Stand Together is a dynamic and mission-driven organization committed to driving positive social change and empowering individuals to overcome barriers. Join our team and be part of a collaborative community that values innovation, personal responsibility, and the power of bottom-up solutions. Together, we will create a society that fosters opportunity, dignity, and well-being for all.
You always start with the end in mind. While others get overwhelmed by the big picture or the details, your unique skill is being able to understand the vision of a project and break that down into goals, timelines, and deliverables. Most importantly, you are a doer. You thrive off of not just keeping the trains on the track but jumping into the weeds and executing a project. You can see themes and prioritize deliverables across multiple, simultaneous projects, appropriately allocating time, energy, and resources.
Stand Together Foundation (STF) educates, advocates, and empowers our non-profit partner organizations (Catalysts) to change the world. We manage the programs and relationships with Catalyst Partners, finding the right opportunities to make connections and advance their businesses through grants, programming, and collaboration. Our place-based initiative, Radius, is focused on strengthening the social fabric in communities.
As the Operations Manager for Radius at Stand Together Foundation, you'll be involved in ensuring every step of the project connects back to our STF vision, has the right buy-in from stakeholders, and then you make it happen. With this shared vision, you're able to execute a project through checkpoints and across the finish line.
Some examples of projects you'll help lead include identifying innovative entrepreneurial solutions to common barriers that impact local communities, such as access to credit, alleviating food insecurity, access to healthcare, transportation solutions, affordable housing solutions and more.
Your Responsibilities Include

• Driving follow-up and deliverables from site visits in communities and partner meetings.
• Facilitating city-movement workstreams with and alongside in-market partners and teams.
• Creating processes that allow for prompt and transparent knowledge sharing and progress reports between partners, in-market teams, and initiative team.
• Partnering with internal operations teams such as accounting, legal, and finance to establish best practices and processes.
• Managing the lifecycle of Radius partnerships by ensuring accuracy of contracts, payments, etc.
• Tracking partnerships and projects using data management and customer management tools, such as Salesforce and Sharepoint
• Leading project sprints to adapt existing knowledge systems to meet needs of Radius.
• Daily partnership and operations support including facilitation and documentation of approvals processes, processing grant and vendor payments, and assisting with strategic planning and reporting deliverables.
• Representing Radius and Stand Together Foundation in internal meetings.

Knowledge and Skills You Bring to the Organization

• 5 years of experience working in economically disadvantaged areas and with local leaders, to advance or achieve community goals.
• Knowledge of key cultural and social influences within specific communities.
• Strong relationship management aptitudesas well as relationship cultivation skills and high emotional intelligence.
• Highly flexible approach to project management, operations management or relationship management.
• Demonstrated entrepreneurial spirit with bias toward action.
• Experience coordinating or managing programs and projects in place-based, community-centric environments.
• Ability to travel at least 50%

Standout Candidates May Bring

• A passion for vision of the Stand Together Community, STF and its multiple initiatives
• Professionalism consistent with expectations of various stakeholders including donors, business leaders and more.
• Experience facilitating, consulting, successfully executing projects within highly matrixed organizations or related experience

What We Offer

• A meaningful career where your work will improve the lives of millions of people in America.
• will improve the lives of millions of Americans
• A vision-driven organization of over 1,000 employees across the country who are dedicated to improving the lives of others.
• Competitive salaries and bonuses. Our salary and bonus strategies are aligned to the value you create, not a standardized bell curve.
• Generous 401K match - 6% match with immediate vesting.
• Competitive health and wellness benefits.
• Our flexible time-off policy allows all employees to take leave as needed.
• Opportunities for professional development and mentorship that can strengthen your effectiveness through Principle Based Management and other industry specific programs.

Stand Together helps social entrepreneurs supercharge their efforts to help people improve their lives. We connect them with passionate partners and the resources necessary to make a greater difference. Through our philanthropic community, we tackle some of the nation's biggest challenges so that every person has the opportunity to realize their extraordinary potential. Stand Together partners with people from diverse perspectives and backgrounds-including people in education, business, community non-profits, and public policy-to accomplish more together than any of us could on our own.
Our Values Working at Stand Together is different from many other organizations. We have a relentless commitment to a culture based on a business philosophy called Principle Based Management® (PBM®). Informed by the principles that allow a free and open society to flourish, PBM® prepares individuals to innovate, improve, and transform while fostering a healthy, growing organization that creates long-term value for its clients and supporters and fulfillment for its employees.
We believe that diversity in experiences, perspectives, knowledge and ideas fuels creativity, broadens knowledge, and helps drive success. That's why we're proud to be an equal opportunity employer and strive to treat all employees and applicants with honesty, dignity, respect and sensitivity. We welcome all qualified applicants regardless of color,race, religion, religious creed, sex, gender or gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, national origin, citizenship, ethnicity, ancestry, age, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy (including medical needs which may arise from pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), military and veteran status, genetic information, marital or familial status, political affiliation, or any other legally recognized protected basis under federal, state or local laws, regulations or ordinances.