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External Affairs Associate 🔥


ABOUT CRADLES TO CRAYONS:

Cradles to Crayons (C2C), founded in 2002, provides children from birth through age 12, living in homeless or low-income situations, with the essential items they need to thrive—at home, at school, and at play. We supply clothing, shoes, diapers, school supplies, and more, free of charge. Our vision is that one day all children will have the essentials they need to thrive. 

Two in 5 kids in the United States are currently facing Clothing Insecurity, going without basic essentials like pants, shoes, diapers, and school supplies during their critical development years. Three of the top 10 reasons kids miss school are rooted in Clothing Insecurity—just one example of the significant short- and long-term social and economic costs when these needs go unmet. Cradles to Crayons keeps Clothing Insecurity at the core of our mission and is the only large-scale nonprofit organization to focus on this resource gap. Since its founding, Cradles to Crayons has distributed more than three million customized packages of essentials to children in Massachusetts, Greater Philadelphia, Chicagoland, NYC, and nationally, through Giving Factory Direct—a first-in-kind online product donation platform launched in 2021. 

Cradles to Crayons takes a three-pronged approach to mitigating Clothing Insecurity: 

  1. In-person Engagement—through tens of thousands of children and adults volunteering at our Giving Factory warehouses to sort and package high volumes of new and like-new donations from our communities for our Service Partners to distribute to the children they serve. 
  2. Online Product Donations—Giving Factory Direct matches product donors directly to children who need the items they have to donate. GFD is currently available in a growing number of communities as we expand our reach nationally. 
  3. Advocacy and Awareness—Cradles to Crayons is uniquely positioned to raise Clothing Insecurity as a national issue through awareness campaigns, data/evaluation, and legislative outreach. 

Cradles to Crayons has earned the highest possible rating from Charity Navigator for 13 consecutive years. Only 2% of charities nationwide have received this distinction. C2C has a budget of $12.9M for FY22. 

POSITION OVERVIEW:

As Cradles to Crayons expands its work around national advocacy and elevates awareness of the hidden crisis that Clothing Insecurity is in the United States, the External Affairs team will be developing a new area of national cause-based work to address  clothing insecurity, an issue that is not currently on the social safety net radar. Reporting to the Senior Director of External Affairs, the External Affairs Associate is responsible for supporting and coordinating the overall External Affairs function—with a focus on our areas of expansion: Advocacy and Government Relations to achieve annual organizational goals.

The Associate will provide project and process management and support related to advocacy and coalition building research and implementation; Impact and data curation and management; Thought Leadership and relevant national content and communications campaigns; PR and creative; and general departmental support.

MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES:

·      Model and lead a positive “One Cradles” culture, underpinned by Cradles’ Cultural Values and related behaviors.

·      Support advocacy and coalition building

o  Support for researching and staying current on legislation affecting children, clothing and basic needs allowances, state and federal funding landscape, and legislators’ priorities.

o  Help research and identify priority list of national and market-level organizations/coalitions to join and support development of annual engagement strategy, e.g., National Diaper Bank, Lift Our Kids, etc.

o  Draft content for communications to Elected officials.

o  Support scheduling, logistics, and registration details for State House briefings and other advocacy events.

o  Develop and maintain database of elected officials (market and national levels).

·      Support Impact, data, and partnership

o  Support and maintain annual poverty data research and trends.

  • Catalog, archive, and maintain external research and literature in “Box.”

o  Provide administrative support to data and evaluation pilots, including data gathering, research, preparing presentations and scheduling working group meetings.

o  Manage organizational survey response recruitment, including outreach contact lists, communications, and follow up

o  Support expansion of relationships with like-minded organizations and related national efforts to create an active network of #endclothinginsecurity support.

·      Support Marketing, branding, and thought leadership

o  Support Senior Director and Cross-Marketing Team with asset management, communications plans, marketing strategies, collateral, and other XMKTG and One Cradles to Crayons campaign work.

o  Support management of Thought Leadership events and conference, editorial, and event calendar to inform internal and external stakeholders of thought leadership activities and leverage appropriately in conjunction with External Affairs Team and Founder/CEO.

o  Support External Affairs Team and external PR agency to manage Cradles to Crayons’ media and personality coordination and scheduling, including press release review and scheduling, and the production of monthly media reports.

·      Support External Affairs department

o  Manage team meetings, follow-ups, notes, etc.

o  Schedule and handle Chairman’s Council events and communications: Annual Gathering logistics, including menu selection and tracking RSVPs, and quarterly newsletter

o  Support communication, administration and management of the Chairman’s Council Impact Award, including preparing applications for review, consolidating review committee scoring, planning and producing office hours and final award event

o  Work with Senior Director to create a calendar of all department activities

o  Track and manage team goals and updates; create reporting for communications, awards, media, and other momentum indicators to be shared with the board and other stakeholders.

·      Other writing projects, support and duties as deemed necessary/required.

Required Experience/Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:

·      1–3 years relevant experience.

·      Passion about the mission and vision of the organization.

·      Ability to thrive in a dynamic, entrepreneurial, and collaborative environment; can-do attitude.

·      Strong interpersonal and presentation skills, and the ability to generate enthusiasm and confidence from others.

·      Strong organizational skills and experience in managing multiple individuals and projects simultaneously, within a broad set of goals.

·      Strong analytical and research skills with the capacity to create detailed business plans.

·      Excellent written and verbal communication skills with strong attention to detail and familiarity with grammar and writing style standards.

·      Experience using digital marketing and communications strategies to raise awareness and take action.

·      Ability to work well independently and collaboratively within teams that include leadership, managers, peers, donors, elected officials, and advisors, and prepared to interact with team members on a non-hierarchical basis.

·      Position continually requires demonstrated poise, tact, and diplomacy.

·      Proficiency in Microsoft Office suite (Including Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Excel).

·      Knowledge of Adobe Suite design tools, Salesforce or another CRM, Marketing Automation, and WordPress.

·      Experience using Google Analytics

  • Bachelor’s degree in related field

·      Non-profit experience a plus.

COVID-19 Vaccines

Cradles to Crayons has a COVID vaccine requirement for all staff. We are committed to a safe workplace and doing our part to address the pandemic.

DIVERSITY IS OUR STRENGTH:

Diversity and Inclusiveness are core values at Cradles to Crayons, and we continuously strive to be a team where everyone feels welcome and supported. It is the policy of Cradles to Crayons to provide equal employment opportunities without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, marital status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information and/or any other protected characteristic under applicable law. Individuals from underrepresented groups are especially encouraged to apply.

Working Conditions:

This is an office / work from home remote virtual environment with occasional visits to C2C Giving Factories. There are no hazardous or significantly unpleasant conditions.

Accommodation:

In accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, it is possible that requirements may be modified to reasonably accommodate disabled individuals. However, no accommodations will be made by Cradles to Crayons which may pose serious health or safety risks to the employee or others, or which impose undue hardships on the organization.

To Apply:

It is the policy of Cradles to Crayons to provide equal employment opportunities without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, marital status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information and/or any other protected characteristic under applicable law. Please send a cover letter and resume with relevant experience to https://www.cradlestocrayons.org/what-we-do/careers/ [1]


  1. https://www.cradlestocrayons.org/what-we-do/careers/

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