Community Partnerships Manager

A Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corporation employer partner is seeking a Community Partnerships Manager. The Community Partnerships Manager (CPM) is the company’s public face to community, workforce, and public-sector partners—and the engine behind partnership pathways that advance our mission and drive measurable business and revenue outcomes. You will lead mid-funnel partnership and business development efforts, coordinate and fund programs and pilots, and convert engagement into funded initiatives, operator success, and growth.

This role blends strategy and execution: you will steward critical relationships, run high-impact programs, and build partnership opportunities that expand economic mobility and accelerate growth.

Note that while our team collaborates remotely, this is a boots-on-the-ground leadership role—based in Brooklyn and driving community engagement with partners across NYC.

Key Responsibilities:
1. Build High-Impact Partnerships (60%):

-Cultivate and manage relationships across fleet operators, workforce partners, community-based organizations, and city/state agencies that translate into funded pilots, customer acquisition and revenue growth.
-Lead grant and RFP strategy — including opportunity scanning, concept development, teaming arrangement, and success criteria — to identify aligned funding pathways; support development of ensuing proposals.
-Represent company at community meetings, operator forums, and public events that foster trust, share progress, and generate insights for program and partnership growth.

2. Execute & Scale Community Initiatives (30%):

-Develop Community Engagement Roadmap — defining the strategy, framework, and tools for engaging operators, workforce partners, and community stakeholders to accelerate clean-mobility adoption.
-Launch and scale community-focused programs and workforce initiatives with partners (e.g., HOPE Program, BWI, Green City Force, RETI Center) with clear milestones and business-model KPIs.
-Lead program execution: scope alignment, stakeholder meetings, milestone tracking, and multi-funder compliance/reporting (NYSERDA, Empire State Development, Con Edison).

3. Elevate Brand Trust (10%):

-Influence communication strategy to ensure alignment with engagement and partnership priorities.
-Develop stories, data points, and insights that highlight community impact and strengthen trust with public partners.
-Represent at events and public forums as a credible ambassador for clean mobility and community wealth-building — gathering feedback and elevating visibility.

Required Experience:
-5–7 years in community partnerships, program management, or impact-oriented business development.
-Proven ability to build and sustain cross-sector partnerships (government, nonprofits, workforce, small businesses), especially those tied to funding or measurable business outcomes.
-Grant/RFP experience — leading, strategizing, or overseeing opportunity identification, proposal development, and funding success.
-Track record of designing, launching, and scaling community-focused programs, ideally in workforce development or public engagement.
-Strong familiarity with NYC’s community, nonprofit, and government landscape (highly preferred).

Required Skills:
-Exceptional communicator — strong writing, public speaking, and ability to shape messaging across channels.
-Confident public representative able to engage diverse stakeholders, lead meetings/forums, and represent brand externally.
-Strategic and organized operator who can prioritize, manage multiple workstreams, and align efforts to mission and growth goals.
-Leadership mindset — proactive, accountable, able to work independently while collaborating across teams.
-Passion for clean energy, mobility entrepreneurship, and equitable economic development, with an instinct for turning engagement into concrete action.