America's Promise Alliance

• Responsible for executing America’s Promise Alliance’s day-to-day communications work and managing the systems, processes, and tools that support it. • Ensure that APA’s website, social media, and external materials are accurate, up to date, and aligned with APA’s established messaging and brand. • Reporting to the Vice President of External Affairs, focuses on implementation, production, and coordination. • Manage digital channels, producing high-quality materials, maintaining templates and brand standards, and ensuring communications workflows are organized and efficient across teams.

• The VPCA is responsible for bringing new organizations into our Alliance Community and ensuring strong retention of our current member organizations. • Analyze our current membership and create a strategic recruitment plan to ensure our Alliance community includes a critical mass of the organizations we need to meet our goals in this issue area. • Partner with APA’s VP of Alliance Community to recruit new member organizations into the community and ensure their successful onboarding. • Lead the renewal process for organizations in this issue area, ensuring high rates of member retention, and that our community stays together and gets better over time. • Through regular engagement with our members, deeply understand the evolving needs of these organizations, identifying both which needs are most consistent across the network and which ones have the greatest chance of improving student outcomes. • Use your understanding of member needs to inform new program design in our Alliance community, translating current pain points into concrete programming. • Recruit strategic partners and subject matter experts to drive new Alliance programming. • Analyze member engagement data, identify the least engaged organizations, understand the dynamics that drive this low engagement, and build customized plans to improve engagement for these organizations over time. • APA will begin convening the member organizations in this issue area annually. The VPAC will lead all aspects of planning and execution for that annual convening. • Lead all aspects of logistical and strategic planning for the convening each year. • Ensure strong attendance among members. • Creation customized annual agendas for these convenings that both (1) respond to the most urgent and important needs facing our member organizations and (2) facilitate new collective action ideation. • Lead convening facilitation, along with other APA team members and external experts recruited by the VPCA. • Lead post-convening evaluation and continuous improvement efforts. • The VPCA is responsible for identifying and vetting new ideas for collective action initiatives annually. • Design and implementation of an annual process to engage Alliance member organizations in the identification of ideas for new collective action initiatives. • Testing ideas that come from our membership with external experts to understand relevant field dynamics, the viability of the idea, and key design considerations. • Running a process with both Alliance members and APA leadership to prioritize and select a short list of ideas each year that have the greatest potential for scaled impact. These are the collective action initiatives the VPCA will then attempt to launch. • Once new ideas are identified, the VPCA is responsible for designing these collaborations into actionable initiatives, including strong theory of action, intended outcomes, and defined member and field benefit.