Associate, Engagement & Activation

Position Overview

The Associate Engagement & Activation plays a critical role in ensuring that Commitshigh-impactconvenings stakeholder engagements and activation campaigns are executed with precision consistency and operational excellence.

This role supports the Communications and Engagement team by coordinating events and campaigns managing engagement systems tracking stakeholder data and ensuring strong follow-through on activation efforts. The Associate ensures that stakeholder engagement strategies translate into disciplined execution that strengthens Commits visibility influence and impact.

This role requires disciplined execution strong organizational systems and proactive communication and follow-through to ensure deliverables are completed accurately and on time.

The ideal candidate is detail-oriented systems-driven and collaborative with a strong commitment to operational excellence and measurable results that advance student-centered outcomes.

SalaryRange

$60000-$78000

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Provide comprehensive planning and execution support for stakeholder convenings and events including registration management vendor coordination timeline tracking run-of-show documentation day-of logistics and post-event follow-up.
• Serve as a primarylogisticspoint of contact for the Communications and Engagement team and cross-functional partners.
• Coordinate with venues caterers technology providers and other vendors to manage contracts budgets and timelines.
• Research catalog andmaintaina centralized database of venues documenting capacities amenities and suitability for various convening formats.
• Design and implement standardized event planning protocols templates and operating procedures to improve efficiency and consistency.
• Lead internal training sessions to ensure teams effectivelyutilizeevent planning tools and systems.
• Oversee procurement organization and safekeeping of event assets including signage promotional materials branded items hospitality supplies and communication equipment.
• Maintain inventory tracking systems andmonitorcheck-outs and returns to ensure accountability and resource availability.

2. Engagement Documentation & Activation Follow-Up

• Support post-event communications including thank-you messages resource distribution and coordination of next steps with stakeholders.
• Attend convenings and key meetings to document discussions stakeholder feedback and commitments.
• Maintain and manage stakeholder relationship data in Salesforce to accurately track attendance engagement participation and follow-up actions.
• Ensure activation efforts (e.g. event sign-ups commitments continued engagement) are documented andmonitoredto completion.

• Serve as Salesforce administrator for the Communications and Engagement team ensuringaccurateandtimelydata entry segmentation reporting and system integrity.
• Track and process invoices contracts and vendor agreements for communications and engagement initiatives ensuring compliance andtimelypayment.
• Maintain organized documentation systems for contracts vendor relationships and event materials.

• Track campaign analytics and engagement metrics including email performance website traffic social media engagement and event participation.
• Generate performance reports to support learning and continuous improvement across campaigns and engagement initiatives.
• Identifyopportunities to strengthen data capture reporting processes and stakeholder segmentation.
• Support continuous improvement efforts by translating engagement data into clear internal summaries that inform decision-making.

General Project Coordination

• Provideadditionalproject coordination and communications support to ensuretimely high-quality execution of initiatives aligned to annual organizational goals.

Qualifications and Skills Required:

• Demonstrated commitment to improving student outcomes and advancing public education.
• Strong organizational skills with exceptional attention to detail.
• Ability to manage multiple workstreams with shifting priorities and deadlines.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to tailor messaging for internal and external stakeholders.
• Proficiencyin Microsoft Office (Word Excel PowerPoint).
• Ability to work collaboratively across teams and functions.
• Comfort interacting professionally with diverse stakeholders.
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to adapt in dynamic environments.
• Commitment to continuous improvement and responsiveness to feedback.

Education and/or Experience Required:

• Associate degree or higher in communications business nonprofit administration or related field.
• 24 years of professional experience in communications nonprofit administration stakeholder engagement event coordination or related field.

Preferred:

• Experience with Salesforce (Nonprofit Marketing Cloud preferred).
• Experience managing eventlogisticsand stakeholder data systems.

Language Skills:

• Ability to understand sentences andfrequentlyused expressions related to areas of most immediate.
• Ability to communicate in simple and routine tasks requiring a simple and direct exchange of information on familiar and routine matters.
• Ability to describe in simple terms aspects of his/her background immediate environment and matters in areas of immediate need.

KnowledgeSkillsand Abilities:

• Ability to read and write in Standard English.
• Ability to establish and maintain cooperative working relationships with others.
• Ability to interact with persons of various social cultural economic and educational backgrounds.
• Ability to listen perceptively and convey awareness.
• Ability to interact diplomatically with the public in a continuous public contact setting.
• Ability to work as part of a team and in a team environment.
• Ability tomaintainlevel-headedness in the face of resistance and contrary opinions.

Work Environment:

Generallyworks in an office environment but may occasionally berequiredto perform job duties outside of the typical office setting. The noise level in the work environment is usually quiet to moderate. The employee is not exposed to any adverse environmental conditions.

To perform this job successfully an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed must be representative of the knowledge skills minimum education training licensureexperienceand/or abilityrequired. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Job Requirements

To perform this job successfully an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed must be representative of the knowledge skills minimum education training licensure experience and/or abilityrequired. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

The Commit Partnership is an Equal Opportunity Employer thatseeksto hire individuals with backgroundssimilar tothat of the stakeholders they serve. As an organization that embraces equity and inclusion all employment decisions are based on business needs job requirements and individual qualifications without regard to race color religion or belief national social or ethnic origin gender age sexual orientation gender identity and/or expression marital civil union or domestic partnership status or any other status protected by federal state or local laws.

About The Commit Partnership:

Our Mission

We believe that through our collective actions Dallas Countywhich educates 10% of Texas and 1% of the nationcan become an inclusive and prosperous region where economic opportunity is shared fairly. Thats why our True North Goal is that by 2040 at least half of all Dallas County residents ages 2534 irrespective of race will have the opportunity to earn a living wage.

To increase living wage attainment we must equitably increase educational success aligned with high-demand well-paying jobsmaximizing the cumulative impact from early education through college career and military readiness to strong postsecondary completion. Our team aligns community stakeholders around this shared roadmap for the future using data to surface strategic initiatives that improve policies practices and funding. Together we work to address the systemic root causes that hinder progress and strengthen our communitys capacity to serve every student effectively.

Our Story

Founded in 2012 the Commit Partnership has grown into the nations largest educational collective impact organization uniting more than 70 backbone team members and over 200 partners across Dallas County and Texasall working together to address the systemic education challenges facing our region and state. Our team brings community stakeholders together around a shared roadmap for the future using data and practitioner insights to inform effective policy solutions that accelerate progress toward our goals and strengthen our collective capacity to serve every student well.

Together we advocate for an excellent public education that ensures all studentsregardless of race place or socioeconomic statuscan shape their own futures earn a living wage and share in the prosperity of the worlds eighth-largest economy. We pursue this mission through several key initiatives including Early Matters Dallas Dallas County Promise the Texas Urban Council and the Texas Impact Network.

True North Traits

Our True North Traits creates a mission-driven environment and champions us to do our best work each day.

Systemic Impact: You understand the barriers and lived experiences that our students face and are skilled at delivering systemic solutions at scale that address these needs. You achieve significant sustainable results that increase equitable outcomes through your work (including the reallocation or improvement in public funding) and you recognize the difference between activity and impact.

Judgment: You exhibit a relentless students first focus by thinking strategically about what data must be collected analyzed visualized and activated (and what steps must be taken in what order) to cause resources to be reallocated and actions to be taken to systemically overcome the root causes hindering achievement of the Partnerships mission.

Communication: By listening to understand before seeking to be understood youre able to build trust and facilitate collaboration across lines of difference recognizing that both are essential to our success. You are also able to find common ground with diverse stakeholders and can tailor the organizations message to different audiences as needed to influence meaningful change.

Innovation: You can create or meaningfully contribute to the design and execution of a systemic and transformational strategic plan to solve complex problems often at scale that improves organizational effectiveness and/or closes equity gaps for our students and families.

Equity and Inclusion: You intentionally create spaces where relevant stakeholders have a seat or voice at the table ensuring that each person at the tables thoughts and perspectives are shared valued by all others at the table and reflected in our work. Youre excited to help build and/or contribute to teams where everyone feels welcomed respected valued and highly supported.

Joy: You recognize that people are central to our work striking a balance between people and process and you inspire others with your optimism and thirst for substantive change in service to the mission.

Integrity: You admit mistakes openly share learnings widely and elevate bad news quickly also capable of making difficult decisions in all situations to ensure the success of the organization.

The Commit Partnership is an Equal Opportunity Employer that seeks to hire individuals with backgrounds similar to that of the stakeholders they serve. As an organization that embraces equity and inclusion all employment decisions are based on business needs job requirements and individual qualifications without regard to race color religion or belief national social or ethnic origin gender age sexual orientation gender identity and/or expression marital civil union or domestic partnership status or any other status protected by federal state or local laws.

Commit does not sponsor visas of any kind.