
Community Initiatives Manager
Key Responsibilities
Partner Relationships & Engagement
- Build and maintain strong relationships with TogetherWe’s community partners across
nonprofit, healthcare, education, government, and other sectors. - Serve as a primary point of contact for partners and maintain a strong understanding of their
priorities, programs, capacity, and areas of expertise. - Cultivate prospective partner relationships and coordinate onboarding, ongoing engagement,
and participation in TogetherWe’s collective impact work. - Connect partners with relevant initiatives, resources, organizations, and opportunities for
collaboration. - Maintain regular communication and follow-up with partners to strengthen engagement and
shared accountability. - Identify emerging partner needs, opportunities, challenges, and areas where stronger
coordination may be beneficial. - Work with the Executive Director to strengthen and grow TogetherWe’s partner network and
ensure relationships remain connected to broader community priorities.
Initiatives & Workgroups
- Lead a portfolio of collaborative initiatives and workgroups aligned with the community
strategic plan. - Convene partners and facilitate workgroups to advance shared goals and objectives and
maintain momentum across collaborative work. - Develop, implement, and continually improve community programs and solutions in
collaboration with partners—from initial concept and planning through implementation and
evaluation. - Establish clear goals, roles, timelines, deliverables, and next steps for initiatives and
workgroups. - Track progress, commitments, decisions, and follow-up to ensure work moves consistently from
planning through implementation. - Coordinate communication and information-sharing among participating partners.
- Identify barriers, gaps, or decisions that may be slowing progress and work with partners and
organizational leadership to address them. - Maintain appropriate documentation and meeting notes and provide executive-level summaries
of progress for initiatives and workgroups. - Work with the Director of Strategy & Operations to ensure initiative progress and outcomes are
captured within TogetherWe’s broader measurement and impact framework. - Help ensure collaborative work remains aligned with community needs, strategic priorities, and
TogetherWe’s role as a collective impact backbone organization.
Qualifications
Required
- Minimum of 5 years’ experience in prevention, public health, youth development, mental health
promotion, mental/behavioral health care or systems, or related fields. - Demonstrated ability to drive systems change by facilitating effective partnerships and
multi-stakeholder initiatives. - Strong facilitation, communication, and relationship-building skills.
- Proven ability to manage complex projects, track detailed tasks, and deliver results on time and
within scope. - Experience working in a start-up or early-stage organization, or a demonstrated willingness to
adapt to evolving priorities and contribute across functions as needed.
Preferred
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Public Health, Social Work, Education, Psychology,
Communications, or related field. - Experience in rural or mountain town communities.
- Demonstrated experience developing and implementing programs or community initiatives in
collaboration with partners. - Familiarity with upstream mental health frameworks and suicide prevention best practices or
crisis response systems, healthcare partnerships, or behavioral health service delivery. - Bicultural and Bilingual in Spanish and English.
Compensation & Benefits
This is a full-time, exempt position reporting to the Executive Director, with a salary range of
$60,000–$90,000 annually, commensurate with experience. TogetherWe offers a competitive benefits
package that includes health insurance reimbursement through a Qualified Small Employer Health
Reimbursement Arrangement, generous paid time off, and a flexible work environment designed to
support both meaningful work and personal well-being.
How to Apply
Please email a resume and cover letter outlining your interest in the position and relevant experience to
hiring@togetherwe5b.org with the subject line “Community Initiatives Manager Application – [Your
Name].” Applications will be reviewed as they are received.