Senior Engagement Manager

Stand Together

Senior Engagement Manager responsible for relationship management in Stand Together's philanthropic efforts. Building partnerships and driving activation strategies within community engagement initiatives.

Posted 6/23/2026full-timeRemote • Virginia • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own the relationship. Build and manage high-touch relationships with leaders, implementing partners, and key stakeholders across your track — whether that's local organizations in priority cities or points-of-contact within national organizational networks.
Drive activation strategy. Develop and execute activation strategies tailored to the conditions of each market or network rather than applying a single model.
Build the leader pipeline. Identify and recruit leaders into the BTP community, working alongside partners to accelerate onboarding and integration.
Create reciprocal models. Build partnership structures and engagement approaches where partners and leaders feel genuinely connected to BTP's mission — not extracted for content or stories.
Run activation touchpoints. Execute convenings, partner events, and leader onboarding moments in close coordination with your Community Manager.
Generate the learning. Capture what drove engagement and what didn't — and feed that signal back into the operating model systematically.
Build toward self-mode. Develop relationships and structures that create self-sustaining activation pipelines over time.
Track what matters. Monitor progress toward activation goals and surface clear signals on what conditions enable self-sustaining growth.
Coordinate with Partner Engine. Work with the Partner Lead, relationship managers, and relevant colleagues to ensure activation is coordinated with broader partner and donor-engagement work.
Connect across tracks. Partner with the other Sr. EM to identify where regional and organizational activation intersect and reinforce each other.
Support platform adoption. Collaborate with the Platform team to ensure leader onboarding is smooth and the platform actively supports activation on the ground.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Demonstrated experience managing high-stakes, multi-stakeholder partnerships in a civic, nonprofit, philanthropic, or corporate community context — where the relationships are the work, not a means to it.
A proven track record as a partner manager who can hold complex relationships across organizations, community leaders, and institutional stakeholders simultaneously.
Comfort working across multiple markets or partners at the same time, with the discipline to prioritize and the adaptability to respond to what each context needs.
Strong listening and facilitation skills — the ability to earn trust quickly with diverse stakeholders and make them want to be part of something larger.
Experience in a role where you had to build the playbook as you went — and did it.
Willingness and ability to travel. Regional track — Frequent. Significant in-market presence across priority cities is a defining feature of the role — this is a road role. Organizational track — Regular. Consistent travel to partner headquarters, affiliate convenings, and network events.
Enthusiasm to contribute to Stand Together's vision and principled approach to solving problems, and a commitment to stewarding our culture, which champions values including transformation and innovation, entrepreneurialism, humility, and respect.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Competitive benefits: Enjoy a 6% 401(k) match with immediate vesting, flexible time off, comprehensive health and dental plans, plus wellness and mental health support through Peloton and Talkspace.
A meaningful career: Join a passionate community of over 1,300 employees dedicated to improving lives and driving innovative solutions to complex social challenges.
Commitment to growth: Thrive in a non-hierarchical environment that empowers employees to discover, develop, and apply their unique talents.
Competitive compensation: Our approach rewards the value you create through competitive salaries and bonus opportunities, allowing you to share in the success you help drive.

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Soft Skills

relationship managementlistening skillsfacilitation skillsadaptabilityprioritizationtrust buildingcommunity engagementstrategic thinkingproblem-solvingcollaboration