Deputy Director of Community Engagement and Opportunity

City of Baltimore

Baltimore, MD, USA

Full time

Social Impact

LGBTQ+ Friendly Equal Pay People with Disability Friendly Diversity Friendly Equal Employment Opportunity

9/1/24

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THIS IS A NON-CIVIL SERVICE POSITION

CITY OF BALTIMORE,

MAYOR'S OFFICE OF NEIGHBORHOOD SAFETY AND ENGAGEMENT

DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT AND OPPORTUNITY

OPENING DATE: 8/27/2024

CLOSING DATE: 9/28/2024

Key Responsibilities

Program Management

Oversee Youth Opportunity and Neighborhood Policing Plan initiatives.
Lead a team of multi-disciplinary community engagement professionals.
Develop project management plans, monitor timeliness of milestones that ensure adequate completion of deliverables.
Partner with the senior agency staff in essential internal leadership activities (strategic planning, administration and human resources).
Provide leadership in developing and implementing new programming.
Collaborate with program staff and supports program and activity performance and maintain competency in program policies
Participate in various community activities.
Manage grant contracts and other programming activities.
Prepare work plans and grant reports as required.
Administratively oversee and monitor community-based organizations and other partners for contractual compliance.
In partnership with CEO Associate Director, prepare program goals and objectives and evaluate progress and effectiveness of staff.
Provide supports, as appropriate, to achieve program deliverables within required timeframes.
Facilitate the development and implementation of collaborative and innovative strategies to support community safety.
Provide technical assistance and organizational capacity building around program development and management, operations, and fiscal management.
Develop and maintain relationships with a broad range of community stakeholders.
Be on-call to support late night staff activities.
Organize and participate in regular reviews of programmatic progress.

Inter-Agency Collaboration and Community Engagement

Serve as MONSE’s primary liaison with community-based organizations engaged in Neighborhood Policing and Youth Opportunity work.
Coordinate with MONSE Data Analytics Deputy Director to implement data-driven improvement strategies.
Serve as a liaison with academic partners on any formal evaluation or external analyses.
Co-facilitate improved data and information sharing between MONSE and other City and non-city partners.
Build and maintain strong relationships with partners.
Develop thought leadership around specific topics/emerging practice in violence prevention, trauma-informed care, and community engagement areas.
Assist to develop various alliances to achieve conversation objectives and coordinate with internal departments and external partnerships to schedule meetings and set agendas.

Qualifications/Skills

Bachelor's degree and/or 5 years of relevant experience in community engagement, violence prevention, community organizing, and/or nonprofit management.
Demonstrated program management experience, including but not limited to supervising staff, monitoring budgets, documenting activities and outcomes, and meeting program goals.
Deep connection to and an in-depth knowledge and familiarity of Baltimore is preferred.
Enthusiastic, energetic self-starter with a passion for preventing community violence.
Ideally experience working with community-based organizations.
Success in roles requiring execution of multiple tasks while responding to multiple priorities.
Demonstrated success in developing successful collaborative working relationships with counterparts from diverse backgrounds, including other implementers and local partners.
Strong strategic and analytical skills.
Superior communication and interpersonal skills: articulate and tactful oral and written communication skills.
Evidence of ability to productively interact with a wide range and levels of organizations (government, private sector, NGOs, research institutions).
Demonstrated track record of flexibility.
Ability to react and adapt quickly to unexpected changes, and ready to anticipate problems and provide creative solutions and meet deadlines in challenging situations.
Experience working with individuals impacted by violence, and knowledge of the street organizations and groups.
Effectively communicate with a variety of stakeholders, including community activists, law enforcement personnel, and public officials.
Must be able to walk 30 blocks or more on a regular basis, including in inclement weather.
Proven community organizing abilities.
Flexibility and capacity to manage multiple priorities with competing deadlines.
Project management experience.
Strong leadership track record; ability to plan, organize and direct the work of others.
Effective communicator with strong interpersonal skills and proven ability to develop productive, positive working relationships.
Exceptional organizational awareness and the ability to analyze and brief senior leaders.
Consistent ability to exercise sound judgment and discretion.
Flexible and creative problem solver with result-oriented focus.
Ability to collaborate with individuals at all levels of the agency.
High level of proficiency in Slack, Visio, and MSOffice products, including SharePoint and MSProject.
Experience hiring and supervising formerly incarcerated individuals is preferred.