Stand for Children

Operations

• Maintain the Executive Director’s schedule, including coordinating team calendars; scheduling staff meetings; scheduling meetings with funders, coalition partners, and other leaders and stakeholders as needed.
• Manage team travel logistics.
• Coordinate annual planning cycle, including scheduling performance reviews, booking space, and managing travel logistics for annual planning retreat, coordinating monthly in-person staff meetings.
• Coordinate logistics for events, including booking venues, arranging catering, and managing supplies for events such as lobby days, member meetings, coalition meetings, and community-oriented listening and informational sessions.
• Coordinate electoral endorsement process, including maintaining candidate list, tracking endorsement questionnaires & interview schedules, and recruiting endorsement committee volunteers.
• Maintain accurate donor records in Salesforce.
• Process and acknowledge gifts within 24 hours of receipt, including large fundraising events.

Operations Coordinator

Communications

• Your role stands at the intersection of communications and the fight to change the odds for historically underserved children and families.
• As a key member of Stand’s Illinois team at a moment of tremendous need and opportunity, you will deepen our impact by working closely with the Illinois Executive Director and the Senior Director of Strategy Communications to execute marketing & communications strategies and create high-quality content to reach our target audiences.
• Through your dedication and passionate approach to the role, you get the opportunity to work with colleagues who are bold and strategic and take responsibility for achieving substantial progress toward our mission every year.
• Help identify and create compelling, persuasive, relevant, and accurate communications content through people-oriented, compelling storytelling that will increase stakeholder and target audience engagement.
• Produce high-quality, compelling content for digital and traditional communications that will support public policy, electoral, fundraising, and family engagement goals.
• Develop content and execute effective voter outreach and action campaigns (both legislative and electoral) via our email list and social media.
• This includes monitoring and reporting on the success of each tactic and recommending adjustments to content and/or audience in conjunction with the Executive Director and the Senior Director of Strategy Communications.
• Work closely with the Senior Director of Strategy Communications to develop content and execute effective digital advertising campaigns. This includes monitoring ad performance and recommending adjustments to content and/or audience.
• Create compelling, persuasive, relevant, and accurate communications and digital content, including video, graphic, and written content, that will increase visitors’ engagement with the organization and build community support for improving schools.
• Build the digital profile of Stand for Children Illinois as a leading voice in education advocacy and motivate parents, educators, and concerned community leaders to get involved through extensive online engagement with community partners and organizations.
• Create compelling content for digital donor communications – emailed newsletters, PowerPoint presentations, and “one-pagers” that clearly explain our work in creative, engaging ways, in conjunction with the Executive Director and the National Development Director.
• Utilize innovative digital tools as well as traditional communication channels to engage members of the community most effectively.
• Act as liaison between the Stand team, participating families, and the media, including opportunities to share their stories in support of our policy goals.
• Build Stand’s social media presence through high-quality, timely, creative posts, and engagement with online communities, using both Stand’s social media properties and by engaging with others.
• Proactively initiate or participate in social media conversations in spaces like Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook to build relationships with online state and local education, parent, and student groups.
• Assist the Executive Director in maintaining media relationships and generating media placement opportunities, including supporting the logistics of earned media scheduling and execution.
• Write compelling, accurate, and timely press releases. Track Stand’s local and state media coverage, as well as news about policy initiatives that are important and influential to Stand's positions.
• Track general education coverage (and reporter social media chatter) to track reporter and outlet interest on various aspects of the debate.
• Conduct market-specific qualitative research to inform strategic communication outreach to target audiences.

Operations Coordinator

Marketing & Communications Manager