Community Impact Manager

Position Overview:

Are you a friendly, creative, welcoming, self-starter who is excited about and understands the importance of participating in the Jewish community? Do you enjoy interacting with people from diverse communities? Are you inspired by helping others? Do you want to be part of a high-impact, dedicated team, that assists thousands of Nevadans every year? Then you might be the Jewish Nevada’s next Community Impact Manager!

Your role will be to bring your passion for building the Jewish community to help create opportunities that engage the broader Nevada Jewish community and organizations in Jewish Nevada’s work. This will be done through our several community impact programs including Hebrew Free Loan, Right Start Preschool Voucher, Scholarships, and more. The ideal candidate will bring leadership, enthusiasm, organization, and initiative to shape and grow dynamic programs that already have a proven business model.

What You Will Own:
Federation’s Community Impact department is responsible for managing and implementing grant initiatives; developing and maintaining institutional partnerships and relationships; tracking, measuring, and evaluating grant outcomes and impact;
Israel & Overseas related planning and programs, and working in partnership with volunteer leadership. The Community Impact Manager, in collaboration with the Chief Strategy Officer, will develop and implement initiatives, strategies, and programs that maximize the Federation’s efforts to generate measurable impact on the community level and increase the visibility of the organization.

The position requires the ability to organize, prioritize and delegate responsibilities, motivate lay leadership and professional staff, manage and further institutional relationships, and lead the completion of multiple and varied projects and programs in a timely manner. The main community impact initiatives that the Manager will focus on are:

• Hebrew Free Loan—Jewish Nevada’s Hebrew Free Loan (HFL) program was launched in 2019 to aid and empower members of the Nevada Jewish community to help themselves by providing interest-free loans and achieving financial self-sufficiency. The Manager will work closely with the Chief Strategy Officer, Program Committee, loan applicants, and donors to grow and maintain the program. They are responsible for program management and growth, implementation of planning efforts, developing and implementing marketing initiatives, partnering on fundraising with the JN team, and creating community partnerships.
• Right Start Preschool Voucher—Created to increase awareness and access to Jewish early childhood programs for our community’s families. Jewish Nevada Right Start provides a financial voucher as a one-time incentive for Jewish families enrolling their children in a Jewish infant, toddler, or preschool program for the first time. Marketing the program, working with families and schools on the application process, and related program management.
• Community Planning Department support
• Israel Community Mission support

$50000-$60000

What You Will Do:

• Systems & Program Administrative Support
  Respond to phone and email inquiries from potential individual and organizational applicants, and loan borrowers, and skillfully manage complicated conversations with potential borrowers and applicants.
• Shepherd applicants through the grant, scholarship, or loan process (call applicants to follow up on submitted applications; explain the details of related programs and HFL’s loans and the application process; perform credit checks on loan applicants and cosigners; collect required documentation; and steer application (grant, scholarship, loan) through the stages of the process from the initial conversation, application, committee, award, and report.
• Prepare written information to be reviewed by Committees, including writing summaries and background information about applicants.
• Communicate loan disbursement information to Chief Strategy Officer and JN Finance team.
• Manage loan repayments, including setting up ACH, assisting borrowers with repayment schedule adjustments, following up on delinquencies and…