Sr. Vice President of Program Partnerships, Campaigns, and Advocacy - Share Our Strength

Since 1984, Share Our Strength® has led the fight against hunger and poverty by inspiring and organizing individuals and businesses to share their strengths. Today, through No Kid Hungry and our Family Economic Mobility work, Share Our Strength is ending childhood hunger in America by ensuring all children get the healthy food they need. No child should go hungry in America – we’re on our way to making that a reality and we want you to join us. We’re bold, creative, always open to new ideas, and 100% dedicated to our mission. If that sounds like you, we’d like you to consider becoming part of our team.

Reporting to the Executive Vice President, The Senior Vice President of Share Our Strength’s Program Partnerships, Campaigns, and Advocacy work is responsible for developing and implementing results-driven strategies that leverage partnerships, programmatic expertise, government relations, advocacy, and communications to maximize access and participation in federal nutrition programs and policies that increase economic mobility in coordinated efforts to build a movement to end childhood hunger.

The Senior Vice President of Program Partnerships, Campaigns, and Advocacy is a critical program leader establishing priorities and adapting strategies focused on impact urgency, and equity, as well as a key leader of the organization serving on the executive team to provide both programmatic expertise and strategic counsel.

The Senior Vice President works in partnership with a highly collaborative program leadership team that includes the Senior Vice President of Program Strategy and Economic Mobility, the Senior Vice President of Program Research, Innovation, and Impact, and the Executive Vice President to develop and refine program strategies, and to effectively deploy resources and staff capacities to best support priority impact areas. The Senior Vice President will also partner with leaders of the Communications and Resource Development and Growth teams to lead our movement building work, ensure excellent communications with a diverse range of stakeholders, and ensure we are raising the funds we need to achieve our mission.

The Senior Vice President will oversee the No Kid Hungry campaign on the ground and will be responsible for the implementation of local campaigns and national partnerships to maximize access and participation in federal nutrition programs. The Senior Vice President will be able to move seamlessly between strategy and execution as well as being a ‘connector’ and thrive on finding synergies and building coalitions among a diverse set of nonprofits, corporate, and government contacts.

The Senior Vice President leads Government Relations and Advocacy for the entire organization. In this role the SVP manages influential relationships at the federal, state, and local levels, often acting as spokesperson for the organization and our programmatic strategy.

The Senior Vice President will oversee all of the organization’s advocacy efforts on state and federal legislative priorities. This work will include identifying and executing advocacy opportunities; representing the organization in coalitions and on meetings on Capitol Hill and with state legislatures; managing the budget, developing and executing advocacy plans for state legislative priorities; managing relationships and contracts with major national organizations representing state elected officials.

Ending childhood hunger requires building a movement of diverse stakeholders committed to advancing food security and economic mobility. The Senior Vice President will play a critical role in leading the organization’s efforts to build the political will and to partner with our communications colleagues to create urgency around issues of food and income disparities in the national conversation.

In addition to being asked to serve as a spokesperson for Share Our Strength, the SVP of Program Partnerships, Campaigns, and Advocacy is often asked to speak with various stakeholders to help raise the critical resources required to achieve impact. The SVP will work with members of Share Our Strength’s board and Leadership Council and coordinate with fundraising colleagues for other speaking or donor development opportunities.

The Senior Vice President will have 3-4 direct reports but ultimately responsible for the management and leadership of a large team.

This position is based in Washington, DC and will require the candidate to be local to the Washington, DC area. This role is a hybrid position but requires a consistent presence in Headquarters (2 days per week).

COMPENSATION:
Share Our Strength offers outstanding benefits and compensation arrangements are competitive and commensurate with both experience and achievement.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Build results-driven strategies towards long term goal of ending childhood hunger in the United States through partnerships, campaigns, and government affairs.
• Develop and manage a combined multi-million-dollar budget.
• Manage a high performing team focused on collaboration, achieving results and innovation. This includes providing direction, goals and communications on key issues, empowering them to gain results and ensuring professional development for team members.
• Oversee all of the organization’s advocacy efforts on state and federal legislative priorities
• Work closely with the Director of Advocacy to align on priorities and supporting the team to executive against our priorities
• Execute programmatic priorities, in partnership with non-profit and political leaders on the ground externally both locally and nationally, and maintain relationships with elected officials at the state and local level and with existing grantees.
• Direct strategy, planning and implementation of 5-year plans for No Kid Hungry campaigns. Accountable for campaigns reaching guideposts in prescribed period of time and expansion of models that work to other geographies.
• Direct investments in all 50 states to coordinate and push towards proven best practices in the work to end childhood hunger.
• Build multi-layered coalitions with nonprofit, corporations, government agencies, and community and faith-based organizations focused on increasing participation in federal nutrition programs.
• Manage influential relationships at the federal, state, and local levels
• Serve as spokesperson for the organization in media and in representing the organization as a high-level stakeholder.
• Partner with Communications and Resource Development and Growth teams to lead our movement building work, ensure excellent communications with a diverse range of stakeholders, and ensure we are raising the funds we need to achieve our mission.
• Collaborate with the Center for Best Practices to identify and disseminate best practices among partners
• Collaborate with the Development team to identify and support funding opportunities for program work
• Collaborate with the Communications team to support message and brand development as well as communications strategies that support the program work locally and nationally.
• Represent interests and needs of Program Team on the Executive Team and in coordination with other internal departments.
• 25% travel will be required.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s degree required with 10-15 years’ previous work experience, graduate degree preferred
• At least 5-7 years of people management experience required with a focus on coaching and developing teams in support of a positive team culture
• Must possess supervisory experience of a large team and the capability to lead an integrated campaign requiring attention to political and grassroots relationships, communications, and fundraising in over a dozen key states
• Successful budget management experience with multi-million-dollar budgets
• Successful track record managing multiple complex projects simultaneously
• Experience in developing program strategy for and in running a large program that is national in scope and local in implementation through a range of partnerships
• In depth policy expertise and experience with both hunger and poverty related policies
• Experience in leading advocacy efforts
• Proven relationship-building skills
• Excellent written and verbal communications skills
• Successful track record of achieving results through persuasion and collaboration
• Highly effective within a fluid, entrepreneurial environment
• Keen judgment and emotional intelligence
• Must be flexible and highly organized
• Experience working with elected officials and community leaders
• Demonstrated passion for our work and mission

COMPREHENSIVE BENEFIT PLAN:

We offer a comprehensive benefits plan which currently includes, but is not limited to, health insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, retirement, wellness benefits, and paid time off (vacation leave, sick leave, personal leave, holiday, parental leave, bereavement leave, military leave, and jury duty leave).

DIVERSITY:

At Share Our Strength, we value an individual’s diversity of backgrounds, experiences, ideas and perspectives. A hallmark of our history, culture and values has been the organization’s desire to bring together motivated, intelligent, and talented people to work together to find and implement solutions to end hunger and poverty in the U.S. and abroad. We each come to Share Our Strength with a unique background, but together we form a team that yields amazing results. This shared value of encouraging and embracing diversity in our organization fosters a workplace and culture that is highlighted for its innovation, open expression of ideas, and collaboration. With a strong shared commitment to the organization’s mission, and a unique blend of individual strengths, we are all working toward ensuring that every individual can live a healthy and productive life.