The Senior Community Impact Officer (SCIO) serves as a small organization engagement lead for Community Impact, managing organizational capacity building and strategic grant programs and partnerships intended to strengthen organizations with budgets under $300,000 annually and differently structured non-profits. The SCIO manages a pipeline of consultants specializing in Diversity, Equity and Inclusion capacity building for grantee organizations.

The mission of the William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund is to achieve equity in education by working with those affected and inspiring all to end racism and poverty.

The Senior Manager of Partnerships and Advocacy is a new role that will work to establish and deliver on a cohesive and strategic framework for NMEF's engagement and external initiatives. Through building trusting relationships with grantees, community members, funders, elected officials, educators and school communities, they will connect, collaborate, and create new pathways for the Foundation to advance racial equity in public education and amplify the work of its grantees. They will act as a mentor and coach, supporting staff and board in this work. Externally, they will follow the education, policy, and social justice landscape within New England and beyond, identifying opportunities for NMEF to contribute to advocacy, partnerships, and engagement activities.

Provide targeted, personalized technical assistance to cohort-based capacity building and grant-making program that aims to build the leadership, analysis, campaign development, and organizing capacity of fiscally sponsored youth-led social change groups in Connecticut.

- Responsible for overall strategic and operational capacity to support staff, programs, partnerships, and execution of its mission.- Developed and promotes visibility and reputation through relationship-building with external partners such as media, government officials, philanthropy, and business leaders.- Fundraised for/Managed an organizational operating budget of $600k, growing from $0 in the span of 5 years.- Provide visionary leadership in collaboration with membership to develop and generate advocacy campaigns on broad political priorities resulting in multiple policy wins.- Oversaw the creation, implementation, and management of all internal and external communications and messaging