Protégete
Strategic Partnerships Manager

Location: Colorado

Work schedule: Non-exempt, full time

Deadline for submission: March 18, 2022

About Conservation Colorado & Protégete

Conservation Colorado is committed to protecting our climate, air, lands, water, and communities. Conservation Colorado’s work to protect and advocate for the environment reflects our commitment to racial and social justice, particularly by ensuring that policy victories are shared by all Coloradans including Black, Indigenous, Latina, Latino, Latinx, other people of color, and other frontline communities.

The mission of Conservation Colorado’s Protégete team is to elevate Latinx-driven climate, air, land, water, and community priorities through leadership development, education, organizing, advocacy, and elections, that centers Latinx voices for the benefit of all people of Colorado.

We achieve these goals by organizing people and electing conservation-minded policymakers. We work closely with policy leaders, activists, businesses, and other organizations, and have built a reputation as one of the leading conservation advocacy organizations in the region. Within the organization, we aim to create a workplace culture of policies and practices that demonstrate how we value equity and inclusion.

What You’ll Do

Conservation Colorado’s Protégete team is growing and shifting its focus to be on developing leaders in the Latinx community. This is a new position with a real opportunity to engage Latino/a leaders across the state in environmental justice issues to win policy victories aimed at protecting our communities from climate change and pollution. This position reports directly to the Protégete Director with the following responsibilities: 

Develop and maintain strategic partnerships:

• Develop strategic relationships and partnerships with Latinx leaders and organizations across the state
• Build a Latinx partnership network of leaders to advance climate and environmental justice priorities of Protégete, identifying opportunities to expand our work. 

Leverage partnerships for programs and campaigns:

• Leverage our relationships to advance shared policy goals and expand climate, environmental and conservation advocacy capacity
• Bring forward environmental injustices experienced by the communities in order to prioritize Latinx issues and elevate their voices. 
• Identify Latinx leaders to connect in coalition tables and programming

Convene and manage Protégete coalitions:

• Design, execute and facilitate a statewide Latinx-led environmental justice roundtable
• Ensure our partnerships help Protégete effectively build power for the organization and the issues we work on.

In addition to your regular responsibilities, all staff are expected to participate at some level in organizational priorities including helping in certain fundraising efforts, taking part in our election-related activities, and committing to our organizational efforts around equity & inclusivity.

Qualifications

For success in this role, To be successful in this job, you will demonstrate judgment, results-focused work, and efficiency to work well with our team. Fundamentally, we want someone who can build strong relationships that bring mutual benefits for us and our partners. More specifically, you will have or be most or all of the following:

1. 4+ years experience: You have spent time building coalitions, lobbying, growing partnerships, organizing communities, or doing other similar work
2. Relationship builder: You have success building relationships across lines of difference that center trust and mutual respect.  
3. Great collaborator: We value collaboration both internally and externally and working as a part of a team, which sometimes means being comfortable with disagreement.
4. Project management:  Having exemplary skills at managing various complex projects with overlapping timelines is necessary for the success of the program.
5. Ability to see the big picture: This is a new position within the Protégete team, and we are at an exciting time expanding our work in new ways. You will need to be able to read the landscape and identify  opportunities and connect them to solutions.
6. To build successful partnerships, it is critical that we communicate in the language most comfortable with our audience, which is often Spanish. Conversational fluency in Spanish and English is essential, as is cultural competence in Latine cultures.

This position does not have an undergraduate education requirement. This is a full-time job but there can be some flexibility in the exact schedule. Flexibility to travel is a requirement for this position. 

Compensation and Benefits:

The full-time salary range for this role is between $58,000-72,000 based on a wage analysis across the organization and new staff rarely starting at the top of the range. 

We provide high-quality, zero-deductible health insurance and a strong benefits package that includes a SIMPLE IRA retirement plan with a match, at least 28 days of vacation & holidays as well as 6 physical & mental wellness days in your first year, and parental leave and a sabbatical program. This job offers an opportunity to engage people to find solutions to some of the most important environmental issues in Colorado and work with a great team that is committed to a better, more equitable future. It will be challenging, inspiring, and sometimes frustrating, but you’ll be making a big difference. Please note that as a 501(c)(4) nonprofit organization, Conservation Colorado employees are not eligible to participate in the Federal Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program.

We are committed to building a more diverse and inclusive organization and conservation movement to fully represent and engage all Coloradans and to build as powerful a movement as we can. Recruiting staff that better reflects Colorado is a priority and we encourage applicants from all cultures, race, ethnicity, geographies, political affiliation, sexual orientations, gender identities, and all other identities represented in Colorado or protected by law. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and believe that life experiences can count just as much as formal education or traditional work experience. If you think you’d be great at this job but are worried about the qualifications, you should apply anyway!

To Apply

If this job truly speaks to you please click here to submit a cover letter addressed to Beatriz Soto, a résumé, and answer a few short questions. If you need accommodation or assistance with our online application process, please tell us how we can help by emailing oliver@conservationco.org.