Since 1984, Share Our Strength® has led the fight against hunger and poverty by inspiring and organizing individuals and businesses to share their strengths. Today, through the No Kid Hungry campaign, Share Our Strength is ending childhood hunger in America by ensuring all children get the healthy food they need. No child should go hungry in America – we’re on our way to making that a reality and we want you to join us. We’re bold, creative, always open to new ideas, and 100% dedicated to our mission. If that sounds like you, we’d like you to consider becoming part of our team.

The Program Manager plays a vital role in coordinating and implementing the Kid Hungry Texas (NKH TX) campaign. This includes developing strategies for aligning in-state staff and internal departments at Share Our Strength headquarters, managing reporting and tracking procedures, and managing relationships with key external partners across Texas. The Program Manager will lead efforts to ensure stakeholders such as school districts, donors, and other community partners are regularly updated and engaged in our work. The Program Manager will also track and update data and grant impact reporting, develop sustainable tracking processes for grants, and oversee partnership plans to ensure terms are being met.

This position is based in Texas (Austin, Dallas, Houston, or San Antonio) and will be fully remote with up to 30% travel. The position offers a salary range of $65k-$75k. Exact compensation within the stated salary range may vary based on skills, experience, and, internal equity.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Manage outreach and engagement with school districts and community organizations around the implementation of federal and school nutrition programs, including providing technical expertise, identifying opportunities to collect promising practices, and collaborate on resources and materials (e.g., toolkits, focus group materials, fact sheets, flyers, webinars and social media assets) for stakeholders to support successful program implementation and outreach to communities.
• Represent No Kid Hungry Texas’s work to other food security stakeholders throughout the state through research, relationship-building, promotion, and participation/membership in existing committees, work groups and regional food policy councils.
• Support events which might include celebrating National School Breakfast Week, summer meals kick-offs, advocacy engagements and site visits to observe programming, including coordinating with internal departments, creating materials, and managing timelines and budgets for activities.
• Support development of outreach strategies and tactics for equitable grantmaking to school districts in Texas. Maintain a strong knowledge of metrics, strategies, best practices and program impact stories related to No Kid Hungry TX.
• Identify needed resources and materials for schools, community organizations, and other partners and work directly with Center for Best Practices and Communications colleagues on the development of public-facing materials and develop plans for dissemination of resources to target audiences.
• Manage No Kid Hungry TX social media channels, including developing strategy to build social media presence and engagement across the state. Manage a monthly newsletter and maintain No Kid Hungry website.
• Provide administrative and logistical support and coordinate invoicing for No Kid Hungry contractors and external vendors.
• Other duties as assigned.
• Travel up to 30%

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Detail-oriented with strong organizational skills.
• Bachelor’s degree and/or 3-5 years of work or lived experience in a work environment; experience with school nutrition or outreach programs is a plus.
• Fluent bilingual Spanish speaker preferred.
• Experience or willingness to participate in spokesperson opportunities, including media interviews supporting our campaign work.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently and proactively, lead projects, meet concurrent deadlines, and organize time and priorities.
• Ability to work effectively with culturally diverse populations.
• Emotional intelligence and strong orientation towards customer service
• Experience with Google Suite, Microsoft Office, including Microsoft Excel, and PowerPoint.
• Ability to collaborate and work well as a member of a team.

COMPREHENSIVE BENEFIT PLAN:

We offer a comprehensive benefits plan which currently includes, but is not limited to, health insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, retirement, wellness benefits, and paid time off (vacation leave, sick leave, personal leave, holiday, parental leave, bereavement leave, military leave, and jury duty leave).

DIVERSITY:

At Share Our Strength, we value an individual’s diversity of backgrounds, experiences, ideas and perspectives. A hallmark of our history, culture and values has been the organization’s desire to bring together motivated, intelligent, and talented people to work together to find and implement solutions to end hunger and poverty in the U.S. and abroad. We each come to Share Our Strength with a unique background, but together we form a team that yields amazing results. This shared value of encouraging and embracing diversity in our organization fosters a workplace and culture that is highlighted for its innovation, open expression of ideas, and collaboration. With a strong shared commitment to the organization’s mission, and a unique blend of individual strengths, we are all working toward ensuring that every individual can live a healthy and productive life.