Position Summary:
The Manager, Community Impact provides leadership for United Way by building relationships, bridges and identifying gaps to support the UWGN Community Impact work necessary to alleviate poverty, improve health and well-being and promote education in Davidson County. This position manages the grant allocation processes for Davidson County with a local committee of volunteers who will make educated and informed decisions about strong investments in each county. This position will work in times of disaster to liaison with VOAD to allocate funds and help ensure needs are being met through the community.

Essential Functions: The following are indicative of the essential functions required to perform this job successfully. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. This profile is not intended to be all inclusive of tasks and responsibilities required; it provides a description of the critical responsibilities associated with this position.

County Management Tasks:

• Builds relationships with cross-sector leaders including public, private and nonprofit entities that have the potential to advance United Way’s mission and expand its reach and impact.
• Represent United Way at relevant community events and meetings to increase United Way’s presence in the community and position United Way as a leader in the health and human services field.
• Continually stay informed of community needs, gaps and opportunities to inform priorities for investment both within UWGN and to be shared with local allocations committee.
• Manage the Community Impact grant allocation processes for Davidson County Responsibilities include:
  • Leading the grant application and review process for nonprofit applicants
  • Recruiting and managing the volunteer allocations committee to assist in the grant application and review process
  • Facilitating meetings with volunteers and nonprofit agencies
  • Facilitating agency funding notifications, contracting and reporting
  • Participation in strategy and planning of the Community Impact Funding and Request for Proposal process
  • Providing eCImpact technical assistance to partners
  • Communicating process outcomes and progress to supervisor
  • Conducting site visits and partner monitoring
• Regularly engage and manage the Community Impact Committee that will serve as the volunteer review committee for local investments in both counties. This includes educating the committee on UWGN work, goals, mission and vision.
• Support Workplace Engagement and Marketing to promote results and increase donor interest in United Way work, volunteer opportunities and investment.
  • Participate in corporate campaign events to educate donors on community needs and what United Way is doing to address those needs.
  • Provide content to share about partners and projects and share stories
  • Participate and support campaign committees at the local level to ensure they are tooled with CI work and needs.
• Support volunteering at the local level by connecting volunteers to opportunities that will meet the needs of the community.
• Document and track all projects, efforts, volunteers and work to adequately share the story of UWGN in each county.
• Work in partnership with the whole Community Impact team to ensure similar practices and representation in each county.
• Convene and lead internal County Action Team meetings to ensure collaboration, coordination and success of our work in each county.
• Convene community partners and leaders quarterly to ensure networking, sharing and community building is taking place in each county.
• Work with the CI Directors in Nashville to ensure investments align with what they are seeing in the community.
• Participate in regular meetings with CI leads to ensure coordination of work.
• Act as a liaison with VOAD during times of disaster and conduct an investment process to ensure immediate and long term needs are being met.
• Represent UWGN on the Board for the local Emergency Food and Shelter program.

Qualifications:

• Education:
  • Bachelor’s Degree preferred or equivalent experience
• Experience:
  • Experience with nonprofits is desirable
  • Three or more years experience in the nonprofit or social services sector
• Skills:
  • Demonstrated leadership in strategic planning, development and implementation
  • Ability to work independently and meet deadlines
  • Written, verbal, and technological communication
  • Proficiency with all Microsoft Office products

Environmental Conditions and Physical Demands:

• Employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 30 pounds. The employee is required to stand, walk, climb and balance.
• Employee will be responsible for covering Davidson County, therefore reliable transportation is required.
• Employee will also spend time seated; working at a desk in front of a computer monitor, requiring manual dexterity sufficient to reach/handle items and work with the fingers.
• Employee will be provided a well-lighted, heated, and/or air-conditioned indoor office setting with adequate ventilation.

United Way of Greater Nashville is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

To apply, please visit this site, create an account and submit your application for consideration.

Position Summary:
The SNAP Employment and Training Coordinator contributes to the efforts of United Way of Greater Nashville (UWGN) by continuing to develop and strengthen the SNAP Employment and Training (SNAP E&T) program throughout Tennessee. The Coordinator is responsible for ensuring the SNAP E&T program has the capabilities to support subcontractors in Tennessee, assist with expanding the program, monitor federal mandated case management database, and ensure financial reporting is accurate according to federal and state requirements.

Essential Functions: The following are indicative of the essential functions required to perform this job successfully. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. This profile is not intended to be all inclusive of tasks and responsibilities required; it provides a description of the critical responsibilities associated with this position.

Coordinator Tasks:

• Maintain a process for tracking and monitoring the participation of SNAP E&T participants in the Jobs4TN case management system.
• Assist in training newly established subcontractors on how to use the Jobs4TN case management system.
• Stay current on SNAP E&T program modifications to ensure subcontractors maintain the integrity of programming.
• Maintain professional communication with subcontractors, Department of Labor, and Department of Human Services.
• Work independently and cross-functionally with Regional Managers.
• Collaborates with Regional Managers with organizing and preparing SNAP E&T Interest Meetings with potential subcontractors, subcontractors, the Department of Human Services, and the Department of Labor.
• Adheres to all guidance and regulations for SNAP E&T grant and ensures subcontractors are successfully implementing grant requirements and there is compliance with all terms and conditions.
• Conducts monthly invoice review of all participant related expenses.
• Collaborates with Regional Manager with SNAP E&T orientation to newly onboarded subcontractors.
• Collaborates closely with Associate Director and Regional Managers to ensure compliance and successful implementation of SNAP E&T services Statewide.
• Provide technical assistance to subcontractors on an ongoing basis and/or as needed.
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

• Education:
  • High School Diploma or HISET equivalent
• Experience:
  • Case management (SNAP E&T preferred)
  • Working with and engaging nonprofit organizations
  • Grant implementation
• Skills:
  • Written, oral, and technological communication.
  • Ability to relate to people of varied economic, racial, ethnic & religious backgrounds.
  • Proficiency with Microsoft Office products, especially Outlook, Word, and Excel
• Miscellaneous:
  • A valid driver’s license & proof of insurance

Competencies:

• Mission Driven: Focuses on needs and aspirations of the community by telling the “United Way story” to help others understand the importance of volunteer, advocate, and give.
• Effective Communication: Ability to collaborate and effectively communicate through oral, written, and technological means; actively listening, collaborating, and expressing oneself clearly, to ensure those that need specific information acquire it; plan and deliver communication that makes an impact and persuades the audience; gives positive and encouraging recognition to those that have contributed.
• Relationship Management: Builds relationships internally and externally through communication efforts with external funders, corporate partners, individual donors, community members, and organizational stakeholders in efforts to generate enthusiasm of UWGN’s work; demonstrates credibility in all interactions; and demonstrates the ability to effectively build a network of contacts by understanding what motivates individuals and organizations to grow and sustain funding.
• Outcome Motivated: Creates and maintains high-performance standards that capitalize on opportunities to build support for Education, Financial Mobility, and Health by developing relationships that drive results.
• Problem Solving/Critical Thinking: Differentiates between when supervisory input is needed and when it is not; identifies opportunities and develops plans to execute; Identifies problems, gathers facts and appropriate resources to resolve issues.
• Brand Advocate: Conducts themselves in a manner that promotes integrity, trust and strong ethics, to protect the reputation and results of UWGN.
• Initiative and Creativity: Plans work and carries out tasks without detailed instructions; makes constructive suggestions; prepares for problems in advance; undertakes additional responsibilities; responds to situations as they arise with minimal supervision.
• Stress Tolerance: Ability to manage stress levels while under strict deadlines by preparing for problems and opportunities in advance; ensure all programs have the materials and volunteers that are needed to ensure the program runs smoothly; ability to remain flexible.
• Team Player: Works cooperatively and collaboratively with others to achieve collective goals; shows commitment to the teams purpose and goals by providing members critical information that helps drive success; works effectively with different personalities across a variety of social and professional situations.

Environmental Conditions and Physical Demands:

• May require the employee to work externally in the community. This may require providing technical assistance to subcontractors throughout Middle Tennessee. This will require the employee to be able to drive to different locations.
• Employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 40 pounds. The employee is required to stand, walk, climb, and balance.
• Manual dexterity sufficient to reach/handle items and work with the fingers and perform repetitive hand/wrist motions.
• Well-lighted, heated, and/or air-conditioned indoor office setting with adequate ventilation.

United Way of Greater Nashville is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

To apply, please visit this site, create an account and submit your application for consideration.