VP of Community

• Set and own the Club’s multi-year community engagement strategy, establishing the priorities, investment areas, and success metrics that guide the organization’s presence in Boston and Brockton.
• Serve as the Club’s senior-most community relationship holder — convening and building consensus among mayors, city councilors, state legislators, agency heads, and civic institutions across Boston and Brockton to align the Club’s growth with the priorities of each city.
• Hold a standing seat on relevant boards, commissions, and civic coalitions in both cities, representing the Club at the table where policy and investment decisions affecting the community are made — shaping outcomes, not simply attending.
• Design and direct the Club’s flagship community and philanthropic programs, then lead their activation through a team and network of partners — determining what gets built, where, and with whom.
• Negotiate and structure formal partnerships with anchor institutions — school districts, municipal government, youth soccer federations, and major nonprofits — in both cities, with authority to commit the Club’s resources and programmatic support.
• Establish the cadence and mechanisms for two-way dialogue with residents and community leaders, and be accountable for course-correcting the Club’s approach based on what communities in Boston and Brockton say they need.
• Set the DEI framework guiding how the Club shows up across both cities’ diverse neighborhoods, and hold internal and external partners to it.

• Build and lead the Club’s development function, setting annual fundraising goals in partnership with the SVP of Partnerships and the BLFC Foundation and tracking progress against revenue targets.
• Personally identify, cultivate, solicit, and steward major donors, corporate partners, and philanthropic supporters to fund community and grassroots programming.
• Build and manage a grants pipeline: research funding opportunities, oversee proposal writing and reporting, and ensure compliance with grant and funder requirements.
• Represent the Club to donors, foundations, and philanthropic partners in Boston and Brockton, building the funding relationships that make community programming sustainable over the long term.

Incentive compensation for this role is up to 10% of base salary biannually tied to the Foundation’s overall fundraising goals, board-approved — not a percentage of any specific gift, in keeping with nonprofit fundraising best practice (per the Association of Fundraising Professionals Code of Ethics) and to protect the Foundation’s tax-exempt status.

• Partner with marketing, communications, and executive leadership as the senior voice on community and development strategy — not an implementer of others’ plans.
• Own the community impact and development reporting function — defining what’s measured, presenting outcomes to Club leadership and ownership, and using data to justify future investment.
• Serve as Deputy Director of the BLFC Foundation, working in close alignment with the Foundation’s Executive Director to ensure community strategy, fundraising, and program activation operate as one coordinated effort.

• 10+ years of experience in community engagement, public affairs, government or civic relations, nonprofit development, or related fields, including senior leadership experience.
• Deep, authentic, and current ties to civic, philanthropic, and community networks across Boston and Brockton.
• A track record of building and leading community engagement or social-impact programs from the ground up, at a senior or executive level.
• Demonstrated success in nonprofit development or fundraising — soliciting and closing gifts from individual donors, corporations, and foundations, and managing a grants pipeline.
• Experience serving on boards, councils, or in civic leadership roles.
• Cultural competency and credibility across diverse communities, with a sincere commitment to representing all of them well.
• Exceptional relationship-building, public speaking, and negotiation skills, with comfort as a senior public face of the organization.
• A builder’s, start-up mindset, able to set strategy at the executive level and roll up sleeves to deliver consistent, measurable results.
• Willingness to work evenings, weekends, and matchdays, and to be present across Boston and Brockton as needed.

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