Neighborhoods Manager

Bespree, Inc.; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work schedule

Medical benefits

Career development opportunities

Job summary

The Campaign Finance Board seeks a Manager to lead the Neighborhoods Team within Education, delivering in-language voter education and building trusted community partnerships across 13 languages. You will supervise Coordinators and Specialists, guiding training, development, and performance while navigating complex cross-team projects.

You will work with the Deputy Director to refine strategy, manage budget, and measure impact, cultivating relationships with coalitions and civic leaders to

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field and one year of related experience.
• Experience leading diverse teams and stakeholder groups.
• Knowledge of multilingual community engagement and civic participation.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and manage a growing Neighborhoods Team across 13 languages.
• Refine strategies for engagement in NYC Votes priority neighborhoods.
• Coordinate with Deputy Director on strategy, budget, and cross-team collaborations.
• Build and maintain high-profile partnerships with community organizations and civic leaders.

Skills

People management

Multilingual outreach

Strategic partnership management

Data analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree in relevant field

Tools

Salesforce

Excel

Job description

ABOUT THE CAMPAIGN FINANCE BOARD The Campaign Finance Board is a nonpartisan, independent city agency that empowers New Yorkers to have a greater impact on their elections. Our mission is to make local democracy more open, transparent, and equitable by removing barriers to participation.

We make it easier for New Yorkers to vote, meaningfully support candidates for city office, and run for office themselves. NYC Votes, our voter engagement initiative, meets people where they are to share trustworthy election information and help New Yorkers make a plan to vote. We publish the citywide Voter Guide, which delivers information about candidates directly to voters’ doors. Our public matching funds program ensures small contributions can make a big difference, allowing regular people to run for office by relying on the support of other regular people, not just wealthy donors and special interests. And we lift the veil on how candidates raise and spend money, increasing transparency and accountability in local government.

We believe that when every New Yorker is empowered to participate meaningfully in elections, candidates will better reflect the communities they serve, elected leaders will be more accountable to the public, and New Yorkers will have a democracy they can truly trust.

About The Unit

Public Affairs Division The Public Affairs division engages New Yorkers, informs them about elections, and boosts their participation in the democratic process. We make election information accessible and relevant, increase engagement with underrepresented communities, and cultivate a team that reflects our core values of purpose, curiosity, creativity, and collaboration.

Community Engagement Unit

The division includes Marketing and Digital Communications, Community Engagement, Language Access, and Public Relations. Our division’s work includes publishing the citywide Voter Guide, running the official citywide Debates Program, and managing the voter engagement initiative, NYC Votes. Community Engagement Unit works to build partnerships across the city to disseminate voting information, deliver accessible voter education, and conduct direct to voter outreach. Through relationships with community-based organizations as well as on-the-ground voter outreach, this team creates pathways for all New Yorkers to gain trustworthy and accessible information and education around voting and democracy.

JOB DESCRIPTION

We are seeking a manager to lead our Neighborhoods Team, which is a sub-team within our broader Education team. This sub-team builds trusted relationships with community-based partners and delivers in-language voter education to communities with historically low voter turnout. The team focuses on engaging and educating voters who speak a language other than English (LOTE) in priority neighborhoods, including South Brooklyn, Northcentral Queens, the South Bronx, and East New York. The Neighborhoods Team works with community-based organizations, faith-based institutions, libraries, local groups, and other community partners to disseminate key election information and conduct in-depth educational workshops covering topics such as Why Vote, How to Vote, Voting Rights, Campaign Finance, CFB’s Matching Funds Program, and more.

The Manager will be responsible for leading, coaching, and supporting a growing team of neighborhood-based Coordinators and Specialists to execute partnership-building and education delivery across 13 languages. This includes providing individualized supervision and professional development, helping staff navigate challenges, advocating for the resources and support they need to succeed, and creating a team environment where staff feel supported, accountable, and empowered to reach their full potential.

The Manager will also oversee the unique strategies for engagement in each of our priority geographies. They will work closely with the Deputy Director to refine strategy, manage budget, measure impact, and navigate internal collaborations to support the Neighborhoods Team. Additionally, the Manager will cultivate and manage high-profile relationships with coalitions, civic leaders, and institutions serving diverse immigrant populations, ensuring alignment with community priorities and long-term organizational objectives. Lastly, the Manager will be responsible for setting the direction of our curriculum, training, and development, ensuring that the content is accurate, accessible, and relevant to people who speak a language other than English (LOTE). Given these responsibilities, we are looking for someone with strong leadership, organizational, communication, and collaboration skills. This role requires managing multiple experienced staff with distinct strengths, working styles, and needs; understanding the priorities of diverse communities; and navigating complex cross-team projects and collaborations. Success depends on strong people management skills, including the ability to coach and develop staff, provide individualized support, advocate for team needs, and balance care and flexibility with clear expectations and accountability.

The Manager must also be comfortable navigating ambiguity, working through gray areas, and exercising sound judgment in situations that require nuance, discernment, and an appreciation for competing perspectives and priorities. This work relies heavily on interpersonal skills, including empathy, self-awareness, adaptability, and self-accountability. The ability to hold space for others, remain grounded when outcomes are uncertain, and support staff in navigating challenges and learning from setbacks is essential.

We seek to work with someone passionate about voting, contributing to candidate campaigns, and running for office inclusive for those most marginalized in our society. Ideally, this candidate is aware or interested in deepening their understanding of how racism, ableism, classism or other oppressions show up in government systems.

We believe that a diversity of experiences and perspectives will help us build stronger teams. We strongly encourage people of color/the global majority, people that speak a language other than English, LGBTQ people, people with disabilities, and people with other marginalized identities to apply.

People Management

• Lead, manage, and develop a team with varying levels of responsibility.
• Ensure each team member has a tailored career development plan aligning with their personal goals and the agency’s broader objectives.
• Establish clear performance expectations for each team member, conduct regular performance evaluations, and provide continuous actionable feedback.
• Provide consistent guidance on career progression, helping team members advance within the agency through structured growth opportunities.
• Set standards and goals for employees, ensuring their ongoing projects and tasks support the agency’s overall priorities.

Strategy And Operations

• Develop and oversee strategic plans for community engagement and education across priority neighborhoods, including South Brooklyn, Northcentral Queens, South Bronx, and East New York, ensuring alignment with unit and division goals.
• Lead the Neighborhoods Team by overseeing program design, partnership recruitment, and day-to-day operations
• Manage engagement and education strategies across multiple languages and communities, leveraging voter turnout data, demographic analysis, and policy insights to tailor outreach approaches.
• Collaborate cross-divisionally with Strategy, Product, and Operations (SPO), Data, Language Access, and Marketing & Digital Communications (MDC) to develop education strategies that culturally relevant and impactful.

Relationship Management

• Cultivate and manage high-profile relationships with community-based organizations, local groups, coalitions, civic leaders, and government institutions people who speak a language other than English (LOTE) and NYC Votes Priority Neighborhoods.
• Identify high-impact partnership opportunities and design collaborative initiatives that extend organizational reach and improve service delivery
• Build and oversee Neighborhoods partnership portfolio in CRM, identify gaps, and implement intentional relationship management and recruitment plans.

Education Strategy And Delivery

• Set the strategic direction for educational programming, ensuring curriculum, workshops, and trainings for voters are aligned with agency goals, accessible, and responsive to the needs of voters who speak a language other than English (LOTE).
• Oversee and support staff in the planning and execution of community conversations, trainings, and workshops across diverse settings (virtual, in-person, small group, classroom, and experiential engagement formats).
• Ensure quality and accessibility of educational offerings by coordinating Language Access to secure interpretation services and translation of learning materials.
• Guide staff collaboration with partner organizations, ensuring NYC Votes education content reflects community input, cultural relevance, and linguistic accessibility.

Team Workflow and Processes

• Lead the design and development of efficient and effective internal processes to streamline operations and enhance organizational effectiveness.
• Establish and maintain comprehensive Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) to guide staff in performing their duties consistently and in alignment with organizational goals.
• Proactively seek feedback from staff and use feedback to initiate improvement initiatives for internal processes.

ESSENTIAL KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, ABILITIES & OTHER BEHAVIORS (KSAOS)

Knowledge

• Knowledge of immigrant and LOTE community ecosystems, cross-sector organizations, coalitions, and civic engagement infrastructure across New York City priority neighborhoods
• Knowledge of partnership development models, including paid partnerships, multilingual engagement strategies, and community-based collaboration structures
• Knowledge of learning theory, adult education, and instructional design for community-based, multilingual, and nontraditional learning environments
• Knowledge of language access standards and best practices, including interpretation, translation, multilingual content delivery, and culturally responsive communication
• Knowledge of civic engagement systems, voter education, and barriers impacting immigrant communities and voters who speak a language other than English (LOTE) across NYC neighborhoods

Skills

• Expertise in facilitating and leading collaboration across diverse teams within organization
• Data skills in systems including Salesforce and Excel for tracking neighborhood engagement performance, partnership outcomes, and education metrics, and translating insights into strategic decisions, reporting, and continuous program improvement High level of initiative and ownership in decision making and driving neighborhood engagement strategy, partnership development, and program execution
• Strategic stakeholder management and relationship building with high-profile partners to advance multilingual education and neighborhood engagement programs
• Quality assurance and content review, ensuring educational materials and outreach resources meet standards for accuracy, accessibility, cultural relevance, and multilingual engagement

Abilities

• Ability to effectively manage day-to-day team operations, neighborhood engagement strategies, and program execution in alignment with unit, division, and agency priorities
• Ability to ensure consistent, accurate, and strategic tracking of partner interactions, engagement metrics, and program data across multiple neighborhood strategies
• Ability to represent the organization credibly and confidently in public, community, and professional settings
• Ability to design and oversee scalable education and engagement systems that ensure consistent delivery across multiple neighborhoods and multilingual communities
• Ability to coach and develop staff facilitators, building confidence, consistency, and effectiveness in multilingual and diverse community engagement settings

Other Characteristics

• Detail-oriented with a strong focus on quality, accuracy, accessibility, and cultural responsiveness across neighborhood engagement and education efforts
• Attention to detail while maintaining a big-picture, strategic perspective across multiple neighborhood engagement strategies
• Adaptability and comfort with ambiguity, especially in evolving neighborhood engagement, operational, and strategic environments
• High level of initiative and ownership in driving neighborhood engagement strategy, partnership development, and program execution
• High emotional intelligence, self-awareness, and relational awareness
• Integrity and accountability in managing public-facing work, partnerships, and community relationships

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience managing people and cultivating a collaborative, supportive, and accountable team culture
• Experience working within or partnering with government agencies or public sector institutions, particularly in community engagement, civic participation, or public service.
• Fluent in one or more of the following languages: Arabic, Bengali, Cantonese, Haitian Creole, Hindi, Korean, Mandarin, Polish, Punjabi, Spanish, Russian, or Urdu.
• Located in and familiar with one of NYC Votes priority neighborhood clusters of South Brooklyn, East Brooklyn, South Bronx, and North Central Queens.

Minimum Qualifications

• A bachelor’s degree from an accredited college including or supplemented by at least twelve-semester credits (or the equivalent of twelve-semester credits) in accounting, auditing, business or public administration, computer science, economics, finance, statistics, graphic design, personnel or human resources administration, user experience design, or a closely related area of study and one year of satisfactory full-time experience in accounting, auditing (including compliance or investigative auditing), business or public administration, business analysis, computer science, database administration, economics, finance, fiscal or economic management or research, statistics, graphic design, personnel or human resources administration, user experience design, or a closely related field; or
• A four-year high school diploma or its educational equivalent and five years of experience as described in “1” above; or
• Education and/or experience equivalent to “1” above.

Residency Requirement

New York City residency is generally required within 90 days of appointment. However, City Employees in certain titles who have worked for the City for 2 continuous years may also be eligible to reside in Nassau, Suffolk, Putnam, Westchester, Rockland, or Orange County. To determine if the residency requirement applies to you, please discuss with the agency representative at the time of interview.

Additional Information

The City of New York provides generous medical benefits (including dental and vision through respective unions or funds), retirement, tuition reimbursement, and additional ancillary benefits. CFB offers a flexible and hybrid work schedule, opportunities for career development, learning & development (leadership training and coaching), wellness programs, and much more! As a prospective employee of the City of New York, you may be eligible for federal loan forgiveness programs and state repayment assistance programs. For more information, please visit the U.S. Department of Education’s website at StudentAid.gov/PSLF.

The CFB is an equal opportunity employer firmly committed to diversity. All individuals are encouraged to apply. If you anticipate needing any type of reasonable accommodation to apply for an employment opportunity, please contact [e-mail] or [phone]. The City of New York is an inclusive equal opportunity employer committed to recruiting and retaining a diverse workforce and providing a work environment that is free from discrimination and harassment based upon any legally protected status or protected characteristic, including but not limited to, an individual's sex, race, color, ethnicity, national origin, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation, veteran status, gender identity, or pregnancy.