Who We Are

V3 Sports is a nonprofit located in vibrant North Minneapolis, focused on elevating our community through wellness, fitness, and education! Thanks to our amazing partners, donors, and incredible community members, we have been making waves in Minneapolis, serving over a thousand families since 2007.

Why You’ll Love Working Here

Our mission at V3 Sports is to elevate our community, and one of our passions is educating our community on how to swim. Every year, an unnecessary number of deaths occur due to drowning. V3 is continuing to develop aquatic programs that help people of all ages learn how to stay afloat in the water.

The V3 Center (Phase One) is almost ready to open its doors to our community! We will provide aquatics and fitness offerings, on-site childcare and a new home for the Boys and Girls Club. Our goal is to begin the Phase Two expansion (adding a 50-meter pool, basketball courts, a track, and more) at the end of 2024 and complete it in 2027.

Wages and Benefits

$59,000 - $65,000 annual salary range; Generous paid time off; Paid Holidays; Competitive medical, dental, and vision benefits; Company-paid life insurance; voluntary life insurance; employer-paid short-term disability and long-term disability. Retirement benefits coming in 2024.

A Typical Day in the Life…

A typical day as V3 Sports’s Community Engagement and Partnership Manager provides the opportunity to establish partnerships and analyze how they can elevate the V3 Center, recognize synergies, and amplify effectiveness by ensuring there is complimentary messaging, staffing, interpersonal relationships, and programming that best meet the needs of the community. Responsibilities will include the following:

• Using stakeholder input to forecast, represent and communicate community needs and opportunity areas for V3.
• Developing and carrying out a strategic engagement strategy designed to promote V3, identify community needs, build support, and establish constructive partnerships at local, regional, and national levels.
• Developing and implementing messaging to communicate and build enthusiasm for V3’s mission, vision, programming, and services.
• Building awareness about and support for V3 by developing relationships and partnerships with corporations, government agencies, foundations, and other organizations.
• Developing metrics for success to measure the increase of engagement and impact.
• Engaging with the North Minneapolis community and seeking opportunities with entrepreneurs for programming and partnership to ensure V3’s programs are fully inclusive, innovative, integrated, and effective in meeting the objectives of V3’s mission.
• Acting as an external advocate for V3, continually engaging in learning opportunities about the North Minneapolis community, with a particular focus on those that have traditionally or historically lacked access to water safety, health, and wellness.
• Overseeing contracts, agreements, and programming details to ensure they are meeting quality assurance standards in coordination with the Facility Director and Program Manager.
• Understanding and communicating funding resources with external partners.
• In coordination with the Membership and Program Manager, developing a unified strategic communication strategy to be deployed for use with members, community, staff, and partners regarding V3’s space and programming.
• Representing V3 at community events by tabling, giving presentations, and providing tours of V3’s facilities.
• Solicit community perspective, ensuring accurate collection of qualitative and anecdotal data to inform V3’s programming and initiatives.
• Communicating with all internal and external partners, including team members of special events/happenings well in advance to ensure minimal disruption in scheduling or family experiences.
• Providing regular updates at Board Meetings regarding V3’s community partnerships and engagement.
• Participating in and contributing to V3’s growth and development through strategic planning, budgeting, and organizational development efforts.
• Collaborating with V3’s leadership team and staff to envision V3’s future and contributing to the development and updating of V3’s strategic plan on a periodic basis.
• Developing, communicating, and executing partnership and community engagement strategy, budget, and implementation plans.
• There will be some traveling requirements as this job will be out in the community at various events and opportunities.

Who You Are

• You bring over three years of experience in supervising partnerships and community engagement, including facilitating meetings and focus groups, along with two or more years of expertise in project management, community organizing, and implementing diverse programs for various demographics.
• You have a personal and professional commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, access, and racial justice, and have successfully woven those ideals into community-centered programming.
• You have experience mobilizing and engaging with young people, mentoring, and positioning the youth to play leadership roles to create and sustain positive collaboration within their community.
• You exhibit adept prioritization skills, effectively and efficiently managing tasks.
• You excel at taking the initiative to solve problems, leveraging research and fostering relationships to make well-informed decisions and offer effective solutions.
• You have the ability to work autonomously as well as collaborating effectively with others to develop community-centered solutions.
• You possess excellent communication skills, both verbally and in writing, including being skilled at tactfully navigating difficult conversations.
• You have exceptional customer service skills.
• You are competent in using MS Office: Word, Access, Publisher, Outlook, Excel, and PowerPoint.
• You can collaborate effectively with marketing and social media departments to increase engagement.
• You are bi-lingual in Spanish, Hmong, or Somali (highly desired).
• You are able and willing to maintain current CPR, AED, and BBP certifications. (For new hires, training will be provided during onboarding.)
• You have a valid driver’s license, access to reliable transportation, and the ability to meet V3 Sports’ driving record requirements. Please note that if the license was not issued in the state of Minnesota, you have 60 days after becoming a Minnesota resident in which to apply for your Minnesota driver's license or permit.

Diversity and open expression are fundamental to the work of V3 Sports. We are passionate about building and sustaining an inclusive and equitable working environment where everyone can belong. Every member of our team enriches our work by exposing us to a broad range of ways to understand and engage with the world, identify challenges, and to discover, design, and deliver solutions. We welcome everyone to apply, especially those individuals who are underrepresented in our sector: individuals who identify as BIPOC, Indigenous or people of culture, LGBTQI and gender fluid or gender nonconforming, individuals with disabilities (both seen and unseen), veterans, people of any age or family status. We value the contributions of a diverse workforce, and we welcome and encourage applications from all underrepresented groups. We encourage you to apply even if you feel like you do not fit 100% of the technical requirements.

Equal Opportunity Employer: All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, religion, disability, marital status, national origin, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, familial status, genetic information, or a protected veteran’s status.

Our organization has a partnership with Metropolitan Alliance of Connected Communities (MACC) to provide administrative services including management of the recruiting process. If you apply for this position, you may see references to MACC in some online materials.

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