Organizing Manager - Operations

Job Description

Job Description

Application Guidelines:

Applications will be accepted and reviewed on a rolling basis - please apply promptly.

We recognize that people gain skills and experience in many different ways. Don’t be discouraged if you don’t meet each and every position requirement – instead, use your application to let us know what excites you about the role and what transferable skills or other qualities you would like to bring to OFB! Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply for jobs unless they believe they meet every one of the qualifications as described in a job description. We are most interested in finding the best candidate for the job, and that candidate may be one who comes from a less traditional background.

Who We Are:

Oregon Food Bank (OFB) believes that no one should be hungry. Our mission is to eliminate hunger and its root causes. We believe that food and health are basic human rights for all. We know that hunger is not just an individual experience; it is also a community-wide symptom of systemic barriers to employment, education, housing and health care such as systemic racism, sexism, and cissexism. That’s why we work systemically to achieve our mission to end hunger: we foster community connections to help people access nutritious food, and we build community power and strengthen networks of support and the safety net to eliminate the root causes of hunger for good.

We build community power to dismantle systems and policies that drive hunger and poverty.

Oregon Food Bank is an Equal Opportunity Employer, and we strongly encourage applications from candidates who can increase the diversity of our organization and strengthen our capacity to eliminate hunger. We believe strongly in the power of lived experience — and we actively seek individuals who have experienced hunger and its root causes to join our team. Our organization is stronger because of the leadership of people who have faced food insecurity in their own lives and/or hail from historically under-represented communities. Learn more about our commitment at oregonfoodbank.org/equity.

Who You Are:

You care deeply about community, about people experiencing hunger and hold them in the center of all that you do. You are committed to apply equity as a process and an outcome of your work to disrupt systemic social patterns that promote hunger such as racism, sexism, and cissexism. You have a strong affinity with OFB’s 10 Year Vision and are profoundly excited to achieve this vision for and with our community.

Position Summary:

As the Operations Organizing Manager, you will contribute to the organization’s success by leading the operations and logistics for the Organizing and Advocacy Department for both internal and external facing bodies of work in this fast-growing statewide organizing program building power for systems change. Working collaboratively with the Director, the Operations Manager will lead internal systems creation and manage key functions such as budget tracking, barrier mitigation process, transcreation processes, and event planning. This position will oversee two Project Coordinators and will also be responsible for some direct implementation of administrative and logistics tasks.

Primary Responsibilities (Essential Functions):

• Collaborate with the Director in departmental systems design and management.

• Lead the development and/or operationalization of core departmental systems that are essential to an effective field organizing program. Including, but not limited to:

  • Budget modeling and tracking

  • Barrier mitigation (for community leaders)

  • Project Management and event planning

  • Data Entry

  • Field materials and equipment 

  • Onboarding and skills training for team members

• Revise and/or formulate standard operating procedures and promote their implementation

• Project manage logistics for multiple statewide organizing events annually.

• Collaborate with the Associate Director and Director to ensure we are effectively leveraging our financial resources for maximum impact by ensuring effective and accurate budget management in compliance with policies and procedures established by the Fiscal department.

• Oversee relationships/agreements with external partners/vendors and coordinate internal OFB review process with risk assessment team. 

• Provide oversight and guidance around 501 (c)(3) compliance and reporting including – training team members across organizational departments on the reporting elements of grassroots and direct lobbying and working with the Fiscal Department for reporting purposes.

• Supervise two project coordinators as the primary implementers of administrative, project coordination, and logistics functions of the department. Responsible for providing ongoing feedback and coaching, performance management processes, and development of staff.

• Implement administrative and logistics functions as needed.

• Participate fully in OFB’s Manager’s team, leaning into collective responsibility for developing manager skills and a strong equity-centered organizational culture.

• Serve as OAT department representative on cross-functional teams related to organizational wide fiscal, compliance or technology systems and infrastructure.

• Organizational level responsibilities of exempt employees include:

  • To be an ambassador and a leader for OFB’s vision and mission, a cross-departmental collaborator, and an active contributor to building a movement to end hunger for good by addressing the root causes of hunger: systemic oppressions such as racism, xenophobia, sexism, and cisexism. 

  • In consultation and coordination with the supervisor, actively contribute to:

    • cross-departmental efforts

    • work culture activities and programming

    • advisory and consultative groups such as the compensation committee, affinity groups, Equity Ambassadors, Equity Think Tank meetings, among others

    • plan and engage in professional development activities that strengthen your capacity for your specific role as well as your capacity to contribute and advance organizational goals, OFB’s vision and mission.

• Identify, share, engage in, and collaboratively adjust and make necessary changes to this description of duties according to the inevitable evolution of the role over time.