Member and Strategic Partnerships Manager; SAFSF

Posted on September 12, 2018

Grade: Full-Time (40 hrs/week);
Exempt

Reports to: Executive Director

Location:
Flexible (Main office is located in Santa Barbara, CA)

Start Date:
No later than early December 2018

Final date to receive applications: October 1, 2018

Short Candidate Profile

A strong candidate for the Member and Strategic Partnerships Manager position is a professional with a proven track record who will excel at fostering relationships across a broad cross-section of partners, understand that fundraising is about more than just dollars, and be genuinely interested in people and their ideas. The candidate’s excellent written and oral communication, project planning, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills reflect a strong intellect, intuition, and sense of humor.

The Manager will demonstrate dedication to the values promoted by SAFSF: equity, collaboration, respect, stewardship, and integrity.

About SAFSF

Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems Funders (SAFSF) amplifies the impact of philanthropic and investment communities in support of just and sustainable food and agriculture systems. SAFSF is a vibrant and growing network of more than 100 organizational members from the philanthropic and investment sectors whose work spans a broad range of issues and strategies as well as a wide geographic range—domestic and international.

Our vision is that all resources invested in food and agriculture systems enhance our collective wellbeing. Our core values of collaboration, equity, respect, stewardship, and integrity drive our organization on a daily basis. We use these values to guide our decision-making process in all our work, from developing programs and hiring new staff to choosing caterers, vendors, and venues.

SAFSF recognizes that a diversity of perspectives, lived experiences, and professional and personal skills among our staff, leadership, and membership is critical to our success as an organization. We are a dynamic, rapidly evolving organization that values creativity and innovative thinking and fosters strong teamwork based on mutual respect.

Our strategy is to harness the power of our membership and community through the use of three strategic levers to fulfill our mission based on our values of collaboration, equity, respect, stewardship, and integrity:

• Strengthening Connections among philanthropy, investors, and government agencies at all levels
• Fostering Collaboration which can be topical, geographical, and/or policy-oriented in focus
• Building Capacity of the philanthropic and impact investing sectors through advocacy and education

Position Overview

SAFSF seeks a full-time Member and Strategic Partnerships Manager to support, mobilize, and expand SAFSF’s membership and secure new revenue in support of our strategic direction. The Manager will work alongside other staff to foster relationships with current SAFSF members; increase awareness and usage of SAFSF’s services, benefits, resources, and programs; and ensure that a culture of service to members is preserved and promoted throughout SAFSF.

Working to expand and increase SAFSF’s already diverse revenue stream (which includes membership dues, project support and general operating grants, event sponsor ships, and event registration fees), the Member and Strategic Partnerships Manager will work closely with SAFSF’s broad and diverse membership, as well as its leadership committees, and report to the Executive Director. Location for this position is flexible.

• Work closely with SAFSF’s leadership in all activities related to member retention and new member development.
• Manage outreach and communication to current and prospective members. Together with the Executive Director design, create, and implement a member engagement strategy, including marketing, renewal, and communication campaigns to promote membership value, engage and recruit members, and achieve revenue goals. Compile, analyze, and provide reports on membership composition, trends, and engagement.
• Serve as staff lead for the Membership and Resource Committees. This includes working with committee chairs…