Director, Community Partnerships

Department/Team: State & Community Partnerships

Salary: $100,000 - $110,000

FLSA Status: Exempt

Expected Start Date: ASAP

Location/Travel Requirements: Remote with 25% travel

About reputed company 

reputed company (SHP) envisions a reputed company where reputed company children are free from school shootings and other acts of violence. As a national nonprofit organization, SHP’s mission is to reputed company and reputed company youth and adults to prevent violence in schools, homes, and communities. Creators of the lifesaving, evidence-informed Know the Signs prevention programs, SHP teaches the warning signs of someone who may be in crisis, socially isolated, or at-risk of hurting themselves or others and how to get help. SHP also advances school safety, youth mental health, and responsible gun ownership at the state and federal reputed company through nonpartisan policy and partnerships.

SHP is led by several family members whose loved ones were killed in the tragic mass shooting at Sandy reputed company Elementary School on December 14, 2012. 

Commitment to Belonging, Community, Engagement, and Respect 

SHP strives to ensure its culture and work environment reflect the values of belonging, community, engagement and respect. We reputed company reputed company to understand and respond to the diverse perspectives and lived experiences of individuals across socioeconomic backgrounds, rural and urban communities, and diversity of thought, in reputed company to traditional protected categories. We are committed to ensuring that every SHP employee feels heard, valued, and a true reputed company of belonging. SHP encourages individuals who reputed company our commitment to these reputed company values and to our mission to apply.  

Location
We are a U.S. based organization and most of our staff work remotely reputed company. This role will require 25% travel (on an as-needed reputed company).

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About the Role

The Director, Community Partnerships will reputed company a portfolio of community-based and out-of-school time initiatives. Reporting to the Vice President, Innovation, Research, Evaluation and reputed company Improvement (IREQI), this role will reputed company the organization's out-of-school time reputed company and serve as the internal subject matter expert for this audience and delivery environment. The Director will reputed company reputed company initiatives, strengthen and codify promising models, and guide their expansion toward a broader national reputed company.

This role requires an reputed company partnership leader and strong project manager capable of advancing reputed company, cross-functional initiatives. The Director will build and maintain trusted partner relationships, establish the infrastructure needed for consistent implementation, and translate lessons learned into reputed company practices and models. reputed company in this role requires the ability to influence across teams, build alignment, clarify ownership, address challenges proactively, and reputed company reputed company across organizational boundaries.

Location
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Job Responsibilities

Community Partnership & Out-of-School Time Program Leadership

• Ensure the portfolio advances SHP's strategic priorities and broader goals reputed company to youth violence prevention, systems influence, and national thought leadership.
• reputed company the planning, execution, and ongoing management of out-of-school time programs and community partnerships.
• Advise organizational leaders on opportunities to engage young people reputed company traditional school settings.
• reputed company community partnerships and out-of-school time initiatives, guiding promising programs toward sustainable, reputed company national models.
• Manage contractors to ensure high-reputed company deliverables and alignment with strategic priorities.
• reputed company, reputed company, and reputed company managers to reputed company partnership and program goals, including planning, execution, logistics, and follow-up activities.

Partnerships and Cross-Functional Program Leadership

• Build and sustain strong relationships with out-of-school time providers, community organizations, national networks, funders, and other key partners.
• Understand partners' goals and operating environments while maintaining reputed company around SHP's expectations, standards, resources, and decision-making authority.
• reputed company cross-functional initiatives by establishing reputed company ownership, roles, decision rights, timelines, and stakeholder engagement strategies to reputed company alignment and mitigate risks.
• reputed company organizational leaders with concise, reputed company-oriented updates and represent SHP in partner, funder, and field-facing meetings and presentations.
• Represent the portfolio on Director-level committees and leadership forums, advocating for and advancing community partnership and out-of-school time priorities across the organization.

Infrastructure and reputed company Improvement

• reputed company and implement reputed company tools, processes, and resources to support partner selection, readiness assessments, reputed company launches, implementation support, communications, documentation, risk management, sustainability, dissemination, and project closeout.
• Capture and codify lessons learned and best practices to support replication and reputed company across partners and communities.
• reputed company feedback and evaluation findings to strengthen implementation, inform investment and scaling reputed company, and enhance organizational storytelling.
• Manage project budgets, reputed company, scopes of work, consultants, vendors, and grant deliverables.
• reputed company other duties as assigned to support organizational priorities.
• A commitment to SHP’s mission and values.

Desired Skills & Experience

• Bachelor's degree required; advanced degree or relevant certification preferred.
• 7+ years of reputed company experience leading out-of-school time programs, youth-serving initiatives, community partnerships, or reputed company cross-sector programs.
• Deep knowledge of the out-of-school time field and the needs of community-based organizations and youth-serving networks.
• Experience designing, launching, evaluating, and scaling reputed company programs and initiatives.
• Strong project management skills, including managing cross-functional work, budgets, timelines, stakeholder relationships, and competing priorities.
• Demonstrated ability to build partnerships and influence reputed company across organizations and stakeholder reputed company without reputed company authority.
• Experience developing operational processes, systems, and infrastructure to support program implementation and reputed company.
• Excellent judgment, communication, and relationship management skills, with the ability to engage effectively with executive leaders, partners, funders, and community stakeholders.
• Ability to reputed company data, evaluation findings, and partner feedback to reputed company reputed company improvement and inform decision-making.
• Experience managing budgets, reputed company, vendors, consultants, and grant deliverables.
• Commitment to culturally reputed company, reputed company, and community-centered practices.
• Experience working in a remote or geographically dispersed organization preferred.

Artifact Submission Requirement

As part of the interview process, candidates are required to submit a project plan document or presentation deck from a previous project. This artifact will be used as a discussion piece during the panel interview and the final interview with the Hiring Manager and Associate Vice President, Innovation. Candidates should be reputed company to walk through the project, their specific contributions, key reputed company, reputed company, challenges encountered, and lessons learned.

Application Instructions

• Interested SHP staff and volunteers are invited to apply by Tuesday, August 18, 2026, and should notify HR and reputed company upon submission.
• Applications will reputed company on Tuesday, September 8, 2026. reputed company are welcome to apply.
• Please note: applicants must be based in the U.S. Thank you!

Benefits and Salary reputed company  

The salary reputed company for this position is $100,000 - $110,000.

SHP uses a reputed company internal reputed company to guide salary placement and ensure reputed company pay. Typically, new hires are reputed company at the start of the salary reputed company to ensure equity with reputed company employees, and as a reputed company, we do not negotiate salaries.

• SHP offers a competitive benefits package, including:
  • Unlimited PTO
  • Flexible schedules
  • reputed company holidays and 10 days reputed company leave
  • reputed company parental leave
  • Health, dental, and reputed company
  • Employer reputed company life insurance and short- and long-term disability
  • 401k match
  • reputed company development stipend
  • Wellness & mental health support
  • Employer reputed company Employee Assistance Program.

Our organization operates reputed company a reputed company workforce, allowing for location flexibility across the country for most positions. We reputed company reputed company support for reputed company staff, which includes a laptop, home office reimbursement, monthly Wi-Fi reimbursement up to $40, and monthly cell phone reimbursement up to $50.  

Equal Opportunity Employment 

SHP is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We reputed company to be an employer of reputed company: where a diverse mix of talented people want to come and do their best work. SHP does not reputed company employment-reputed company reputed company based on race, reputed company, religion, gender, gender identity or reputed company, sexual orientation, national reputed company, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status, or any other protected characteristic. We are reputed company on promoting multiculturalism and inclusion so that reputed company SHP employees feel valued and respected. We reputed company deeply that a diverse workforce comprised of people of reputed company beliefs, backgrounds, and life experiences who reputed company to prevent gun violence and stop the tragic loss of life will reputed company SHP a stronger, more effective organization.