Engagement Lead Jobs

About AGO

AGO is a movement accelerator supporting ambitious activists with the creative, tech, and strategic expertise they need to advance positive social change. We build deep relationships with non-profit orgs doing critical work in human rights and environmental justice, give them training and tools to work more efficiently and catalyze coalitions, and grow movements with creative campaigns and technology solutions that amplify important ideas.

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About the role

As AGO has entered a stage of significant opportunity and growth, we seek a dynamic, creative, and solution-oriented Engagement Lead to manage and deliver our creative, tech and strategy programs, in close collaboration with our nonprofit partners.

This Engagement Lead will be critical in setting our teams, and our work, up for success, playing a direct role on the impact we provide and the critical work we support in human rights and environmental justice.

The ideal candidate for this role will be solution-oriented, collaborative, process-oriented, energetic, and adaptable. This will be someone who has deep experience in successfully defining and delivering strategic communications, creative campaigns and modern technology solutions for nonprofit and/or for-profit companies, is well-versed in project-management best practices, can problem-solve independently, and leads with empathy to meet program, partner and AGO goals.

This role reports to the Managing Director, with enormous potential for growth.

Overall Role and Responsibilities:

• Manage partner programs from inception to delivery, including project scope definition, timeline creation, management and optimization, deliverables definition, collaboration and organization, team communication and workflow leadership.
• Follow and optimize our robust, replicable, and scalable project processes and frameworks.
• Lead internal and key partner communications with clarity and compassion, expertly communicate abstract ideas, strategic process, and final recommendations to multi-disciplinary teams, and partners.
• Lead collaboration and communication across a multi-disciplinary team— strategy, tech, creative, subject-matter experts and nonprofit partners—to successfully deliver on program goals
• Develop and oversee a calendar of rolling milestones across workstreams and partners. Facilitate team collaboration, hand off key deliverables, and lead internal and external presentations.
• Foster and grow strong relationships with nonprofit partners and internal multi-disciplinary teams, built through trust, effective communication and a clear understanding of their needs and their work
• Collaborate with leadership and team leads to prepare for partner sessions. Help ideate, iterate, and refine varied program deliverables.
• Effectively and consistently use engagement management tools, such as Monday.com, g-suite, slack and others to lead clear communication and efficient outputs.

Qualifications:

• Ability to work collaboratively and authoritatively with multi-disciplinary teams
• 6+ years experience in engagement, project management, or production on advertising, digital, integrated campaigns
• Ability to present effectively and persuasively to both internal and external audiences
• Experience working with virtual teams across disciplines and timezones
• Superb attention to detail and excellent organizational skills
• Proficiency with G Suite (Docs, Sheets, Slides, Calendar), Asana
• Comfortable with ambiguity and able to manage multiple, concurrent work streams in a fast-paced environment
• Self-directed and entrepreneurial
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

This is a position in engagement for a nonprofit (501-c3). We’re interested in candidates who are passionate about our mission. We offer competitive salaries and a comprehensive benefits package including health, vision and dental insurance, a 403(b) plan, a yearly individual L&D budget, and unlimited PTO. We realize those candidates may come from the world of technology, creative agency, consultancy, startups, or philanthropy—and thus use different terminology, or have different skills. Frankly, we think attracting a variety of applicants is great! If you’re on the fence about whether to apply, go for it! Please reach out to us at [email protected]. We’d love to meet you.