Senior Collaboration Manager

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The Opportunity
The Senior Collaboration Manager (SCM) is an essential partner to the success of SAL’s partnership
programming. Reporting to the State Partnerships Director, this role will utilize their extensive
knowledge of collaboration and the reproductive health, rights, and justice movements to support state
partners seeking to collaboratively strengthen their statewide impact. The SCM will provide support for
collaboration at varying levels, from deep thought partnership to coordination and administrative
support to facilitation and convening design. The SCM may provide specific technical assistance to state
groups themselves and/or identify and onboard trusted expert consultants to achieve the best results
for the group or coalition in coordination with the State Repro (Technical Assistance) Hub team. The
SCM will also support groups with an eye towards capturing shared learning and establishing best
practices.
Who You Are
You are an expert collaborator and space maker. You have proven experience facilitating and managing
spaces where diverse organizations can come together to move work forward, particularly in moments
of misalignment or tension. You are someone who can surface the needs of a group, solve sticky
problems with grace and clarity, and are willing to wear many hats (from campaign planning to
administrative management when necessary). You are comfortable leading with and surfacing equity
points, helping groups to create and practice values of diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice in their
work. You will support groups to navigate conflict, build shared purpose, and create coherence to meet
collective goals.

Areas of Leadership
The Senior Collaboration Manager will have the opportunity to join a small but growing team. They will
have the chance to collaboratively establish new systems and ways of working that allow SAL to
creatively develop and test new ways to support the needs of state reproductive health, rights, and
justice RHRJ partners and movements. In that spirit, the Senior Collaboration Manager can expect to lead
and collaborate in these areas:

• Lead, execute, and expand collaboration support for state advocacy groups. The SCM will support the
  growth of SAL’s collaboration and convening work with state partners, ensuring partners receive
  high-quality support that strengthens connections, clarifies strategy, and builds alignment. The SCM will
  play a leadership role in determining what level of support SAL will provide to state-based coalitions
  through conducting intake calls, assessing the groups’ resources and opportunities, and creating a
  project plan for providing that assistance. Projects may include - in collaboration with consultants you
  manage - conducting landscape analysis, surfacing needs of a group, designing and incubating effective
  coalitions, designing learning objectives, holding coalition communications, and facilitating group
  processes and events.
• Expand the network of state advocates who know and see SAL as a valuable resource. The SCM will
  hold deep and authentic relationships with state movement leaders to support connection with and
  between advocates. They will help SAL build its network among state leaders and national advocates
  who do state repro work, including identifying coalitions in underinvested states and regions that center
  Black, Indigenous, immigrant, LGBTQIAA+, youth, rural, and other historically marginalized communities
  where SAL hopes to work alongside and learn from. They will represent SAL to key stakeholders in state
  coalitions, key conferences, and retreats.
• Gather and share learnings and reflections to inform SAL’s offerings and state strategies. The SCM will
  co-create collaboration and facilitation tools in partnership with the State Partnerships Director and
  partner organizations. They will use metrics and evaluation frameworks to assess impact, collect and
  analyze feedback, and share insights to ensure SAL can strengthen collaboration within the ecosystem.
• Contribute to SAL’s ability to support state repro ecosystems as a thought partner, connector, and
  builder. The SCM will serve as a thought-partner within SAL, participating in planning and organizational
  development activities and contributing to knowledge, learning, and strategic growth. They will support
  programming across SAL on an ad hoc basis, including supporting the Hub team in triaging the help desk,
  vetting consultants, connecting people to the help they need and developing bespoke trainings around
  strategic communications, campaign planning, engaging policymakers, and other topics as requested by
  state partners. They will strive to bring SAL’s values into practice in all interactions.

SAL’s Hiring Process
SAL is partnering with Callie Carroll of CLC Endeavors. To apply, please submit a resume to
SAL-SCM@clcendeavors.com. In the body of your email, please provide brief (3-4 sentence) answers to
the following prompts:
1. What core experience(s) would guide how you support collaboration between state-based
reproductive health, rights, and justice movement advocates?
2. What key values and frameworks guide your work on abortion?
3. What are the top 3 characteristics you bring into collaborative work?
Applications will be reviewed on an ongoing basis, but we will prioritize those who apply by June 14th.
We hope to have candidates start in September. Candidates can generally expect these stages of the hiring
process:
1. Preliminary screening interview with CLC Endeavors.
2. Narrative in-depth interview with CLC Endeavors following feedback by SAL.
3. Interview with SAL State Partnerships Director.

4. Final panel interview with SAL team members (may include a brief exercise).
5. Reference Checks.