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Benefits Data Trust


Benefits Data Trust recognizes the value of excellence. Talented and dedicated individuals committed to quality propel the organization to aspire and imagine a better way to support our clients. We pride ourselves on our ability to sharpen our skills, push outside of our comfort zone and continually innovate to transform the way benefits are delivered.

Benefits Data Trust is hiring a Remote Associate Director of Engagement - Texas

Benefits Data Trust (BDT) seeks an Associate Director of Engagement who will work with the Chief Operating Officer to launch the inaugural Benefits Navigation Ecosystem initiative in Dallas, Texas. This initiative aims to lay the groundwork for building a sustainable, equitable, and impactful public benefits access system for the City of Dallas. Over a 2-year period, BDT will engage with residents, government, and community-based organizations to understand how benefits such as SNAP, ACP, and WIC are currently accessed and delivered in Dallas and identify the strategies, tools, and services needed to facilitate an equitable benefits access system.

The Associate Director of Engagement will help shape and validate BDT’s city-based approach to assisting states and communities in creating dignified, equitable, and proactive benefits access systems. BDT will conduct user experience research and focus groups, engage and convene key stakeholders, and conduct targeted outreach experimentation to expose the needs and challenges facing eligible residents and the institutions and organizations that serve them. At the project’s conclusion, BDT will deliver actionable recommendations to the City of Dallas on ways to support eligible residents to access and renew benefits. The ideal candidate is passionate about community engagement and health and human service collaboration, exceptionally skilled at external (business, non-profit, civic, and political) relationships, project management, and enjoys taking a concept from vision to reality. This is a 2-year position with the possibility of an extension, dependent upon additional funding.

The Associate Director of Engagement will manage the relationships needed to fulfill contract requirements in close collaboration with officials from the City of Dallas, Office of Community Care. They will work side-by-side with BDT teams responsible for delivering a strategic benefits access roadmap that will enable the City to build a system to allow eligible Dallas residents to access and renew benefits easily. They will keep BDT stakeholders informed of critical developments and seek appropriate guidance.

The Associate Director of Engagement will primarily focus on Dallas-based activities but will be expected to travel throughout the State of Texas, as requested. They will also travel to BDT offices in Philadelphia, when needed.

Based in Dallas (or the surrounding area), the Associate Director of Engagement reports to the Chief Operating Officer. BDT centers diversity, equity, and inclusion in nurturing an energetic and diverse workplace and serving people from all communities and backgrounds across the United States. Candidates should bring DEI maturity and be open to continuous improvement and learning.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and lead a relationship cultivation strategy, including active development, management and facilitation of state and local government partners and community-based stakeholders, necessary to facilitate an equitable benefits access system. A strong preference will be given to candidates who have already established civic, political, and administrative relationships within the City of Dallas

• Actively support all project activities by providing context and representing stakeholder expectations, requirements, timelines, deadlines, etc., at regular meetings

• Manage relationships with the Dallas Office of Community Care and ensure ongoing collaboration with City leaders throughout the project

• Build and maintain relationships with Texas city and state policymakers, advocates, anti-poverty, and health care stakeholders to leverage relevant benefit access policies in connection with BDT’s policy and practice work

• Support the Philanthropy team and key Dallas stakeholders in identifying sustainable funding sources

• Provide partner-specific content for communication materials, contracts, scopes of work, budgets, and data-sharing agreements

Qualifications:

• At least ten years of relevant experience cultivating and managing relationships with government, community-based organizations, and philanthropy

• Superb organizational and project-management skills with the ability to change courses quickly and adapt to tight deadlines

• Professional experience networking and comfort with regular interaction with high-profile executives within both government and philanthropy settings

• Superior oral communication and presentation skills, with the ability to work with internal and external teams and network effectively

• Exceptional writing skills, with the ability to draft and edit a wide variety of materials

• Commitment to improving the lives of underserved people

• Ability to frequently travel throughout Dallas and occasionally across the state

• Keen understanding of the interplay among the non-profit, public (both political and administrative), and private sectors

• Knowledge and familiarity with the public benefits landscape are strongly preferred

• Demonstrated experience integrating diversity, equity, and inclusion into your work and accomplishments

The salary range starts at $100,000 and is commensurate with relevant experience.

About BDT:

Benefits Data Trust (BDT) improves health and financial security by harnessing the power of data, technology, and policy to provide dignified and equitable access to assistance. Together with a national network of government agencies and partners, we efficiently connect people today to programs that pay for food, healthcare, and more while helping to modernize benefits access for tomorrow. A nonprofit since 2005, BDT has secured more than $10 billion in benefits for households across the country, helping to reduce hunger and poverty and build pathways to economic mobility. Learn more about BDT - a proud recipient of a 2021 & 2022 Top Workplaces USA Award at bdtrust.org.

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Benefits Data Trust is hiring a Remote Senior Director of Strategic Communications and Engagement

Senior Director of Strategic Communications and Engagement

Benefits Data Trust (BDT) a national nonprofit organization founded in 2005, is at the beginning of a ten-year moonshot to energize and support fundamental improvements to the nation’s delivery of public assistance services to individuals and families in need. Today, despite millions of people going without the food, healthcare, access to education and digital services, and other critical resources they need to live better and get ahead, more than $80 billion in public assistance is left on the table each year. BDT believes that working together, a diverse, inclusive, and bipartisan movement of leaders and institutions, as well as public benefits recipients themselves, can solve this challenge. BDT seeks a seasoned Senior Director of Strategic Communications and Engagement to shape and execute movement-building communications and public engagement strategies driving interest, support, action across government, the business and nonprofit sectors, philanthropy, and communities.

The SeniorDirector of Strategic Communications and Engagementreports to the Chief Executive Officer.

BDT is a remote-first organization. Employees may work remotely or from BDT’s Philadelphia office. BDT centers diversity, equity, and inclusion in nurturing an energetic and diverse workplace and serving people from all communities and backgrounds across the United States. Candidates should bring DEI maturity and be open to continuous improvement and learning.

The Senior Director will:

  • Create and execute a strategy energizing the movement for better benefits access that is grounded in BDT’s ten-year strategic framework and additive to its initial four-year strategic plan guiding the first phase of work.
  • Shape, ignite, and sustain national policy and other systems change conversations across a range of subject matter and involving diverse and influential audiences.
  • Provide strategic counsel and ensure the wider marketing and communications team supports revenue growth and customer and partner success.
  • Translate the significance of BDT’s often highly specialized impact work into communications and audience activation efforts that can drive national change at scale.
  • Lead and support the success of a small and highly skilled marketing and communications team and ensure core goals across areas such as media relations, branding, product marketing, web and social media engagement, and other areas are achieved.
  • Ensure all strategic communications efforts demonstrate excellence and sophistication in diversity, equity, and inclusion, uphold the principles and values centering the best interests of public assistance clients, and ensure BDT can operate and bring leaders and institutions together across the political spectrum.
  • Provide strategic communications and movement-building advice to other leaders and teams across the highly diverse and interdisciplinary organization.
  • At least ten years of experience across strategic communications disciplines and meaningful accomplishments growing diverse, inclusive, and bipartisan social change movements, coalitions, and campaigns.
  • A highly mature and sophisticated approach to diversity, equity, and inclusion and a track record integrating DEI into strategic communications initiatives.
  • Strong executive and team leadership abilities.
  • Sharp, creative, and refined writing acumen.
  • Comfort participating in revenue growth activities, including philanthropic fundraising and supporting customer success.

Candidates should have:

  • At least ten years of experience across strategic communications disciplines and meaningful accomplishments growing diverse, inclusive, and bipartisan social change movements, coalitions, and campaigns.
  • A highly mature and sophisticated approach to diversity, equity, and inclusion and a track record integrating DEI into strategic communications initiatives.
  • Strong executive and team leadership abilities.
  • Sharp, creative, and refined writing acumen.
  • Comfort participating in revenue growth activities, including philanthropic fundraising and supporting customer success.

About BDT

Benefits Data Trust (BDT)improves health and financial security by harnessing the power of data, technology, and policy to provide dignified and equitable access to assistance. Together with a national network of government agencies and partners, we efficiently connect people today to programs that pay for food, healthcare, and more while helping to modernize benefits access for tomorrow. A nonprofit since 2005, BDT has secured more than $10 billion in benefits for households across the country, helping to reduce hunger and poverty and build pathways to economic mobility. Learn more about BDT - a proud recipient of a 2021 & 2022 Top Workplaces USA Award at bdtrust.org.

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