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Sandy Hook Promise

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2012

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

✈️ Travel

Consulting • Healthcare • Travel

Sandy Hook Promise is a national nonprofit organization dedicated to preventing gun violence and protecting children. Founded by family members of victims from the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, the organization focuses on educating and empowering youth and adults to recognize warning signs and take action against violence. Their comprehensive programs include initiatives like 'Start With Hello' and 'Say Something', aimed at promoting school safety, mental health, and community engagement. Through advocacy and research-based interventions, Sandy Hook Promise strives to create a future where children are safe from shootings and violence in their environments.

📋 Description

• Lead a portfolio of community-based and out-of-school-time initiatives • Drive SHP’s out-of-school-time strategy and serve as the internal subject matter expert for this audience and delivery environment • Oversee pilot initiatives, strengthen and codify promising models, and guide expansion toward national scale • Ensure the portfolio advances youth violence prevention, systems influence, and national thought leadership priorities • Lead planning, execution, and ongoing management of programs and community partnerships • Advise organizational leaders on engaging young people beyond traditional school settings • Manage contractors and ensure high-quality deliverables • Lead, coach, and develop managers to achieve partnership and program goals • Build and sustain relationships with providers, community organizations, national networks, funders, and key partners • Lead cross-functional initiatives by establishing ownership, roles, decision rights, timelines, and stakeholder strategies • Provide organizational leaders with concise updates and represent SHP in partner, funder, and field-facing meetings and presentations • Represent the portfolio on Director-level committees and leadership forums • Develop scalable tools, processes, and resources for partner selection, readiness, pilots, implementation, communications, documentation, risk management, sustainability, dissemination, and closeout • Capture and codify lessons learned and best practices for replication and scale • Use feedback and evaluation findings to improve implementation and inform investment and scaling decisions • Manage project budgets, contracts, scopes of work, consultants, vendors, and grant deliverables • Perform other duties as assigned

🎯 Requirements

• Commitment to SHP’s mission and values • Bachelor's degree required • 7+ years of progressive experience leading out-of-school-time programs, youth-serving initiatives, community partnerships, or complex cross-sector programs • Deep knowledge of the out-of-school-time field and community-based organizations and youth-serving networks • Experience designing, launching, evaluating, and scaling pilot programs and initiatives • Strong project management skills, including cross-functional work, budgets, timelines, stakeholder relationships, and competing priorities • Ability to build partnerships and influence outcomes across organizations and stakeholder groups without direct authority • Experience developing operational processes, systems, and infrastructure to support program implementation and scale • Excellent judgment, communication, and relationship management skills • Ability to engage effectively with executive leaders, partners, funders, and community stakeholders • Ability to use data, evaluation findings, and partner feedback for continuous improvement and decision-making • Experience managing budgets, contracts, vendors, consultants, and grant deliverables • Commitment to culturally responsive, equitable, and community-centered practices • Experience working in a remote or geographically dispersed organization preferred • Candidates must be based in the U.S. • Candidates must submit a project plan document or presentation deck from a previous project and discuss contributions, decisions, outcomes, challenges, and lessons learned

🏖️ Benefits

• Unlimited PTO • Flexible schedules • Paid holidays • 10 days sick leave • Paid parental leave • Health, dental, and vision insurance • Employer paid life insurance • Employer paid short- and long-term disability • 401k match • Professional development stipend • Wellness & mental health support • Employer Paid Employee Assistance Program • Laptop • Home office reimbursement • Monthly Wi-Fi reimbursement up to $40 • Monthly cell phone reimbursement up to $50 • Location flexibility across the country for most positions • Remote office support for all staff