How to Apply
Applications must be submitted via email to [email protected]. Applicants should submit (1) a resume and (2) a cover letter explaining their interest in and alignment with the position. The cover letter should include a current email address and phone number.
Deadline to apply: 5 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 29.
Role Overview
The Arizona Center for Civic Leadership at the Flinn Foundation (Center) works to strengthen civic leadership and engagement across Arizona through leadership development, civic education, and statewide partnerships. Its programming includes the Flinn-Brown Fellowship, Flinn Young Leaders, the Arizona Civic Exchange (CivEx), the Civic Leadership Collaborative, and the Arizona Civic Life Partnership.
The Project Manager, Civic Leadership, has three primary responsibilities: manage Flinn Young Leaders: Leadership, Civics, and You™ and other youth civic education initiatives; develop creative content for the Center; and provide administrative, logistical, and event support for the Center’s broader portfolio of programs and initiatives.
The Project Manager works as part of the Foundation’s three-person civic leadership team and regularly engages with prominent leaders in government, business, education, and the nonprofit sector across Arizona.
This a full-time, exempt position, working at least three days per week in the Flinn Foundation office. The minimum salary for this position is $65,000.
Responsibilities and Duties
- Administer youth civic education initiatives by managing planning, implementation, and evaluation, including workplans, schedules, timelines, and project management tools.
- Coordinate programming with participating high schools, including school liaisons, administrators, presenters, and community partners.
- Lead recruitment and outreach to engage new schools, community partners, and civic leaders throughout Arizona.
- Develop creative materials, including presentations, newsletters, marketing content, and social media.
- Assist in the creation of digital media, including video and photography, that showcases Center programs, participants, events, and accomplishments.
- Assist with the planning and execution of Center event logistics, including vendors, catering, materials, audiovisual needs, registration, and on-site support.
- Identify opportunities to improve efficiency through technology, automation, and standardized processes.
- Contribute to Foundation-wide initiatives, planning and special projects, undertake other tasks as assigned, and contribute to a collegial shared responsibility for fostering excellence at the Foundation.
Skills and Abilities
- Demonstrated ability to independently manage programs or projects, establish priorities, coordinate multiple activities, and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
- Excellent organizational skills, attention to detail, and commitment to producing accurate, high-quality work.
- Strong written and oral communication skills, including the ability to tailor communications to different audiences and edit materials for accuracy, clarity, and tone.
- Exercise sound independent judgment, manage competing priorities, anticipate operational needs, and take initiative to address challenges.
- Proficiency in PowerPoint, Canva, graphic design, and other digital media tools to create engaging presentations, social media graphics, and other visual content.
- Basic understanding of the issues and challenges facing Arizona, government operations, and the dynamics in setting public policy within a political context preferred.
- Demonstrated ability to navigate differing perspectives, and work effectively with elected officials, senior executives, and community leaders across Arizona.
- Fluency with tools to manage and analyze data (e.g. Salesforce, Excel) and for tracking projects and shared work (e.g. Trello, SharePoint).
Education and Experience
- Bachelor’s degree required.
- Three or more years managing meetings and events, projects, or programs that involve senior stakeholders required.
- Experience in K-12 education or government organizations preferred.
Physical and Other Requirements
- This position typically works at least three days per week in the Flinn Foundation office; flexibility in work hours (including occasional evenings and Saturdays) required.
- Occasional in-state travel during and outside of normal work hours, with occasional overnight stays.
- Prolonged periods sitting at a desk and working on a computer, and prolonged periods standing and walking.
- Must be able to lift up to 20 pounds at times.
- Valid driver’s license and reliable transportation for in-state travel to offsite meetings.
- Current auto insurance on personal vehicle.
Other Details
Compensation
The Flinn Foundation benchmarks salaries against nonprofit-foundation salary surveys. The minimum salary for this position is $65,000.
Benefits
Employee benefits include:
- Paid holidays, sick leave, vacation; paid time off for jury duty, voting, and serving as a poll worker; paid leave for maternity/paternity/adoption and bereavement.
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance; health savings accounts with employer contribution; telehealth insurance.
- Life insurance, short-term and long-term disability insurance.
- Tuition reimbursement and professional-development support.
- 403(b) retirement plan with employer match.
- Covered parking and electric-vehicle charging.
Location
The Flinn Foundation is in the heart of Phoenix’s arts district, just north of downtown. We built our facility as a place to convene the community; in addition to staff offices, it includes two large conference rooms available at no cost to nonprofit organizations working in our areas of interest.
Staff generally work in the office at least three days per week. Because the Foundation serves the entire state of Arizona, many staff travel frequently to meet and work with program participants, and other collaborators.
Schedule
Typically, 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m., Monday through Friday (occasional evenings and weekends required).
About the Flinn Foundation
The Flinn Foundation is a privately endowed grantmaking organization established in 1965 by Dr. Robert S. and Irene P. Flinn. Its mission is to improve the quality of life in Arizona to benefit future generations.
The Foundation makes grants and operates programs in four philanthropic areas, aiming to:
- Advance the bioscience sector through research grants and stewardship of Arizona’s Bioscience Roadmap;
- Enhance undergraduate education for high-achieving students at Arizona’s public universities through the Flinn Scholars Program;
- Elevate the fiscal and creative capacity of arts and culture organizations throughout the state; and
- Strengthen civic life and leadership through the Arizona Center for Civic Leadership.
The Foundation’s Board of Directors includes 10 leaders in medicine, health research, technology, business, and finance. The Foundation’s 20-member staff is led by President and CEO Tammy McLeod, Ph.D.
Culture
Our mission encompasses all of Arizona, and all Arizonans, and our success requires a commitment to inclusive excellence in our operations and our philanthropy.
Because those philanthropic areas of interest are diverse, we look for opportunities to bridge them, whether through collaborative projects across organizations we support or bringing program participants from one area into the work of another.
Such cross-pollination happens when staff know one another’s strategies and goals well. We encourage staff to learn continuously about all of the Foundation’s work, solve common problems collaboratively, and attend one another’s program events. Everyone pitches in when a team needs help.
People at the Flinn Foundation tend to stay, and responsibilities grow with them.
Values
Staff identified five values that reflect and guide the work, ethics, and character of the Foundation:
Candor: We practice straight talk and believe in truth over harmony, within our team and across the community. We acknowledge failure without excuses to learn. In respectful communication, we address the relevant party with transparent intentions.
Trust: We embrace our identity as stewards of Irene and Robert Flinn’s legacy and vision. We ground our words and actions in integrity and assumption of good faith. We defend others when they are absent, don’t gossip, and refuse to stir the pot.
Innovation: We interrogate the status quo in processes and programs and seize mission-driven opportunities. We employ design thinking and rigorously experiment and evaluate, prizing improved quality and increased productivity. We collaborate across programs and strengths and engage in regular reflection to ensure a learning environment.
Empathy: We treat our constituents as customers. We listen to their needs, champion their goals, and co-create with them. We welcome the challenge of empathizing with disparate audiences: colleagues, grantees and program participants, and the people of Arizona.
Fun: We find satisfaction in challenge and hard work—but we don’t take ourselves too seriously. We feel healthier and happier and perform best when we are having fun. We support each other when we fall short and celebrate each other’s successes.