Unify America

Technical Project Manager

• Develop detailed project roadmaps, timelines, Gantt charts, and milestone plans that reflect dependencies and resource availability.
• Continuously assess risk and develop mitigation plans to avoid scope creep and delays.
• Identify gaps that require more formal processes, and current processes that could be improved, and improve both, seeking feedback to optimize as we go.
• Work closely with your Democracy League PM counterpart to ensure project scope and timelines align with current resource availability, and flag anticipated future conflicts and resource needs.
• Facilitate and document collaborative discovery sessions with stakeholders, users, and technical teams to elicit, define, and document requirements.
• Identify gaps and ask the right questions to uncover implicit needs and constraints.
• Work closely with the QA Lead to ensure requirements are clear, testable, and align with quality standards.
• Translate complex concepts into clear deliverables with well-defined scope and rationale.
• Work closely with executive stakeholders, designers, and engineers to capture and coordinate execution of features that align with organizational goals and user needs.
• Lead regular stakeholder meetings and asynchronous conversations to align on goals, scope, timelines, and evolving requirements.
• Serve as the primary point of contact for project communication, actively managing expectations and ensuring clarity within the team.
• Provide consistent and transparent updates through status reports, dashboards, and visual project artifacts (e.g., Gantt charts, progress trackers, demonstrations).
• Drive accountability and momentum by following up with owners, escalating blockers, and adapting plans as needed.
• Ensure all team members understand the definition of success and how it will be measured.

Executive Assistant

• Expertly manage a complex and shifting calendar, prioritizing meetings, resolving conflicts, and ensuring Harry remains on schedule.
• Coordinate meetings by proactively suggesting dates, managing 'holds,' and sending detailed calendar invites.
• Coordinate all aspects of travel (domestic and potentially international), including booking flights, hotels, and local transportation.
• Ensure all meeting logistics are confirmed the day prior (location, time, address, etc.).
• Partner in Relationship Management by being aware of and keeping track of Harry's network.
• Sit in on select meetings with Board Members, Investors and other partners to take notes and track action items.
• Handle select personal tasks, including coordinating personal appointments and sourcing external service providers.

Director

• Develop and implement a comprehensive major gifts program and annual fundraising plan, including establishing major gift tiers, processes, and a donor lifecycle from identification to stewardship.
• In collaboration with Founder and Chief of U.S. Democracy Leagues, develop creative approaches to diversify revenue streams and drive sustainable financial growth for Unify Akron and other Democracy Leagues.
• Identify and cultivate relationships with key donors and funding partners; prospect research and strategy; implement and lead prospect research efforts.
• Build and manage a portfolio of high-net-worth individuals, family foundations, and corporate prospects in Ohio and beyond with capacity to make significant gifts ($10,000+).
• Create and deliver compelling, donor-centric proposals and effectively solicit major gifts; close gifts and meet/exceed annual fundraising goals.
• Nurture long-term relationships with donors through strategic communication and in-person meetings; develop a stewardship plan communicating impact.
• Research, identify, and pursue grant opportunities; prepare grant proposals, manage application process, ensure compliance with reporting requirements.
• Manage and optimize donor data in CRM; track donor activity and report on performance metrics and progress toward fundraising goals.
• Report directly to the Chief of U.S. Democracy Leagues; work with Creative and Tech teams for campaign assets and online giving; collaborate with local Akron team.

Technical Project Manager

Executive Assistant

Director of Development