community impact leadership.
• Minimum 3 years of people leadership and program management experience.
• Experience managing community programs and external nonprofit partnerships from planning through execution and evaluation.
• Experience administering grants or charitable funding processes, including application review, due diligence, documentation, award administration and outcome reporting.
• Strong project management skills with ability to manage multiple programs, deadlines, budgets and stakeholders.
• Excellent written, verbal and presentation skills with ability to communicate with executives, partners, nonprofit leaders and community participants.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office required; experience with CRM, grant-management or project-management platforms preferred.
• Ability to work evenings, weekends and holidays as needed; local travel throughout Greater Houston required.
• Bilingual English/Spanish preferred.

Responsabilités

• Lead planning, execution and continuous improvement of Dynamo & Dash Charities programs and community impact initiatives, with primary focus on Education and Food Insecurity and support of the Club’s broader charitable pillars.
• Manage partner-supported charitable programs from concept through execution, ensuring objectives, budgets, timelines, participant experience and partner commitments are delivered at a high level.
• Cultivate and manage partnerships with food banks, schools, community organizations, corporate sponsors, and government agencies to expand the Foundation's impact in addressing food insecurity.
• Oversee community food distribution events, meal-packing projects, backpack programs, holiday giving campaigns, and other hunger-relief initiatives.
• Coordinate with HDFC Partnerships, Marketing, Communications, Ticketing, Soccer Operations and other departments to integrate community impact into Club and partner priorities.
• Support educational and literacy initiatives, STEM and scholarship efforts, food access and distribution initiatives, ticket and equipment donations, volunteer opportunities and other charitable activations.
• Engage players, coaches, staff, and community partners in service projects that promote food security, healthy lifestyles and education programs.

Connaissances

Program management

Partnerships

Grantmaking

Budgeting

Communication skills

MS Office

CRM systems

Bilingual English/Spanish

Formation

Bachelor's degree in nonprofit management, business, public administration, communications, sports management or related field

Outils

CRM systems

Grant-management platforms

Project-management tools

Description du poste

Houston Dynamo Football Club is seeking a Director of Community Impact to lead and evaluate community engagement, education, food security, and partnerships across Greater Houston. This role shapes philanthropy strategy, oversees grantmaking, and collaborates with internal teams and external nonprofits to maximize social impact.

The ideal candidate has 7–10 years in community relations or CSR, strong leadership, budgeting, and grant administration skills, and fluency in English, with capacity