Organizing Manager - Operations

Oregon Food Bank Inc; Portland (OR); On-site; USD 83,000 - 93,000; Full time

Job summary

Oregon Food Bank is seeking an Organizing Manager - Operations in Portland to lead the operations and logistics for the Organizing and Advocacy Department. You will oversee internal systems, manage budget tracking, and coordinate two project coordinators, while guiding administrative and logistics tasks across statewide events.

Bring 3+ years in race and gender justice strategies and nonprofit operations, with strong skills in leadership, budgeting, and compliance; equity-centered culture is

Qualifications

• 3+ years’ experience in race and gender justice social change strategies.
• 3+ years’ experience in non-profit operations and systems.
• 2+ years experience supervising staff, building teams, and developing staff leadership.
• Knowledge of and ability to interpret and apply 501(c)(3) and lobbying compliance laws.
• Ability to enter, retrieve, interpret, analyze, and report data utilizing computerized systems and tools accurately.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with the Director in departmental systems design and management.
• Lead the development and/or operationalization of core departmental systems for field organizing.
• Budget modeling and tracking.
• Barrier mitigation for community leaders.
• Project management and event planning.
• Data entry and field materials management.
• Onboarding and skills training for team members.
• Draft and implement standard operating procedures.

Skills

Team leadership

Budget management

Project coordination

Staff supervision

Equity & inclusion

Tools

Excel

Budget software

Job description

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Organizing Manager - Operations

Full Time Management OFB - Headquarters, Portland, OR, US 1 Attachments

Salary Range: $82,590.00 To $93,208.00 Annually

Who We Are:

Oregon Food Bank (OFB) believes that no one should be hungry. Our mission is to eliminate hunger and its root causes. We believe that food and health are basic human rights for all.

We know that hunger is not just an individual experience; it is also a community-wide symptom of systemic barriers to employment, education, housing and health care such as systemic racism, sexism, and cissexism. That’s why we work systemically to achieve our mission to end hunger: we foster community connections to help people access nutritious food, and we build community power and strengthen networks of support and the safety net to eliminate the root causes of hunger for good.

We build community power to dismantle systems and policies that drive hunger and poverty.

Oregon Food Bank is an Equal Opportunity Employer, and we strongly encourage applications from candidates who can increase the diversity of our organization and strengthen our capacity to eliminate hunger. We believe strongly in the power of lived experience — and we actively seek individuals who have experienced hunger and its root causes to join our team. Our organization is stronger because of the leadership of people who have faced food insecurity in their own lives and/or hail from historically under-represented communities. Learn more about our commitment at oregonfoodbank.org/equity.

Who You Are:

You care deeply about community, about people experiencing hunger and hold them in the center of all that you do. You are committed to apply equity as a process and an outcome of your work to disrupt systemic social patterns that promote hunger such as racism, sexism, and cissexism. You have a strong affinity with OFB’s 10 Year Vision and are profoundly excited to achieve this vision for and with our community.

Position Summary:

As the Operations Organizing Manager , you will contribute to the organization’s success by leading the operations and logistics for the Organizing and Advocacy Department for both internal and external facing bodies of work in this fast-growing statewide organizing program building power for systems change. Working collaboratively with the Director, the Operations Manager will lead internal systems creation and manage key functions such as budget tracking, barrier mitigation process, transcreation processes, and event planning. This position will oversee two Project Coordinators and will also be responsible for some direct implementation of administrative and logistics tasks.

Primary Responsibilities (Essential Functions):

• Collaborate with the Director in departmental systems design and management.
• Lead the development and/or operationalization of core departmental systems that are essential to an effective field organizing program. Including, but not limited to:
• Budget modeling and tracking
• Barrier mitigation (for community leaders)
• Project Management and event planning
• Data Entry
• Field materials and equipment
• Onboarding and skills training for team members
• Revise and/or formulate standard operating procedures and promote their implementation
• Project manage logistics for multiple statewide organizing events annually.
• Collaborate with the Associate Director and Director to ensure we are effectively leveraging our financial resources for maximum impact by ensuring effective and accurate budget management in compliance with policies and procedures established by the Fiscal department.
• Oversee relationships/agreements with external partners/vendors and coordinate internal OFB review process with risk assessment team.
• Provide oversight and guidance around 501 (c)(3) compliance and reporting including – training team members across organizational departments on the reporting elements of grassroots and direct lobbying and working with the Fiscal Department for reporting purposes.
• Supervise two project coordinators as the primary implementers of administrative, project coordination, and logistics functions of the department. Responsible for providing ongoing feedback and coaching, performance management processes, and development of staff.
• Implement administrative and logistics functions as needed.
• Participate fully in OFB’s Manager’s team, leaning into collective responsibility for developing manager skills and a strong equity-centered organizational culture.
• Serve as OAT department representative on cross-functional teams related to organizational wide fiscal, compliance or technology systems and infrastructure.
• Organizational level responsibilities of exempt employees include:
• To be an ambassador and a leader for OFB’s vision and mission, a cross-departmental collaborator, and an active contributor to building a movement to end hunger for good by addressing the root causes of hunger: systemic oppressions such as racism, xenophobia, sexism, and cisexism.
• In consultation and coordination with the supervisor, actively contribute to:
• cross-departmental efforts
• work culture activities and programming
• advisory and consultative groups such as the compensation committee, affinity groups, Equity Ambassadors, Equity Think Tank meetings, among others
• plan and engage in professional development activities that strengthen your capacity for your specific role as well as your capacity to contribute and advance organizational goals, OFB’s vision and mission.
• Identify, share, engage in, and collaboratively adjust and make necessary changes to this description of duties according to the inevitable evolution of the role over time.
• Other related duties as assigned, consistent with the scope and level of this role

Skills and Experience Required:

• Deep passion for eliminating hunger and its root causes.
• Proven skill in building team culture, implementing feedback loops, and working across personality and style.
• 3+ years’ experience in race and gender justice social change strategies - including grassroots organizing and legislative campaign strategies.
• 3+ years’ experience in non-profit operations and systems.
• 2 + years experience supervising staff, building teams, and developing staff leadership.
• Knowledge of and ability to interpret and apply 501c3 and lobbying compliance laws.
• Ability to enter, retrieve, interpret, analyze, and report data utilizing computerized systems and tools accurately. Protects confidentiality of data and systems to department and organizational standards. Familiarity with budget management software and Excel.
• Excellent organizational and leadership abilities
• Demonstrated excellence in conceptualizing project work plans and project managing from conception to evaluation.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.
• Personal lived-experience of systemic hunger and/or its root causes (racism, sexism, heterosexism, cis-sexism, ableism, ageism, size-ism, ethnocentrism, and classism)
• Organizational level skills and experience required for exempt employees include:
• Disposition and willingness to maximize multiple perspectives to innovate, problem solve and seek creative solutions.
• Experience in modeling intercultural competence and demonstrated commitment to equity and social justice.
• Demonstrated ability to think strategically, collaborate, take initiative, and to maintain confidentiality.
• Project coordination and organization skills; ability to manage multiple projects with attention to detail; ability to handle interruptions, and produce timely, accurate work.
• Ability to both work independently and as part of a team; comfortable working in an office environment and offsite.
• Ability to thrive in a diverse, creative, responsive, mission-driven, and fast-paced work culture.
• Experience of successful multicultural immersion working and/or living within OFB's Equity Constituencies: BIPoC, Immigrants & Refugees, Single Mothers, Trans and Gender-Non-Conforming folx.
• Multicultural Immersion defined as: Actively integrated in one or more communities, interacting with individuals and groups, and seeking to understand the diversities within and between communities by being there and engaging in daily life activities.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Organizational level preferred qualifications of exempt employees include: