COMMUNITY NETWORK & PROJECTS MANAGER

How to Apply

A cover letter is required for consideration for this position and should be attached as the first page of your resume. The cover letter should address your specific interest in the position and outline skills and experience that directly relate to this position.

Job Summary Department Summary: The Ginsberg Center cultivates and stewards mutually beneficial partnerships between communities and the University of Michigan in order to advance social change through service, democratic participation, and community engaged learning.

Position Summary The Community Network and Projects Manager serves as a critical organizational and administrative engine for Ginsberg Center’s Community Partnerships and Matchmaking team, helping ensure that partner relationships, projects, and communications are well-organized, up-to-date, and strategically supported. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys building and maintaining strong systems especially databases, workflows, communications processes, and marketing structures that make relationship-centered work more effective and sustainable. While the position includes community-facing engagement, much of the relationship management is operational in nature, requiring careful tracking, follow-up, documentation, and coordination across partners and internal team members. The role also calls for someone who enjoys attending events, connecting with people in community settings, and bringing flexibility and responsiveness to a dynamic, collaborative environment.

Responsibilities*

Community Network Management (45%)

• Co-Manage Ginsberg Center’s Campus-Community Matchmaking efforts, serving as the point person for community-involved aspects of matchmaking.
• Manage Ginsberg’s annual community partner meeting process including biweekly Account Review meetings and action items assigned to all team members to ensure timely completion.
• Represent Ginsberg Center at community events, meetings, and spaces to build trust particularly with new or strategic partners while deepening knowledge of emerging community priorities, organizations, and movements.
• Maintain a consistent reporting schedule to ensure all relationships are documented accurately and promptly.
• Supervising student staff, including Community Partnership Graduate Consultants, that support matchmaking and partner relations processes.

Administration of community-based programs (30%)

• Community-based internships (Fall/Winter)

• Manage Ginsberg community-based internship fund for approximately 10-15 students: outreach process for community partners and students, application review and funding decisions, manage student reflection and feedback process

• Storytelling for Social Change (Spring/Summer)

• Manage community-based internship program focused on developing content for local community partners: curriculum design in partnership with Assistant Director and Student Partnerships team, orientation, recruit and scope community projects, recruit and hire students, student meetings

• Supervise graduate student program assistant who provides administrative support for above programs and matchmaking

• Volunteer infrastructure

• Project manage campus volunteerism and direct service infrastructure efforts: Lead planning, coordination, implementation, and follow-through for initiatives that strengthen the center’s systems, processes, and campus-facing infrastructure for volunteerism and direct service, including evaluation work focused on the volunteer/service portal.

Project Management (15%)

• Project management and coordination support for standing and emerging CP Team projects and initiatives.

• Communications Strategy & Implementation-

• Developing structures, systems and templates to ensure consistent and effective communication with community partners
• Marketing Requests / Promotion Support and Social Media supervision of students Community partner facing communications resources including website revision and maintenance, flyers/brochures, handbook, etc.

• Supervising marketing graduate student

• Contributing to team response to address emerging needs. Built into the role is responsive support/gap filling (expect to spend an hour of your day on support requests from rest of team)

GC/ UM Contributions (10%)

• Participate in Ginsberg Center committees to further the collective work of the unit
• Develop and maintain collaborative relationships with…