Job Title: Community Engagement Manager
Organization: Keep Austin Beautiful
Location: Austin, TX
Position Type: Full-time, hybrid
Salary: $60,000-$65,000, commensurate with experience.
About Us: At Keep Austin Beautiful, we believe a clean city is a beautiful city. Since 1985, our nonprofit organization has inspired and educated Austinites to enhance green spaces, clean waterways, and reduce waste. Through youth education, community programs, and volunteer mobilization, we empower individuals to take meaningful action. Our work blends collaboration, innovation, and a shared commitment to environmental stewardship, creating a fun, supportive, and impactful culture where we make a tangible difference every day.
Join us in our mission to build a cleaner, greener, and more connected Austin!
Position Overview: Are you a dynamic leader with a passion for community engagement and environmental stewardship? Keep Austin Beautiful seeks a Community Engagement Manager to lead and inspire a team dedicated to mobilizing volunteers, building partnerships, and creating a cleaner, more beautiful Austin. As a key member of the leadership team, the Community Engagement Manager will oversee strategic programs and volunteer engagement initiatives, empowering individuals, corporate partners, and civic groups to take action in beautifying our city’s green spaces and waterways. This impactful role combines program management, relationship building, and strategic oversight to inspire action, foster collaboration, and drive meaningful change across Austin.
Key Responsibilities:
- Supervise, support, and mentor the community engagement team to achieve organizational goals.
- Develop and implement community engagement strategies, including volunteer recruitment, registration, tracking, and reporting.
- Manage program and volunteer engagement goals to meet community and corporate partner requirements.
- Oversee project budgets and ensure program goals are achieved.
- Manage and optimize volunteer and project management software systems.
- Lead and oversee Keep Austin Beautiful Day, Adopt-a-Creek, and Community Cleanups programs, while supporting Adopt-a-Street and Clean Lady Bird Lake.
- Cultivate and maintain strategic partnerships with stakeholders, including City of Austin departments, community organizations, and corporate partners.
- Manage the City of Austin Education, Cleanup, and Beautification contract requirements, including attending meetings and preparing reports in a timely manner.
Qualifications:
Required:
- Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field.
- Minimum of 3 years of experience supervising staff.
- At least 3 years of experience in volunteer management, community organizing, corporate community relations, project management, or a related field.
- Strong relationship management skills to build and maintain effective internal and external partnerships.
- Excellent project management skills with the ability to multitask, problem-solve, and create efficient systems and processes.
- Proficiency in data analysis, with the ability to translate insights into actionable strategies.
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to adapt to changing conditions, prioritize competing tasks, and excel in a fast-paced environment.
- Strong customer service orientation and ability to maintain professionalism under pressure.
- Analytical thinker with a deep understanding of community dynamics and the ability to mobilize financial and human resources effectively.
- Reliable transportation.
- Successful completion of a background check.
- Physical ability to lift thirty pounds and work outdoors in various weather conditions.
Preferred:
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite (Outlook, Excel) and platforms such as GivePulse, Mailchimp, and Monday.com.
- Knowledge of Austin’s diverse communities and the barriers underrepresented groups face in accessing clean, beautiful green spaces.
Work Hours: This is a full-time position with occasional evening and weekend work required to support events and programming.
Benefits: Keep Austin Beautiful offers a competitive benefits package, including employer-paid healthcare and dental coverage, vacation, and sick leave, a 403(b) retirement plan, and mileage and cellular phone reimbursement.
Application Process: Qualified applicants should submit a resume and a cover letter to careers@keepaustinbeautiful.org. The subject line should read Community Engagement Manager – Last Name. Only complete submissions will be considered. No phone calls, please. Interviews will take place in January 2025.
Equal Opportunity Employer: Keep Austin Beautiful is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All employment decisions are based on individual qualifications and business needs, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, or any other status protected by law. We are committed to fostering an inclusive, supportive workplace that reflects the diversity of our community.