Blue Star Families

Program Manager

• Solve complex challenges with data, heart, and humility
• Build cross-sector partnerships that get things done
• Help military families feel at home wherever they live
• Manage programs and events for local Blue Star Families’ chapter
• Foster relationships with local community organizations and partners
• Utilize project management technologies and tools to administer programs
• Develop schedules, project estimates, and resource plans
• Set and monitor deadlines, ensure completion of deliverables
• Help schedule team meetings and provide status updates
• Implement strategies to increase membership and volunteer participation
• Support recruitment and effective onboarding of volunteers
• Support Executive Director on fundraising activities
• Support day-to-day budget tracking
• Manage execution of marketing and communications strategies
• Engage fellows and interns to maximize impact
• Host and/or attend local community events
• Perform various administrative activities

Consultant

• Plan and deliver independently organized, and regularly occurring outdoor recreation meetup opportunities for local families, with a target of one event per month, as seasonably appropriate.
• Coordinate as needed with staff at local national park sites for outdoor recreation activities. Contractor retains discretion over communications and partnerships.
• Track and submit outdoor recreation opportunities using provided planning documents for visibility and support, at the Contractor’s discretion and in a manner consistent with agreed-upon deliverables.
• Track and log attendance for Blue Star Connect Outdoors activities, utilizing tools or methods selected by the contractor that meet the basic reporting needs.
• Develop and implement ideas for highlighting outdoor meetup activities via social media and Blue Star Neighborhood (ex. providing photographs and stories from events, helpful resources to get outdoors, or sharing “best of” outdoor activities), with content and frequency determined by the Contractor in alignment with overall project goals.
• Disseminate printed or digital promotional materials to local civilian and military-facing community bulletin boards and networks, at the Contractor’s discretion regarding timing and method of distribution
• Identify and steward potential relationships with local parks and outdoor organizations to increase opportunities for engagement, exercising independent judgment in outreach and collaboration efforts.

Outdoors Leader Consultant

Research Scientist

• Analyze large-scale quantitative and qualitative datasets, with a focus on MFLS data and other military family-related datasets.
• Conduct program evaluations, trend analyses, and policy-relevant research.
• Translate findings into policy briefs, community reports, data visualizations, and presentations.
• Contribute to peer-reviewed publications and professional conference presentations.
• Collaborate with nonprofits, government agencies, and academic partners on military family research.
• Stay current on research and policy issues affecting military and veteran families.
• Other duties as assigned.

Postdoctoral Applied Research Fellow

Designer

• Oversee and deliver high-quality creative assets that advance the organization’s brand and mission
• Create and manage development of visual materials across campaigns, events, digital platforms, and print
• Ensure consistent brand identity and engaging design execution; establish, maintain, and enforce brand standards
• Provide creative direction and manage workflow for contractors, freelancers, and other designers
• Develop templates and toolkits to increase efficiency (impact and grant reports, fundraising materials, social media assets)
• Partner and collaborate with teams across the organization to anticipate and meet visual asset needs
• Build and manage relationships with production vendors and creative partners, including printers and promotional product providers
• Travel to scheduled in-person gatherings, offsites, planning retreats, and company-wide events as required
• Perform other related duties as assigned

Senior Designer, Creative Services

Video Editor

• Edit and produce short- and long-form videos for a variety of platforms, including social media, website, email, events, and digital campaigns.
• Support all phases of video production, including pre-production planning, filming, editing, motion graphics, and post-production.
• Collaborate with internal teams to develop video concepts that align with BSF’s brand and strategic goals.
• Incorporate closed captioning, subtitles, graphics, and transitions as needed to create polished final products.
• Organize and manage video files and project archives using BSF’s digital asset management system (Canto).
• Maintain consistent video style and brand standards across projects.
• Coordinate multiple video projects simultaneously, ensuring timely delivery of high-quality content within established deadlines.
• Stay current on video trends, tools, and best practices.
• Provide occasional support for livestreams, virtual events, and webinars.
• Travel out of town overnight several times per year for staff offsites, planning retreats, and company-wide events.

Video Production Specialist

Manager

• Serve as day-to-day point of contact and operational lead for the White Oak Collaborative (WOC)
• Apply design-thinking to all elements of the WOC experience and proactively identify ways to enhance member experience
• Plan, manage, and execute all WOC meetings including bi-weekly meetings, Steering Committee, Board of Oversight meetings, and other events
• Lead outreach to WOC participants and direct their roles in events and meetings
• Execute recruitment of Board of Oversight Committee and Steering Committee members and development-related outreach
• Ensure a full calendar of WOC events that are professionally rewarding to participants
• Support, track, and help develop and execute planning efforts for post-presidential election policy and personnel recommendations
• Make recommendations to the Vice President of Strategic Alliances and the White Oak Collaborative for WOC priorities and events
• Lead development of WOC impact tracking and reporting plans for participants
• Develop and implement strategy for the Do Your Part (DYP) initiative and lead core components
• Plan, manage, and execute Blue Star Families’ elements of the 4+1 Commitment and national DYP projects and events
• Lead development of DYP impact tracking and stakeholder reporting
• Maintain strong relationships with peers at partner organizations and proactively strengthen non-profit partnerships
• Break down information silos internally to incentivize stronger collaboration with existing partners and identify new partners
• Facilitate ‘Tiger Team’ calls for major projects and create presentations and proposals for senior leadership
• Track implementation and completion of internal strategy documents and perform copywriting tasks (primers, reports, remarks, invitations, social copy)
• Coordinate event participant outreach, invites, preparation, read-ahead materials, and VIP coordination including legal and security reviews
• Work with supervisor to manage ongoing conversations with external partners, government and Department of Defense leaders and spouses, and other high-level VIPs
• Collaborate with the Development team to ensure funders are thanked and represented properly
• Perform other duties as assigned

Senior Manager, Strategic Alliances

Director

• Overall strategic and operational responsibility for the National Capital Region chapter’s staff, volunteers, programs, and budget
• Manage local board, VIP engagement, fundraising, storytelling, stewardship, CRM, budgeting, volunteer management, partner development, membership engagement, marketing, and communications
• Collaborate across Blue Star Families enterprise (operations, development, marketing, strategy, technology, finance)
• Develop chapter sustainability plan and expand local revenue-generating and fundraising activities
• Secure six-figure gifts from philanthropies, foundations, corporate partners, and high-net-worth donors
• Partner with Development Team and Host Committee to source, cultivate, and steward funders; responsible for meeting annual fundraising goals
• Develop and implement national programs locally (Welcome Week, Campaign for Inclusion, Military Family Lifestyle Survey) and evaluate program components
• Build and steward a strong, diverse, engaged advisory board and energize board members, committees, and partners
• Lead, coach, develop, and retain volunteers and manage program manager
• Develop local partnerships to connect military families with community resources and educate leaders using Blue Star Families research
• Must reside in the designated chapter community and have lived there for a minimum of the past three years