Rodel is hiring!

Job Title: Co-Investment Associate

Summary: The core work will involve working with our team, as well as local and national partners, helping Delaware to become a global leader in public education. The Co-Investment Associate is a part of the operations team, supporting fundraising and grant management across all aspects of the process. Working in collaboration with the entire team, the Co-Investment Associate will provide relationship-building research on potential funders and help drive our co-investment pipeline. The Co-Investment Associate will steward application processes for national funding and coordinate reporting requirements with our partners.

Critical Success Personal Attributes and Strengths for this Role:

• Passion for the mission and social justice
• Project management skills to ensure goals are met on time
• Attention to detail
• Sense of urgency
• Strong critical thinking and analytic capability
• Flexibility and comfort with ambiguity
• Good judgment and proactive
• Manage multiple, complex projects.

 

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Develop, communicate, guide and support the co-investment strategy linked to the Rodel priorities and dashboard
• Manage co-investment portfolio and pipeline
  • Maintain pipeline, trackers and timelines
  • Develop and lead co-investment team meetings to address challenges, provide updates and ensure progress toward goal achievement
  • Provide insights and guidance relative to prospective and funder progress, priorities and conflicts
  • Update team relative to trends and provide recommendations
• Administer internal co-investment process
  • Track grant cycles and pipeline of prospective funders
  • Prepare relationship managers for meetings to move prospects through pipeline
  • Oversee contact management system database
• Support funder cultivation events
• Provide guidance and administrative services for co-investment partners

 

Education/Experience:

The ideal candidate will excel in:

• Written and verbal communication
• The ability to work independently and with others
• Strategic thinking
• Microsoft Office
• Strong technical skills with the ability/affinity to learn new technology applications

 

A bachelor’s degree is preferred for this position. At least three to five years of experience coordinating and managing development activities is required.

Rodel is an equal opportunity employer, offering a competitive salary and benefits package.

To Apply:
Submit a cover letter and resume to Tiffany Trawick at ttrawick@rodelde.org.

Rodel is hiring!

Job Title: Program Officer

Summary:  The core work will involve working with our team, as well as local and national partners, on helping Delaware become a global leader in public education. This position will be part of a team advancing policy priorities, organizing coalitions, mobilizing advocates, and coordinating campaigns.

Policy priorities will include education funding and early learning, and may include other high priority areas such as college and career readiness, educator support and development, social emotional learning and whole child development, and student-centered and competency-based learning.

The work will entail coalition building and management, stakeholder engagement, and campaign coordination to advance the organization’s policy priorities. Program Officers represent Rodel externally in state meetings, national convenings, on boards, and in local planning efforts. This position will represent Rodel with policymakers and other advocates.

Critical Success Personal Attributes and Strengths for this Role:

• Passion for education issues
• Skills and nimbleness to manage a diverse group of coalition members and policymakers
• Project / event management skills to ensure goals are met on time
• Attention to detail and timelines to achieve work “behind the scenes” with partners who have other priorities and demands
• Experience with policymaking and political or issue campaigns
• Strategic use of communications and engagement tools to advance policy priorities
• Ability to collaborate and develop relationships with coalition partners and advocates
• Strong communications skills and ability to inform policymakers

 

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Identify, develop, and execute strategies to engage our partners and key education stakeholders to advance organizational priorities
• Represent Rodel and build external relationships with partners across the state and nationally
• Experience as an effective collaborator with the ability to connect key stakeholders to accomplish organizational objectives
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills with experience in navigating complex relationships across multiple stakeholders with varied interests
• Support the development of policy and advocacy materials
• Coordinate and attend internal legislative strategy meetings– develop agendas contribute to strategy development, and conduct follow ups
• Develop internal project plans and timelines and work in partnership with policy, communications, and event staff to execute plans
• Plan and execute external events, including logistics, materials, agendas, talking points, and participant recruitment
• Support communication development, including support for community organizers and work with individuals to share their voice through communications content (opinions, social media posts, etc.)
• Maintain lists of FAQs and requested data points, develop answers with research team
• Update coalition onboarding process and materials
• Track legislator positions and communications by coalition members
• Attend events to bring back key points to inform our goals and strategy

 

Education/Experience:

While we are open to candidates with a wide range of academic and work backgrounds as well as learning styles, a Bachelor’s Degree is required for this role. At least 3 experience is required. Preferred skills and experience include: knowledge of Delaware and education policy landscape; experience with advocacy campaigns, political campaigns, or community engagement; and familiarity with Delaware legislative process and stakeholders.

Rodel is an equal opportunity employer, offering a competitive salary and benefits package. We also provide customized support and professional development to advance your skillset.

Rodel is a supporting organization of the Delaware Community Foundation. We actively leverage co-investment with partners to help create a stronger public education system in Delaware. Through this model, we enable more of our co-investors’ funding to get to the field and through our national networks, we are able to expand the funding coming into the state.

To Apply: Submit a cover letter and resume to Tiffany Trawick via email to ttrawick@rodelde.org.

Rodel is hiring!

Job title: Communications and Media Specialist

Summary: This position on a small, dynamic communications team supports Rodel and its partner organizations and coalitions. The communications team works with internal and external team members to advance Rodel’s advocacy, policy, programmatic, and fundraising goals. The primary role of this position is to advance communications efforts by leading work with coalitions and vendors, developing communications products, and driving analysis, strategy, and planning. Work will involve education issues areas including: early learning, teacher preparation and diversity, pathways and postsecondary success, student-centered learning, social and emotional development, and school finance.

Critical Success Attributes and Strengths for this Role:

• Strong writing ability
• Experience with social media and knowledge of best practices
• Experience with graphic design
• Project management skills; ability to manage multiple projects
• Detail-oriented; experience adhering to branding and style guidelines
• Ideation/generative creative thinking
• Storytelling
• Energy/enthusiasm
• Flexibility

 

Preferred skills include:

• Copyediting
• HTML/web design
• Graphic design using Adobe and/or PowerPoint
• Experience with newsletter design using MailChimp or Constant Contact
• Strategy and planning
• Experience/knowledge of government, public policy, or education issues

 

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Communications and Brand Management
  • Lead coalition, campaign, and initiative communications products and strategies
  • Manage partner and vendor relationships to execute strategy
  • Lead development of PPT decks, websites, press releases, infographics, blogs
  • Develop and manage project timelines and workflow
• Platforms and Channels
  • Maintain communications calendar of deliverables across 8 brands and social media/web/media channels, including newsletters, events, press releases
  • Develop social media strategy and schedule across all brands
  • Contribute to social media content, newsletters, and web copy
• Research, Analytics, Measurements, SEO
  • Lead data reporting, analysis, and strategy development for online communications
  • Conduct analysis of social, email, website traffic and recommend strategies to achieve organizational goals

 

Education/Experience and Computer Skills:
To perform this job effectively, a Bachelor’s Degree in Communications/Marketing or Political Science/Public Policy, or equivalent, is preferred. To perform this job successfully, an individual must be proficient in the Microsoft Office suite, have knowledge of online and social media best practices, and the ability/ affinity to learn new technology applications.

The ideal candidate will excel in:

• Written and verbal communication
• The ability to work independently and with others
• Strategic thinking
• Microsoft Office, and have a strong knowledge of online and social media best practices
• Strong technical skills with the ability/affinity to learn new technology applications.

 

Rodel is an equal opportunity employer, offering a competitive salary and benefits package.

To Apply:
Submit a cover letter and resume to Nancy Millard at nmillard@rodelde.org.

Rodel is hiring!

Job title: Research Associate

Summary: The primary role of the position is to provide support for Rodel and outside partner projects, events, and communications. Work will involve education issues areas such as student achievement data; teacher diversity and retention; student-centered and technology-enabled learning; social emotional learning; and other high priority areas such as early learning and college and career readiness.

Critical Success Personal Attributes and Strengths for this Role:

• Passion for the mission and social justice
• Sense of urgency
• Strong critical thinking and analytic capability
• Ability to tell a story with data
• Exceptional writing skills
• Web savvy with a familiarity with social media
• Flexibility and comfort with ambiguity
• Good judgment and proactive
• Manage multiple, complex projects.

 

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Research and data analysis
• Supporting fundraising prospecting research
• Project execution and management
• Writing and communications projects
• Preparation and formatting of documents
• Stakeholder engagement and relationship management
• Program support for events, including set-up and logistics
• Data entry into our contact management system
• General office support
• Other duties to be assigned as needed

 

Education/Experience and Computer Skills:

The ideal candidate will excel in:

• Written and verbal communication
• The ability to work independently and with others
• Strategic thinking
• Microsoft Office, and have a strong knowledge of online and social media best practices
• Strong technical skills with the ability/affinity to learn new technology applications.

A Bachelor’s Degree is required for this role. Preference may be given to candidates with a graduate degree, or work towards an advanced degree. Experience in public education is preferred, but not required. A knowledge of state and national education systems is preferred. At least 2 to 4 years of experience coordinating and managing complex projects is also preferred.

Rodel is an equal opportunity employer, offering a competitive salary and benefits package.

To Apply:
Submit a cover letter and resume to Nancy Millard at nmillard@rodelde.org.