Sr. Assoc, Fed Funding and Technical Assist

Team Leadership

Working closely with the Policy Director to translate the program’s adopted strategy into a strategy for Federal Funding and TA support that takes an intersectional approach to climate and racial wealth equity initiatives.
Coordinating with a cross-organizational team of staff and consultants responsible for designing and delivering the federal funding support and broader technical assistance, while maintaining alignment with data and evaluation, policy development, and field implementation teams.
Facilitating participatory structures for decision-making and direction across the various teams.

Program Development, Management, and Delivery

Lead analysis and assessment of federal funding opportunities in alignment with racial wealth equity goals for initiative.

Develop policy briefs to assess opportunities for alignment with policy strategies that advance racial wealth equity, including strategies around housing and land use, procurement, business and economic development, water, and equitable infrastructure development.
Coordinate with Policy and TA teams and PolicyLink’s subject-matter teams to support climate investments in furthering racial wealth equity goals.
 

Engage with CLASS staff, consultants, TA advisors, and program partners to design and deliver engaging virtual and in-person webinars, trainings, and workshops on the successful implementation of specific federal funding programs, grants skills, and approaches to equitable community partnerships at the intersection of climate and racial wealth equity.

Support a group of federal funding technical advisors and coaches who will advise local governments and community partners on how to partner effectively on projects and grant agreements (e.g., equity-centered collaboration methods, developing MOUs, navigating procurement and grant risks, etc.).

Manage the lead consultant to ensure the design of a high-quality ecosystem of TA support for federal funding applications, including but not limited to:

Curating and supporting a bench of federal funding TA providers, specifically ensuring best and maximum use of IIJA/IRA funds and prioritizing the inclusion of Black-owned and/or led TA provider firms and Black TA providers;
Curation of values-aligned TA providers that can support the various needs associated with federal funding support, including, but not limited to, application support, application review support, grant implementation support, grant measurement support and subject-matter expertise support; and
Measuring the success of the TA providers’ services, and providing coaching and support to the lead consultant to adjust for maximum success of the TA providers.

Leverage other partners where possible to provide additional specialized technical assistance to communities.

Help local governments and/or community-based organizations match their BASC projects to appropriate grant opportunities, tax credits, rebates, or Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund financing opportunities.

This position is a three-year termed position with the possibility of being renewed, dependent on funding and program needs.

Program Operations

In collaboration with CLASS leadership, develop and maintain a strategic federal funding work plan that outlines how BASC cities can maximally benefit from federal funding opportunities to advance racial wealth equity and climate justice. This includes designing and managing an ongoing progress reporting process, creating a monitoring and evaluation process, including measuring the success of key federal grant funding awards toward achieving program outcomes.
Co-lead the BASC Federal Funding Working Group and workstream, which includes managing all partner co-leads, collaborators, and advisors to the workstream; delegating workstream tasks; managing deliverables; and holding all relevant project management tasks, including but not limited to:

Managing working group meetings, schedules, agendas, notes, etc.;
Designing, delegating, and organizing tasks in Asana and with other Microsoft Office tools;
Providing weekly progress reports; and
Developing communication materials for cities and partners.

In collaboration with the CLASS staff, design a needs assessment process for the technical assistance needs of cities and CBOs that will ensure necessary information is gathered from cities in the first year of BASC program implementation.
In collaboration with CLASS staff, determine the connection points between the learning communities and the TA bench.
Work with the Communications Director to capture lessons learned and program successes for distribution internally and externally.

Contribute to written briefs, blogs, interviews, videos, and other educational materials that PolicyLink and BASC may develop to broadly share and influence the field.

Learning Culture

Provide information to the Management and Strategy Committee in a timely manner to ensure leadership’s ability to review program outputs, outcomes, and impact indicators for program iteration.
Support the collection and analysis of program analytics for presentation to the program funder and other audiences.
Strategic management of the Racial Equity Results Based Accountability (RE-RBA) collective impact framework for core partners, including regular iterative evaluation of strategies within the framework.