Cleveland Action Strategist
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Women, people of color and LGBTQ people are always strongly encouraged to apply.
Job Objectives
- Implement ioby’s national growth strategy by leading one of ioby’s priority cities: Cleveland
- Build a pipeline of local ioby Leaders, and support new verticals (e.g., food, safe streets) with a pipeline of issue-specific projects
- Positively represent ioby to a local and regional audience
- Work with ioby staff to refine ioby’s strategy and model for city partnerships
Job Activities
Research
- Identify and reach out to potential ioby users from nonprofits, civic organizations, faith organizations, neighborhood associations, labor unions, trade associations and coalitions
- Stay informed of national and local trends in ioby’s fields of community development, urban planning, technology and crowdfunding
- Be involved in all neighborhood scale creative placemaking in Cleveland
Nurture Partnerships:
- Liaise with ioby’s key local partners, Neighborhood Connections, Cleveland Neighborhood Progress, among others, to ensure alignment of services
- Participate in national networks of thought leaders directly related to your work (e.g. Placemaking Leadership Council, Neighborworks, etc)
- Represent ioby within a regional network of likeminded people
Cultivate Leaders:
- Identify, support, develop, cultivate and celebrate new ioby Leaders in Cleveland area in successfully funding and implementing their ideas
- Deliver ioby’s signature trainings to ioby Leaders
- Tap local networks of practitioners and experts to assist leaders with project development and implementation
- Create a local network of ioby allies and influencers, and work with other program staff to build a national network of ioby allies and influencers of which Cleveland leaders should play a major role
- Work with other program staff to regularly inform the network of allies and influencers that you develop about opportunities at ioby
- Work with other program staff to develop partnership relationships, locally and regionally
Build:
- Work with program staff to develop, standardize and implement trainings for potential ioby leaders on fundraising and project implementation
- Continue to contribute to the strategic planning of ioby
- Work with City Partnerships Team to develop a model for replication based on Cleveland successes and lessons learned for ioby’s expansion into other cities
- Work with Product Team to refine internal business processes and ioby Leader UI / UX
Amplify:
- Working with ioby Communications Team, present ioby’s Cleveland work to a local and national audience by sharing city-specific stories in video, blogs and social media
- Work with other remote office staff and Communications Team to produce materials and collateral for Cleveland
- Work with the Communications Team to develop a paid media plan for Cleveland
- Manage the social media for ioby Cleveland in the guidelines developed by the Communications Team
- Produce email marketing content; maintain groups and segments of the email house file
- Plan and promote local events
Track, Evaluate & Share
- Work with the entire Leader Team to set and achieve goals
- Develop OKRs and evaluate monthly sprints with the entire staff
- Track your interactions with all ioby Leaders, partners and influencers in Salesforce
- Create, use and share results from evaluation tools you create for your own work and those that ioby provides to you
- Work with Cleveland leadership and ioby Communications Team to continue to boast Cleveland’s role as a national thought leader in citizen-led community development
This job is based at ioby’s Cleveland office, but can be completed in a flexible schedule with many hours worked from home. In addition, this job does require some travel within the U.S. In addition, this job does require participation in ioby’s regular staff retreats (occurring times a year) in New York. ioby’s regular business hours are 9-6pm Monday through Friday, but this job will require some work outside regular business hours. You’ll be expected to manage your own balanced workweek based on the demands of the job. ioby is a startup: You’ll be expected to bring new ideas, strategies, revise your work on short timelines and bring an attitude of continuous improvement and a culture of innovation.
Candidates for this position must have the following characteristics.
- Deep commitment and fulfillment derived from working with people
- Experience leading trainings and attending community meetings
- Outgoing, gregarious, articulate; comfortable meeting new people regularly, speaking to groups, remembering names and faces; superior communication and presentation skills
- Extraordinary written communication skills
- Responsive to emails, phone calls and in person requests: quick, effective, and professional
- Strong interpersonal skills: courtesy, tact, patience and team orientation;
- Team player with a sense of humor and a life outside of work
- Builds trust with remote teams
- 3-8 years of professional experience working in a related field, such as community organizing, case management, urban planning, and / or grassroots fundraising, or in an unrelated field with similar job activities, such as social work, ministering, health care and / or job training
- A demonstrated commitment to social justice